Paul
@marathonswift.bsky.social
20x Marathon runner of yesteryear. Now older and hanging on in there. More into movies and football now than running. 🍷⚽️🏃🎬🍿
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· Jan 1
The time has come to reveal my top ten movies of 2024 from 149 watched so here goes #TopTen #2024 #TopTenMovies
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Bit late to sort out but finally here is my top ten movies of 2025 #TopTen #TopTen2025 #TopTenMovies
Bit late to sort out but finally here is my top ten movies of 2025 #TopTen #TopTen2025 #TopTenMovies
Top Ten Movies of 2025
172 movies were watched and logged by myself in 2025. 74 of these were watched in the cinema with the remaining being on digital release at home. From all those movies with a release date in 2025 th...
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January 25, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Bit late to sort out but finally here is my top ten movies of 2025 #TopTen #TopTen2025 #TopTenMovies
Bit late to sort out but finally here is my top ten movies of 2025 #TopTen #TopTen2025 #TopTenMovies
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The middle section of this latest saga might have less zombies but certainly no less of disturbing horror. Fiennes and O’Connell are both superb #28YearsLaterTheBoneTemple
The middle section of this latest saga might have less zombies but certainly no less of disturbing horror. Fiennes and O’Connell are both superb #28YearsLaterTheBoneTemple
A ★★★★ review of 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026)
The latest in this saga is probably the least zombie action movie of them all but remains equally disturbing for other reasons. This movie follows on exactly where the last movie left us. Spike findi...
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January 25, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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The middle section of this latest saga might have less zombies but certainly no less of disturbing horror. Fiennes and O’Connell are both superb #28YearsLaterTheBoneTemple
The middle section of this latest saga might have less zombies but certainly no less of disturbing horror. Fiennes and O’Connell are both superb #28YearsLaterTheBoneTemple
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Oscar nominated documentary about the indoctrination of young children in schools following the invasion of Ukraine is a fascinating watch #MrNobodyAgainstPutin
Oscar nominated documentary about the indoctrination of young children in schools following the invasion of Ukraine is a fascinating watch #MrNobodyAgainstPutin
A ★★★★ review of Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)
Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary Feature 2026 This is a documentary that uses footage filmed in Russia, secretly sneaked out by its maker, to show a different side of the Ukraine war. How it is aff...
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January 24, 2026 at 1:51 PM
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Oscar nominated documentary about the indoctrination of young children in schools following the invasion of Ukraine is a fascinating watch #MrNobodyAgainstPutin
Oscar nominated documentary about the indoctrination of young children in schools following the invasion of Ukraine is a fascinating watch #MrNobodyAgainstPutin
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Eva Victor writes, directs and stars as a young woman at college dealing with life following one bad thing happening to her. Funny and moving #SorryBaby
Eva Victor writes, directs and stars as a young woman at college dealing with life following one bad thing happening to her. Funny and moving #SorryBaby
A ★★★★ review of Sorry, Baby (2025)
Eva Victor both writes, directs and stars as the lead in this telling of one bad thing happening and life still going on for all around her. We start in present day as we are introduced to two friends...
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December 27, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Eva Victor writes, directs and stars as a young woman at college dealing with life following one bad thing happening to her. Funny and moving #SorryBaby
Eva Victor writes, directs and stars as a young woman at college dealing with life following one bad thing happening to her. Funny and moving #SorryBaby
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Joel Edgerton gives a subtle moving portrayal as Robert in this bleak tale of one mans life as a logger and family man #TrainDreams
Joel Edgerton gives a subtle moving portrayal as Robert in this bleak tale of one mans life as a logger and family man #TrainDreams
A ★★★★ review of Train Dreams (2025)
From Clint Bentley comes another gorgeously lit movie to follow on from the wonderful Jockey. Using Adolpho Veloso again as his cinematographer its a gorgeous setting often that we are immersed in as...
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December 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Joel Edgerton gives a subtle moving portrayal as Robert in this bleak tale of one mans life as a logger and family man #TrainDreams
Joel Edgerton gives a subtle moving portrayal as Robert in this bleak tale of one mans life as a logger and family man #TrainDreams
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A 3 hour German film about a family of depressives dying sounds bleak. And it is, but it’s also a gorgeous piece of contemplative film making #Dying
A 3 hour German film about a family of depressives dying sounds bleak. And it is, but it’s also a gorgeous piece of contemplative film making #Dying
A ★★★★½ review of Dying (2024)
This is an astonishing movie showing us the messed up lives of one family all seemingly dying one way or another surrounded by friends whose lives appear to be equally as fucked up as theirs. The titl...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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A 3 hour German film about a family of depressives dying sounds bleak. And it is, but it’s also a gorgeous piece of contemplative film making #Dying
A 3 hour German film about a family of depressives dying sounds bleak. And it is, but it’s also a gorgeous piece of contemplative film making #Dying
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Italian period piece set in a remote location with an ever expanding family. Slow but beautifully shot. #Vermiglio
Italian period piece set in a remote location with an ever expanding family. Slow but beautifully shot. #Vermiglio
A ★★★½ review of Vermiglio (2024)
This was on the shortlist for Italy for best international feature for the last Oscar’s not making the final 5. Its the kind of sumptuous slow burning family period drama that the awards often love. ...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Italian period piece set in a remote location with an ever expanding family. Slow but beautifully shot. #Vermiglio
Italian period piece set in a remote location with an ever expanding family. Slow but beautifully shot. #Vermiglio
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Part two has finally arrived and is everything you would expect, sumptuous sets, great vocals and an overlong script #WickedForGood
Part two has finally arrived and is everything you would expect, sumptuous sets, great vocals and an overlong script #WickedForGood
A ★★★ review of Wicked: For Good (2025)
And so one year later we finally get the second part of the movie version of the musical wicked. Like the theatre show the curtain falls after Gravity steals the show in part one but unlike the theat...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Part two has finally arrived and is everything you would expect, sumptuous sets, great vocals and an overlong script #WickedForGood
Part two has finally arrived and is everything you would expect, sumptuous sets, great vocals and an overlong script #WickedForGood
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Del Toro and Mary Shelley unite to bring to life another version of the classic #Frankenstein
Visually stunning as you’d expect
Del Toro and Mary Shelley unite to bring to life another version of the classic #Frankenstein
Visually stunning as you’d expect
A ★★★ review of Frankenstein (2025)
Frankenstein seems to be the perfect pairing of classic monster story with incredibly visual director with a taste for the grotesque. Shelley and Del Toro together for a retelling of the most complex ...
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December 26, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Del Toro and Mary Shelley unite to bring to life another version of the classic #Frankenstein
Visually stunning as you’d expect
Del Toro and Mary Shelley unite to bring to life another version of the classic #Frankenstein
Visually stunning as you’d expect
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Corrupt, racist, sexist and shamefully useless. We see a young woman thrust into policing in India following a murder and searching for justice #Santosh
Corrupt, racist, sexist and shamefully useless. We see a young woman thrust into policing in India following a murder and searching for justice #Santosh
A ★★★½ review of Santosh (2024)
This was the official submission from the UK for best international feature at this year’s Oscar’s but not quite making the final 5. British made but shot in India in Hindi. It highlights the importa...
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December 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Corrupt, racist, sexist and shamefully useless. We see a young woman thrust into policing in India following a murder and searching for justice #Santosh
Corrupt, racist, sexist and shamefully useless. We see a young woman thrust into policing in India following a murder and searching for justice #Santosh
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A stressful journey watching one nurses struggle to get through one late shift in a Swiss hospital. Relenting. #LateShift
A stressful journey watching one nurses struggle to get through one late shift in a Swiss hospital. Relenting. #LateShift
A ★★★★ review of Late Shift (2025)
Well this is quite the stress journey of a movie and a film that does not sell the job of being a nurse as anything but nigh on impossible. Indeed its German title translates appropriately as heroine...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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A stressful journey watching one nurses struggle to get through one late shift in a Swiss hospital. Relenting. #LateShift
A stressful journey watching one nurses struggle to get through one late shift in a Swiss hospital. Relenting. #LateShift
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Oscar nominated and stunning movie made in secret in Iran highlighting the plight for women’s freedom into a tense family drama #TheSeedOfTheSacredFig
Oscar nominated and stunning movie made in secret in Iran highlighting the plight for women’s freedom into a tense family drama #TheSeedOfTheSacredFig
A ★★★★½ review of The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024)
This movie has quite the history attached to it. A film set in and about the politics of women’s freedom in Iran but represented by Germany as the official entry into the Oscars for best internationa...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Oscar nominated and stunning movie made in secret in Iran highlighting the plight for women’s freedom into a tense family drama #TheSeedOfTheSacredFig
Oscar nominated and stunning movie made in secret in Iran highlighting the plight for women’s freedom into a tense family drama #TheSeedOfTheSacredFig
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Santa is on a PTSD rampage killing whoever has made it onto his naughty list in this fun remake of 80’s slasher pic #SilentNightDeadlyNight
Santa is on a PTSD rampage killing whoever has made it onto his naughty list in this fun remake of 80’s slasher pic #SilentNightDeadlyNight
A ★★★½ review of Silent Night, Deadly Night (2025)
Having already rebooted another horror franchise in Wrong Turn, Mike P. Nelson now reboots an 80’s festive horror slasher Silent Night, Deadly Night, a movie that itself then spawned 4 sequels and a r...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Santa is on a PTSD rampage killing whoever has made it onto his naughty list in this fun remake of 80’s slasher pic #SilentNightDeadlyNight
Santa is on a PTSD rampage killing whoever has made it onto his naughty list in this fun remake of 80’s slasher pic #SilentNightDeadlyNight
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Devastating slice of social realism reminiscent of Ken Loach showing the mundanity of life for a factory worker in Scotland #OnFalling
Devastating slice of social realism reminiscent of Ken Loach showing the mundanity of life for a factory worker in Scotland #OnFalling
A ★★★★ review of On Falling (2024)
It is no surprise to find out that this movie comes from the Ken Loach production company Sixteen Films. It’s a film of social realism that Loach himself would happily depict. Instead we get Portugu...
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December 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Devastating slice of social realism reminiscent of Ken Loach showing the mundanity of life for a factory worker in Scotland #OnFalling
Devastating slice of social realism reminiscent of Ken Loach showing the mundanity of life for a factory worker in Scotland #OnFalling
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The latest movie from Zach Cregger is a mystery movie with a great premise that slowly reveals the horror underneath in a tension building finale #Weapons
The latest movie from Zach Cregger is a mystery movie with a great premise that slowly reveals the horror underneath in a tension building finale #Weapons
A ★★★★ review of Weapons (2025)
Two good horror films out in cinemas seen within days is so refreshing. Here Zach Cregger follows up Barbarian with a mystery film full of brewing supernatural horror. Having one story told from diff...
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August 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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The latest movie from Zach Cregger is a mystery movie with a great premise that slowly reveals the horror underneath in a tension building finale #Weapons
The latest movie from Zach Cregger is a mystery movie with a great premise that slowly reveals the horror underneath in a tension building finale #Weapons
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The Phillippou brothers follow up Talk To Me with something more horrifying and much more gruesome in one of the best horror movies this year #BringHerBack
The Phillippou brothers follow up Talk To Me with something more horrifying and much more gruesome in one of the best horror movies this year #BringHerBack
A ★★★★ review of Bring Her Back (2025)
So following the huge success of Talk To Me the Phillippou brothers have returned to show us that their first movie was no one off. Here they have stepped up even further in relation to horror and ge...
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August 17, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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The Phillippou brothers follow up Talk To Me with something more horrifying and much more gruesome in one of the best horror movies this year #BringHerBack
The Phillippou brothers follow up Talk To Me with something more horrifying and much more gruesome in one of the best horror movies this year #BringHerBack
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The return of Boyle and Garland to the 28 days franchise in this first of a new set of movies brings us big dicked zombies to the screen #28YearsLater
The return of Boyle and Garland to the 28 days franchise in this first of a new set of movies brings us big dicked zombies to the screen #28YearsLater
A ★★★½ review of 28 Years Later (2025)
The latest film in the 28 days franchise and the first part of a hoped trilogy sees the return of Alex Garland and Danny Boyle bringing the rage virus back to our screens. Having watched endless zom...
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June 22, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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The return of Boyle and Garland to the 28 days franchise in this first of a new set of movies brings us big dicked zombies to the screen #28YearsLater
The return of Boyle and Garland to the 28 days franchise in this first of a new set of movies brings us big dicked zombies to the screen #28YearsLater
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A coming out story set in Ireland has all the cliches but offers a charming cast and hope #WhoWeLove #PrideMonth
A coming out story set in Ireland has all the cliches but offers a charming cast and hope #WhoWeLove #PrideMonth
A ★★★ review of Who We Love (2021)
June Pride Month Who We Love stretches out its story from the director and stars previous short film called Lily. Both Clara Harte and Dean Quinn reprise their roles as best friends at school Lily an...
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June 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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A coming out story set in Ireland has all the cliches but offers a charming cast and hope #WhoWeLove #PrideMonth
A coming out story set in Ireland has all the cliches but offers a charming cast and hope #WhoWeLove #PrideMonth
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Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs bring to life this true story of a homeless couple walking the 630 South West Path #TheSaltPath
Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs bring to life this true story of a homeless couple walking the 630 South West Path #TheSaltPath
A ★★★ review of The Salt Path (2024)
The Salt Path brings to light the true story of Raynor and Moth Winn from the book written by Raynor herself following their journey to walk the 630 mile coast path around the south coast of England. ...
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June 22, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs bring to life this true story of a homeless couple walking the 630 South West Path #TheSaltPath
Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs bring to life this true story of a homeless couple walking the 630 South West Path #TheSaltPath
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A tender love story from Peru set in a remote fishing village takes us in an unusual direction in the second half #Undertow #PrideMonth
A tender love story from Peru set in a remote fishing village takes us in an unusual direction in the second half #Undertow #PrideMonth
A ★★★½ review of Undertow (2009)
June Pride Month It is not often that you get to see a movie from Peru let alone one that was its nomination for best international feature back in 2010 and happens to be about a doomed gay affair. It...
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June 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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A tender love story from Peru set in a remote fishing village takes us in an unusual direction in the second half #Undertow #PrideMonth
A tender love story from Peru set in a remote fishing village takes us in an unusual direction in the second half #Undertow #PrideMonth
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A wonderful cast comes together to offer a movie full of laughs, music and a warm glow of loveliness #TheBalladOfWallisIsland
A wonderful cast comes together to offer a movie full of laughs, music and a warm glow of loveliness #TheBalladOfWallisIsland
A ★★★★ review of The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025)
This is exactly the type of movie that us Brits seem to know just how to play it. Sentimental but not too slushy, heartfelt characters that you get to know and love and a setting that adds as much ch...
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June 16, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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A wonderful cast comes together to offer a movie full of laughs, music and a warm glow of loveliness #TheBalladOfWallisIsland
A wonderful cast comes together to offer a movie full of laughs, music and a warm glow of loveliness #TheBalladOfWallisIsland
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Step into the complicated world of Layla who is simply searching for love #Layla #PrideMonth
Step into the complicated world of Layla who is simply searching for love #Layla #PrideMonth
A ★★★ review of Layla (2024)
June Pride Month Layla lets us into a world of drag and a community of people from all worlds of gender types who just want to be themselves. Layla appears non binary and spends more time dressed as ...
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June 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Step into the complicated world of Layla who is simply searching for love #Layla #PrideMonth
Step into the complicated world of Layla who is simply searching for love #Layla #PrideMonth
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A gay coming out movie from Australia is full of daft comedy but one more for the kids #AccordingToOtto #PrideMonth
A gay coming out movie from Australia is full of daft comedy but one more for the kids #AccordingToOtto #PrideMonth
A ★★ review of According to Otto (2025)
June Pride Month Made to an obvious tight budget this comedy feature from Australia gives a very light hearted and often daft look at a 16 year old lad coming out for the first time and sharing with u...
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June 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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A gay coming out movie from Australia is full of daft comedy but one more for the kids #AccordingToOtto #PrideMonth
A gay coming out movie from Australia is full of daft comedy but one more for the kids #AccordingToOtto #PrideMonth