Welcome to Take Two, a collection of cinematic viewing habits, snapshot thoughts on films both new
… and not so new. Some reviews are wordy, some mercifully brief, some are constructive,
some are mere one line opinion, but all are spoiler free.

A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story (2020)

I follow modern F1, but I’ll admit my history is patchy. I know Juan Manuel Fangio of course, one of the very best... if not the best, but there’s opportunit...

Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019)

Everyone has a guilty pleasure right? Mine I think could be INXS. They were never really cool were they. Marketed as a boyband, probably due to Hutchence’s l...

Miss Americana (2020)

I’m not a Taylor Swift fan, or a fan of the world of career managed children crafted for stardom. In fact I’m generally turned off by the notion of making it...

The Vietnam War (2017)

I don’t review TV series, but I’m not sure if this is just that. Yes it’s serialised. 10 episodes, but each is feature length and such is the scope, they fee...

The Great Hack (2019)

After the last Netflix documentary I watched, I was fearful for this. Yes it’s hyper-stylised and a bit US focused, but it’s rather good (in a concerning way...

Enter the Anime (2019)

Netflix recommend stuff all the time, their algorithm seems flawed though as I rarely have any interest in watching anything they suggest. So I was quite sur...

Slow TV: The Telemark Canal (2012)

Returning once more to Slow TV and this for me is what Slow TV does best, (mostly) single locked shots slowly drifting through beautiful landscapes. This tim...

Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)

I don’t really like Bob Dylan and I find Martin Scorsese quite annoying. Scorsese though undeniably makes great films and Dylan did write some decent songs.....

Slow TV: Northern Passage (2012)

Back on the Slow TV journey, but this time the much shorter 1 hour journey from Bergen to Kirknes on a cruise ship up Norway’s coast. It’s much shorter... be...

Apollo 11 (2019)

I’ve watched a fair few documentaries of late and with the moon landings in the news a lot with the 50th anniversary, here was an opportunity to mix the two....

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)

This is quite an eye opener. I’d heard the stories of Carrey’s method acting on ‘Man on the Moon’, but watching it is something else, thank God someone was r...

Losing Sight of Shore (2017)

The open ocean fascinates me. That big sheet that is the visible surface and the unexplored, vast void beneath. If I’m honest, it scares me too. So this... t...

Pumping Iron (1977)

This begins with Arnold Schwarzenegger doing ballet and continues with opening music that would sit perfectly in an episode of Sesame Street. It was made in ...

AlphaGo (2017)

I’ve never played Go. I need to rectify this. There’s a beautiful simplicity to it, but one that’s also incredibly complicated. I know that sounds like a con...

Slow TV - Train Ride Bergen to Oslo (2009)

This isn’t a film. Not a documentary either or though it’s arguably a document. It’s a 7 hour locked shot from the front of a train traveling from Bergen to ...

Minimalism: A Documentary About The Important Things (2015)

A film that sadly doesn’t practice what it preaches. Whilst I agree with a lot of this and definitely see the appeal of a minimal lifestyle, the two guys (Jo...

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2018)

What a treasure trove of wonderful eccentricity. It’s not so much a documentary as an archive of bizarre genius ...and what an archive it is! To say that Chr...

Free Solo (2018)

Straight off there’s two things that struck me about this, the first is glaringly obvious, it’s mind meltingly scary, not fake horror, jump scare scary, I me...

Diego Maradona (2019)

I had pretty high hopes for this after Kapadia’s previous outings with Senna and Amy. Diego Maradona doesn’t quite hit those heights... but it’s not far off....

The Dawn Wall (2017)

There’s a wealth of docs out there about climbing and several about climbing El Capitan. This one goes in depth, not only into the magnitude of the cliff fac...

Welcome to Take Two, a collection of cinematic viewing habits, snapshot thoughts on films both new… and not so new. Some reviews are wordy, some mercifully brief, some are constructive,some are mere one line opinion, but all are spoiler free.

A Life of Speed: The Juan Manuel Fangio Story (2020)

Mystify: Michael Hutchence (2019)

Miss Americana (2020)

The Vietnam War (2017)

The Great Hack (2019)

Enter the Anime (2019)

Slow TV: The Telemark Canal (2012)

Rolling Thunder Review: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019)

Slow TV: Northern Passage (2012)

Apollo 11 (2019)

Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)

Losing Sight of Shore (2017)

Pumping Iron (1977)

AlphaGo (2017)

Slow TV - Train Ride Bergen to Oslo (2009)

Minimalism: A Documentary About The Important Things (2015)

Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story (2018)

Free Solo (2018)

Diego Maradona (2019)

The Dawn Wall (2017)

Welcome to Take Two, a collection of cinematic viewing habits, snapshot thoughts on films both new
… and not so new. Some reviews are wordy, some mercifully brief, some are constructive,
some are mere one line opinion, but all are spoiler free.