Being the most awful technophobe - a symptom of my undiagnosed dyspraxia - I have decided to return to this blog which has not been updated for the past eleven years, in an effort to continue writing film reviews.
I have very strong opinions regarding films and film reviews: the latter, I feel, are often biased towards the stereotypically male genres of thrillers, horror or art-house, so films which require more appreciation of, say, the subtleties of humanity, are left - well - under-appreciated. Certainly, anyone who looks through these reviews will see that I give many thrillers, for example, a less good review than they usually get.
So this humble blog, which only a few people will probably read, aims to redress that balance. There are 1750 films on my list of films to see, which I hope to review on these pages over the coming years, assuming 'life' doesn't get in the way - which it most likely will! That list has been drawn up over maybe seven years or so from studying the Radio Times daily, choosing the films the reviewers have seen fit to award five or four stars, and then visiting their Wikipedia article to check that reviewers, en masse, have liked the films AND that they appeal to my tastes (which usually pretty much means they are not animation or children's films!) I have also spent a few years studying every annual Academy Awards from the first one held in 1927 onwards, to check that I have considered every winner AND nomination of the Best Film, Best Original Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Foreign Film categories for inclusion on my list. (Usually they have made it, but not always, and in the early years, the categories were slightly different.....) And of course I will keep adding to my list as and when new films come along and I discover old films I hitherto hadn't heard of.
It is obvious to all intelligent people that people's tastes in films differ greatly, so if you disagree with many of these reviews then you would likely be exasperated and wish to stop reading! And of course that's absolutely fine. Finally, in contrast with the old reviews on this site, these new reviews are and will be MUCH shorter, as I don't have the time or inclination to write long reviews, especially as I would need to also watch about three films a week to get through the whole 1750 in my lifetime! But just remember, it is better to read a short review grounded in honesty and hopefully good taste and judgement than a long, articulate but spurious and misguided one by someone who, perhaps and for instance, feels that the film is in tune with the latest zeitgeist but who secretly would never wish to watch it again.
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