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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Inferno | 2016 | Inferno displays everything that is wrong with big budget thrillers. Ageing 'named' lead actors who can't keep up with the action, overused and unnecessary CGI and a myriad of twists that are all so signposted they just prolong the agony. | 3 |
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Infiltrator | 2016 | Despite playing his part well, Cranston is horribly miscast and the film plods along to a pretty unsatisfactory conclusion. | 5 |
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Inside Llewyn Davis | 2013 | Oscar Isaac is excellent as the temperamental folk singer questioning his art. | 8 |
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Inside Man | 2006 | An interesting twist, but just a little too generic. | 7 |
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Into the Wild | 2007 | The desire for a free life is infectious, but the film fails spectacularly in showing the risk and danger of living in the wild. Though it is still great to see a film championing the odd people on the outside of 'normal' life. | 6 |
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Jack Reacher: Never Go Back | 2016 | Some brilliantly brutal fight scenes elevate a very average script. | 5 |
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Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit | 2014 | Generic spy-action thriller set in the US and Russia but with an almost entirely British cast?? | 5 |
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Japan Sinks | 2006 | Focuses a little too much on the people and not the action, making for a slightly dull affair. | 5 |
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Jason Bourne | 2016 | Fun and entertaining, but the script is unusually poor (no doubt due to regular screenwriter Tony Gilroy not being involved) and the set pieces too often spoil the flow. | 6 |
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The Jewel of the Nile | 1985 | A moderately entertaining sequel to Romancing the Stone that just doesn't pack the punch of its predecessor. | 5 |
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Jimmy Vestvood | 2016 | The 'all foreigners are terrorists' and 'America loves a good war (for commercial gain)' rhetoric feels bang on, but does get a little tiresome by the end. A nice slapstick comedy. | 6 |
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Joy | 2015 | Dreary TV movie dressed up as cinema. Poor acting throughout and an absolute mystery how it became oscar nominated. The film appears as fake as the QVC sellers peddling Joy's wares. | 4 |
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Joysticks | 1983 | Awful racial and social stereotyping and bereft of humour. Nowhere near its contemporaries (like Revenge of the Nerds) and not even worth watching to geek out on the old arcade games. | 3 |
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Judge Dredd | 1995 | Looks dated even for a 90s movie, but the camp and cartoony fun is all the simple plot needed. | 6 |
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K-Shop | 2016 | An unexpected indictment of binge drinking Britain dressed up as a Sweeny Todd for the millenial generation. One of those films that you want everyone to see. | 8 |
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Keanu | 2016 | Buddy film about two good guys with an nhealthy obsession with George Michael acting bad to rescue a kitten. Sounds awful but works surprisingly well. | 8 |
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Kicking Off | 2015 | Ends a very different film to the one that started. Think Edgar Wright on a budget. | 7 |
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KiDULTHOOD | 2006 | A frighteningly authenic look at urban Britain with some great cebtral performances. | 7 |
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Kill List | 2011 | A 720 degree headfuck. Could be genius or could be madness. I have no idea which, but I liked it! | 7 |
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Kill Your Friends | 2015 | Self indulgent and self important. A bit like the A&R men it portrays. | 5 |
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Kindergarten Cop 2 | 2016 | Does everything the first film does, just not as well. | 4 |
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Kitchen Stories | 2003 | Odd, slow, thoughtful, beautiful, brilliant. | 8 |
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Kubo and the Two Strings | 2016 | A great story made all the better by a talking monkey and beetle, though I don't buy the point of claymation when you are going to meld it with CGI. | 8 |
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The Dinner Game (Le Diner de Cons) | 1998 | An enjoyable but pretty standard farce that would have benefitted from showing the titular dinner itself rather than just the build up. | 6 |
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Let's Be Evil | 2016 | High production values, but a story that ultimately goes nowhere. There is definite tension but nothing ever comes of it. | 4 |