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Tom Bown
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Tom Bown’s Favourite TV Shows, 2011–2021
Tom Bown’s Favourite TV Shows, 2011–2021
A list of my 30 favourite shows from the past 10 years, featuring distant lands, sudden departures, malevolant evils, and Dumb Starbucks.
Tom Bown
Jan 11, 2022
Tom Bown’s Top 10 Games of 2017
Tom Bown’s Top 10 Games of 2017
Although my love for games isn’t quite up there with my love for TV or film, it’s still very deeply ingrained in me. This year proved to be…
Tom Bown
Dec 12, 2017
You Were Never Really Here — London Film Festival Review
You Were Never Really Here — London Film Festival Review
Lynne Ramsay, during her barely-an-introduction to You Were Never Really Here — the Scottish filmmaker’s first feature since 2011’s…
Tom Bown
Oct 15, 2017
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer — London Film Festival Review
The Killing Of A Sacred Deer — London Film Festival Review
It’s incredibly easy to spot a Yorgos Lanthimos flick, with his clinical, darkly humorous look at disturbing or tough subjects. The Greek…
Tom Bown
Oct 13, 2017
The Shape Of Water — London Film Festival Review
The Shape Of Water — London Film Festival Review
The Shape Of Water is the kind of movie it’s impossible to imagine anyone but Guillermo del Toro making — a classic Hollywood-type romance…
Tom Bown
Oct 11, 2017
Brigsby Bear — London Film Festival Review
Brigsby Bear — London Film Festival Review
Brainchild of SNL player Kyle Mooney and his childhood friends, Brigsby Bear was an extremely weird and pleasant surprise for me — a…
Tom Bown
Oct 10, 2017
Battle of the Sexes — London Film Festival Review
Battle of the Sexes — London Film Festival Review
Battle of the Sexes, based on the real-life 1973 tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs, is a good underdog sports story…
Tom Bown
Oct 9, 2017
Last Flag Flying — London Film Festival Review
Last Flag Flying — London Film Festival Review
Richard Linklater is an all-time favourite filmmaker of mine, who in my opinion has made the most consistently great body of work of this…
Tom Bown
Oct 8, 2017
The Meyerowitz Stories — London Film Festival Review
The Meyerowitz Stories — London Film Festival Review
Esteemed indieman Noah Baumbach’s latest (and first for Netflix) is almost like his own riff on frequent collaborator Wes Anderson’s The…
Tom Bown
Oct 7, 2017
Lean On Pete — London Film Festival Review
Lean On Pete — London Film Festival Review
Lean On Pete is a slow, steady movie which can feel like a chore to watch at times throughout its 2-hour runtime, but which leaves you…
Tom Bown
Oct 6, 2017
Why you shouldn’t ignore ‘One Mississippi’
Why you shouldn’t ignore ‘One Mississippi’
The second season of Tig Notaro’s intensely autobiographical One Mississippi, which just went up today on Amazon Prime, is proof that…
Tom Bown
Sep 8, 2017
Tom Bown’s Favourite Films of 2017 (so far)
Tom Bown’s Favourite Films of 2017 (so far)
It’s already been one hell of a year for movies, and we still have a ton of end-of-year awards bait-y type flicks to come out. The release…
Tom Bown
Aug 31, 2017
Five Unfortunately Short-Lived Sitcoms Worth Your Time
Five Unfortunately Short-Lived Sitcoms Worth Your Time
I got a pretty decent reaction from my article on five sitcoms that are easy to catch up on, with the consensus seeming to be that people…
Tom Bown
Feb 22, 2017
Review — John Wick: Chapter 2
Review — John Wick: Chapter 2
As you can probably expect, I take a notebook along when I go to the cinema and write notes as references for my upcoming review. Usually…
Tom Bown
Feb 21, 2017
Review — Moonlight
Review — Moonlight
Once in a while, a movie comes along that manages to use all the tools of filmmaking — cinematography, sound design, editing, you know what…
Tom Bown
Feb 20, 2017
Five Great Sitcoms You Can Catch Up On Easily
Five Great Sitcoms You Can Catch Up On Easily
With the absurd amount of excellent new television coming every year, largely thanks to the plethora of new channels and streaming…
Tom Bown
Feb 18, 2017
Tom Bown’s Favourite TV of 2016: #10–1
Tom Bown’s Favourite TV of 2016: #10–1
Welcome to the end of my list of the absolute best TV that aired this year. We’ve made it to the top 10, including cowboys, musicals, kind…
Tom Bown
Dec 30, 2016
Tom Bown’s Favourite TV of 2016 — #25–11
Tom Bown’s Favourite TV of 2016 — #25–11
Welcome back to my personal list of the best TV of 2016! This part kicks off the first half, and stops just short of the top 10. We got…
Tom Bown
Dec 29, 2016
Tom Bown’s Favourite TV of 2016: #50–26
Tom Bown’s Favourite TV of 2016: #50–26
Welcome to my personal list of the best TV shows that aired in 2016. I watched a hell of a lot of stuff this year, to the point where even…
Tom Bown
Dec 28, 2016
Review — Rogue One
Review — Rogue One
As the first movie of the wider Star Wars franchise outside of the main saga, Rogue One naturally attracted a lot of suspicion. Were Disney…
Tom Bown
Dec 18, 2016
Review — Moana
Review — Moana
I’ll admit it right off the bat: the recent glut of Disney musicals aren’t really for me. While I appreciate that they’re far better than…
Tom Bown
Dec 14, 2016
Review — Paterson
Review — Paterson
I think Paterson taught me more about how my own preconceptions can colour my view of a movie than any other. The early notes I made while…
Tom Bown
Dec 10, 2016
Review — The Edge of Seventeen
Review — The Edge of Seventeen
There is such a plethora of teen movies these days that it can be tough for any of them to feel truly incisive — many seem to still be…
Tom Bown
Dec 5, 2016
Review — Your Name
Review — Your Name
Makoto Shinaki, director of fantasy-comedy-body-swap-romance-disaster-caper anime Your Name, has been described by several peers and…
Tom Bown
Nov 26, 2016
Review — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Review — Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Despite being almost definitely the most consistent big-screen mega-franchise in history, I’ve never really had much of a passion for the…
Tom Bown
Nov 22, 2016
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