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📽️Film That Influenced Me - Film 8 - Jaws (1975), here is another, I have a feeling this one, will not be heavily disliked. It is a great film, and a great book, it was when I was 13 with my dad, and it is now....
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Films that influenced me – Film 8 – Jaws (1975), there are lot of films on the list hopefully many of will agree with me in a small way. Mr. Spielberg proving that sometimes problems create solutions ...
Film 8 on my list – the marvellous and incredibile loved Spielberg classic Jaws, dad took me to the cinema in Southampton and the film made me read the book – again. I think there might…
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October 4, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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🎥Flow [2024] those lovely animals being so wonderful and helping each other....unless you are a fish, or a whale from Mars, sorry 10 out of 10 brigade, I did not like this - and yes I own it.... #FilmSky #filmopinion #Flow #Films #Movies #DidNotLike

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Flow, those lovely, lovely, animals working together for each other, helping to survive in a devastated world….fish you say? Don’t worry about them…..
Flow, something that doesn’t describe the film or it’s supposed ‘story’, if you like fish or entertainment don’t bother….
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September 19, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Actor Randy Quaid criticizes Anne Hathaway as "leftist, woke, horrible choice" for 'Days of Thunder 2' sequel, suggests Nicole Kidman should return instead. #FilmOpinion https://fefd.link/FKoJ7
August 31, 2026 at 7:56 AM
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🎥The Hidden (1987) not bad, not good, watchable. Too much shooting, screaming, and loud music but the story is interesting - not as original as some think and Kyle McLaghlan is always worth a watch.
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The Hidden (1987) to be fair the hiding ‘they’ did was not very good.
A standard normal citizen with no criminal past suddenly goes on a robbing, murderous spree for seemingly no reason. The police, find him, pursue him and after many deaths and violent confrontation…
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July 31, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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🎥LX 2048 [2020] - it's set in a dystopian future, we have climate problems, AI etc. has taken over...hold on no one is shouting, screaming and killing people from beginning to end....good
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LX 2048 [2020], it could be worse, the title might have been LX 2027, but then it would not be a film just a documentary….
LX 2048 – It is the future, the sun has become so powerful, so dangerous to humans, that people cannot do anything outside during the day without serious protection. Therefore, people mainly …
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July 22, 2026 at 7:43 AM
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🎥Even though I say so myself - some of my film opinion piece 'graphics/designs' were quite funny back in the day! Yup that's me praising myself... #AntmanAndTheWasp #PaulRudd #Film #FilmSky #FilmOpinion #VeryPopularFilmWriter #TheRealFilmCricket #Who?
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Ant-Man and the Wasp is not a ruddy good film but it is a Ruddy good film…
Scott Lang, the new Ant Man, is under strict house arrest after his part in the super-hero civil war. Due to this he has to find ways of keeping himself amused and his daughter when she comes over …
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July 16, 2026 at 12:43 PM
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The Thicket [2025] another poor film - thank goodness for Peter Dinkladge. Goodness me what has happened to making films?.... #TheThicket #FilmSky #MovieOpinion #TheRealFilmCricket #FilmOpinion #Film #Movie
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The Thicket [2025] it has Peter Dinklage so is worth watching but that is it – I thought the title meant a place in ‘the West’ but it might mean the intellegence of everyone involved in the story!
Reginald Jones, a successful bounty hunter, goes off to try and stop the nasty, ugly, weird voiced, obvious crimal Cutthroat Bill who is a lady – she has kidnapped a sister of one of his comp…
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July 3, 2026 at 3:08 PM
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🎥House of Frankenstein [1944] Universal horror films were my first step into monsters as a very young lad - watching them on BBC2 late on Saturday night. It was fun...I'm 63 now 😂
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House of Frankenstein [1944] – Karloff is great, not monstrously great but great, if you get mixed up with this lot things are not going to end well for you – and fairly quickly too. Best go to Spain ...
1944 – a horror tale involving Dracula, Frankenstein, a werewolf and a pyschopathic professor. If only they’d have signed up for the armed services the war would have finised a week lat…
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June 28, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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🎥 Red Dog [2011] what I thought - is that an echo I can hear? #RedDog #SkyFilm #BlueFilm #FilmOpinion #PleaseIgnoreThis #Movies #REALFilmCricket #Films
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Red Dog [2011] certainly is brighter, cleverer, and more on the ball than any men who worked on iron excavation sites…obviously. Better at fighting too….
Red Dog Director:  Kriv Stenders Writers:  Daniel Taplitz, Louis de Bernières Featuring: Josh Lucas, Rachael Taylor, Rohan Nicol, Luke Ford, Arthur Angel, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Loene Carm…
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June 19, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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🎥The Choral [2025] - Ralph Fiennes in an Alan Bennett written film that feels like it should have been a longer TV show. Not a favourite of mine but that's what happens when you will watch nearly any film once... #film #movies #TheChoral #filmopinion
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The Choral – you might like choral music, but surely you don’t like war…and those strange errrr….chaps?
The Choral Director:  Nicholas Hytner Writers:  Alan Bennett, Stephen Beresford Featuring: Ralph Fiennes, Alun Armstrong, Mark Addy, Roger Allum, Ron Cook, Oliver Briscombe, Taylor Uttley…
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June 3, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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🎥The Penguin Lessons [2024] based on a true story but with fictional parts added; for reasons that made sense to me; what you think might be a cute, lovely, animal love-story film, is...but it has more targets 🎥 #film #thepenguinlessons #filmopinion
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The Penguin Lessons – a few more penguins like this and the lessons he gave and the world would definitely be a better place….oh well.
Argentina 1976, Tom Michell, a disillusioned English teacher is travelling down from the United States through South American countries and ends up at a private school whilst the country is under t…
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May 27, 2026 at 8:52 AM
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🎥The Ballard of Wallis Island (2025) - I'm back with Cinema Paradiso and I now get DVD/BluRays for watching off 'my list' and not what streaming companies think are great. It means more of these, bad luck #Film #FilmOpinion #TheBallardofWallisIsland

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The Ballard of Wallis Island – you either like living on an island or you do not. I think this film is in the same category.
Charles has won the lottery twice – he lives on Wallis Island and organises for Herb McGwyer to perform a concert on the island. The problem is Herb does not realise it is a concert for just Charle…
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May 14, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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🎥FILMS THAT HAVE INFLUENCED ME - The Railway Children (1970) - I'm not exaggarating this film is virtually part of me. I loved it as a 9-year-old and I love it as much, still laugh and still nearly cry as much as a 63 year old bore. #film #FilmsTheInfluencedMe #filmopinion #movies
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Films that influenced me – Film 4 – The Railway Children (1970) – I have around 20 films or so that I consider have influenced me, after Dawn of the Dead, Film 1, the others are in chronological order...
Number 4 on my list of ‘Films that Influenced Me’ this is one of THE films. My parents took me as a small boy to watch this, and I still think about it, sitll want to watch and still do…
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April 19, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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🎥A Case of You [2013] - this opinion was written in 2015 and on my old 'site' but when I made the new one with Wordpress I missed lots off for some reason. Anyhoo have a read or ignore me...it's your choice 🎥 #acaseofyou #filmopinion #film #movies #SkyFilm #TheRealFilmCricket
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Don’t overthink this film, it’s just a rom com, enjoy yourself for the running time and then off you go….[This opinion piece was originally written in 2015]
Sam is a hack writer, creating novelisations of teen-film scripts that have already been written and made. He really wants to write his own brooding opus but suffers from extreme writers block when…
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March 26, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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🎥Wake Up Dead Man: Knives Out (2005) believe or not I watched and wrote this in early January this year, then with all the stuff that is going on in my life I forgot - anyway better late than never 🎥 #WakeUpDeadMan #filmopinion #movies #Skyfilm #film
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I can’t imagine anyone in charge of an organisation being a angry nutter who wanted to punish people and so forth….
Father Jud a young priest with a storied background arrives in a small US town hoping he can serve God and help the regulars to the countryside church to which he is assigned. Unfortunately, the se…
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February 28, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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You probably don't want to read about a thing I invented in 2011 called the "Catwoman Test". Probably.

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Taking the good with the bad: revisiting the Catwoman Test
Have you got your own Catwoman Test? Emily takes you through how she uses the 2004 Halle Berry film to decide whether something is an okay watch or not.
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February 27, 2026 at 1:15 PM
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🎥Wrinkles (2011) another opinion piece in my folders that had goine missing - it was probably on the old one. I loved this film and recommend it. This should make you smile in a gentle manner, but it doesn't sugarcoat old age either 🎥 #FilmSky #movie #film #Wrinkles #FilmOpinion
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Wrinkles aren’t so bad, trust me I know…
This is definitely not a film for children and definitely not a film for those of you who are terrified at the prospect of getting old.
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February 15, 2026 at 12:37 PM
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📽️Lars and the Real Girl (2007) watched in October 2018. I'll be honest, I loved this film. I told loads of people about it, wrote this; I don't think anyone bothered to see it. Fools, watch something different for change😆 📽️
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Mental health issues? Not one axe murder or senseless killing, so unrealistic!
Lars Lindstrom lives in the garage of his deceased parents’ house whilst his brother, Gus, and his wife Karin live in the main house. Lars is painfully shy and has problems even connecting with his…
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February 9, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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📽️ The Martian (2015) watched and opinion given February 2018. Fairly simple -

This is a very good film, watch it.

This is a very good book, read it. 📽️

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A film that is out of this world – well it is, just don’t go around to Matt Damon’s house for mashed potatoes, honestly, trust me…
Man, and woman, are on Mars. The crew is exploring the surface and routinely performing their assigned scientific tasks when a terrific storm catches them exposed during the desperate track back to…
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February 6, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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📽️ Collosal (2016) watched and gave my opinion in January 2018 -well acted, well directed and is trying to say something interesting in a way that you possibly have not seen before. 📽️ Recommended #BlueskyFilms #films #movies #filmopinion #Collosal #TheREALFilmCricket #BlueskySciFi
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Colossal problems sometimes have small solutions.
Gloria is an out-of-work girl who has a drinking problem with wastrel friends and no self-control at all. Needless to say, her boyfriend finally has enough and kicks her out of the New York flat sh…
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February 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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📽️Ex Machina (2014) an opinion piece written in March 2018, I loved this film, and have watched a few times since. I enjoyed the questions it asked as much as the story. #FilmSky #Film #Movies #FilmOpinion #ExMachina #SciFi
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A robot woman you say, a certain group of men were going to be very, very disappointed.
Caleb works for the biggest Internet company in the world, one morning he receives a message telling him he has won a company competition to spend a week with the companies CEO, Nathan, in his isol…
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February 1, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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📽️The last film I have watched in the cinema with my family (all of whom now have nothing to do with my wife and me) was Wonka - it was a packed cinema and I can genuinely say every person in there was laughing and enjoying themselves - superb #FilmSky #Film #Movie #Wonka #filmopinion
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Large businesses forming a cartel to stop a smaller business from succeeding. This hard-hitting political drama is intriguing…
Willy Wonka arrives by ship in the ‘city’ with dreams of opening a chocolate shop to sell his magical and wonderful chocolates. Unfortunately for him, the ‘city’ is home to three greedy and mean ch…
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January 31, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Short Term 12 (2014) watched and wrote the opinion piece the day before my 57th birthday 2019. I cannot recommend this film anymore highly #FilmSky #FilmOpinion #Film #Movie #ShortTerm12 #TheREALFilmCricket #BrieLarson #GreatFilm #HighlyRecommended
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Short Term 12 is a good film. Watch it.
A film so good. so realistic that you could mistake it for a documentary.
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January 31, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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Short Term 12 (2014) watched and wrote the opinion piece the day before my 57th birthday 2019. I cannot recommend this film anymore highly #FilmSky #FilmOpinion #Film #Movie #ShortTerm12 #TheREALFilmCricket #BrieLarson #GreatFilm #HighlyRecommended
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Short Term 12 is a good film. Watch it.
A film so good. so realistic that you could mistake it for a documentary.
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January 31, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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Alone (2020) I wrote my opinion on this, created the piece on my website, then remembered the film was actually called 'The Final Days' when I watched it 😂 It is also called Alone though. My first film opinion for 2026 #Alone #FinalDays #Alive #FilmOpinion #MovieOpinion #Films #Movies
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I can think of a few better ways of meeting a young lady and going on a date but each to their own…
A disease outbreak that changes it victims into violent monsters that want to attack and kill any uninfected people breaks out in the USA. Aidan lives in an apartment complex and barricades himself…
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January 9, 2026 at 5:33 PM