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April 3, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Blue: DVD

Blue Director: Karina Holden Northern Pictures/Transmission Films The statistics are frightening – and embarrassing – half of the ocean’s life has been killed off in the last 40 years. By 2050 there will be more plastic in the sea than fish. But do we give a shit?
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March 25, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Film Review: Peter Rabbit – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)

Peter Rabbit Director: Will Gluck Sony Pictures Animation Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 6, Children's Movie, Coco, Film, Film Review, Film Review: Peter Rabbit, Film Review: Peter Rabbit – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6), Kids Film, Movie, Movie Review, Oscar, Oscar Sweetman, Peter Rabbit, Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman, Six, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron · Leave a Reply ·

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March 20, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

The Party: Film

The Party Director: Sally Potter Adventure Pictures/Great Point Media At just 71 minutes – and it rips by too – there’s no room for spoilers. Sally Potter’s latest, The Party, features the titular event; straight into it. You see, Janet (Kristin Scott Thomas) has just been announced shadow minister for health. So we’re at her […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Adventure Pictures/Great Point Media, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Cillian Murphy, Comedy, Emily Mortimer, Film, Film Review, Kristin Scott Thomas, Movie, Movie Review, Patricia Clarkson, Review, Sally Potter, Satire, The Party, The Party: Film, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron · Leave a Reply ·

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February 24, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

I, Tonya: Film

I, Tonya Director: Craig Gillespie Clubhouse Pictures/LuckyChap Entertainment I, Tonya was so good I had to see it twice. It was as if I didn’t quite believe it to be the triumph first time around and had to check. Turns out it’s every bit as good – and even a little bit better – the second […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Allison Janey, Craig Gillespie, Film, Film Review, I, I Tonya: Film, Ice-Skating, Margot Robbie, Movie, Movie Review, Nancy Kerrigan, Sebastian Stan, Skating, Tonya, Tonya Harding · 1 Reply ·

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February 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken – Live from The Chicago Theatre

John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken – Live from The Chicago Theatre Enliven Entertainment/Eagle Rock Netflix Bruce Springsteen is the boss. And John Mellencamp is, at best, 2IC. Which is plain to see. Even more obvious to hear. And here he takes his Plain Spoken album – the 20-something-th of his career and places it in the live context, a […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Audio, Concert Film, Doc, Doco, Documentary, DVD, DVD Review, Film Review, John Mellencamp, John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken, John Mellencamp: Plain Spoken - Live from The Chicago Theatre, Live from The Chicago Theatre, Memoir, Movie, Movie Review, Music, Music Review, Narrative, Netflix, Plain Spoken, Plain Spoken - Live from The Chicago Theatre, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron · Leave a Reply ·

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February 15, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Phantom Thread: Film

Phantom Thread Director: Paul Thomas Anderson Annapurna Pictures/Focus Features/Ghoulardi Film Company/Perfect World Pictures Writer/Director PT Anderson delivers another romance with cracks, another tale of quirk and obsession – and if this is (truly) Daniel Day-Lewis’ victory lap then it’s also a passing of the torch, in a manner of speaking, to Vicky Krieps.
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Daniel Day-Lewis, Film, Film Review, Jonny Greenwood, Lesley Manville, Movie, Movie Review, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, Phantom Thread: Film, PT Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Vicky Krieps, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron · Leave a Reply ·

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January 22, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Film

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Director: Martin McDonagh Blueprint Pictures/Fox Searchlight Pictures We might be placed just outside of small-town Ebbing in Missouri, but tonally we are all over the map when Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) paints a none-more-black comedy with a few extra dark shades of the old ultraviolence…
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Abbie Cornish, Cinema, Film, Film Review, Frances McDormand, In Bruges, John Hawkes, Martin McDonagh, Missouri, Movie, Movie Review, Peter Dinklage, Sam Rockwell, Seven Psychopaths, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, Woody Harrelson · 2 Replies ·

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January 21, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Film Review: Paddington 2 – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)

Paddington 2 Director: Paul King Heyday Films/Studio Canal/Canal+ Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6)
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Age 6, DVD, Film, Film Review, Film Review: Paddington 2 – Reviewed by Oscar Sweetman (age 6), Hugh Grant, Jail, Movie, Movie Review, Movies, Mr. Brown, Mrs. Brown, Oscar, Oscar Sweetman, Paddington, Paddington 2, Paddington Bear, Paul King, Six · Leave a Reply ·

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January 12, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Coco: Film

Coco Directors: Lee Unkrich, Adrian Molna Pixar Animation Studios/Walt Disney Pictures “This is Pixar at its best – somehow both visually stunning and straightforward. There’s something deceptively dazzling about Pixar at its best. It’s a return too to the brand’s very best version of the storytelling about feelings (rather than just storying with feelings)…” I […]
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January 10, 2018 by Simon Sweetman

Borg vs McEnroe: Film

Borg vs McEnroe Director: Janus Metz Pedersen Nordisk Film/SF Studios/Neon Forget the “the best Tennnis film ever”-styled taglines Borg vs McEnroe is an incredible movie – it manages to be all at once completely and utterly about sport (and within that very much about tennis – as I guess you’d presume, if not hope) and […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged America, Björn Borg, Borg, Borg McEnroe, Borg vs McEnroe: Film, Film, Film Review, Janus Metz Pedersen, John McEnroe, McEnroe, Movie, Movie Review, Sweden, Tennis, USA, Wimbledon · Leave a Reply ·

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November 15, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Murder On The Orient Express: Film

Murder On The Orient Express Director: Kenneth Branagh Twentieth Century Fox/Genre Films/Kingberg Kenneth Branagh’s remake of Murder On The Orient Express is probably the worst film I’ve ever seen on a big screen. I’m adding that movie-theatre experience because I watch a LOT of shit on TV and DVD. A lot. So it’s unlikely that […]
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November 8, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Brigsby Bear: Film

Brigsby Bear Director: Dave McCary 3311 Productions/Sony Pictures Classics Brigsby Bear is one of the best films I’ve seen in years. Let’s start right there, like this. Because I don’t want to spoil the magic of the film – instead I want to talk about what it meant to me, how it made me feel, […]
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