Fraser Duncan

Send Help

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9 February 2026 – With this film, I was right to suspect that it would be very gory, but it also managed to be quite funny, too. It wasn’t my cup of tea, but it did seem to please the others in the group. I would prefer that we watched less of that type of […]

Shelter

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2 February 2026 – Cinema Club went to see ‘Shelter’ on. On the one hand, it was standard Jason Statham action movie fare, with large degree of ridiculous violence, but was somewhat enhanced with the storyline of young girl needing rescuing, and largely accompanying him along the way, and thereby having quite an impact on […]

Hamlet

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26 January 2026 – We went to see this National Theatre production of ‘Hamlet’ shown at the cinema. It was a very modern adaptation of the play and, whilst it was interesting, it was not great, with the exception of Francesca Mills, who played Ophelia with great gusto. One of us fell asleep through a […]

Rental Family

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19 January 2026 – Three out of four of us went to see ‘Rental Family’. The two others enjoyed it, appreciating the performance, plot and cultural differences from the Japanese lifestyles portrayed. I found it a bit boring and slow, and was not greatly enamoured by the performance put in by Brendan Fraser. I did, […]

Anaconda

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5 January 2026 – We went to see ‘Anaconda’, and it was a good, lighthearted film to go see after our winter break. We were universal in our enjoyment of it. Fraser