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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Manifesto | 2015 | A linear feature made from 13 shorts, all starring Cate Blanchett, that were originally a multi screen art installation. A triumph for the costume and makeup department, but a big fail in her varied accents. | 5 |
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Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life | 2003 | Fails to get over the low bar set in the first film as it simply piles more ludicrous action on an even dafter script. | 3 |
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Patti Cake$ | 2017 | A joyful journey of self discovery and acceptance as a fat, white, misfit girl and her odd friends follow their dream. 8 Mile with a little less angst and a few more laughs thrown in. | 7 |
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Valerian & the City of a Thousand Planets | 2017 | Despite too many Star Wars tropes and sci-fi staples, this Spy Kids vs The Fifth Element is plenty of fun and a return to some kind of form for Luc Besson. | 6 |
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Brawl in Cell Block 99 | 2017 | Whilst the name may give people a false impression that this is an action film, it follows the successful formula of S. Caraig Zahler's previous film Bone Tomahawk. Slow character building punctuated with sickening violence. | 7 |
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Ingrid Goes West | 2017 | Starts as an indictment of the Instagram culture, but ends up being more about how people live their lives in the real world. A funny and interesting tale, but it won't make anyone reduce their screen time. | 6 |
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Mayhem | 2017 | An apt title for a viral outbreak in an office block romp. If you imagine Uwe Boll's Postal, set in Nakatomi Plaza then you won't be far wrong. Far more fun than it really should be. | 5 |
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Radius | 2017 | A man wakes up after a car crash and if anyone gets within 50 feet of him they immediately drop dead. An excellent premise played out extremely well. The last 20 minutes are grim, but that is no bad thing. A very pleasant surprise of a film. | 7 |
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Miracle Mile | 1988 | This schizophrenic film is for the most part this a standard 80s rom-com. But then it peppers you with nuclear war, full frontal nudity, gruesome deaths and a c-bomb. It is hard to know what the director was aiming for, but it is fair to say he missed. | 5 |
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Good Time | 2017 | Whilst only technically a heist movie, the film is actually a tense and frantic thriller with a killer synth-score and some fantastic performances, not least from co-director Ben Safdie. | 8 |
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Justice League | 2017 | Too much flash-bang covering up for too little plot, but the rumours of the DCU's demise are greatly exaggerated. Snyder and Wheedon have just about done the league justice. | 6 |
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Beta Test | 2016 | A star beta tester finds that the game he is testing is being played out in real life. It is a standard trope but and the acting and script are beyond awful, but there is fun to be had and a few interesting mechanics to enjoy. | 5 |
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The D Train | 2015 | A dreadfully predictable low-rent script about the fat kid and the cool dude meeting ahead of a high school reunion. It has an interesting twist around the middle, but even that is betrayed by a dreadfully trite ending. Black and Marsden are wasted. | 3 |
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Loving Vincent | 2017 | Click here for our detailed review. | 8 |
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OtherLife | 2017 | Another take on the implanted memory movie, but this time the government want to use the technology to cure prison overcrowding! Interesting and reasonably well made, but could do with more excitement. | 6 |
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Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel | 2009 | Three geeky friends go for a pint and end up traveling through multiple time rifts. in a superb British comedy that feels like an educated feature length spin off from The IT Crowd. | 8 |
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Brave New World | 1998 | Despite being what we would term Orwellian, this clumsy made for TV movie is based based on Aldous Huxley's book some 10 years before Orwell's output. Not the adaptation the book deserves, but certainly not a disaster. | 5 |
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Geostorm | 2017 | A disaster movie in all senses of the word. The kind of film that happens when movie execs come up with ideas for cool explosions and special effects, with no thought for the movie around them. | 4 |
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Borg McEnroe | 2017 | In a film heavy on emotion, Shia Lebeouf is particularly effective as he mirrors McEnroe's tennis antics (turning a hostile crowd on side) with his own acting resurgence. This is Borg's story, but McEnroe wins our hearts. | 7 |
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Once Upon a Time in Venice | 2017 | Despite my dest intentions and a scene with Bruce Willis skateboarding naked through LA, I just couldn't hate this film. Keanu does the stolen pet comedy-thriller better, but Venice is fun all the same. | 6 |
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Mother! | 2017 | A polarising film that fortunately feels more genius than lunatic. As the film decends into madness so does the viewer in a twisted tale of the excesses of love. | 8 |
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American Made | 2017 | Cruise suits the slightly comic persona well, but this biopic of a drug runner falls foul of glamourising the criminality it is chronicling. | 6 |
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Timecrimes | 2007 | A head-scratcher of a time-travel movie that becomes better and better along the way as you work out more and more of its tangled plot. | 8 |
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Wonder | 2017 | Predictably saccharine tale of boy with disfigured face triumphing against bullies and life in general. The film has a big cast, but small ambition. | 5 |
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Beach Rats | 2017 | Young stoner battles with his sexuality in a Brooklyn suburb. Slow pacing and shaky-cam direction detracted from some good performances. | 6 |