West Side Story (2021). Film review by Jason Day of the musical directed by Steven Spielberg

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Musical

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My New York Year/My Salinger Year (2020). Film review of the drama, plus going to Cineworld Northampton

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Drama

Win Hughes and Jason Day:

star rating 3 out of 5 worth watching
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Mannequin (1987). Film review of the fantasy romcom starring Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall.

Mannequin (1987)
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Comedy

star rating 3 out of 5 worth watching
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Dressed to Kill (1980). 4/5 stars for this sexy, shocking slasher film

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Film review by Jason Day of Dressed to Kill, the psycho-sexual thriller about a woman murdering other women in New York. Starring Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson and Nancy Allen.

Thriller/Suspense/Film Noir

image four star rating very good lots to enjoy

 

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Florence Foster Jenkins (2016). Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant excel in this musical biopic

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Film review by Jason Day of the movie Florence Foster Jenkins, in which Meryl Streep takes the title role, a tone deaf singer who finally achieves her dream of singing to an audience, despite the fact she is tone deaf. Co-starring Hugh Grant.

Comedy

image four star rating very good lots to enjoy

 

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Get Out (2017). Disappointing, cliched horror about an interracial relationship.

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Film review by Jason Day of Get Out, the horror movie about a young black man who visits his white girlfriend’s liberal family with terrifying and life-changing results. Starring Daniel Kaluuya and Allison Williams.

Horror

star rating 3 out of 5 worth watching

 

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Collateral Beauty (2016). Read on for why this New York fantasy let me wholly unimpressed.

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Film review by Jason Day of Collateral Beauty, the fantasy drama about a grieving man who writes to Death, Love and Time after the death of his daughter. Starring Will Smith and Edward Norton.

Drama

2stars - Fair/passes the time

 

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