The Tight Line

A personal film review site. Each newly released film that I watch will result in an opinionated review confined to one A4 page of type. Thus keeping the line tight........

21 December 2014

Kon Tiki (2012)

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Thor Heyerdahl was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer who researched and developed a theory that the original settlers of Polynesia ...

6 October 2014

What I Did on My Holiday (2014)

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An ensemble movie of five adults and three children set in beautiful Scottish scenery. All the better to explore the dysfunctional relation...

17 February 2014

Inside Llewyn Davis

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Bob Dylan wrote about the times that were changing in his book ‘Chronicles’ (2004). He sits in a Greenwich Village apartment staring out th...

7 February 2014

The Railwayman (2013)

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Eric Lomax was an engineer and a railway enthusiast who was captured by the Japanese in the Second World War. He was put into forced labour...

30 January 2014

12 Years A Slave (2013)

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Based upon a book published in 1853, a memoir by Solomon Northup, this film brings the story alive in a direct manner. The narrative is sim...

20 January 2014

American Hustle (2013)

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A hustle is a confidence trick. An audience can feel confident that they are being tricked. Magicians use smoke and mirrors but a hustler h...

13 January 2014

Saving Mr Banks (2013

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Mary Poppins passed me by when it came out. I was not young enough and not quite old enough to be able ever to say that I sneaked in to see...

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