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🎬 London-based film fiend chasing cult gems, dodging duds. Monthly Movie Challenges, hot takes & deep cuts. Dachshund Dad.

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Decembinge 2025 🎄✨
31 nights. Full sleigh.

Crooners, miracles, misfits and murderous Santas — five festive strands of comfort, chaos and holiday magic gone slightly rogue.

From candlelight to carnage… follow the star.

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#Decembinge #MovieChallenge #FilmSky
Cash on Demand
⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½

Christmas Eve, Close of Business

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 7—🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight

There’s something very satisfying about a thriller that never leaves the office. Cash on Demand plays like Rope spliced with a dry…

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A ★★★½ review of Cash on Demand (1961)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 7 — 🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight There’s something very satisfying about a thriller that never leaves the office. Cash on Demand plays like Rope spliced with a dry run f...
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December 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Tuesday, After Christmas
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tinsel, Teeth and Telling the Truth

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 6—🕯️ Faith, Reflection & Redemption

The bored middle-aged man has an affair subgenre has been mined to death, so it’s a pleasant surprise that Tuesday, After…

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A ★★★ review of Tuesday, After Christmas (2010)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 6 — 🕯️ Faith, Reflection & Redemption The bored middle-aged man has an affair subgenre has been mined to death, so it’s a pleasant surprise that Tuesday, After Christmas still...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️
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1. The Holly and the Ivy – Christmas cheer meets quiet repression
2. Penny Serenade – Adoption, heartbreak and Grant looking stricken
3. Atonement – One lie, two lovers and a typewriter haunting Britain
4. Gigi – Parisian charm with a hint of dread
December 5, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The Holly and the Ivy
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Tidings of Comfort and Guilt

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 5—🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight

The Holly and the Ivy looks, at first glance, like a cosy Christmas card from 1950s Britain: snow on the ground, carols on the…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge
A ★★★½ review of The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 5 — 🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight The Holly and the Ivy looks, at first glance, like a cosy Christmas card from 1950s Britain: snow on the ground, carols on the soundtrac...
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December 5, 2025 at 8:48 AM
A Tale of Winter
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

Faith, Hope, and a Misaddressed Xmas Miracle

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 4—🕯️ Faith, Reflection & Redemption

There’s something oddly cheering about watching someone bet their entire love life on a typo, and A Tale of Winter leans…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge
A ★★★½ review of A Tale of Winter (1992)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 4 — 🕯️ Faith, Reflection & Redemption There’s something oddly cheering about watching someone bet their entire love life on a typo, and A Tale of Winter leans into that with a...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Holiday Affair
⭐️⭐️⭐️½

A Quiet Little Yuletide Detour

Decembinge 2025 Film No. 3—🎅Classics, Crooners & Candlelight

The thing about Holiday Affair is how determined it is to behave itself. As Christmas romances go, it keeps everything tidy and polite…

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A ★★★½ review of Holiday Affair (1949)
Decembinge 2025 Film No. 3 — 🎅 Classics, Crooners & Candlelight The thing about Holiday Affair is how determined it is to behave itself. As Christmas romances go, it keeps everything tidy and polite, ...
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December 3, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A Charlie Brown Christmas
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Good Grief, It’s Christmas

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 2—🕯️ Faith, Reflection & Redemption

I must have seen A Charlie Brown Christmas as a kid, because half of it felt like déjà vu: the drooping little tree, the jazzy…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge
A ★★★ review of A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
I must have seen A Charlie Brown Christmas as a kid, because half of it felt like déjà vu: the drooping little tree, the jazzy piano, that odd mix of sulkiness and sincerity. Coming back to it now, it...
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December 2, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Christmas in Connecticut
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Fake It Till You Bake It

#Decembinge 2025 Film No. 1—✨ Classics, Crooners & Candlelight 

Some Christmas films smother you in tinsel; this one pelts you with fibs, mix-ups and stolen recipes. Christmas in Connecticut is…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge
A ★★★ review of Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Some Christmas films smother you in tinsel; this one pelts you with fibs, mix-ups and stolen recipes. Christmas in Connecticut is basically a screwball farce that happens to have a tree in the corner,...
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December 1, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Decembinge 2025 🎄✨
31 nights. Full sleigh.

Crooners, miracles, misfits and murderous Santas — five festive strands of comfort, chaos and holiday magic gone slightly rogue.

From candlelight to carnage… follow the star.

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#Decembinge #MovieChallenge #FilmSky
December 1, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Noirvember 2025: 30 nights in the shadows.

Top of the stack: Criss Cross, Panique, He Ran All the Way, I Am Waiting, Yield to the Night.

Bottom of the bottle: Ruthless, Telegraph Hill, Moonrise.

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November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Panique
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The Crowd Is the Killer

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 30—🎥 Noir Beyond Hollywood

It’s funny how a sleepy Paris suburb can feel more dangerous than a back alley in LA. For a film made two years before Out of the Past, this is…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge #FilmNoir
A ★★★★ review of Panic (1946)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 30 — 🎥 Noir Beyond Hollywood It’s funny how a sleepy Paris suburb can feel more dangerous than a back alley in LA. For a film made two years before Out of the Past, this is al...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I Am Waiting
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Dockside Dead End

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 29—🎥 Noir Beyond Hollywood

There’s something oddly comforting about killing time in a dockside bar with washed-up boxers and failed singers, lit like a cigarette advert and…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge #FilmNoir
A ★★★★ review of I Am Waiting (1957)
There’s something oddly comforting about killing time in a dockside bar with washed-up boxers and failed singers, lit like a cigarette advert and soaked in gloomy jazz. This small Japanese noir sits i...
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November 29, 2025 at 6:24 PM
#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️

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1. Yield to the Night – Diana Dors stares down the hangman and the patriarchy
2. Koyaanisqatsi – Humanity sprints while nature side-eyes us
3. Bedelia – Cat, mouse, and a very stylish murderer
4. Sabotage – Hitchcock toys with bombs and our nerves
November 28, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Yield to the Night
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Blonde on Borrowed Time

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 28—🎥Noir Beyond Hollywood

For a film that opens with a daylight shooting, Yield to the Night is surprisingly quiet and humane. J. Lee Thompson keeps things tight…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge #FilmNoir
A ★★★★ review of Yield to the Night (1956)
For a film that opens with a daylight shooting, Yield to the Night is surprisingly quiet and humane. J. Lee Thompson keeps things tight and unfussy, locking us in the condemned cell with Mary as the c...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Bedelia
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Black Widow, Fluffed Pillows

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 27—🎥 Noir Beyond Hollywood

For a so-called “black widow” thriller, Bedelia spends a lot of time plumping the cushions – but it’s still a good time. Margaret Lockwood gets…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge #FilmNoir
A ★★★ review of Bedelia (1946)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 27 — 🎥 Noir Beyond Hollywood For a so-called “black widow” thriller, Bedelia spends a lot of time plumping the cushions – but it’s still a good time. Margaret Lockwood gets a ...
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November 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Caged
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Doing Time with Caged

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 26—🔒 Women Behind Bars

Having watched Brute Force this Noirvember and now Caged, with Orange Is the New Black lurking in the background, it felt like the missing reel between…

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A ★★★★ review of Caged (1950)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 26 — 🔒 Women Behind Bars Having watched Brute Force this Noirvember and now Caged, with Orange Is the New Black lurking in the background, it felt like the missing reel betwee...
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November 26, 2025 at 9:04 AM
The Bigamist
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Three Hearts, No Way Out

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 25—👩‍🎬 Women at the Helm

I wasn’t expecting The Bigamist to be quite so gentle. With a title like that, you brace for moral fireworks, but Ida Lupino steers the whole…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge #FilmNoir
A ★★★★ review of The Bigamist (1953)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 25 — 👩‍🎬 Women at the Helm I wasn’t expecting The Bigamist to be quite so gentle. With a title like that, you brace for moral fireworks, but Ida Lupino steers the whole thing ...
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November 25, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The Hitch-Hiker
⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½

Sun, Fear and Three Men in a Car

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 24—👩‍🎬 Women at the Helm

If you ever needed proof that men left alone in a car are a health hazard, The Hitch-Hiker makes the case in 70 tight minutes. Ida…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge #FilmNoir
A ★★★½ review of The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 24 — 👩‍🎬 Women at the Helm If you ever needed proof that men left alone in a car are a health hazard, The Hitch-Hiker makes the case in 70 tight minutes. Ida Lupino pins three...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Hell’s Half Acre
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tiki Noir in Paradise Lost

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 23—🔫 Cops, Killers & City Streets

Watching Hell’s Half Acre as an introduction to “tiki-noir” is… intriguing, if not exactly essential. We’re in rain-slicked…

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A ★★★ review of Hell's Half Acre (1954)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 23 — 🔫 Cops, Killers & City Streets Watching Hell’s Half Acre as an introduction to “tiki-noir” is… intriguing, if not exactly essential. We’re in rain-slicked Honolulu – neon...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The Blue Gardenia
⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½

Hangover, Headlines, Heartache

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 22—🔫 Cops, Killers & City Streets

Watching The Blue Gardenia, I hoped for a solid little noir and got something a bit stranger and sadder. Nora (Anne...

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A ★★★ review of The Blue Gardenia (1953)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 22 — 🔫 Cops, Killers & City Streets Watching The Blue Gardenia, I hoped for a solid little noir and got something a bit stranger and sadder. Nora (Anne Baxter), dumped by lett...
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November 22, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Crime Wave
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Tight Cops, Tighter Corners

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 21—🔫 Cops, Killers & City Streets

I wasn’t expecting Crime Wave to be this brisk and atmospheric. It rattles along at about 70 minutes – all night streets, shabby…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge #FilmNoir
A ★★★★ review of Crime Wave (1953)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 21 — 🔫 Cops, Killers & City Streets I wasn’t expecting Crime Wave to be this brisk and atmospheric. It rattles along at about 70 minutes – all night streets, shabby apartments...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
#LetterboxdFriday #lastfourwatched 📽️

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1. Crime Wave – Noir so tight it squeaks
2. The President’s Cake – Iraqi chaos, one birthday at a time
3. If I Had Legs I’d Kick You – Byrne unravels in glorious meltdown
4. The Sniper – ’50s male angst with a rifle attached
November 21, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The Sniper
⭐️⭐️⭐️

Incel on the Rooftops

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 20—🔫 Cops, Killers & City Streets

You don’t need a degree in internet culture to clock this as proto-incel. The Sniper trails a deeply messed-up man in San Francisco who…

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A ★★★ review of The Sniper (1952)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 20 — 🔫 Cops, Killers & City Streets You don’t need a degree in internet culture to clock this as proto-incel. The Sniper trails a deeply messed-up bloke in San Francisco who f...
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November 20, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Criss Cross
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ ½

Bad Bets and Brutal Payoffs

#Noirvember 2025 Film No. 19—🔫 Cops, Killers & City Streets

I expected Criss Cross to be a solid little noir and ended up wondering why we don’t talk about it in the same breath as the big…

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📽️ #MovieChallenge #FilmNoir
A ★★★★½ review of Criss Cross (1949)
Noirvember 2025 Film No. 19 — 🔫 Cops, Killers & City Streets I expected Criss Cross to be a solid little noir and ended up wondering why we don’t talk about it in the same breath as the big beasts. It...
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November 19, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Eternity
⭐️⭐️

Pleasant Layover, Not a Destination

Spending time in Eternity feels a bit like being stuck in an airport hotel between lives. Souls check into “the Junction”, a mid-century Premier Inn purgatory, and have seven days to pick their next stop from…

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📽️ #cinema
A ★★ review of Eternity (2025)
Spending time in Eternity feels a bit like being stuck in an airport hotel between lives. Souls check into “the Junction”, a mid-century Premier Inn purgatory, and have seven days to pick their next s...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM