Ben Hibburd

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  • Thief
  • Manhunter
  • Heat
  • The Insider

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  • Cleopatra

    ★★★

  • Frida

    ★★★½

  • Contract Killer

    ★★★★

  • The Barkleys of Broadway

    ★★★

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Mad Max: Fury Road
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Alright, I'mma stop fucking around and finally give this film its rightful five stars. I don’t know what the hell I was smoking during my last three watches of this rip-roaring masterpiece, but it must’ve been some whack shit, because this is an all-timer. A true, pulse-pounding, sun-bleached journey through the “Engines of Darkness,” a crucible of crude oil, burning rubber, guttural engines, and steam-blasting piston rods, pumping dirty fuel through the veins of a ten-ton mechanical death machine!

Stripped…

Manhunter
★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

“Manhunter” is my favourite film of all time, and it’s the film that changed my life.


This review is filled with spoilers, and it's going to dive deep into my lore. I figured I needed to give the appropriate history as to why this film means so much to me. So, if you’re even remotely interested, kick back and allow me to stroll down memory lane for posterity's sake.


For the majority of my life, I was never really into…

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Invasion U.S.A.
★★½ Watched

Latin American Guerrillas pose as a MAGA-inspired immigration death squad, wiping out an entire barge of Cuban immigrants in classic Cannon style. A straight-up buzzsaw of wanton destruction and mayhem, which ends up being the most memorable part of this banal action flick. The Guerrillas, funded by a rogue Russian general, are bringing their kilos of coke through the Florida Keys in an attempt to “invade” the USA… all two hundred of them. They sell the drugs for guns and…

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Charade
★★★★ Liked Watched

"Charade" is the most Hitchcockian Hitchcock that Hitchcock never Hitchcocked.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
★★ Watched

I think it goes without saying amongst fellow film aficionados that we all love films, especially the great ones. However, through years of watching films, I've noticed that there seems to be that one film which is hugely popular, yet when you sit down to watch it, you can't understand why it's held in such high esteem. For me, it's only happened a couple of times, but I unfortunately have to add "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" to the…