Dave’s Movie Diary

About Dave’s Movie Diary

Dave’s Movie Diary is a film reflection based on whatever I watched recently that resonated with me. It’s not a technical breakdown or film theory deep dive — just personal thoughts, reactions, and perspective in the moment. Sometimes it’s a first watch, sometimes a rewatch, and when it is, I’ll compare how it felt then versus how it feels now.

Publisher

Dave

Category

tv & film

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Jun 2026

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

181 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   9 Oct 2026

   Episode 182: Belle de jour (1967)

   Catherine Deneuve, a secret double life and Luis Buñuel’s wonderfully strange view of desire — Belle de Jour is certainly an intriguing combination. Revisiting this 1967 classic, I found plenty to chew over, from its surreal fantasies to its curious characters and the fine line between what’s real and what isn’t.

2. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Episode 181: Gothic (1986)

   I revisit Ken Russell’s gloriously bizarre take on the night Mary Shelley came up with Frankenstein, and discover that nearly 40 years on, it’s every bit as strange as I remembered — although I now have a better idea what the hell is going on. Lord Byron, sex, drugs, séances, demons and Julian Sands at full volume… what could possibly go wrong?

3. 

   7 Oct 2026

   Episode 180: Straight Time (1978)

   Dustin Hoffman is almost unrecognisable in Straight Time, a tough, gritty 1978 film about an ex-con trying to make a life on the straight and narrow — and slowly finding his way back to the only world he really knows.

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