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The Fifth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films – Door 7

2016’s La La Land has enough critical acclaim and a whole raft of awards (though it famously only held the Academy Award for Best Picture…

December 7, 2021

Humour, review
The Fifth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films – Door 6

2005’s Four Brothers is exactly the kind of movie I enjoy watching when I don’t really want to have to think too much about what…

December 6, 2021

Humour, review
The Fifth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films – Door 5

It’s a somewhat quirky fact that the person who brought the world ‘Mad Max’ is also, at least partially, responsible for 1995’s saccharine-sweet family-friendly flic,…

December 5, 2021

Humour, review
The Fifth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films – Door 4

2020’s ‘The 2nd’ is the kind of low budget action movie that, once upon a time, might have been described as ‘straight-to-video’ and is the…

December 4, 2021

Humour, review
The Fifth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films – Door 3

Spoiler Alert – If you haven’t seen this 2004 movie and you still intend to watch it some 17 years after it was released then…

December 3, 2021

Humour, review
The Fifth Annual James Proclaims Advent Calendar of Christmas(ish) Films – Door 2

2015’s Daddy’s Home is a run of the mill comedy vehicle for Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg. It’s fairly predictable, eminently forgettable and even at…

December 2, 2021

Humour, review

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