Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – Ryan’s Verdict

Last year, shortly after the UK cinema release, 5-Word featured its first guest review; a fittingly verbose column on this film from Clare Williams (read it here). In the intro to that piece, I said that Clare would be contributing more to the site in the future, but as it turns out, we can’t afford her. You’ll just have to make do with me. But anyway, here’s Day 226.

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5-Word 365 #187 – Star Trek Nemesis

There is a website that unfortunately isn’t updated nearly as often as I would like. It’s called 10YearOldMovies.com and the guys over there post reviews of flicks on their tenth anniversary. Some of them are really funny, some less so, but they are all an entertaining read. Inspired by them, and his imminent return to franchise baddie duty in The Dark Knight Rises, today I have elected to watch Tom Hardy’s 2002 big screen debut*.

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