Tom Saunders

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Favorite films

  • The Thing
  • Jaws
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Alien

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  • The Addams Family

    ★★★½

  • The Current War

    ★★★½

  • The Outsiders

    ★★½

  • Stay

    ★★★½

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The Running Man
★★★★½ Liked Watched

Fun Twinks has to be the funniest cereal name I’ve ever heard. Edgar Wright takes the absolute mick out of the entire American media network and it’s the funniest thing I’ve seen this year.

American Beauty
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

First time rewatching American Beauty and I loved it even more, now climbing to #31 in my Top 250 favourites.
Well, I’ll be damned. Such variation stemming from a handheld camera in action showing a POV perspective, whilst paired with a Hitchcockian voyeuristic style in other parts between the two neighbouring houses. There’s also successful slow-mo sequences (which I might add, slow-mo is usually a negative in most cases but it works brilliantly here) and paired with the lucid dream…

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The Addams Family
★★★½ Watched

🚨 NEW BOX’D IN PODCAST EPISODE 🚨

Boy do we have an episode for you! To honour the late Rob Reiner, join Smacklesmores and I as we discuss three of his most notable movies with our guests Doodlebarb and NatUrNormalGirl!

Click here to listen - Season 3, Episode 7

Starts as an immediate 5 star with an iconic theme tune and brilliant intro to each character, but as it progresses it slowly declines unable to withstand the same aura from…

The Current War
★★★½ Watched

The cast feels very formulaic for this type of story, but some of the filmmaking in this is unquestionably brilliant. The opening and ending shots at the waterfall are absolutely stunning and throughout the angles and cinematography was really good.
I can’t say the rivalry worked all that well, but that one sequence where Max Richter’s adaption of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is genuinely fantastic and such a perfect use of that piece of music. Some aspects are actually similar…

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The Great Flood
★★★★½ Liked Watched

Reviews and ratings appear to be extremely split on this one but damn, I thought it was brilliant! I expected just a normal disaster movie but it was so much more than that and the less you know before watching, the better!
I loved the performances here, they were utterly heartfelt and tore at my emotions in unexpected ways. Honestly, please give this film a chance if you’re even half thinking about watching it. It’s like a puzzle that you get the chance to piece together along the way whilst holding your breath deep underwater.

War of the Worlds
★½ Watched

The longer it went on, the worse it got. That ‘1 minute to impact’ sequence was right up there with one of the worst scenes I’ve seen this year. Imagine films like Unfriended or Searching, but merged with the War of the Worlds premise, resulting in a real mess of a film. Emotional weighted scenes are as light as a feather, relying solely on the acting of Ice Cube. Dare I say more?