MovieMuse
Gordon ‘SirClive’ Sinclair is the founder of MovieMuse. A child of the 70s with his heart in the eighties, his dream is to one day wake up like Alex Drake and relive that glorious decade.
A long time classic video gamer, Gordon founded Replay Events, a company dedicated to showcasing the best retro consoles and computers of the last 40 years.
With his unhealthy love of Stallone movies and an obsessive need to watch every film ever nominated for a major award, he is aways ready with an (un?)educated opinion.
Away from MovieMuse Gordon is an avid follower of Liverpool and Huddersfield Town football clubs and lives in Halifax with his Star Wars loving fiancée Nancy.
Gordon is responsible for the MovieMuse website and co-edits the MovieMuse podcast.
Gordon's Favourite Things...
| Films | Games | TV | Music |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Great Dictator | Bomb Jack (Arcade) | Life on Mars | Blackstar – David Bowie |
| Rocky | Red Dead Redemption (PS3) | Red Dwarf | 101 Damnations – Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine |
| The Empire Strikes Back | Final Fantasy VII (PS1) | The Likely Lads | Strangeways Here We Come – The Smiths |
| It’s a Wonderful Life | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (PS3) | Early Doors | The World is Yours – Ian Brown |
| Grave of the Fireflies | Kick Off II (Amiga) | ALF | Is This It? – The Strokes |
| Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure | Ratchet & Clank 2 (PS2) | ||
| The Life of Brian | Time Pilot (Arcade) | ||
| Reservoir Dogs | Outrun (Arcade) | ||
| Dog Day Afternoon | Deathchase 3D (ZX Spectrum) | ||
| The Muppets take Manhattan | R-Type (Arcade) |
Gordon’s Reviews
| Poster | Movie | Year | Comments | Rating |
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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter | 2016 | Pretty standard Resi fare for the most part, but a mildly satisfying ending leaves you lamenting the end of Alice's story. | 5 |
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Ghost in the Shell | 2017 | The 1995 anime Ghost in the Shell excelled in the art of story telling, however the live action retelling forgoes this in favour of visual gimmicks.. Scarlett is still the number one sci-fi badass babe, but GITS is a 'major' disappointment. | 4 |
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Power Rangers | 2017 | A surprisingly entertaining sci-fi adventure. Though the humoour is a little grown up for the pre-teen audience the TV show was most popular with. | 6 |
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Enemy of the State | 1998 | It's billing as a 90s action classic is inaccurate as the film turns out to be a rather lame thriller that plays on 90s tech-fear by exaggeration and fantasy. Smith is Smith, but the film is not up to his usual standard. | 5 |
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Aftermath | 2017 | Taken as either a low budget Hollywood film or a big-budget TV movie, Aftermath crafts a good tale and gives Arnie just enough scope to show off his limited skills as a serious actor. | 6 |
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Personal Shopper | 2016 | For a paranormal thriller it is a pity that the paranormal seems superfluous. Kristen Stewart is excellent and her character is interesting enough without the need for spirits. | 6 |
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Logan | 2017 | A superhero film that gives no sense of hope. The acting is great and the story brave, but it all feels a little bleak. | 6 |
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The Hatton Garden Job | 2017 | Has hopes to be a 'based on a true story' of the movie Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but ends up more like an episode of TV show Hustle. | 4 |
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The Fate of the Furious | 2017 | Even for the F&F franchise this is a pretty ludicrous film with some terrible dialogue and set pieces. But just like all the rest, there is some fun to be had. | 5 |
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Little Boxes | 2016 | The film is so desperate to sell you its liberal message that it ties itself in knots and forgets to be entertaining. Belongs (and will probably end up) on the Hallmark channel. | 4 |
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Kidnapping Mr. Heineken | 2015 | A very average (and apparently true) kidnap tale that is made worse by the filmmakers not knowing whether to make the perpetrators heroes or villains. | 4 |
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The Levelling | 2016 | Despite the director's overuse of symbolic cut scenes and a pretty annoying score, The Levelling is a brilliant debut film. Just be prepared for a quite depressing tone that never lightens. | 7 |
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Colossal | 2016 | A children's movie made for adults with adult themes. It could have worked, but unlikable characters and uninteresting subplot make it a big disappointment | 5 |
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Sleepless | 2017 | On the face of it Sleepless is a very generic cop thriller. But Foxx and McNeary play their parts well and the film manages to keep the pace for virtually all of its 90 minutes. Certainly more fun than the later Takens or any of the geri-action movies. | 6 |
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Life | 2017 | Billed as claustrophobic horror-thriller in space, the film repeats itsef numerous times as it kills of its crew and only manages a recommendation due to the fun ending. | 6 |
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The Fitzroy | 2017 | A Kickstarter funded traditional British farce set in a dystpoian 1950s Margate. Some of the acting is suspect and the script would better suit the theatre, but the sets and production values are high and the comedy just about hits the mark. | 6 |
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | 2017 | Disappointingly little happens and some of the jokes seemed forced, but there is plenty of action and laughs along the way. | 6 |
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Brick | 2005 | A modern day teen noir sounds awful, but the direction and score pull it off (mostly). JGL is great in the lead role. | 7 |
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Persepolis | 2007 | An interesting but bleak life story and good animation can't save the film from being a little long and dull. | 5 |
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The Belko Experiment | 2016 | A poor mans Battle Royale set in a high rise office block. Fun, but utterly pointless. | 5 |
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Catfight | 2016 | Its USP is the vicious and gratuitous catfights between the female leads, but I am not sure a brutal fight between a pregnant woman and a grieving woman, can ever be funny. No matter how much whimsical music you accompany it with. | 5 |
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The Goob | 2014 | So little happens in the film that I wonder how the writer decided it was finished. Nicely shot and some reasonable acting, but there is nothing to recommend beyond that. | 4 |
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Last Passenger | 2013 | A nice low budget thriller that only lets itself down by the dodgy score and lacklustre ending. | 6 |
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The Fugitive | 1993 | The filmmaking maybe doesn't hold up to modern standards and most of the twists are pretty well signposted, but the thrills are there and Ford/Jones make a good set of adversaries. | 7 |
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The Comedian | 2016 | A great cast and some fine performances from De Niro and Leslie Mann turn a slightly cliched tale into a funny and endearing comedy. | 7 |