Nigel Floyd

Film Critic and Broadcaster

Favorite films

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  • Under Suspicion

  • The Eight Mountains

  • A Few Good Men

  • Operation Finale

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Under Suspicion

2000

Rewatched

A re-make of Garde a Vu (1981) aka The Inquisitor, directed by Claude Miller and starring Lino Ventura, Michel Serrault and Romy Schneider.

The Eight Mountains

2022

Rewatched

Was Martijn Doolard's Italian Alpine building project and associated YouTube channel 'Renovating Two Stone Cabins in the Italian Alps'

www.youtube.com/@MartijnDoolaard

inspired by this film?

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Silver Linings Playbook

2012

★★ 12

An absurdly over-praised, trite and manipulative love story featuring a manic depressive (Bradley Cooper) and a young grieving widow (Jennifer Lawrence). There are some cute scenes involving dancing.

Like Paul Haggis's Crash before it, this is one of those films which, in years to come, will be cited as an embarrassing, over-hyped anomaly on the Oscar roll of honour. Jennifer Lawrence did not deserve her Best Actress gong, and the nominations for her, Cooper, Robert de Niro and Jacki Weaver…

Looper

2012

★★★★ 1

Superior, low-key, grown-up science fiction that prioritises ideas and emotion over futuristic set-dressing. Time travel plot is spoiler-bait. Good performances by Joseph Gordon Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt and the ever-wonderful Jeff Daniels. Writer/director Rian Johnson borrows from other sci-fi movies, but makes their ideas and images his own.