and I thoroughly enjoyed it https://t.co/yGmlHSMXQ2
— Patrick Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 30, 2017
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle
🐆 LOL funny throughout
🐘 Great 90s gaming gags
🦏 Genuine thrills
🐍 Old fashioned adventure
🦂 Shaky internal logic
🦁 Sad Jiggy anachronism
🐒 Body positive message
🦓 Weird cameos
🐀 I loved it
🐗 Truly brilliant casting— Patrick Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 29, 2017
I let @nehadk pick what film I’d see and he chose The Greatest Showman and it was…
— Patrick Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 28, 2017
🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑
So I went and saw Call Me By Your Name again and hooy boy it’s even better second time around. A genuine masterpiece.— Patrick 💯🎞➕5️⃣2️⃣📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 24, 2017
Peerless cine social realism muddled by/with breathless pathos and scream out loud laughter, The Florida Project is a pastel chiaroscuro of happiness and despair, wealth and penury, childhood delusions and delusions of adulthood. It sure is superb.
— Patrick 💯🎞➕5️⃣2️⃣📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 21, 2017
— Patrick 🎞📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 17, 2017
In 40-minute movements, The Secret Scripture is compelling then harrowing then infuriating. Mara is marvellous, Bana is banal and Sheridan is shirking. The Irish scenery certainly does its best.
— Patrick 🎞📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 12, 2017
🛣HILARIOUS🛣
🛣HEARTBREAKING🛣
🛣HOPEFUL🛣
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
— Patrick 🎞📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 11, 2017
The Man Who Invented Christmas is the second best filmification of A Christmas Carol, after the Muppets one I saw at the pictures in my tween days.
— Patrick 🎞📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 10, 2017
Celebrated marriage equality being legislated by seeing perhaps the gayest film of all time. Certainly the funniest of 2017… pic.twitter.com/vBlQxaBZRF
— Patrick 🎞📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 7, 2017
While at times lurching into near unwatchable sentimentality, Wonder still has enough humour, pathos and Mandy Patinkin to be a winner. Fascinating use of narration, recalling the brilliant About A Boy. I wish I could edit out all the guff.
— Patrick 🎞📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) November 30, 2017
🍆🍆🍆 After 20 years catching dribs and drabs on TV and DVD, finally watched Boogie Nights from start to finish (and it's a long one) on the big screen. Suffice to say it is a masterpiece of direction, storytelling, character development and overall filmic genius. 🍆🍆🍆
— Patrick 🎞📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) November 26, 2017
Completely incomprehensible tho it may be, Justice League succeeds as hilarious, exhilarating cinema detritus. Srsly you lot are crazy for thinking the Marvel films are any better.
— Patrick 🎞📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) November 24, 2017
Guest Review of The Killing Of A Sacred Deer by my Mum:
“One of the most stupid films I’ve ever seen.”
— Patrick 🎞📖 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) November 18, 2017
I laughed so hard I cried. pic.twitter.com/YUWt6005US
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) November 17, 2017
Loving Vincent is visually impressive but pedestrian-cum-boring and so impressed with its own genius that it never emerges cinematically from the description of its concept. Also the accents tré silly.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) November 12, 2017
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women has everything you want in a film – humour, pathos, depth, growth, bondage, polyamory, mendacity, romance, aviation, pseudoscience, berets, hazing, Oliver Platt – except a saleable title.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) November 11, 2017
Gritty realism at its most realest, 60s riot historical narrative Detroit is intense, visceral, engrossing and, somewhat unusually in this modern era of filmmaking, superbly plotted. Great use of archival footage. Highly recommended.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) November 10, 2017
Gory and grizzled, with enough exsanguination to challenge any viewer’s sangfroid, Jigsaw is a thrilling if ultimately unconvincing cut.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) November 5, 2017
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) November 2, 2017
England Is Mine is magnificent. Young Morrissey and I have a lot in common, except for all his talent and success.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 31, 2017
Whilst never exceeding melodrama, Another Mother’s Son is eminently watchable if patently ridiculous POW in the closet Jersey shore fare.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 31, 2017
The Limehouse Golem – which I thought was called The Lighthouse Golem – is gruesome, eviscerating, exsanguinating, flamboyant Victorian fun!
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 22, 2017
The Snowman. Look, if the plan is to see 100 films at the pictures in a calendar year you're gonna catch some irredeemable cinema detritus.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 20, 2017
Mix Groundhog Day + Scream 2, ice w delightful skewering of university identity politics and you've whipped up the tasty Happy ☠️Death 🎂Day!
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 14, 2017
Twee w/ a creepin sweetness, The Only Living Boy In New York is plum fare if you like watchin Byronic heroes chasin manic pixie dream girls.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 13, 2017
Tom Of Finland is an uplifting and amusing tale of love, freedom, tragedy and, ultimately, honesty. Flawed, yes, but still powerful.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 13, 2017
Final Portrait is a completely unnecessary and instantly forgettable film. I've already forgotten it.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 12, 2017
Abbandonato da divertenti e affascinanti a disturbare e tragiche, Fortunata affronta grandi problemi con un tocco arioso e romano.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 7, 2017
My rewatch of Blade Runner 2049 – in one of the trademarked superloud megascreen amphitheaters – was one of the most joyous 3hrs of 2017.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 7, 2017
Absolutely extraordinary. I give it 2040 out of 2049.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 5, 2017
Game set match Battle of the Sexes! Funny, fresh and willful! Stone is polished and Carell suitably clownish. Surprisingly moving too.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) October 2, 2017
Chortle-worthy if nigh on transparently paper thin, The Lovers is a tender comedy of manners for peeps who dig Tchaikovsky and Madness.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 24, 2017
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is a rollicking good ride with laughs and thrills to the meniscus plus one of the best surprise cameos ever!
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 23, 2017
C'est magnifique! pic.twitter.com/IJjHA7yD5T
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 22, 2017
The precipitous incomprehensible silliness of American Assassin in no way prevented me deriving nuclear levels of entertainment from it.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 17, 2017
visceral!
visionary!
sanguine!
breathtaking!
unsettling!
brisk!
rusticated!
compelling!
destructive!
loud!
bellicose!
architectural!
mother!— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 16, 2017
Utsøkt kunstdekorasjon og en pacad kadence kranser Kongens valg som en eminent påkjenningsbar hvis det er uhyggelig kongelig fortelling.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 15, 2017
I loved The Dinner but my mum hated it! Now, to dinner!
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 12, 2017
Super chuffed I caught up on War For The Planet Of The Apes! Visceral, affecting and surprisingly complex. A terrific concluding part.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 10, 2017
🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈you'll 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈love 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈it 🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈too🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 7, 2017
The Hitman's Bodyguard, by the way…
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 2, 2017
Surprisingly multivalent adventurer donates costly tithe off starving to the end (3,4,4,2,1)
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) September 1, 2017
Heartfelt
And
Mild
Picture
Slowly
Turning
Eremite
Avec
Dianne— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) August 24, 2017
Lackadaisical loser larceny looms large, lowlife limey levity lingers, leftfield litigation lurks, leaving love luxuriating: Logan Lucky.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) August 18, 2017
Short Poem About Wind River
In a snowscape where grief grew,
Scarce redemption lurks in pain,
It touches you,
And you are changed.— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) August 10, 2017
Atomic Blonde is a great fillum for peeps who like indiscriminate ultraviolence, 80s synth, smokeporn and high concept vodka ads.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) August 4, 2017
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— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) August 4, 2017
I thoroughly enjoyed The Big Sick.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) July 29, 2017
I give Dunkirk in 70mm 65 out of 70. The time thingy was unnecessary.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) July 26, 2017
The Beguiled is so beguiling I spent the whole film trying not to fall asleep.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) July 16, 2017
Medlow Bath, May 1988: birthday boy Patrick gets Whitney on cassette..
Paddington, July 2017: Patrick tears up in Whitney | Can I Be Me.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) July 9, 2017
Spider-Man: Homecoming is ~ by far ~ the best Marvel film eva! Tom Holland is ~ by far ~ the best Peter Parker. And he's an Arsenal fan too!
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) July 6, 2017
Baby 👶🏻🚗Driver is trrrfffc fun corpulent w/ curvets + caracols but don't expect it to pass the Bechdel Test. Da 🎧=aliment for 👂+ soul.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) July 5, 2017
Relentless yet effortlessly unsettling, Una is one horrific portrayal of unforgivable betrayal and the ensuing contretemps.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 28, 2017
Entertaining but silly on a deeply existential level Viceroy's House's only place you'll hear "We'll be safe in Pakistan" uttered sincerely.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 27, 2017
I've got one word to say to you about The Graduate: fantastic!
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 25, 2017
Poética, original y pintoresca de las ciudades, el campo y las montañas de Chile, Neruda es entretenida pero no totalmente convincente.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 23, 2017
20th Century Women is a delightful slice of late 1970s nostalgia, brimming with beautiful, magnetic characters via lush cinematography.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 17, 2017
Call Me By Your Name is a near-perfect Emilia-Romagnan new wave bildungsroman, esp the roman bit. The near- is b/c it's 20 mins too long.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 15, 2017
Nova Scotia vacillates verdant ➡️albescent avec rime in the terrific Maudie. A rich tapestry of bucolic artistry and piercing pathos. 🇨🇦🎨👏
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 15, 2017
Impeccably researched and footage rich, Elián explores the temblor the eponymous unwilling (?) asylum seeker wrought on 🇨🇺 +🇺🇸 . Buena doco.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 12, 2017
De couleurs vives, avec un palais acerbe et un bouquet sentimental limite, Ce Qui Nous Lie est un bon cru, mais sub-premium.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 11, 2017
Silly but funny with accurate cartioid placement, That's Not Me is a thoroughly Melbourne take on Man In The Iron Mask. Maybe. The cast: pic.twitter.com/pkPJHsK8MZ
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 10, 2017
And then he dropped me off at Broadway and I saw The Mummy and really enjoyed its self-aware comedy adventure aesthetic.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 10, 2017
Jokes fly faster than fat lines of Charlie up Cillian's snout in the no-gag-wasted intellectual elitist joy ie The Party. Great SFF pick!
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 9, 2017
Scrofulous, avaricious and infused with herbaceous intrigue, My Cousin Rachel might just be the best PG film I've ever seen.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 9, 2017
yeah but where was she during the super league war? pic.twitter.com/ZCnqkwzb0Y
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 6, 2017
Lacrimation and regret abounds in the rainy, reflective, nuanced mystery The Sense Of An Ending. Broadbent brilliant, Rampling remarkable.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) June 4, 2017
Asinine asp-erity aside, King Arthur: Legend Of The Sword is – well – watchable. Certainly no waste of money… pic.twitter.com/rA5BC1yuHA
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) May 21, 2017
J'ai aimé l'intellectualisme gnomique de L'Avenir, et le paysage était magnifique, mais de longues pièces étaient ennuyeuses.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) May 14, 2017
I vaguely remember basically understanding Guardians but I had no clue re Vol 2. Still enjoyed the relentless lights and music. 🐿 +🌴=💯
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) May 13, 2017
As thrilling as it is mind-bogglingly incomprehensible, Alien: Covenant is bursting with excitement. Get clawed!
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) May 11, 2017
GET OUT! Get Out is simply superb and you must do your best to avoid all spoilers.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) April 30, 2017
Delightful and silly, Their Finest is a frivolous movie-length spoiler for Christopher Nolan's upcoming epic Dunkirk.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) April 25, 2017
Look there were some amusing moments but ultimately I'm glad I only paid $12.50 to see Going In Style.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) April 23, 2017
Unnerving in its eroticism, profound in its terror, Personal Shopper is proof that every love story is a ghost story, even between siblings.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) April 22, 2017
Insanely original, patriarchy-smashing Colossal is a genre-bending delight that refuses conventions but pays homage to Seoulful antecedents.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) April 17, 2017
Funny, iridescent, and surprising heartwarming, The Batman Lego Movie is the second best Batman film and by far the best Superman film.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) April 15, 2017
Denial is like if The Reader phoned it in.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) April 14, 2017
C'est magnifique! Beauty and the Beast is sensational! Loved every fantastical note and lyric! Emma Watson is truly the most A of A-listers!
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) March 23, 2017
Tender, nuanced, laconic, Loving is easily the best film about architecture I've seen. Powerful performances too. I teared up at the coda.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) March 22, 2017
Viscerally violent, occasionally comedic, surprisingly sentimental, Logan is the superhero film for Gen Ys suffering superhero film fatigue.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) March 14, 2017
The best/worst thing about Kong: Skull Island is Kong is the most fully realised, developed, easily understood (motivation-wise) character.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) March 14, 2017
David Stratton: A Cinemtic Life is a glorious bio of Australia's preeminent critic through the prism of his fave local films. Magnificent.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 28, 2017
Deeply original, surprisingly heartfelt and wildly hilarious, Toni Erdmann is best film about the soulless corporate black hole ever filmed.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 26, 2017
Silence is not just a high concept visually stunning and convincing advertisement for atheism, it's also unnecessarily long.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 25, 2017
Look I don't like being down on Aussie cinema but I expected a little bit more from JJ. Happy to meet CS and thank him for his craft. pic.twitter.com/NnLW5booft
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 20, 2017
Rapprochement, recidivism and redemption are relayed when Rent Boy returned to Edinburry in the redoubtable T2: Trainspotting. Resplendent.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 19, 2017
Despite its accelerating sentimentalism, white saviourism and parabolic shaped attitude to the truth, Hidden Figures is pure cinematic joy.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 16, 2017
Fences breaks down race, sex and class politics in a laconic foliated fury of wise wit and threnodial poignancy. Denzel good, Viola sublime.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 12, 2017
25 years on, Wayne's World is still absurdly hilarious, if a little rape, embracing 90s Gen X lassitude with aplomb. Party on Patrick.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 11, 2017
Fragorosamente divertente, Perfect Stranger supera decade sopra le righe per essere incisiva e inaspettatamente profondo.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 11, 2017
Manchester By The Sea is gallons more than heartstring-tugging by the numbers but I still felt emotionally manipulated by its thanatologism.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) February 5, 2017
Adorned with a deft chiaroscuro at its penumbra, Paterson is a soul stimulating film of anti-action; a charming agitprop for pastoral odes.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 30, 2017
Wrenching, deeply original and heartbreakingly beautiful, Moonlight superbly reimagines cinema conventions. I loved it with every sinew.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 23, 2017
No emotional depth is unplumbed by thoroughly entertaining Lion though I was troubled by the supernatural dappling. Two Saroos very good.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 23, 2017
Elle is amazing! Absolutely hilarious while still being almost unbearably intense. Verhoeven has redeemed himself, Hubbert is spectacular.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 23, 2017
Jackie is an eminently watchable time capsule that is slightly better than a good TV movie or theatrically released Chanel commercial.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 16, 2017
Bursting with mirth, melodies and mammals, Sing is a glorious bagatelle that will test your ability to not sing along in a packed theatre.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 16, 2017
Imagine the longest, boringest, sexist episode of Black Mirror. Congratulations, you just wrote, produced and directed Passengers!
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) January 16, 2017
Allied is a terrifically silly film.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 29, 2016
Edge of Seventeen is the perfect film to kick of my 2017! Sumptuous slice of adolescent angst, lovely sibling squabbling and sublime music.
— Patrick 🌈👻 Avenell (@Patrickavenell) December 22, 2016
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