Shorty’s Film Reviews

130 Films have been rated or reviewed by Shorty.

Return to Waterloo - The Kinks (1984): Ray Davies' bleak, even creepy, view of Thatcher's England. The song, 'Expectations', pretty well nails it.
A Quiet Passion (2016): An unflinching meditation on a difficult life.
Hamlet (2009): David Tennant is electric as Hamlet. Interesting use of CCTV technology.
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1991): A script so witty it made my brain hurt. It's as if Shakespeare had not only written HAMLET but also WAITING FOR GODOT into the bargain.
Local Hero (1983): An air of transatlantic eccentricity rules. Lovely stuff.
Mark Twain (2002): Up to the expected Ken Burns' standard. Marvelous use of archival photographs and Twain's words.
Tehran Taxi (2015): Very funny, and then comes the so–called "sordid realism]" of the final scene.
Offside (2006): Cocks a snook at what Iranian women (and men) have to put up with from 'the Regime'.
Rio Bravo (1959): And there's singin' too.
Gallipoli: The Frontline Experience (2005): Clear–eyed account of events. Loads of original footage, plus impressive re–enactment sequences.