Tom Saunders

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Favorite films

  • The Thing
  • Jaws
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • Alien

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  • Soldier

    ★★★

  • Watching the Detectives

    ★★★½

  • Retribution

    ★★

  • Scary Movie 5

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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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Soldier
★★★ Watched

Birthday Bash 2026:

Happy birthday Smacklesmores! 🥳

I lowkey messed with this. Pure Paul W. S. Anderson sauce. Kurt Russell is doing so much acting just with his eyes and a stiff face, essentially embodying his inner Arnold Schwarzenegger Terminator type role. My favourite part was actually the beginning where they’re kinda like in a survival of the fittest training test, but the rest of the film was serviceable too. I definitely could see the Blade Runner resemblance, even if it’s nowhere near that level of filmmaking or quality. Still, pleasantly surprised with this one.

Watching the Detectives
★★★½ Watched

The 52 Actors Challenge (A-Z) 2026 (52x52):

Week 23 (L - Actress): Lucy Liu.

I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would. In some way I hate that I do because it tells you to stop watching movies and go live in the real world, but it’s also kinda cute and they channel their movie loving into real life events, so it’s a win for me.
Whilst Cillian Murphy had a mixed performance here for me and…

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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?