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The Full Story, behind the reviews....
Welcome to the hub. Ben Sorensen's spoiler free, eclectic, quick read, reviews - without the excess noise.
I feel like that wasn't what you were expecting from the "Full Story" heading, but, like the reviews, I'm not going to hard sell you on anything.
If it makes you feel any better, Ben has had a life long love of film that started a bit after the Anglos met the Saxons and around when film was actually film which oddly wasn't that long ago. I digress.
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Scroll through the films below, read the super short blub if you're in a rush, or click to read the full review and watch the trailer if you aren't.
Reviews below are in a roughly chronological order based on when Ben attended the premiere.
The End of Oak Street
Here are the essentials: Dinosaurs. Feathers. Carl Sagan. 70’s awesomeness. Ewan McGregor. Epic soundtrack. Anne Hathaway. Dinosaurs.
1 min read
Michael: The History They Chose to Write
Directed by Antoine Fuqua and produced, pointedly, by the executors of the Michael Jackson estate, John Branca and John McClain, this is a biopic that arrives with a seating plan already arranged and a guest list that has been very deliberately curated. The question the film can't quite escape, no matter how spectacular the staging or how extraordinary the central performance, is: are we watching someone's life story, or someone's preferred version of it?
4 min read
Alphabet Lane: Love Letters to the Middle of Nowhere
There's something both tender and faintly unhinged about the premise of Alphabet Lane . A couple, marooned in the open silence of rural New South Wales, begin writing letters to imaginary friends. Not as therapy. Not as a creative exercise. Just because what else are you going to do out there? It's a genuinely great idea. And James Litchfield, in his debut feature, knows it is. Anna (Tilda Cobham-Hervey) and Jack (Nicholas Denton) have just moved from Sydney to a remote corne
3 min read
Project Hail Mary: The Friendship That Saved Two Worlds
There are films that ask big questions about the universe. And then there's Project Hail Mary, which asks the biggest question a story can possibly ask; what does it mean to find a friend? All while set in the middle of deep space, answering it with a puppet, and somehow making you cry in public about it all....
5 min read
The Laundromat: A Comedy. Sort Of. Not Really.
There's a particular kind of darkness that only comedy can access. Not the jump-scare darkness, not the grinding bleakness of an arthouse drama about suffering. The darkness that arrives wearing a good suit, cracking a joke, and then quietly hands you a document that proves the whole system is rigged — and has been for decades....
3 min read
Anemone: The Sound of a Man Quietly Coming Apart
There are films that take their time. And then there’s Anenome, which takes its time the way a man who has never once talked about his feelings takes his time; slowly, quietly, occasionally with long silences that deafeningly speak volumes. You’ve been warned. Anemone is that film deeply uninterested in your comfort. The first extraordinary thing about it is something that exists entirely outside the frame: this screenplay was written by Daniel Day-Lewis, eight years into his
5 min read
Hamnet: The Grief That Wrote the Globe
This is not a film that will grab you by the collar. It won't chase you down with a hook or dazzle you into submission in the first five minutes. What it will do — if you let it — is pull up a chair, sit across from you, and wait. Patiently. With the particular stillness of someone who has been through something and no longer feels the need to fill the silence. Whether you find that deeply affecting or mildly maddening will tell you a lot about where you're at right now, and
3 min read
Wuthering Heights: A Wild Ride Through Gothic Romance!
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who think Wuthering Heights is the greatest gothic romance ever written, and those who think it’s a 19th-century instruction manual for emotionally avoidant chaos. Emerald Fennell’s new film politely refuses to referee that argument by tossing you onto the moors, handing you a candle, and wishing you “good luck” with your feelings and triggers....
4 min read
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert
Baz Luhrmann has made a career out of turning biography into fireworks. However in EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert, he does something sneakier: he builds a cathedral out of sound and then lets Elvis Presley walk in and casually remind you he was never just “a legend”, but a working musician with lethal timing, charisma for days, and a surprisingly sharp wit.....
2 min read
28 Years Later The BoneTemple
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple feels less like “a movie that ends” and more like “a movie that strategically parks itself in your brain…
2 min read
Slithering Straight Into Self-Parody: Anaconda 2025
This is not a remake but a piss take and its great..... For a film named after a prehistoric tube of muscle that hugs boats for fun, Anaconda (2025) is surprisingly self-aware. This isn’t “the serious new prestige reboot that validates a brand”. It’s the opposite: a knowingly daft, action-comedy that treats the very idea of remaking Anaconda as the punchline and then keeps finding new ways to twist that knife until it’s basically a party trick. The setup is gloriously, approp
3 min read
The History of Sound, The Art of Listening
The History of Sound is being sold as a World War I drama, but honestly, the war is mostly the studio’s way of tricking straight men into buying tickets to a queer folk-music romance. The trenches are off-screen; what we get instead is something much more interesting: a film about how we record each other – on wax, on paper, in memory – and how those recordings lie, distort and occasionally save us.
4 min read
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