Darren Borg

Film Enthusiast. Film & Media Studies Teacher. Written for Film Stories Magazine.

Favorite films

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Blue Velvet
  • Andrei Rublev
  • Singin' in the Rain

All
  • The Damned United

    ★★★★

  • Can't Get You Out of My Head

    ★★★★½

  • La Jetée

    ★★★★★

  • Hair Love

    ★★★★

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The Damned United

2009

★★★★ Rewatched

I wouldn't say this is the greatest British football drama of all time. But it’s in the top one.

Can't Get You Out of My Head

2021

★★★★½ Watched

Adam Curtis' stunning, sprawling documentary is essential viewing for anyone interested in why everything in the 21st century feels so unstable and confusing. Only flaw, for me, is that Curtis veers into intellectual contortionism in Part 6 when attempting to simplify Tupac Shakur's complex career to fit his own narrative. Nonetheless, the rest of the documentary is, to me at least, incredibly well-argued and intricately constructed.

I cannot wait for SHIFTY!

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Nativity!

2009

★★★ Rewatched

Thank god Ofsted didn’t turn up.

A World Without Women

2011

★★★½ Watched

I’m a sucker for anything remotely Rohmeresque.

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