Film Reviews

Disclosure Day 2026

½

Everyone I watched this film with had very similar reactions to it in that we really didn’t know what to think. There’s lots to love and lots to hate. I think the directing and the performances were very good, Emily Blunt especially did very well and I love every film I see with Josh O’Connor and Colman Domingo.  There were parts of it that were very interesting - Emily Blunt’s powers were cool. Though it was packed with lots of slightly boring and slightly stupid chase scenes that I eventually got quite sick of.  I’m actually not too sure why - as I also thought the ending was quite bad. But it hit me emotionally and had me tearing up a little. I thought it was too long and unbelievable and the CGI wasn’t very good but it actually did hit me emotionally for whatever reason. I think something about the message of the film was quite impactful.  I quite liked the way it started, how it threw you right into it, leaving you scrambling to catch up just as some of the characters of the film are. But I do feel like it created a disconnect with the characters that it never fully recovered from, which really makes me think (as cool as it was) it could have really benefited from an extra 20 minutes at the start to set things up a little better.  Just overall I feel like it was really missing something. The only character I really connected to was Emily Blunt’s. Though I wanted to like Josh o’connors so bad. It all fell a little flat in the end.  I quite liked how all the ww3 stuff was going on in the background but it never really addressed it. Everyone throughout the film was too focused on war to realise there were aliens right in front of them for years. Though I’m not sure I like the film in all - and as far as Spielberg films go I don’t think it even beats The Fabelmans for me. There was a lot to like about it and I really recommend people go see it and form their own opinions of it. Interested to see what everyone else thinks. 7.0/10

Obsession 2025

This was everything I wanted it to be and more. I genuinely have a new outlook on horror films now, I loved this so much.  I’ve never been a big fan of horror films. I never really found them scary. I find jumps scares cheap and too easy. Not the biggest fan of slashers. Horror has always been a genre I avoided.  I gave it a go last year and I did gain a bit of respect for them. Only because I watched a couple of films that actually really freaked me out. There weren’t many though, it was mostly hereditary that really got me good. That’s where I learnt the kinda horror film I actually like. The kind that can creep you out so much you genuinely feel scared. One that’s so freaky that you are extra jumpy for the next couple hours. One that’s makes you think twice before entering a dark room when you get home. This was that film for me. I’ve never been this scared watching a film before and it was incredible. I love that something I know isn’t real can freak me out that much. I finally feel like I get horror now. I finally understand why people love it so much. Watching it in the cinema alone at night really elevated the experience for me as well. It was so terrifying part of me wanted it to be over and the other part didn’t want it to end.  I’m <b>obsessed</b> with curry barker. Been a big fan of his YouTube skit show <i>that’s a bad idea</i> for a while. Him and cooper are hilarious. (Cooper was great in this by the way)  I was super happy to see him pop up in my favourite tv show <i>it's always sunny in Philadelphia </i>and I watched his film milk and cereal a while ago and loved that as well. Seeing him make this film and finding out people actually liked it and seeing him all over feed  for the last week had me so exited for this, it was like rakka rakka with talk to me all over again.  He did an incredible job directing and even editing this film. I can’t wait to watch his next film with Aaron Paul and his Texas chainsaw massacre film. I think he deserves all the attention he’s getting and more and I can’t wait to watch his career take off. I also need to talk about Inde Navaratte for a moment. She was one of the main reasons this film was so terrifying. She was so great in this. I really think she deserves an Oscar for this role. One of the best performances I’ve ever seen in a horror film. She really scared the shit out of me.  She didn’t play a ghost or a zombie or a serial killer, yet she was so scary, and I think this is partially due to how great her acting was. This film really had me on the edge of my seat. Bracing for each jump scare like a drop on a rollercoaster.  I loved it so much that I don’t wanna see it again. At least not alone.  Ending was also perfection. My 11th ever 5 star film.  9.6/10

Pizza Movie 2026

½

I don’t often laugh out loud when watching films alone but this got me quite a few times. The butterfly stuff was hilarious. My rating may be a bit high but I just thought this was so funny. The plot was so wacky and cool and the acting was great. Gatens always been the best stranger things kid and he did really well here. I haven’t seen Sean Giambrone in anything, he has a familiar sounding voice. He was really likable and funny in this.  Really thought the standout was Jack Martin as the RA. He played it so well, was super funny and crazy. His fit into this as the villain perfectly.  The relationships between the characters wasn’t anything special, it was a bit like Superbad. But the way this film was structured, with the different phases of the high worked so well. It was so ridiculous and didn’t take itself too seriously. It was really was just my kind of film. I would recommend. 8.6/10

Mamma Mia! 2008

Liked this way more than I thought I would. A lot of fun. The cast seemed like they all had a lot of fun with it. Kinda wholesome, really liked the 3 Dads thing.  Made me realise something really important. ABBA are incredible. I didn’t realise how many hits they have. It was banger after banger. Think I’m gonna have to stick around for the credits as it’s still going. Thank You for the Music is such a good song.  Can’t wait to watch the second one now.  8.5/10

Project Hail Mary 2026

½

They did such a good job adapting the book. Ryan Gosling was perfect as Grace, I liked his character even more in the film. He plays the funny awkward guy so well.  I don’t think this is possible to do for Rocky, as him in the book is one of my favourite characters of all time, but they did a great job bringing him to life as well. He was really funny in this which I appreciated.  I read the book really recently so I’m just so happy that they managed to do it so well. Seeing this in imax was such a wonderful experience. Grace and Rocky may be my favourite bromance in all of cinema.  Fist my bump  8.8/10

Is This Thing On? 2025

This was quite good. The marriage story mixed with this guy discovering his passion, while neither was extremely compelling in its own, together it made for a good film. I’m a big Will Arnet fan so his involvement writing and acting in this is really what made me so excited for it and he didn’t disappoint. Laura dern also did a great job.  Considering this ended up being set in America, it was a bit weird how forced the Liverpool stuff felt. There was one point where he was in the bathroom near the start and just starts singing one of their songs and I’m still not really sure why. I imagine John bishop is quite a big fan so maybe that was his input. He was also later seen wearing the worst Liverpool shirt I’ve ever seen in my life. Bradley coopers character could have easily not been in this and it wouldn’t have made a difference. But he did a good job directing.  John bishop is a pretty random person to make a film about, his life isn’t especially crazy and there’s way more interesting stories out there. But I also kinda feel like that’s why it works. It feel so real and believable. Just this guy who found comedy while his life was kinda falling apart. I did really like it. As much as I love Will Arnet it I don’t see why John didn’t play him self, considering he has previously acted in one of the greatest shows of all time (doctor who).  Loved the scene where Laura Dern went to the comedy club.  Some of the stand up was funny. I hated the scene where he had his meltdown on stage. Felt forced and cliche and was super hard to watch.  8.4/10

I Swear 2025

½

Really amazing film. Deeply emotional, I cried a lot. Very educational and an important film to watch.  With everything that’s happened recently at the BAFTAs, it’s really shown what an important film this is. People clearly need to get educated and it really makes this film that much more depressing. What happened could have easily replaced the opening scene of this film and it just makes me feel so bad for him and the hate he has received due to his condition this week. I hope this film helps more people understand the struggles he has had to endure. I feel like it was written and structured really well, one of the better biopics I’ve seen. The ending where he finds his purpose is truly heartwarming. I feel like the film has you a little on edge, you never know what he’s about to do. If he’s gonna call someone a cunt or smack them in the face. It really helps you understand the stress that he must constantly be under.  I loved this! 8.7/10

Twinless 2025

I haven’t been this uncomfortable watching a film in a while which I didn’t expect. I did not see it going in this direction at all.  Dylan o’Brian is so great in this, in both of the roles he plays. One of the most shocking death scenes I’ve ever seen even though I knew it was coming.  Had to keep pausing because I was so uncomfortable, so this was a 2hr 30min watch for me. It did eventually get to the point where I wanted him to find out, as the other guy just got more and more insane. The toe scene was too much. He deserved every single one of those punches. Honestly really good film. I’m a little thrown off because it kinda was what I was expecting, but completely different at the same time. I really liked what this film was for the first 20 minutes and I honestly think I would have preferred it if that was the film, but it went in a different, slightly weirder direction, yet was still a fascinating portrayal of grief and I really did like Dylan o’brians character, which was good because he was the main reason I watched this. I’m surprised there were enough cases of what happened to him to run an in person support group. I would have thought it would be a more rare occurrence.  8.0/10

Ponyo 2008

½

This is one of those films that I used to watch every day as a kid, I had some weird obsession with it. I haven’t watched it since, but still to this day when someone asks me what my favourite studio ghibli film is I say ponyo without hesitation.  5 minutes into rewatching this film, I already knew my opinion wasn’t gonna change, I absolutely love this film. I just love the water stuff. This along with a couple of other films I watched as a kid are probably why I love the ocean so much. It’s so cute as well.  The best ghibli film and it’s not even close.  8.6/10

KPop Demon Hunters 2025

The animation is actually really good. It’s a little cheesy but it does have a decent plot/ characters.  I didn’t love all the music but it’s mostly great.  As a kids film it is actually pretty amazing. Big blue cat was funny too. I feel like this is definitely going to win best animation at the Oscar’s. 8.4/10

F1 2025

½

That was so cool. I’ve always thought F1 was boring but now I wanna start watching it. The final race had my heart racing, this has gotta be the 4th best racing film I’ve ever seen. After Cars 2, Cars and Cars 3 (in that order)  Beautifully shot. Well paced. Well written characters. Great film.  Really didn’t have high hopes going into this and I had heard it wasn’t very good. At the very least I thought it wouldn’t be my kinda film. Only watched it as it was announced yesterday that it got a best picture nomination. Very pleasantly surprised. (Sinners still deserves to win though) 8.6/10

Winnie the Pooh 2011

Ok so I might have the sense of humour of a 5 year old because this had me cracking up.  That whole bit where they were stuck in the hole was hilarious. When owl flew out and gave a speech and then flew back in and rabbit was like “Owl …. That was a great speech” - comedy gold.  Thought I’d just have this on in the background but I was locked in, great movie. These characters are the best! 8.0/10

No Other Choice 2025

½

Walking out of this film has left me with a similar feeling to when I was walking out after watching decision to leave. Firstly, that was a technical masterpiece. Park Chan-wook is one of the greatest directors of all time. The cinematography, the sound design, the music and the editing are all incredible. This film has some of the best match cuts I’ve ever seen in my life. Secondly this film didn’t really stick with me in the way I wanted it to and it was pretty forgettable. I respect the hell out of it and considering how incredibly made it is I feel like I can’t give it anything less than 4 1/2 stars. And the acting is great and the story is good. But I’m writing this the next day and despite some memorable scenes, it wasn’t that memorable of an experience.  That’s just how it affected me though really I can totally see someone walking out of that and thinking it was the greatest film they’ve ever seen. Also Oldboy is the one of my favourite films and after this I’m definitely gonna watch some more Park Chan-wook.  8.5/10

Brother Bear 2003

½

I got that song stuck in my head. <i>“Tell every body I’m on my way, new friends and new places to see, blue skies ahead yes I’m on my way and there’s no place that I’d rather be”</i> So decided to rewatch this and it was better than I remembered. Actually a really emotional well written story with great characters, music and animation. I cried watching this more times than I’d care to admit.  Maybe my favourite animated Disney film (not including the Pixar films and the Lion King)  Also Disney need to bring back the animated bloopers end of their films. 8.8/10

Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes 2020

This is a really impressive film. Clearly made on quite a small budget, but I think it’s the most unique one take film I’ve ever seen. Story wise it’s nothing special but it has one of the coolest concepts I’ve ever seen and it’s executed really well. It’s quite funny with a nice cast, just a really cool film.  Genuinely how did they make this it’s so impressive. If it had a bigger budget I feel like it could have done a little more with the plot, but as they show at end it’s shot on an iPhone which is just insane. Nothing but respect for this cool ass movie.  7.8/10

Nine Days 2020

½

This is one of the most beautifully written films about life that I’ve ever watched. It’s about what it means to be alive and I can’t remember the last time I watched a film that made me think this much about life and death. Winston Duke is phenomenal, genuinely one of my favourite performances of all time, I didn’t realise what an incredible actor he was but in this film his talent is on full display.  The acting is great all across the board. Whoever casted this film did such a great job, everyone in this film gave a hell of a performance.  The soundtrack is incredible and so is the cinematography. The film starts kinda slow but once it picks up, it gives you this deeply sad feeling that stays with you throughout the film. It leaves you with so much to think about, so many different things that make you really think about what being alive means to you.  I really thought this was amazing.  9.0/10

Wake Up Dead Man 2025

½

This was really good. The actual mystery I feel was the weakest of all 3 films, yet it’s still just as good as the other two. It is crazy to me that Rian Johnson has managed to make all 3 of these films so great, when the only thing that links them is Benoit Blanc, who isn’t actually that compelling of a character. Daniel Craig does an excellent job of playing him but he is always overshadowed by the excellent cast and characters that Rian is able to set up every single time and I think that is what makes these films so good.  In this case, we have a great supporting cast but Josh O’Connor is the real stand out here. He was incredible and his character was very well written. He definitely made the film.  Josh Brolin was also excellent but we didn’t get much from the rest of the supporting cast that I was so exited to see, particularly Adam Scott who is an incredible actor, wasn’t really utilised well. This differs from the other knives out films that have a stronger supporting cast and a more compelling mystery, but I really think Josh O’Connor’s character was so great it made up for this. I’m not sure where I would rank this among the other 2 films, they are all equal in my eyes. 8.6/10

Eternity 2025

Interesting concept and surprisingly a lot more thought provoking than I was expecting. Was looking to see a nice Rom com in the cinema and it ended up being a very interesting take on love and who and why we choose to spend our lives with someone. Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olsen both play old people in the afterlife that have their younger bodies and they are really believable as old people that look young. The scene between them two at the train station was heart breaking.  The performances between the three main characters were all great, you feel very conflicted watching it and it was very great to watch in that sense. The film gave you a lot to think and talk about afterwards.  It was also quite funny at times. Specifically their afterlife guides were very funny and added a nice element to the film.  It was really nice, I enjoyed. 8.5/10

JUJUTSU KAISEN: Execution 2025

½

This was literally just an extended edit of the last season and then the first two episodes of season 3. Nothing really happens at all it was a bit boring. Some of the moments were really cool to see on the big screen but it skipped through everything so quickly it was a little annoying.  The new stuff looks really good and it was good to see Yuta again, but not much happened and it wasn’t really worth the cinema trip if I’m being honest.  5.0/10

The Running Man 2025

This was really cool. I’m not the biggest fan of Glen Powell, but he killed it in this role. Just the best kind of action film. It’s been 8 years since we’ve had a decent Edgar Wright film, and this was a great comeback. Him and Michael Cera reunite for the first time since Scott Pilgrim, which is one of my favourite films of all time. I do miss his old style from Scott Pilgrim and the Cornetto Trilogy that feels absent here, but I think I preferred this to Baby Driver, which it feels a lot more similar to visually. This was fun the whole way through, the cast were brilliant. Michael Cera and Glen Powell were excellent. Josh Brolin was a pretty great villain. Colman Domingo continues to deliver in every role I’ve seen him in since Sing Sing. There were also some nice surprises, seeing Angel from Dexter and Frank from Shameless. Also, I’ve never seen this guy act before but Daniel Ezra was pretty great in his little running man YouTube videos.  Great story, great action, great film to watch at the cinema. I would recommend seeing it! 8.0/10

Roofman 2025

½

This was a fun film to watch at the cinema, though I did think the plot was a bit ridiculous.  They made a film about a guy who robbed a couple McDonald’s escaped jail and then hid in toys r us for a couple months before going back to jail.  He’s not the best person, but they make you like him coz he’s friendly. When his ex wife told him to go away we don’t want you anymore, I thought he was gonna do an ant man and try win back his family, but he just fucked off and found a new family he liked more and we never heard from his daughter again. This was kinda weird.  The romance though uncomfortable as hell because of how socially awkward this guys is, was pretty sweet, but the whole film it’s painfully obvious he’s gonna get found out by her and thrown back in jail, it just makes the whole thing feel really uncomfortable.  Weird uncomfortable film where you can’t work out of you like the protagonist the whole time and if you want him to go to jail or not. And at the end they had a whole scene where he was like jail is my home now, then it cuts to what happened in real life and revealed he did actually try to escape 2 more times.  Really unsure how I feel about this.  6.7/10

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc 2025

This was the perfect arc to turn into a film, really loved reading it in the manga and they did an incredible job adapting it, which just makes me so excited for what’s to come. I think once people see the next couple seasons this is gonna be regarded as one of the best modern anime’s.  Mappa are incredible, this was animated beautifully. So glad I was able to watch this on the big screen.  8.4/10

My Fourth Wall 2025

½

My fourth wall is now on YouTube! We made this film over a year ago now and I am so proud of it. Filming this was one of the best experiences of my life and made the entire 3 years at uni feel worth it. So grateful to all of the people who helped out on this, had such a great crew of talented people and I definitely couldn’t have done this without them. Especially thankful to my co director George. I had never met George before I pitched this idea, but we worked together so well, I think this film ended up being the perfect combination of both our filmmaking styles and I can’t wait to see what we end up doing next.  If anyone would like to watch it - they can find the link <a href="https://youtu.be/htKN4OYAwL4?si=pZ2PqWetR1aLqaE5" rel="nofollow">Here </a>!  Thank you so much to everyone who helped us make this in anyway shape or form it really made my year! I’m gonna try write a somewhat honest review of this film now. I do think it’s good, there’s stuff that I would change about it, but I think the fourth wall concept is one of my strongest ideas. There’s a lot that was cut out as we had to get a 25 minute film down to 15 minutes, so if I had the chance now I would add a lot of that back in, but I think it works maybe even better how it is now. We have missed out on a lot of the stuff that I think really makes the concept of the character knowing he’s in a film work, but we have cut it down to a point where I think it’s still enjoyable even if you have no idea what the fourth wall is.  There’s a couple of sound bits that annoy me, but overall, Marcus did an excellent job with the cinematography and I’m so happy with the shots, we shot on an ARRI Alexa and it shows because it looks fantastic. Personally I think the last scene is amazing, I’m happy to have wrote that song but our actor Cameron really came through for it with very little preparation, he preformed it so well that I no longer feel comfortable playing that song myself anymore.  There’s a couple of things I would change, but it’s been a year since we filmed it and we just wanted to get it out there so people could watch it and I’m honestly so happy with it in its current state.  7.0/10

The Long Walk 2025

½

This was the most uncomfortable walk out the cinema ever. I had to stop to tie my shoelaces and everyone looked back at me terrified.  Honestly a decent movie. Entertaining the whole way through even though I have a lot of issues with it. Maybe I’m wrong but I refuse to believe it’s possible to sleep that long while continuing to walk. That’s not a thing.  The film had an interesting message about living moment to moment and the importance of friendships, even if they are temporary. Also watching the characters slowly all accept they were gonna die was quite fascinating. Also there were some pretty cool, brutal death scenes.  Cool concept that they actually made work. Pretty funny how half the films coming out at the moment are all based a Stephen King short stories. We were in the cinema the other day and had 3 trailers back to back that were all based on Stephen King's writing. After having recently started reading some of his work, this felt very Steven king.  The ending was fucking awful. Genuinely one of the dumbest endings I’ve ever seen. Completely ruined the movie for me and raised so many problems. Ruined the coolest character and everything they had gone through all in one moment. It was the most obvious ending that you would hope they would be smart enough not to do. The way he continued walking in the end as well felt so corny.  The film had a really nice message up until the point I just don’t understand why they ended it like that. He could have spent the money and hired an assassin or something and then made a real change. And even the soldiers giving him his wish at the end was so stupid and didn’t make sense. They made so many promises to the other characters that he can’t go through with now too.  Sorry I’m rambling a bit but that ending was maybe the most annoyed I’ve ever been by an ending of a film.  The characters were well written though and had good chemistry, especially the main two, that it made me not hate the movie in the end. 7.0/10

The End of the Tour 2015

This film is really interesting. I wish it went more into the story of what happened after the interview, mostly just because I really want to know more.  This film is based on a true story of an interview between David Lipsky and David Foster Wallace. Jessie Eisenburg and Jason Siegel did an incredible job at portraying these characters. After now seeing interviews of David Foster Wallace, it it’s even more impressive how a great a job Jason Siegel did, that man is a truly underrated actor.  On the 12th of September 2008, David Foster Wallace committed suicide, which makes this film feel so much more sad and profound. After I finished watching the film I straight away purchased his book “infinite jest”. I find this man fascinating and the film perfectly encapsulates what an interesting man he was.  There were issues with the film, I’m not sure I liked Jessie Eisenberg’s character too much and a lot of this film’s conflict felt really forced and unnecessary, but the conversations these characters had were riveting and watching their relationship grow was really great to watch.  David Lipsky went on to write a book about his encounter with Wallace called “Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace”, which this film is based on and we even hear him read from it at the end of the movie. The rolling stone interview that David was writing is also available to read online. I didn’t know any of these people before I watched this film and now I really wanna know more about them. Again I wish we saw more of David’s reaction to David’s death, or even some kind of explanation at all about weather they ever spoke again, or what happened in the years leading up to David’s suicide. But this film isn’t about that, and I’m not sure this is so much a fault of the film as much as it is just my own curiosity.  8.1/10

Air 2023

½

Reading into the real story after has weirdly make me like the film a bit less. Apparently people claim Sonny didn’t really have as much influence over the deal as he and this film claim. Weirdly Sonny isn’t even mentioned in a lot of the videos I watched about what really happened, the agent who gets mad at him in this film for going to the parents, in real life claims to be the person that called up Michael’s parents and convinced them.  He was also fired from Nike in 1991 by Phil Knight and went to Adidas. Which is kinda sad because they had a cool relationship in the film and Sonny also mocks adidas quite a bit in this film. Also I don’t think Michael and Sonny have any kind of relationship at all in real life. The film was good though, my main issues with it were how weird it felt having them completely avoid showing Michael’s face, it’s done in the strangest way coz he’s such an important character and they just have him act like a moody teenager facing away from the camera. Those scenes all feel so weird.  The acting was great and the story was really interesting, there was nothing to it other than just the deal, I know in real life Sonny got married that same year and his wife was rich which is why he felt he could risk his job, yet there’s not a single mention of his wife through this film. Going a little into him or any of the characters personal lives in any way could have given this film a lot more emotional depth but it doesn’t. It’s just a film basically explaining the details of how the deal went down, complimented by great actors. It’s still watchable due to the interesting nature of the deal and the great writing and acting, but it does feel like something’s missing.  7.5/10

28 Years Later 2025

I liked this a lot more than I thought I would. It was a lot better than 28 weeks later and the new characters were all great, which was one of the big issues with the previous film.  Stylistically felt very similar to the first film, I didn’t think it being shot on an iPhone would be noticeable, but it was able to replicate a similar visual tone as the first film while still feeling a lot more modern.  The story was interesting and a great addition to the franchise, again felt a lot more similar to the first film, showing characters going on a journey through this crazy new world, meeting interesting new characters along the way, most of whom end up dead. But unlike the second film it doesn’t just kill off all the best characters leaving behind the boring ones. I am excited for the next one.  Loved the soundtrack too and the alpha was really cool. Also loved the ending. Solid film. 7.9/10

Joker: Folie à Deux 2024

½

Before this film came out I defended it a lot. Joker was a good movie and the fact they decided to make this a musical really interested me. I kept saying that the fact it’s such a weird idea meant that surely they had a really great idea of how to make it work. But the film was released, the reviews came out and I ultimately made the decision to not watch it.  Joker went from being one of the greatest dc films in years to the second one being regarded with the same esteem as Venom: The Last Dance. I betrayed my values and even though I love musicals and the joker I decided not to watch it.  Eventually though, due to boredom, I decided to give it a go and it was alright. Weirdly the singing was actually really good. Lady Gaga is a really good singer, if she took music more seriously I reckon she could be pretty big. In concept a musical about the trial of the joker is actually a pretty cool idea. It being a musical actually makes sense I think too, the whole film is about how he’s insane and he’s finally happy for the first time in his whole life, most of the singing is all in his head and kinda represents his messed up mental state. It’s actually kinda smart and I don’t think this film deserves some of the negativity that it gets. Some of the music scenes were really cool, not just musically but cinematically, the court room song looked really cool and it was the most joker this character has ever felt. Most of my issues with this film come from core problems with even the first film. The character portrayed in the first film isn’t someone interesting enough to watch in a second film for me personally, and I don’t think him and Harley were that interesting in this. I think if this film was about the actual joker and not this weirdo I would have liked it a lot more. I also think the way the first film portrays Gotham was one of the best parts about it and the fact that joker spends the entirety of this film in prison robs it of the opportunity to build on this world more. Also the whole emotional plot with Harley Quinn really didn’t do it for me, neither of their characters were very good but I liked their acting.  The film was a lot cooler than expected though and I liked a lot of the courtroom joker scenes. I also didn’t hate the ending, pretty understandable ending to the joker, I like to think the character at the end is the real joker, Arthur never felt like the real joker, he was just lying to himself and his fans, which I guess is kind the message of this film, which I’m not sure I liked but it’s what I expected due to his character.  7.5/10 Also a Joaquin Phoenix cover of an incredible song by Daniel Johnston called true love will find you in the end plays during the credits. This means nothing but I love that song.

The Apprentice 2024

Wow. Honestly a masterclass in acting from both Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong. Stan as trump is fascinating to watch, I went from not being able to see him as trump at all to now not being able to see anyone else do it as well. It wasn’t just a trump impression, it was the slight mannerisms and the way he naturally speaks that are just so spot on.  It made me really interested in the life of one of the worst people in the world. Honestly such a surprisingly fascinating story.  Throughout the film he really becomes trump and it’s incredible, fantastic villain origin story. It’s also such an important film, a real shame that more people didn’t watch it before the election. It’s so interesting to have a protagonist based on someone that you hate so much, they do a great job of making you hate him throughout the film, but also showing him as an incredibly well written nuanced character. Also has very great visual style that feels very representative of the time it is set in.  Also Jeremy Strong gave a performance I didn’t realise he was capable, truly incredible. These two both deserve more praise they are some of the greatest actors working at the moment.  If you squint your eyes it’s literally trump on the screen.  8.5/10

Daredevil 2003

Daredevil is incredible. It is one of the best pieces of superhero media I have ever watched. I love the character and he was translated so perfectly onto screen. I can’t think of anyone better suited to play him and every other character, all of them were cast so perfectly. The action is some of the best action I’ve seen in the superhero genre and the character development was incredible as well as all the scenes where Matt is a lawyer. And how good was bullseye and kingpin, honestly one of my favourite things I have ever watched.  I am of course talking about the daredevil tv show, this was terrible. I only watched this out of curiosity because daredevil is my favourite superhero.  The origin stuff is alright but from there it just becomes laughably bad. The suit sucks, the transitions and action is all so goofy and not in a good way because it really feels like it’s trying to be cool and serious. Ben Affleck is a worse daredevil than he was a Batman. But Jon Favreau was a pretty cool pick for foggy. Charlie Cox is insurmountably better as Daredevil. Ben Affleck has no charisma when playing Matt Murdock and comes off as a serial killer when playing daredevil. It gets a little better towards the end but is also really boring. I love Colin Farrell but not even he could save this movie. Elektra isn’t bad either but I don’t think I will ever watch her film. I love daredevil though so I’m glad I have finally watched it just so I can say I have.  4.3/10

Matt and Mara 2024

½

I love films like this. Very natural improvisational tone with Matt Johnson in it. Also the story is not that uninteresting, I can’t think of a better way to put it than another review I saw on letterboxd that said it was past lives for Canadians. But I don’t know this film really wasn’t that enjoyable to watch. None of the characters were particularly likable and though I usually love improvised dialogue because it makes the film feel real, in this it felt kind of annoying and slowed the film down. There were too many characters saying “like” every two seconds and stutters that just made it feel so slow in a bad way. Also it really felt like the film didn’t go anywhere, the way all their problems just kinda wrapped up because something bad happened to one of the main characters just felt really weird to me. Also the shot of her on the floor listening to music that we can’t even hear was incredibly boring and went on for way too long.  There was a lot I liked about this film and its message and maybe it was just the mood I was in having watched this at 2am, but it just didn’t do it for me this time.  5.0/10

Friendship 2024

I’ve never wanted to walk out of the cinema because I was so uncomfortable before but I would have expected nothing less from Tim Robinson.  I was also laughing a lot though, I can’t remember the last time (if ever) that I’ve laughed that much at the cinema. Really funny movie, but I did watch the majority of it through my hat or my hands.  Really great sequel to I love you man, weird decision to not bring back Jason Segel but I like the direction they went with it.  Seriously though the I love you man comparison is really interesting, though this film is ridiculous at times and it’s kinda hard to feel any empathy for the main character, it is quite sad deep down. I love you man is a film about a normal guy who should definitely have friends, make a really cool friend and he gets a happy ending. It has a really interesting core message about the importance of friendship. This is like the situation flipped on its head, with a much more anti social guy who comes off exactly like an average character from I think you should leave, make a friend, it’s incredibly hard to watch and again it’s pretty ridiculous but weirdly theres something deeply sad about it.  I really liked the ending, the joke at the end was something that reminded me of one of Larry David’s curb your enthusiasm punchlines. Something that was set up way earlier on and makes a lot of sense but you would never see it coming because it’s so ridiculous. I also found the ending to be really sad, again not because I felt bad for the character but just the whole situation was so stupid yet awful. The fact he let his whole life fall apart because of this incessant need for friendship. You also kinda feel bad for Paul Rudds character, who doesn’t come off too bad throughout the film and reacts pretty understandably to a lot of the crazy shit that happens.  The start it’s going really well too but u get this really uncomfortable feeling as you can just tell it’s all about to go so wrong.  A good film, again a pretty hard watch but that was expected. 8.0/10 This was my 500th review

Karate Kid: Legends 2025

½

A really likeable film in the same way a Nickelodeon film is likeable. Doesn’t come close to the quality of the original karate kid and has the same kinda cheesiness as cobra Kai, with a soundtrack that sounds like it was taken straight from YouTube’s copyright free library and editing that makes you feel like you’re watching High School Musical.  Likeable characters though, the writing isn’t great but I did really like them all and there were some really great fight scenes, specifically the alley way scene that is shown in the trailer and made me wanna watch the film in the first place. Jackie chan is great and Ralph Macchio is too but he isn’t  in it as much as I expected which was weird as the marketing made me think that he was gonna be a main character. He felt like he was forced into it a little and the film would have felt the exact same without him, it kind of felt like he was there with the sole purpose of luring in karate kid fans by forcing a legacy sequel.  The film had a really powerful emotional plot that I really don’t feel like it utilised well, it felt like it wasted time in some areas where it would have been nice if it focused more on his character. Though overall the film is a lot of fun and I did enjoy watching.  I’ve only seen 3 seasons of cobra Kai but Seeing William Zabka at the end was one of the coolest parts.  7.0/10

The Fantastic 4: First Steps 2025

This was a little disappointing. I’ve been excited to see the fantastic 4 enter the mcu for years and even more excited to see Matt Shakman was the director.  The castings weren’t amazing but after the first couple trailers I still had hope this would be good. It wasn’t terrible, it just fell a little flat. I definitely don’t think it was the right decision to pick up the story years after they became the fantastic 4. It worked for superman, but here I feel like it had a negative impact on all the characters. They all lacked a little depth and had no development throughout the film. The plot was a little boring and forgettable and none of the fight scenes were too memorable.  I liked galactus and silver surfer, it was cool to see them on the big screen. I also liked Ebon’s voice as the thing, but his character wasn’t anywhere near as interesting as he was in the originals. It felt like all of their flaws, the reason their characters are so interesting, were completely absent throughout the movie, which equated to a massive let down.  There’s too much going on in the film and they sacrifice the time it would take to focus on what really makes the characters great. Johnny isn’t funny and Ben seemed like he couldn’t care less about his appearance. These are why the characters are good and that’s the main reason I’m so disappointed.  I still wish Glen Howerton was cast as Reed, but I’m glad it’s not John Krasinski.  5.8/10 After credits  8.8/10

Happy Gilmore 2 2025

This is a really nice tribute to the original happy Gilmore.  I was kinda worried at the start, it felt like it undid a lot of the last film, making some pretty big decisions that I at first wasn’t happy about, but it really made sense for the films narrative. Also the new dynamic with happy and his family was pretty wholesome. The films filled with cameos that never feel too forced, lots of the old cast pop up and it gets pretty silly towards the end, but I really loved how it wasn’t taking its self too seriously, just like the classic happy Gilmore.  Seeing happy play golf again was awesome, the montage of him training felt just like the optional and was pretty satisfying to watch. Also Shooter McGavin was great. I feel like they took his character in a really interesting direction that I really liked. They didn’t write his character in the way that I feel like most sequels like this would.  I liked this even more than I thought I would and don’t have too many negatives. I feel like films like these don’t need to be perfect as long as they aren’t bad and don’t ruin the original, it’s just nice to see all the characters again. They did pretty well I think.  7.8/10

How to Train Your Dragon 2025

½

One of the greatest movies of all time - or a near perfect replica of one of the greatest movies of all time, which still ends up being a pretty great movie.  Managed to replicate the feeling of the original, with the same emotion and epicness.  It really is almost as good as the original, if the original didn’t exist I think this would have been held in pretty high regard. Though in the end the voice acting and animation just can’t be beat, though they do a pretty good job.  Casting was really good, no one else could have played Stoick. I love how to train your dragon so much and this brought it to life without changing anything, which was cool. I still think it’s a little pointless given how close to the original it was and they did miss the chance to make a much darker and cooler film closer to the books, but maybe it wasn’t worth the risk of messing it up. This worked, I liked it a lot.  I’ll never get over how incredible the soundtrack is. Any film with this soundtrack can’t be bad. 8.6/10

Superman 2025

Recency bias  10/10

Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out 2023

This did not need to be a film. Not much happens it’s more like an extended OVA. It’s not bad it just doesn’t do enough to justify being a film rather than a couple episodes of the anime.  It was nice to see kaede get a win though. The whole film is basically about the main characters younger sister picking what school she wanted to go to. It probably could have been done in 2 episodes rather than a whole movie.  6.0/10

Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl 2019

½

This didn’t feel much like a film. I’m not sure why it needed to be one. It was good but it just continues on from the anime in a way that just feels like a season 2. It’s just the next arc in the series, answering a lot of the questions we are left with at the end of the show.  The show is called rascal does not dream of bunny girl senpai which isn’t as weird as it sounds. My discord outed me to my friends as for some reason it came up that I was watching it on my profile. It’s a cool romance anime with body swaps, time loops, time travel and all kinds of gimmicky stuff like that. It has very little to do with bunny girls. It’s not that weird I promise.  The film did get better towards the end and the plot became quite emotional and actually pretty interesting.  7.5/10

Heads of State 2025

A depressing reminder of how cooked the whole world would be if this happened in real life.  John cena is one of the best people in the world. Idris is pretty good too. Good chemistry. Dumb forgettable yet fun action film that was occasionally quite stylistic. I was imagining Keir Starmer and Trump in this situation the whole way through and think that would have low key been the better film.  6.5/10

After a second watch I’m changing my rating to 5 stars. This may be my favourite animation style I have ever seen used in a film, it looks incredible.  The slam dunk anime isn’t that good but the manga is phenomenal. I’m so glad this exists because it really didn’t need to and it just means we finally get to see that final match animated in the best animation style possible. Such a cool idea to add depth to a completely random character years after the manga ends.  Honestly you would like this more if you have read slam dunk, but it’s still an incredible film that anyone can watch. The film’s structured in a way where you don’t need to have read the manga to understand it, it is told through one of the characters backstory that we never saw in the original so a lot of this is new material. Though having a deeper understanding of the source material so you can know the team better and understand the importance of this match definitely elevates the viewing experience, I still recommend this film to everyone. 9.7/10

Lost in Starlight 2025

½

There’s a line in this where some guy who works at NASA says that humans are “arguably the weakest life forms on earth”.  Thats the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard, what about ants or butterflies. Maybe physically we aren’t the strongest but there’s so many animals we are stronger than, what was he thinking.  Any way, cute story and the animation is so beautiful it looks like a shinkai film. I also love films about musicians. I love animated romance films especially ones that look this good.  I knew nothing about this really but I took one look at the poster on Netflix and had to watch it. The animation was exactly what I was hoping it’d be like.  The final act drags a bit and the emotional plot line felt a little forced. But the animation… 7.4/10

Power Rangers 2017

½

This was bad but it’s power rangers. I loved the part where the go go power rangers song played. Also when they got their costumes and turned in to the mega zoid that was pretty epic.  It wouldn’t be power rangers without a little bit of terrible acting, but there was enough likeable elements to the characters to make it an enjoyable enough watch. Villain was terrible but Elizabeth banks did her best with what she had to work with, was just very generic. Seeing Bryan Cranston as Zordon was pretty cool. And bill harder as the robot too to be fair.  Me and my friends went on a long rant about power rangers last night and I’ve always kinda wanted to watch this but kinda knew it was gonna be kinda bad. It was exactly what I expected but it was fun.  5.5/10

The Wild Robot 2024

½

DreamWorks are so much better than Pixar at the moment. This had the heart of a classic Disney film with the excellent animation of modern day DreamWorks which have genuinely been killing it in that regard recently. Bad guys and puss in boots both look fantastic and so does this, but they all feel somewhat unique in their own way. You can see the influences from into the spider verse but they aren’t straight up just trying to copy it.  This film just emotionally manipulates you the whole time in the best way possible. I laughed, I cried, I love that robot and I love all the animals. Wholesome, sad, it had it all. Nothing to hate about this movie it’s just good vibes and makes you feel really happy for a couple hours. I recommend. It’s nice to see the big animation studios are still capable of bangers like these.  8.8/10

A Minecraft Movie 2025

The acting and writing in this felt like when ur a kid and you play make believe in the primary school playground. It was really bad but as a kids film it works and I can see why it was so popular at cinemas.  There’s one scene when the kid is very clearly holding the crystal in his hand and jack black says “have u got the crystal?” And the kids like “yeah” and it was small stuff like that made me seriously think the film may have been written by Children. They do look like they are just having fun though which I think comes across when watching it and saves the film from being completely terrible. As the credits play I just broke out into laughter when I heard Matt Berry. The Jennifer Coolidge side plot was so unnecessary but amazing.  I get why they made this a live action. The director said there’s so many animated Minecraft projects that with their budget they wanted to do something different. But I do feel like this could have been an incredible animated film. The fact Rob McElhenney was originally meant to direct this and Steve Carell I think was attached makes me really sad that that never happened.  Seeing the Minecraft world brought to life was cool, but all the human characters were terrible and super forgettable.  I liked Steve’s song at the end and the technoblade reference is really respectable. 4.5/10

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning 2025

½

Watching all 7 mission impossible films in one day was worth it to see that plane scene in the cinema. The film was definitely not the best one, fallout is still my favourite, but this still had cool stunts and it was cool to see it in the big screen.  It was the longest of the franchise and you felt it at points, especially with it being a part two. Specially for the submarine stuff, it started to feel quite slow. The entity wasn’t the best villain considering it took up two whole films, but it definitely raised the stakes and increased its epicness.  The plane stuff felt very similar to the end of fallout, but that’s what mission impossible does best so I was fine with it. The stunts are so cool, I feel like I’d enjoy a behind the scenes documentary about Tom cruise being a badass more than another mission impossible film.  Didn’t love the ending. Benji still the best character.  7.3/10

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning 2023

½

So I agreed a bit ago to go see a film at the cinema with my grandparents and exactly one week ago my grandad picked the film we’d be seeing as the new mission impossible. I’d never seen a mission impossible film before and I refuse to see a franchise film at the cinema unless I’ve seen all its previous films, so I had exactly one week to watch every mission impossible film. But being a master procrastinator I put off this task till yesterday, giving myself exactly 24 hours to watch all 7 mission impossible films before meeting my nan and grandad the next day.  I completed this impossible mission and I have now seen every mission impossible film. Considering I don’t like action movies I found them to be highly enjoyable, I could watch Tom Cruise jump out of planes and ride motorbikes all day (and I did in fact watch it all day, without a break).  Considering the franchise has gone on so long it’s impressive that it doesn’t have any bad additions, each film was as good as the last and they surprisingly got better as it went on, with fallout being my favourite in the end (because Henry Cavill). Also considering Tom Cruise is 62 and still doing this shit, it’s quite impressive.  This is a part one and I am actually excited now for the next part and to see what crazy stunts Tom does for this film. I really am not a fan of action movies at all but I can add mission impossible alongside super hero films to the list of exceptions.  Also Simon Pegg is the best character. Also watching all the films back to back has driven me a little insane and now I feel like I can jump out of a plane and land on a train.  7.5/10 My grandad just told me he and my nan also haven’t watched all the mission impossible films so it may have been slightly easier to just suggest a different film

Hundreds of Beavers 2022

½

I don’t know if I have the words to describe how good this film is. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Nothing like the kind of film I would usually like, but it’s so hilarious and so cool.  The humour is so unique, it feels like watching Looney Tunes somehow translated into live action perfectly. The story was engaging and the film would get a laugh every couple of minutes from all of the stupid jokes that are a work of genius.  This is one of the coolest films I have ever seen and I really urge you to watch it.  It was the directors debut feature film and he spent over 4 years raising the money to finance it and now I can’t wait to see what he does next. A modern day Charlie Chaplin.  8.9/10

Thunderbolts* 2025

Really cool, I had no interest in watching this until I heard it was actually quite good. I really enjoyed it in the end, it really nice to get more MCU films with actual character development. Was like watching a more grounded guardians of the galaxy film.  I’m really glad they didn’t fuck up sentry, I really hope they find a way to fully utilise him in the future of the mcu. I also can’t believe they did taskmaster so dirty again, I really thought they were gonna be part of the team and I was actually interested to see how they would make her character interesting, her end felt extremely anti climactic.  I don’t see how they are gonna be at all useful in the future avengers movie given how weak they all are. They kinda won in the end with the power of friendship, but this film at least was really good and there were no shameful cameos which was unexpected for a film like this. 7.9/10 After credits 8.5/10

The Parent Trap 1998

½

This is a really cute movie when you don't think too much about how messed up it is to have twins and just decide to keep one each and never tell them about each other.  It was both really emotional and really stupid when one of the twins met their mum or dad, coz the parent is happy to see them but they can’t care that much if they agreed to never meet one of their children.  And surely any couple that hate each other so much that they agree to have 0 communication with them and one of their children would take more than a couple of conversations to get back together again.  The idea that two twins are basically the same person so we will just split them is such a stupid concept but also works really well in this film, it’s very conflicting.  But putting aside that and the British accents this is a really nice film.  7.5/10

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith 2005

This was the only Star Wars film I hadn’t watched yet and I gotta see it on the big screen. Was quite an experience seeing for the first time at the cinema.  This film is so iconic I could quote half the lines even though I’ve never seen it before.  Maybe my favourite Star Wars film. It has the most interesting story character wise, seeing death vaders origin is actual quite emotional and a really great watch. Though there’s a couple of bits that I don’t like as much, like how palpatine is way too goofy. The main thing though is anikins turn was way too sudden, its built up really well where you can see what a hard decision it is for him and then suddenly 10 minutes later he’s just ok with killing a bunch of 8 year olds. He was a really interesting character and doing that made him way too irredeemable I think it was really stupid. The fact he was doing it all for padme would have been way more conflicting during the final fight if he hadn’t just murdered a bunch of kids.  Really great movie though I really enjoyed watching it at the cinema. A new hope is still my favourite tho.  8.4/10

Finding Jesus 2020

½

I was really really bored… This is the worst film I’ve ever seen in my life. They didn’t even find Jesus. They just talk to professor shark the whole time and solve all that lazy ass sharks problems. The shark fr doesn’t move from the same spot the whole film. Mr sushi is voiced by the same guy as professor shark and it was the most racist thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Also has nothing to do with finding nemo apart from the fact it has fish in it.  Had a good time watching, excited to watch the 2nd one.  0.1/10

The Text 2024

Another insanely impressive Joel haver film, this one just 48 minutes and shot in just 4 hours. The YouTuber/ filmmaker Joel haver has a yearly competition where instead of watching the Oscar’s, he challenges us all to instead use those 4 hours of our lives to attempt to make a film instead. Considering this was made in so little time this is an incredible feat and another reason while this man is one of my biggest inspirations.  This is also part of a long term challenge Joel Haver was doing where he was attempting to create 12 feature films in one year, one every month. He is such a talent I really recommend you check out some of his films if you haven’t heard of him before.  This was one take, how the hell did he manage to choreograph this in such a little amount of time. Some of the shots are really good considering, it feels a little shaky and amateur but in a way that, like all of his other films only adds to how real the film feels.  The dialogue is also improvised again like most of his films that makes it feel so real.  Dax flame is so good in this film and its stuff like this that makes me think he’s playing a character in his videos as this man just plays himself in this film way too well, there’s no way he can play awkward that well without being some what aware of how awkward he is. He was my favourite character, I really didn’t expect him to be in this but he fits in so well with Joel Haver’s awkward and realistic style of filmmaking.  Someone I don’t know as well but one of Joel havers friends who’s been in many of his films, Trent Lenkarski, is so awkward too. His acting feels so sincere and him and Dax play off each other so well it was really great to watch them acting together on this one.  The film was really stupid and funny, I love how all the characters have their own little thing going on, like the app and turning 30, it was always funny when dax stresses them out just because of how awkward he is. The music was really cool too I love the diegetic piano soundtrack it was a really cool way of adding music to the film. The ending was kinda wholesome too. It was really cool to see a one shot film of characters just chilling in a house, it was something very different and I really enjoyed it.  Dax Flame is a generational talent.  8.0/10

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002

½

I genuinely have no idea if I’ve seen this film before. I’ve seen the first half of the first movie like 5 times, but I keep turning it off because I keep attempting to watch the extended cut.  I feel like I must have seen it because it’s lord of the rings, one of the greatest trilogies of all time. I’ve definitely seen the hobbit and a lot of this seems familiar.  Anyway I found it to be quite difficult to watch. I am still attempting to watch the extended cuts and each one is around 4 hours, which has been incredibly difficult for me to get through.  Though the first act of the first film was amazing, I much preferred this film, mostly due to Gollum being my favourite character. What Andy Serkis was able to pull off with this performance is honestly so impressive and my favourite thing about the lord of the rings by far. Also samwise the brave is a great character too.  I don’t think long battle sequences are my thing at all, and even though the LOTR contains some of the greatest battle scenes of all time, I still don’t really enjoy them as much as I enjoy watching Frodo and Sam talk to Smeagol. I still love all the characters I’m just not exactly loving the process of actually watching these films as I’ve kind of had to force myself to get through them. I think I would like this a lot more if I stopped watching the extended editions, but I’ve come this far. it’s Lord of the Rings though and I wanna like it so bad so I’m just gonna continue to pretend I love it . 7.5/10

Sinners 2025

That was the greatest cinema experience of my entire life. Ryan Coogler cooked. See it in imax.  As the film ended the only thing that would have made it better is if we got one more scene of someone singing. Then we got the after credits.  The acting was phenomenal, Michael B. Jordan gives not one but two of the best performances he’s ever given. But the music is really what made this film stand out and made it such an incredible experience to watch.  Sinners.  9.8/10

Inside Out 2 2024

This film made me cry on the plane next to my friend that hasn’t seen me cry in 10 years.  It was 70% a boring kids film and 30% a deeply thought provoking and nuanced take on how anxiety starts to affect and change people’s lives as they grow up. The ending was really smart I really loved all the messages and themes they were able to get across with the new emotions. Joy struggling to fight back against the anxiety was incredibly meaningful and representative of real life in a way that surpasses even the first film. Made my 25 hour flight back to England slightly more bearable.  7.9/10

The Beach 2000

I went to Maya Bay a couple days after watching this film and I would fight as hard as they did to protect it. It’s ironic that one of the most beautiful beaches in the world loses part of its beauty because you are there. Feels really weird the goal of the characters in this film were to stop people like me from going there and then I went there a couple of days later. Also the irony that this film is what made me and probably a lot more tourists so excited to visit.  The characters in this were really weird and it was probably one of my least favourite Danny Boyle films and Leonardo DiCaprio films. But Maya Bay was beautiful and it was still pretty entertaining. 6.5/10

A Different Man 2024

½

I love it when a film can stress me out this much. This was the kind of film that had me sitting there thinking about how smart the writing was the whole way through. The performances from Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson were so good. The emotions that Sebastian Stan’s characters evoked were palpable, I was so stressed the whole way through and really felt his jealousy, frustration and self loathing. Such an interesting and cool film that I would definitely watch again. Sebastian Stan is a really great actor that’s really come a long way from playing one of the most boring mcu characters, also Adam Pearson plays his character perfectly, where he is so likeable and annoying at the same time that you really understand Edward’s feelings towards him.  It was so smart and well written, though it did lose me towards the end, the ending felt quite rushed and not very believable, I definitely feel like it could have been done better, but overall this was a great film. I’ve been excited to watch it for so long and it didn’t disappoint.  8.6/10

Captain America: Brave New World 2025

This was quite boring, it felt like one of the mcu shows, it was just kinda pointless. It was cool seeing the red hulk fight since we haven’t had a cool hulk fight in a while, but it went by a bit too quickly and ended really shit. I want to like it as I’m an MCU apologist and I like the characters but this was not too good. I didn’t really like Harrison Ford as Thunderbolt Ross too.  Giancarlo Esposito completely wasted as one of the worst villains ever.  The leader wasn’t utilised that well, it felt like he barely did anything.  6.0/10

The Lego Ninjago Movie 2017

½

It's time for training and we're getting started, it's on, you know and we wanna see you whip and shout it, we rock, you roll they say go slow, and everything just stands so still we say, go go, we're ready for the fight, we know the drill monday morning and we feel defeated, seems so long ago tuesday's comin' - we just keep on beatin 'til we're in our zone they say, go slow, and everything just stands so still we say, go go, you're gonna see us rip into it, just Jump up, kick back, whip around and spin Then we jump back, do it again Ninja-Go! Ninja-Go! Come on, come on -- we're gonna do it again, we just Jump up kick back whip around and spin Then we jump back, do it again Ninja-Go! Ninja-Go! Come on, come on and do the weekend whip! Wednesday mornin' and we soon discover we gotta push our game we slept on thursday just to get it over, the whip's a day away they say, go slow, and everything just stands so still we say, go go, you're gonna see us rip into it, just Jump up, kick back, whip around and spin Then we jump back, do it again Ninja-Go! Ninja-Go! Come on, come on -- we're gonna do it again, we just Jump up kick back whip around and spin Then we jump back, do it again Ninja-Go! Ninja-Go! Come on, come on and do the weekend whip! they say, no no, but we don't wanna sit around no more we say, go go, we wanna see you rip into it, just Jump up, kick back, whip around and spin Then we jump back, do it again Ninja-Go! Ninja-Go! Come on, come on -- we're gonna do it again, we just Jump up kick back whip around and spin Then we jump back, do it again Ninja-Go! Ninja-Go! Come on, come on and do the weekend whip! The show was better but this was funny and Garmadon and Lloyd’s relationship was cool. All the other ninjas weren’t that good tho and they didn’t use spinjutsu once.  This was one of the best shows from my childhood and the theme song was legendary. 7.4/10

Reminded myself why this is my favourite film. Incredible.  Very few films can get me this emotionally invested when I’ve already seen it 4 times. So good, I love the shots especially when he isn’t able to look people in the eye and we focus on people’s feet. It’s done so well and really makes you understand the character. The characters are so well written, I love the manga for this too as it has a little more content but the soundtrack is too good to just read it.  Really interesting story about bullying, mental health and change.  9.5/10

Chronicle 2012

½

This film is so cool. A found footage film about three regular guys who randomly get superpowers. Such a cool concept. And seeing the three guys hang out and use their powers in a really realistic way for people like them, it was super wholesome and fun to watch.  Didn’t really like anything else about the film though. The way the found footage was done, having characters film at unnatural times that just felt really weird because it really didn’t make sense at all for the character to be filming. At one point there was a camera filming him when he was passed out in the hospital and I’m really confused as to why it was filming him. Also having it cut to random perspectives was kind of annoying. Found footage films are good because of how realistic they are, it makes you think this could have really happened, which is such a cool thing to do for super powers coz it really makes you think about how this would all play out if it really happened or even if it happened to you. I feel like when you cut to random perspectives like strangers camera phones, it kinda takes away from that realism. But I do really like the idea of doing a super power film with found footage, it kinda reminds me of a film I really used to like called project almanac, which kinda does the same thing but with time travel. It does have this kind of unique thing it does with the camera tho where they float it with their powers, which leads to some kind of cool shots that wouldn’t have been possible in a regular found footage film.  Also I really liked Michael B Jordan in this film and I really wish his character was in it more. When they were all hanging out flying around, that was when this movie peaked. “The best day of their lives” was the best moment in the film. I think having that character around for the end of the film would have added to it a lot and it felt really cheap how that all went down. The whole ending I didn’t really like, in another film where you see the power slowly corrupt this guy I think it could have been good, but he was too creepy at the start that once he finally became likeable, the ending just disappointed me. Some cool moments in the action but overall the main character just felt really unjustified and his motivations felt really forced. The character just seemed like he was going completely crazy and I think considering all he was going through with his parents and at school, it could have been done in a way more realistic way that I would have really enjoyed. If the film did this right it would have been interesting enough that the found footage stuff would have maybe even just made it worse.  Again this is a really cool film and there’s a lot right about it, but there’s also a lot about it that didn’t work for me. Specifically the main character just wasn’t written well in my opinion. Cool enough concept for me to have now watched this twice tho.  6.9/10

Steins;Gate: The Movie - Load Region of Déjà Vu 2013

½

Just finished the show steins gate, an anime that I started years ago but never got round to finishing. It’s so good and I would really recommend it to anyone who likes anime, it has a bit of a slow start but if you stick with it you won’t regret it. This film is set after the show. It wraps things up really well, I would say even better than the show does. I didn’t know it even existed till recently but I’m glad I finally heard of it because this was a very good ending. I love that it focuses more on Kurisu rather than okabe. She’s such a great character and she doesn’t get much of an ending in the show, this was a great direction to go with her character as we finally get to see someone other than okabe time travel.  Great show and great film. Felt like a long season finale. A really good one.  8.7/10

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006

This was so good right up until she wasted her last time jump for literally no reason on the stupidest thing, and then right away it gives us a really stupid reveal that completely ruined the film.  Spoilers but they reveal the guy is a time traveler from the future, which was so stupid. Idk how such a good film got so bad so quickly. It made you not care about any kind of romantic plot and created so many confusing and unnecessary plot holes. It was so disappointing because the way it was going I was thinking it could be as good as about time but it just completely ruined it. Because the rest of the film is so good I’ve decided not to rate it low but I’m super disappointed with the final third of the movie.  The fact he did all that to look at a painting. So stupid. And he just decided to become a high schooler for so long, it made no sense at all. Also why did he start dating some random girl, it had built up such an interesting story and he was a really good character but all of a sudden every single thing he did throughout the film feels so pointless and confusing. Was heading towards a 9/10 but has lept down to a 7.6/10

Gladiator 2000

Rewatching this as a little recap before I finally watch gladiator 2. I remembered it as being not that good and I can see why I thought that, though I definitely don’t agree with that anymore.  It’s very long and can be quite slow at times and is not the kind of film I would usually like, though it is one of the coolest revenge films ever and it includes some incredible acting. Joaquin Phoenix especially was incredible, I hated him so much he was amazing villain, definitely my favourite performance I’ve ever seen from him.  Anyway it’s gladiator it’s a classic and I usually don’t like reviewing these kind of films, just came to say I didn’t used to like it but now I do.  My last rating was a 7.4 which I remember as it was the one of the first films I ever rated.  8.0/10

Carry-On 2024

Had me at Jason Batemans voice. I’m bouta watch all of ozark right now. He carried this film.  Taron Egerton was also decent in this, I feel like I haven’t seen him in anything since rocket man.  This is not my kind of film at all but for some reason I was locked in. Way more interesting than I expected. A film about a TSA guy tryna stop a guy getting through airport security sounds like the most boring film ever but this wasn’t. Jason Bateman was a really interesting villain and Taron did a good job in the lead. Really cool ending too, was really happy for him.  I really hope airport security isn’t actually that bad. I really hate films like these why did I like this so much? Was a nice film to watch while I wrapped my presents.  Merry Christmas everyone.  7.7/10

Venom: The Last Dance 2024

½

The venom trilogy will go down in history as a pretty bad trilogy, which I think is a shame. All 3 films had pretty shitty writing but there’s also a lot of good to be found in there. This film was pretty bad but I think it really had potential. Eddie and venom are two of the greatest characters of any marvel film, their chemistry is amazing and it has completely carried the whole trilogy. Their relationship in this film was the only good thing about the last two films and here it was maybe the strongest so far, but there is nothing else good about the story. I really loved seeing how their friendship has progressed and it was a great ending to their story, this film also had the alien hunting family which were a pretty nice addition, but everything else about it was pretty bad.  The girl whose brother was struck by lightning was such a poorly written character, they really tried forcing her backstory in a really unnatural way it felt really stupid and it annoyed me.  The villain was so generic.  Venom and eddies storyline was really good though which is the only reason I kept watching these films. But it’s just a shame. They could have actually done something really cool with these characters and made a really good film, but the Sony extended universe really just incapable of making a good film. This film was pretty bad and it may even be the best thing they’ve ever done.  I really would like to see them do something more with these characters one day as they had a lot of potential. I don’t want another venom film though unless it’s a Logan esc bromance film, but I wouldn’t be too mad a a tiny cameo in Spiderman.  Their relationship montage at the end was so stupid but it kinda worked. I couldn’t tell if it was a joke, it was so dumb but I kinda liked it, though it would have been nice to get a real ending for Eddie to see where his life ended up after losing venom, considering the whole film was just him and venom on some adventure, the ending was sweet with the Statue of Liberty but it did feel a little rushed. Anyway final thoughts, venom and eddie were funny and well written characters, everything else about this was bad, so it kinda evens out. 7.0/10

Dear Santa 2024

This is pretty bad. 2 stars because it was still watchable and I didn’t wanna turn it off at all. This film feels like it was written by a child, which isn’t too bad as the dialogue felt kind of realistic, though it was really awkward to watch and none of the acting was too great, even from Jack Black.  Really just a stupid film, horrible ending. There were a couple redeemable aspects of the story but not enough to distract from how bad it really is.  Just an awkward film and not in a funny way, just uncomfortable to watch really. 4.3/10

Anora 2024

This was really good, especially the middle section, I loved Anora from the start, the acting was amazing, but especially as the 3 guys came in trying to get the marriage annulled, she had amazing chemistry with all 3 of them and it was incredible funny the whole time.  Really just a really interesting and unique story as a whole, it was chaotic and fun, I went in knowing nothing about it, this wasn’t what I expected at all but I’m definitely not disappointed.  Ivan was awful and annoying but an interesting character still. Disappointing that Anora didn’t get the W in the end but it was very well done.  Haven’t been to the cinema since deadpool 3 so it was nice to go again after so long. 7.8/10

Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- Memory Snow 2018

I didn’t realise this was a movie I thought it was an episode as it played like a regular episode on crunchyroll.  As an episode it was a nice wholesome break from Subaru’s torture.  As a movie basically nothing happened and I would never purposely go out my way to watch it. I only watched it by accident because I wasn’t paying attention.  Was wholesome tho and at least I watched a film today even if it was accidental.  But nah the whole thing is basically about them making ice sculptures. It’s wholesome but don’t watch it expecting anything too cool.  6.0/10

The Lighthouse 2019

I really wanted to like this. It’s been very high on my list for a long time now and I was thinking that I’d love it. It was just so boring. I am very aware that I’m probably in the minority here but maybe it’s just not my kind of film. The cinematography was incredible and the acting was phenomenal, I knew Robert Paterson was a good actor but I didn’t realise he was that good. I also like Robert Eggers a lot and was ready for this to be one of my favourite films, but it wasn’t.  Maybe it’s coz I didn’t get it, maybe it’s because I was so bored that I nearly fell asleep. But this wasn’t for me. The plot was interesting but it was too weird and complicated and really just wasn’t what I was in the mood for. I apologise if my review annoyed you I really wish I did like this and maybe I’ll even try watch it again some time, but I just didn’t enjoy it.  5.9/10

Creep 2 2017

Interesting way to do a sequel. It felt very similar but very different at the same time. The location and format felt like the same movie but this time we get Sara, who is very different from the last person and in a very weird way.  Firstly I really liked the introduction, it was great to see Karan Soni, even if only for a short while, the whole intro scene was quite good.  So Sara isn’t scared of Aaron. She knows he’s a killer but hangs out with him anyway, which is a very interesting decision. First off it makes her very weird, I know they set up her character to be that kind of person but I really just don’t see any normal person to ever react in the way she did to the whole situation. Putting that aside tho, her not being scared of him takes a lot of the scariness out the first half of the film. All most of this film has is jump scares that are just them trying to jump scare each other, which is no more scary than if my friend was to jump out at me from behind a corner.  It does add an interesting element however, as it gives us more room to explore the characters. Specifically Aaron’s character, who Mark Duplass once again does a fantastic job at portraying. Made this film feel a lot more like a very interesting character study rather than the horror film that the first one felt like. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing considering it was the most interesting element of the last creep film.  Even without watching the first film this works pretty well. The idea of someone being asked to make a documentary about a serial killer to tell their life story and going along with it due to their slight nativity along with their passion for telling great stories.  Honestly quite a good film, the only thing that held it back for me was the fact it wasn’t as believable as the first film. Sara’s character held it back a little for me a little I think. Overall though I think I liked it maybe even more than the first one. Mark Duplass is incredible, he’s a very inspiring filmmaker.  Enjoyed the ending a lot too. A short, simple and interesting film. Looking back on my review for the first film I said it felt a bit off when they left the cabin, this film they don’t leave the cabin and it works really well.  Final scene was so good but I think it could have ended with the shovel scene. The last couple shots felt a bit unnecessary and would have made perfect sense to end on. But it was only a couple shots after and they were still good so I’m not too mad about it. Aaron may have lost but he got exactly what he wanted in the end really.  7.9/10

Hush 2016

½

This is one of the most frustrating films ever. She had so many opportunities to kill him. He was an idiot. But every time she had the chance she would just run back into her house it was really annoying to watch. At one point he was literally on the floor being strangled and she had a weapon, but instead of killing him she sat inside on the floor. The guy was the worst criminal ever, as soon as he took the mask off he was way less creepy too. Not a bad actor though.  Also I would have liked to know why he was doing all of that. He was tormenting her surely he’s not just a regular home invader. That all seemed like it was personal.  I like the concept of a death girl trapped in her house, but it is definitely the weakest Mike Flanagan’s work. She literally stabbed him and then ran away what is wrong with her.  Was too annoyed to enjoy it. But it was kinda cool.  6.9/10

Host 2020

Host was really cool. From what I remember about unfriended it had more of a story to it, but host was better in just about every other way. Some very cool deaths, well edited film. It was structured very well and it was quite short which was good as it didn’t need to be any longer at all, it was simple short and scary, I enjoyed.  The fact that people continued to film stuff even when they were the only living person left on the call didn’t really make much sense but it’s not a big enough thing for me to take issue with. The jump scares were really good, I watched it on my pc so it would feel more real.  I don’t understand why Gemma would go to her friends house in the end, it was the height of lockdown, how irresponsible. But seriously she escaped the danger yet she some reason showed up at the end at someone else’s house that had a demon, maybe I missed something but that didn’t make sense, definitely not worth risking Covid for.  Crazy that Covid was a thing, you forget sometimes I think but wow that actually happened. Very inspiring that we still managed to make art in that time without leaving the house and seeing each other. I think host comes in for my top 5 favourite pieces of media made in quarantine along with,  1. Staged - David tennant zoom show  2. Inside - bo burnam special  3. The mythic quest quarantine episode - rob maclehenny show 4. Host  I don’t have a fifth, I’m sure there’s another one somewhere.  Maybe Borat subsequent movie film  Anyway good movie, a bit simplistic, but that was part of its charm, very cool that it was made during covid. Good acting, felt very real.  8 days into this month and I’ve fully gone from hating horror films to loving them.  7.9/10

Hereditary 2018

½

Horroctober day 6  I can no longer say that I don’t get scared by horror films because this freaked me out. I think I much prefer the smart and creepy films like this, if anyone has any recommendations for those kind of films I would love to watch more like hereditary.  Cinematography, acting, sound design were all incredible, but overall this is the most well written horror film I’ve ever seen.  I wasn’t the biggest fan of how it all came together at the end and ended up being some weird - spoiler - cult stuff with the king. But I can appreciate it for how smart it was and I’m sure I will appreciate it even more once I watch a couple of breakdown videos that explain to me why it’s so smart.  For half the film I had no idea at all what direction it was going it go and there was so much going on. The scene after the party when that crazy thing happens, was like one of the most impactful scenes I’ve ever watched, honestly jaw dropping and so well acted.  All the creepy stuff that was happening to Alex wolfs character especially when he was in class was also probably my favourite part it was very well done and very scary.  Honestly such a brilliant film I loved it way more than I ever would have expected. Just proves that I need to take more chances on different genres that I don’t usually like. I hated horror films, but I definitely don’t anymore after seeing films like these. Maybe I’ll try action films next month.  8.8/10

Oculus 2013

½

Horroctober day 5 This felt like a more contained version of haunting of hill house and I loved it. I think I can say I like horror films now. This was creepy as shit and I loved it, honestly so smart.  It wasn’t too jump scary it was just insanely creepy and had a really interesting flashback that’s played throughout the film, just like haunting of hill house.  The mirror was so interesting and the ending was perfect. Nothing is resolved at all in fact things are more fucked than before but it was perfect.  I don’t know what it is about stay at home mums losing their mind and attacking their kids but it’s creepy as hell.  Karen Gillan too.  Honestly quite a scary film I really enjoyed it way more than I thought I would have.  8.6/10

Army of Darkness 1992

My least favourite of the evil dead trilogy, but I respect it for being set in medieval times that was very cool.  The villains in this one weren’t as good as before and it really lost all the horror elements that it had left after the second film.  Still a cool film because we got to see ash in a castle and he has some fantastic moments, but the story isn’t interesting at all and I got a bit sick of it repeating the exact same tropes over and over and over again. It was still very funny but the slapstick didn’t really work as well as it did in the last one for me.  Though the scene with the tiny ashes was great. And the film was still hilarious.  7.8/10

The Evil Dead 1981

Very fun film, it was a little boring being all set in that cabin, but the army of darkness or evil dead or whatever they are called were very cool. They seem pretty generic but were done in such a cool way they really elevate the film. Wasn’t really scary at all but I liked all the blood and I liked the creepy stop motion at the end.  Also there’s some great cinematography in there, especially towards the end there’s a scene or two that has pretty consistently amazing shots back to back. Cool to finally see where the absolute legend Sam Raimi got his start.  Should have seen this ages ago but I don’t like horror films. Or I didn’t like them I think I am changing my mind.  8.1/10

Evil Dead II 1987

Kinda just evil dead one if it had a budget. Except it’s way more weird and cheesy, which makes it a much better film.  The hand stuff was great, especially when he chopped it off and got a chainsaw hand. It’s so ridiculous I was laughing my ass off, it was great.  Ash truly becomes an iconic character in this film, I really think this is the peak of the series.  Bruce Campbell was so good and without all the other characters he really gets to stand out more. I love that Sam Rami just had him go all out with the ridiculousness this film and it works way more than it should have done.  Having to watch another whole film in the same cabin was my only real issue as it got a little boring but it really was just the same as the last one but better and more ridiculous.  Groovy 8.3/10

Saw 2004

Last October I tried to watch one horror film a day and I made it 13 days. Ironically the final film I was able to watch before I failed was on Friday 13th and it was Friday the 13th. I don’t like horror films, there were a couple of ok films I watched last year but overall it was unsuccessful in making me like horror films. I’m trying again this year and the first film I watched was saw and after watching, it may be the first film that makes me kinda like horror. I loved it. It was actually kind of scary and I loved the whole thing it was so interesting and engaging yet still scary. It didn’t rely on cheap jump scares nor did it just rely on gore. I loved the characters and the story and the cool visual style which felt very unique and a kind of toned down version of the short film that I just watched before I started this. It almost felt like an Edgar Wright film but with scary cuts instead of funny ones, really cool how even the editing felt kind of scary. I think I can genuinely say confidently this is my favourite horror film I’ve ever watched and I even loved the ending and am kind of excited for the second one. I probably should have seen the final twist coming but I didn’t.  Great film honestly, I am exited for another month of horror.  8.5/10

Dìdi (弟弟) 2024

This was the most realistic coming of age film I’ve ever seen. It was incredibly hard to watch at points but I think that’s because of how real it felt.  At the end the things that I wanted to get resolved, that in most other coming of age stories would definitely get resolved, don’t. Life goes on and nothing is perfect, but it leaves you with the feeling that things will get better, which I actually loved for the ending.  I did have to pause this film a lot to sit and question Chris’ life choices, he made a lot of really dumb choices that were very hard to watch, but I feel like that’s part of being a kid, making stupid choices, feeling like your life is completely over because of stuff you won’t even remember a couple of years later. That’s what I feel like this film does best and why I feel like it’s the realest coming of age story I’ve ever seen.  I feel like every coming of age film that has skateboarding in it will forever be compared to mid 90s from now on, but I don’t really see any comparison past the skateboarding. Though as a kid who grew up with skating I did find all the skateboarding stuff to be very accurate, especially as the kid who got into filmmaking from filming his friends skateboarding because I was too shit to do any of the tricks myself. Also filming myself for ages just to get a clip of me doing a very shit Ollie, that part was super relatable.  Yeah this felt incredibly personal and real, seeing that the director and actor has the same surname as the character I’m guessing it is a true story and he even cast his own family in the film which is very cool. Which also make the relationships between the characters, particularly Chris and his family, that much more real and well done. I find it really interesting how he explored the family relationships, with his sister and mother especially. It really felt like a love letter to mothers, which was done beautifully.  Very impactful, well written film with some beautiful shots and fantastic acting. When Chris was depressed I felt it, watching it was a very emotional experience. I didn’t think I would have much to say about it but I guess I did. Just an incredibly relatable film, even though I can’t relate to it completely, it sums up really well what it felt like to be a kid in our generation.  8.5/10 The director -  “It’s a very personal story, but it’s not autobiographical. There’s a distinction there… I’m definitely him in the broad strokes. I was 13, 14 years old during that time. His birthday in the movie is my birthday in real-life. I was a skater around that same age. That’s how I got into skating and filmmaking. So those details are true, but I think Chris is probably more angsty and aloof, and a little weirder than I would have been. I probably have a little more social awareness… but I don’t know maybe not!“

Okja 2017

- I’m 30 minutes in and if Okja dies I will never watch a film again for the rest of my life  I have never loved a fictional creature more in such a short amount of time  Ok I finished the film and it was much much much worse than Okja dying.  I have never been this traumatised by a film before.  I had to take a couple of long breaks on the last scene  I think I may be a vegetarian now  This film was very good though, a lot of great acting performances, especially from the main girl. Always nice to see Paul Dano in a film and Steven Yeun. And Jake Gyllenhaal somehow playing a more deranged character than he did in nightcrawler. Also Gus from breaking bad plays the exact same character he always does (but it works every time)  The ending was crazy good and was very thought provoking. I liked this film a lot. 8.0/10 Stick around for a pretty cool after credit scene. The ALF were pretty funny. Edit: it’s 1 month later and I’m still vegetarian. I actually haven’t eaten meat even once since watching this. This film changed me.

The Garfield Movie 2024

½

This was ok, I feel like Chris Pratt was the wrong choice for Garfield, but similar to Mario by the end I came to kinda like him.  Doesn’t come close to The original live action Garfield film with Bill Murray but it was ok. I would have preferred if the story was more focused on Jon and Garfield and not been about some crazy adventure, but the story with Garfield’s dad was kinda wholesome.  The film didn’t have much to it though and I love Garfield so I do think this could have been much better, but it was a decent kids film.  5.5/10 How does Chris Pratt keep getting cast as these characters it makes no sense. After the Mario reaction where it literally became a meme, they cast him as Garfield. Honestly when I saw that casting I assumed it was a joke it’s almost too good to be true. Very suprised he’s not in the Minecraft movie. I guess Mario made a lot of money and that’s all these people really pay attention to anyway.

Milk & Serial 2024

Really like these guys, very creative, and curry barker even showed up on an episode of it’s always sunny in Philadelphia.  This was a found footage feature film that you can watch on YouTube and it was made for just $800.  Technically it’s not the most well made film ever, but it’s a found footage film so it doesn’t really need to be, if anything it just adds to the realism.  Acting was surprisingly really good and the story was really interesting, creepy and I was entertained the whole way through. Lots of cool twists that all rounded out quite nicely, really just a great watch.  Love watching these guys skits and this film really proves how talented they really are, hope to see them move on to bigger projects some day. 7.6/10

Chef 2014

½

So today I told ChatGPT that I felt bored and unmotivated and it recommended me this movie. Honestly the perfect recommendation it was so motivating and so wholesome and made me feel so happy.  The cast was great. I don’t know why but I physically clapped when RDJ showed up. This is definitely my favourite Jon favreau role and favourite film he’s directed (iron man still up there). Also John Leguizamo was great and his character was really cool. There were some other characters at the start that kind of got forgotten about when it got to the very sudden ending that felt a little rushed but was still super wholesome.  films that use social media like this one does usually annoy me but it handled it pretty well and was a pretty realistic depiction of how it all works but without shoving it down your throat by trying too hard to be cool and relevant.  It was honestly so wholesome it made me so happy watching it. Tells a great story about re discovering your passion and connecting with your family and I loved it. I didn’t want it to end.  Now I’m hungry To quote my ChatGPT recommendation.  “For something fresh, fitting the early morning vibe with a mix of lightness and depth, I suggest "Chef" (2014).”  AI has yet to miss when recommending me a film to suit my mood. I am now ready to start my day. Even though it’s now 2pm… 8.9/10 Genuinely up there with my favourite films now Have you seen chef?

Lars and the Real Girl 2007

½

I asked ChatGPT to give me a film that would make me sad but also happy and it told me to watch this. It was a good recommendation but I found it hard to get over how weird the concept was.  I had been meaning to watch this as it’s a Ryan Gosling film, but was put off by the concept, decided this time to trust ChatGPT.  It was weird, it was a little wholesome, lars is a nice guy and an interesting character, and it’s really sweet to see what all the town do to accommodate him, though very unrealistic as in real life he wouldn’t have been able to push it anywhere near that far.  It was nice tho and a good film, the doll thing was weird, but handled well.  7.0/10 As ChatGPT said  “Overall, "Lars and the Real Girl" is a unique and heartfelt film that should leave you with a sense of comfort and hope, making it a good choice for your current mood.” I’m just gonna tell it my mood from now on and get it to give me a film to match it. Sometimes it’s hard to find a film that suits what mood you’re in and what time of day it is. This film was a good recommendation.

Orion and the Dark 2024

½

I was liking this, quite a nice story about a kid overcoming his fears. The beginning was especially good. But I guess Charlie Kaufman can’t just write a simple film like that he had to make the whole thing be a story being told to a kid who traveled in time to save his mum who traveled in time to save his dad who was telling the mum the story at the start. It was so unnecessarily complicated. Again the start was good and I found it weirdly relatable and I didn’t mind when it all was just a bedtime story but I do feel like they did a bit too much with it and in the end it really took away from the overall story, making we care very little about any of the characters.  I guess it is a kids film, but that’s more reason not to end it like that, so I didn’t really know who this is for.  Charlie Kaufman dreamworks film tho, that’s pretty cool.  6.7/10

Big Fat Liar 2002

After deadpool 3 I felt like watching a bit more of Shawn Levy’s stuff. This was a kids film. If I was a kid I’m sure I would have really liked this, or even if I had watched it as a kid and had some sort of nostalgia for it. But I’m not and I didn’t, so this wasn’t the best film to watch and was incredibly forgettable.  Was interesting seeing Paul Giamatti play a role like this. He seemed really familiar but I couldn’t work out what from as he played an entirely different person to the character I loved in the holdovers. A bit over the top but again if I was a lot younger I would have probably enjoyed it a bit more.  None of the acting was that good. None of the story or characters were too deep or gave you a lot to think about. The overall premise wasn’t as but it didn’t really have much else to it. His best friend character was kinda cool but she had no character of her own she was just kinda there the whole time and helped him and that was it.  It had its moments tho it was pretty funny at times with the pranks and stuff. 4.3/10

Hit Man 2023

Hit man review  This was a fun film to watch, I like the themes of identity and the idea of changing your personality like an actor. Glen Powell played the role kinda well, it was interesting seeing him get absorbed into a personality, but I don’t think they did a good enough job at selling how different he was when he was Gary, so the change didn’t feel too drastic. Maybe Glen Powell just isn’t believable as some nerdy and awkward guy.  All of the stuff involving the police felt really stupid and unrealistic, the romantic plot was pretty interesting and though I kinda like what they were doing for the ending, it felt a little abrupt. I feel like his character hadn’t done enough to justify his decision at the end and it didn’t feel like the right move for the character. Definitely feel like it could have been a great ending if it had a bit more build up. I like the idea in the character getting so absorbed in the role that he actually became a hitman, but the way it happened and the time skip at the end felt a little cheesy and un realistic.  Very interested to see how much of this is a true story as I guess he didn’t kill anyone.  While Hit Man is based on the real Gary Johnson, the movie’s larger plot twists and much of Powell’s antics are completely fictional, according to director Richard Linklater. “The real Gary did slight disguises but not the extent that we see in the film. I was like, ‘Should we really do a Russian accent?’ But Glen just pushed all of that to the max, and I love how it came out,” As expected the core plot of a teacher pretending to be a hitman was the only part that was real. He didn’t actually kill anyone and stuff. Also he had previous experience with law enforcement before starting as a fake hitman.  Watched on holiday and it was a fun break from the heat.  7.9/10

Deadpool & Wolverine 2024

½

I’ve talked a lot of shit about Americans watching films at the cinema and how annoying it would be to watch a film with them. I love how British people are silent and don’t cheer or gasp or shout during the movie. It hurts to say it but I was wrong. I saw this film in an amc theatre in Florida the day of release and the experience was much better than the British cinema experience.  When there was a cool cameo and I felt all happy inside, we didn’t sit in silence, every one cheered and it made me even happier. I still don’t understand who they are clapping to at the end of the movie as the people who made the film aren’t there, but I feel a bit more open minded about seeing a film at the cinema with a crowd who sound like they want to be there.  Also this is unrelated to the movie but American cinemas are annoyingly better than our cinemas in general. I worked at the cinema for nearly 3 years and I would have much preferred it to be an AMC than a cineworld. I can’t enter the cinema at all without a ticket, so no one sneaking into screens. You order your food at a self checkout and then bring your receipt to a collection point. Buttered Popcorn! Ok that last one was actually disgusting, I hyped it up a lot and thought it would be great but we definitely do better popcorn in the UK. The butter wasn’t good I was not able to eat one handful.  Also all the marketing for the film was so cool. There was a deadpool wolverine red carpet, giant projections and giant posters that I got to take my photo with. Honestly just a better experience all around but I’ll move on to the actual movie..  So as you can probably tell I’m on holiday in America right now and don’t tell my parents but I was more excited for this film than I was for anything else on this holiday. I convinced my Dad to let us leave Disneyland early and skip the fireworks show so we could watch this instead. I personally think it was worth it. The MCU is my Disneyland. Just like Martin Scorsese who also thinks they are just as good as theme parks.  The deadpool films have always been my favourite marvel projects ever since I convinced my parents to let me watch the first one when I was 15. Ryan Reynolds is such a perfect deadpool and he fought so hard for the project. So I was gonna be excited for this film even before it became deadpool vs wolverine but after I saw that first trailer I knew it would be impossible for it to be bad so I avoided all other trailers and spoilers until today. For deadpool and wolverine to be in the same film together, it just makes so much sense. The actors have so much chemistry in real life. It was the perfect marvel film.  And for the film to be about all the marvel projects left behind, it was genius. There were so many cameos and none felt forced like in other marvel projects like multiverse of madness. It was done so well. Even made me glad we didn’t get other cameos sooner because this was just the perfect film for all of them.  The film itself was everything I expected it to be. Deadpool and wolverine had the perfect chemistry. Perfect cameos. Very funny. Melded into the mcu perfectly. the villain wasn’t that good and I think it could have gone a little more into why wolverine was so messed up rather than just saying the xmen died a couple times. But Tom from succession was so funny and a great villain.    The opening was perfect and very funny. The gossip girl joke I liked. I also quite liked that they were very self aware about the current state of the MCU “welcome to the mcu, your not joining at the best time”. It gives me a little hope.  Not much else to say about the film itself the story was nothing special it was a deadpool mcu film but done in the best way possible and I loved every second of it and idc what IGN says.  8.8/10

Wedding Daze 2006

½

This was so stupid. Such a dumb film, I think it was doing it on purpose but I honestly couldn’t tell. Isla Fisher is hard not to like though and towards the end I stopped taking it so seriously and began to enjoy it a little. Some of the decisions the film makes are ridiculous but kind of funny.  A pretty good cast too.  The beginning was kinda bad and I hated it when there were flashbacks but surprisingly there was things to like about the film. If you asked me the first half of the movie I would have given it one star but because of the way it all fell apart in a way that I actually found quite funny I’m gonna rate it a little higher.  Needs to stop watching films because of random clips I see on Instagram.  5.3/10

Blue Valentine 2010

½

Not usually a fan of films that are structured like this but it really worked for me in this one. The non linear narrative showing a couple falling in and out of love was really sad. A really realistic view on relationships.  The final shot was incredible, it felt a little abrupt but I really loved the ending of the film.  It felt a bit slow overall and I wasn’t too invested in the story but the ending really hit hard.  The film was decent. Before watching I thought it was a Rom com and I wanted to watch something lighthearted. It had the opposite effect.  6.7/10

Dream Scenario 2023

This was really weird and not really what I expected. It started off really fun, the concept is so unique and interesting and I was really enjoying it. I especially found the editing to be really well done. The first act of this movie was a great watch.  Then it switched up a little bit and it got a little depressing, but not in a fun way more in a way that makes you want to stop watching. The character wasn’t even likeable at all which was surprising as it was Nicholas cage. He was quite likeable at first, though maybe a little annoying, until he made the really weird decision to cheat on his wife that I didn’t really understand as it felt a little out of character based on what we knew about him so far. so yeah it’s hard to feel bad for him, it just made me feel kinda annoyed, which wasn’t really fun.  It turned into this weird cancel culture film where all the characters started acting really weird and it didn’t feel justified or understandable at all the way they all treated him. Then his life just started falling apart and the plot becomes more and more unnatural and uninteresting and felt more rushed. It just kinda made me wanna stop watching. Like all the stuff with the dream device and him in France, it just felt so forced to me. All the side characters as well just start acting so weird towards the end like they were different people. Even Michael Ceras character just felt completely useless at the end like he didn’t even really need to be there anymore. It felt so weird how quickly everyone turned on him, especially his class who all liked him at first. Just felt strange that none of the characters had any sense to not treat him like shit because of something that happened in their dreams. The way the whole class switched up on him and started acting like assholes basically forcing him out of his job felt so strange and forced.  The concept is really cool but it felt like they didn’t really know what to do with it after the first act and it really fell apart towards the ending.  The final scene was nice but I really didn’t care about his relationship with his wife towards the end as all the problems that led to that scene felt so forced.  Not a terrible film but a bit disappointing given how infesting the concept was and how cool the cast is. Maybe I just didn’t get it, just a lot of the writing decisions felt really strange to me. But people seem to like it and it’s still an interesting concept so would maybe still recommend it to people.  6.2/10 Now realising the director did “sick of myself” maybe I should have scene how the film ended up coming.

Happy Gilmore 1996

Wait that was Claire from modern family what the fuck Golf is cool. I like this film a lot, it doesn’t take itself too seriously, it does random stuff like kill off main characters in stupid ways. Funny film and kind of refreshing to watch a film that’s just a lot of fun and nothing else. His main motivation is to look after his grandma and he doesn’t have the same generic fight with the love interest that every other film like this usually has so it was kinda unexpectedly wholesome and satisfying to watch. It’s just a simple and funny golf movie and that’s all it needed to be.  Definitely up there with Adam Sandler’s best films. It’s not anything special but it’s easy to watch and enjoyable and that’s all it needed to be. Hard to hate on it.  7.7/10

Challengers 2024

Good movie, I feel like I would have liked it more if it wasn’t so fucking slow. That final scene was so infuriating, it was so good yet if I had to watch one more slow motion shot of one of those guys bouncing a tennis ball I think I would have had to leave the cinema. Yet at the same time it was so dramatic, with all the flashbacks it felt like the final match at the end of a sports anime.  The non linear narrative was good. I don’t usually like films like that, every time I’m getting into it there’s a flash back and it kinda ruins the flow for me. It was the same for this film, I let out a large sigh every time it cut to 5 years earlier. But it was all worth it when it came to the final match, with each cut back in time adding more context and making the match have higher stakes and more intensity. By the end I had no idea who would win and even who I wanted to win. Some of the shots were incredible. In the first scene the push in to zendeya during the match was one of my favourite shots of the whole film. The final scene the shot that was the tennis balls pov was really cool. Also loved the lighting in the shots in the parking lot towards the end. Really nice film to look at. All the characters were awful and it made me feel uncomfortable. But they were well written.  It’s a shame the final scene was so slow because it was amazing. The fact they conveyed so much to each other just by looking at each other. When he puts the ball in the other guys serving position that was an incredible moment. I don’t really get what Patrick did wrong to ruin his friendship with Art. Her injury was not his fault at all, she started that argument. They both kinda annoyed me, I liked their friendship. Very interesting film. My first time paying for a cinema ticket since leaving my job at cineworld. I was there 2 and a half years and saw 78 free films in total. Was nice to go back but may have to buy an unlimited card for the future.  7.9/10

Limitless 2011

½

This film was really cool stylistically. That weird endless zoom thing they kept doing, I could watch that all day it was so satisfying. They did a lot of weird and trippy things with the camera that was very cool to watch. The film itself was interesting. Him taking a pill and getting smart and seeing how he uses it was really fun to see. It made it seem like he killed someone at one point and never explained if he really did and why and how. All that stuff felt a little open ended but it was kinda boring anyway.  The ending really surprised me, the way the film was going it seemed like it was bouta have some really bad shit happen, I really didn’t expect it to have a kinda happy ending it felt really weird and undeserved. But him getting rich and shit was the whole reason I liked the film so cut to him 12 months later being rich is the most satisfying ending for me.  Bradley Cooper did well.  7.4/10

Fanboys 2009

½

“It is just a film, but not to us”  This was quite a cool film. I know the feeling of loving a film franchise so much that if I was to die tomorrow my final wish would be to see the new film. It’s a cool idea for a film about a series and how much it means to people and how it brings people together. The guys wanted to see the film so bad they became a part of their own. A lot of the jokes didn’t really land, mostly from hutch, who is played by the guy from fantastic beasts and where to find them but plays a very different character. But it was cool. I also feel the ending felt a little weird and cliche, especially the final scene it was a very quick time skip and suddenly they all got what they wanted, feel like they could have taken more time with this and made it feel more satisfying. I also feel like their friend being ill and wanting to see the film before he dies was a very strong premise, but they make like 2 references to him being ill and don’t explain at the end whether he dies or gets better and I feel like this is another thing they could have spent more time with as it would have made the film feel way more emotional and dramatic.  Still a nice film. I liked Kristen Bell and I like that it’s a film about a bunch of geeks and something they truly love, though to everyone else it’s just a movie to them it’s everything and I think that’s a very powerful statement.  6.9/10

This Is 40 2012

½

This was a nice film. The first hour or so felt kinda like a slice of life, it was really refreshing to see a couple going through a midlife marriage crisis. I watched it as Paul Rudd was my favourite character in knocked up and it was interesting to see how this expanded on their relationship given that they still delved pretty deep into it in knocked up.  I do feel though the film felt like it went on too long, as is the problem for most Judd Apatow films. The film felt like it could have ended way sooner, especially since a lot of their problems were just repeated problems that were already explored in knocked up. Having just watched that film it  began to feel a little repetitive. Though it went on too long it was still a nice film with good characters and I enjoyed it. It was Funny seeing Paul Rudd make a friends Reference. It did feel a little repetitive at times and I got a little sick of watching them fight, but I guess that’s kinda just a realistic depiction of marriage. Both very likable characters and it was nice to see Jason segel.  Knocked up had a better story I think but and a better cast but this was more wholesome and realistic which was nice.  7.4/01

Snack Shack 2024

None of the character are likeable. Except Shane but he felt really out of place in the film. I actually really didn’t like most of the characters and I was constantly cringing from how annoying they were.  Half the dialogue at the start felt like gibberish but watching them make money was cool, but then it turned into a really annoying coming of age drama.  This was a big spoiler but at the start of the film I really liked Shane and I straight away just assumed he was gonna die. Felt like the whole point of his character was to make him really likeable and then kill him off. It was coming towards the end and I saw him speeding away and was convinced it was about to happen and it did. Still got me very sad tho even though it felt very forced.  Though predictable the death felt really out of place and it was clearly just for shock value. Also the fact all his problems at the end just got solved coz his friend suddenly died and everyone felt bad for him felt really lazy. Haven’t been this harsh on a film in a while so do wanna say it’s an ok coming of age film and if u were thinking of watching it even though I just spoiled the ending don’t let me put you off. The story’s kinda nice I just didn’t like anyone in it mostly. This wasn’t what I expected but for some reason I thought this was gonna be like The Social Network but for shake shack so yeah I was way off.  3.5/10 Edit, this was actually not too boring to watch  and the final scene with his dad was really good so ima change my score  4.0/10

Robot Dreams 2023

½

This feels way to wholesome to be giving 3 and a half stars but here we go.  This was a great film. I had it highly anticipated as I love animations like these. I started watching it with my friend a while ago but realised very quickly that it was something I wanted to watch by myself in the middle of the night so we watched lemonade mouth instead. I finally got around to watching it and I was very exited as I heard it felt like bojack horseman which is one of my favourite shows and I do get the comparison.  Honestly though the lack of dialogue just made it hard for me to enjoy it too much. Nothing really happened. It was a cute story tho and I now have trust issues because why was everyone such a dick to dog and the robot and why can’t they just be together.  It was a very cute and sad film and usually a film like this without a single word would never make me as emotional as this got me. The ending was very sad.  The animation was great as well. It felt like the animation from a really good tv show but with really good quality.  I kinda feel a bit bummed that I never gotta see robot and dog see each other again but it was better this way. Just made the ending more impactful I guess. It was the right thing to do but … sad.  Anyway half way through I got a bit bored and fell asleep but I got back up and ended up finishing it at 5am. It could get a little boring. But overall it was cute and surprisingly entertaining considering very little was happening and nothing was being said. The music was nice.  I feel guilty rating it this low as it feels like a film made for me and I really did like it. Maybe it’ll change on rewatch.  7.4/10

Larry David: Curb Your Enthusiasm 1999

½

30th film of the month. I’ve seen more films this month than I had done all year. You can tell from my letterboxd diary that I moved back home lol. 16 day streak.  Anyway on to the film. Or TV movie. I’m counting it. Very funny, dry humour, very self deprecating in a very likeable way. Reminded me of a show I like called Dave. It takes a crazy amount of self awareness to be able to write a show where you play yourself being a dick where all the other characters think you're a dick even though that’s what you're like in real life.  Though Larry David is more blunt than a dick in this film. He’s likeable in relatable sense that makes you feel like all people are stupid except you and Larry David who are just realists.  Heard lots of great things about this show including the fact it inspired my favourite tv show of all time it’s always sunny in Philadelphia. Very excited to watch it.  It’s a good mockumentary with lots of funny and cringeworthy moments where Larry David argues with people who are being stupid even though he’s not being much better.  I wasn’t gonna review this but I started doing my uni work and now I’m procrastinating so I came back to write this.  7.5/10

Click 2006

½

If the remote had a reverse button and he didn’t ruin his life this could have been like a superhero film.  A lot of the jokes in this are really unfunny, sometimes just kind of weird. Also Adam Sandler’s character is just really unlikable. Especially the way he treats his wife was just really annoying. All the moments with Christopher walken were also really weird and unfunny. The concept is really cool and that’s why I watched it but it may be an idea better suited for a Smosh video rather than a long form Adam Sandler movie.  The film did have its funny moments. Usually due to other actors, such as Terry Crews, but even moments like that were ruined by Adam Sandler’s character. Although it was funny seeing him mess with his son’s bully.  It went a bit off the rails but had a heartwarming ending with a good message. Feel like his take away at the end was that he’s not gonna work anymore and focus on his family but then they would be homeless so that’s not the best takeaway. But I do like the message of not fast forwarding through life, don’t skip the small stuff as one day looking back that’ll be the stuff you miss the most.  5.5/10

Funny People 2009

½

Quite a funny film, which is good coz funny is in the title and is the whole point of the film. I feel like people never talk about this when they talk about sandlers best roles but I think this is up there.  The film is very long, felt even longer than it was. I feel like it’s mostly due to the fact the film had two protagonist that kinda had their own stuff going on separately. For such a long film I was surprised how quickly it wrapped up. They had their argument and talked like once and then it kinda ended. It didn’t really show a change in the character to make him realise he was in the wrong and I feel like that would have been really easy to do and made it a lot better. Maybe if Seth rogans final stand up was a bit more impactful. I like how it ended for his character but I feel like Adam sandlers character could have had a little more development towards the end. Maybe they realised the film was way too long already so they had to wrap it up quickly.  Lots of really cool cameos. The YO teach bit confused me as I’ve definitely seen that skit they were filming before with bo burnham so I have no idea if it’s real or not as it was part of the films story. The Legend Norm McDonald showed up, one of the funniest men ever, “I heard you recovered from aids” the perfect norm joke. Norm sadly passed away from cancer so seeing him in a film of this subject was surprising but nice.  Seth rogan, jonah hill, Jason Schwartzman and Aubrey plaza were all funny and great. Leslie Mann was also good, though everything with her character ended kinda abruptly and it kinda ruined her whole character for me.  Yeah honestly a good film. My reviews have gotten shorter recently but I actually had quite a bit to say about this one. Maybe because it’s 2 and a half hours. A bit too long but I enjoyed. For the kinda comedy it was it was surprisingly very raw and very real. It was funny because it was about funny people but the subject was serious and engaging the whole way through.  I have never been a big fan of uncut gems and punch drunk love is great but haven’t seen it in a while. This may be up there as one of my favourite sandler movies. Maybe the best. Or second best after grown ups.  7.5/10 Have no life at the moment so got a good streak going on right now. Watched a film a day for 14 days. Highest ever is 19 days. Getting closer. It might be cheating if I just keep watching Adam sandler films but this one is definitely one of the ones that counts.  He actually makes fun of his bad films in this film.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem 2023

Really cool film. The animation is incredible. It’s such a cool spiderverse style animation that really suits the film.  Really good decision to cast younger actors to voice the turtles. Wholesome ending. Can’t wait for the next one. 8.0/10

Raising Arizona 1987

2/20 into the coen films. I definitely liked this one a bit more than blood simple though they were both good, this was more comedic and had a better story.  I didn’t recognise him at all until I saw the opening credits but this film is starring Nick Cage. He was so good.  The craziest chase scene of all time,  The two guys who kept leaving the baby behind where my favourite characters that was the funniest joke of the film I think.  Came together nicely at the end too. Really great film.  8.4/10

Blood Simple 1984

½

Never watched a Coen brothers film so I’m doing it in order starting with blood simple so that’s 1/20. The instant standout in this film were the extremely dynamic shots, honestly such creative cinematography. I also liked the way all the characters were introduced and I found the film really interesting at first. It lost me around the 50 minute mark though when it turned into a thriller, films like that I don’t really find enjoyable, though the knife in the hand bit was cool, really wasn’t at all a fan of the final scene or really anything after the burial scene, which was pretty messed up by the way. Very impressed with the film though, lots of memorable shots and I was really loving the film until the main character *spoiler* died. Definitely a nice introduction to the coen brothers and I’m really excited to watch Raising Arizona next.  Recently watched a film called LaRoy Texas which I loved and I saw a lot of similarities in this film. Love the whole Texas, hit men and cheating wives' vibe both the films have.  7.1/10

Free Solo 2018

½

Been really interested watching climbing videos recently and free soloing looks crazy so needed to watch this. Alex Honnold seems kinda weird but also super cool. I definitely liked him more seeing videos of him on YouTube after this than I did during this film.  I starting this thinking I’d like to one day try doing this to very quickly developing a lifelong fear of heights.  The intensity of the actual climb was something you can’t get from any other film. You’re watching a real person doing something insane, knowing how easy it is for them to die. It feels like your up there with him and it’s a cool experience watching.  The film was a bit long, I didn’t really need to see him but a fridge, but it was interesting seeing what goes through someone’s head when they do something like this and how it affects their personal life. I think they set it up well explaining the intricacies of the mountain to make the actual climb feel more intense when he does the hard parts.  Definitely an interesting film. I’m still on YouTube watching videos of him and Magnus Mibto.  Stunning visuals.  7.0/10

LaRoy, Texas 2023

My grandad clicked on this randomly and I had no idea what it was and expected it to be really bad. It was actually one of the best films I’ve seen in a while and I really enjoyed it.  As the film went on and it began to reveal what the plot was I found myself getting excited coz of how good the idea was. There were so many interesting characters that all had their own well written development that was all interwoven in a way that was so well done.  The brother was such a dick that I was on the edge of my seat sitting wishing he would get shot.  An interesting way to do like a who done it when we already know the protagonist did it but he’s so stupid that they are on a hunt to find out why. Also the buddy cop aspect of it with the terrible detective played by the brilliant Steve Zahn (dad from diary of a wimpy kid). Each character was developed so well and I love how it all came together. This film had a lot going on but it was so well written it never felt like too much. I enjoyed it!  8.5/10

Bodies Bodies Bodies 2022

Funny idea for a horror when the killer is their own stupidity. Max not being there the whole time really added to it so him coming in at the end was the perfect ending.  I really liked how this all unfolded, a really toxic group of friends with a lot of built up resentment for each other that all comes out one by one all because Pete Davidson is an idiot. Dumbest yet smartest horror I’ve ever watched. I love how it had me genuinely really tryna figure out who the killer could be and being really interested. Just added to the ending. I think Pete Davidson is annoying but I also like him. He plays annoying characters really well.  7.7/10

Argylle 2024

½

I was really excited for this film and I let people saying it’s bad talk me out of seeing it at the cinema. I think that was a mistake coz I did like this. It was fun. Matthew Vaughn is a brilliant director his fight scenes are always so unique. I feel like he would direct a great mcu or dcu film.  This didn’t make sense tho and I have a lot of questions. A lot of stuff a lot of the characters did felt dumb and pointless. The brainwashing? According to the end they could make her do whatever they wanted anyway by playing some music. Doesn’t that make half the film pointless? That whole aspect of it was really dumb to me.  Cool cast. Extra points for John Cena.  I feel like the change in her character (twice) was too drastic and made her character feel a bit inconsistent.  What was the ending and post credits? Was it just me or did that not make sense. Had to research it after and I still don’t get it.  “Or so we think. At the end of the film, prior to the mid-credits scene, a new character played by Cavill shows up at Elly’s book launch with an even crazier wig than the flattop the actor wore as Argylle and a southern accent to boot. Dun dun dun! So there is a man out there in Elly’s real world who looks almost identical to the character she created and named Agent Argylle. Is this scene telling us that he’s the “real Agent Argylle,” then, and not Elly/Rachel — despite the fact that we’ve just watched an entire film clearly lay out all the ways that Elly used the details of her spy past as inspiration for her novels? Did she know an Argylle in her spy days, and has she repressed her memories of him? Is Partridge playing a younger version of this second Cavill character in the mid-credits scene (sans southern accent, which is presumably part of some undercover ruse)?” I’m just left with more questions.  7.1/10

Kung Fu Panda 3 2016

Can’t believe I’ve never seen this one before, it may be my favourite Kung Fu Panda film. Also quite a good place to end it I really wanna watch the next one but I’ve heard it’s not good so I’m very disappointed.  Yh wow this is a cool film. Bryan Cranston and JK Simmons are both great additions to the incredible voice acting cast. Jack Black is possibly one of the best voice actors of all time and David Cross may be one of my favourites.  Such a cool story with the pandas and the addition of chi. Good character development and a great villain. Kung Fu Panda always slaps with the villains.  Training montage was animated and edited extremely well.  The ending felt a bit too childish for me with them all dancing and I kinda don’t like how everyone suddenly got powers but po becoming a teacher was good character development so it’s not too bad.  Seeing master oogway again was a gift that I never thought I’d get and in a way I’m glad I waited so long to see it it just made his return that much more satisfying.  7.8/10

She's All That 1999

½

Worst scooby doo movie ever scooby doo wasn’t even in it  This had such a cool cast. Fred’s dooshy best friend played by Paul walker and his other friend played by Dule hill from psych. The lead actress was great and her best friend was played by foggy Nelson. Not one, but two but apparently 3 scooby doo cast members. Kieran culklin as the younger brother. Honestly could go on but I don’t remember the rest of their names.  As for the film it’s self it was pretty simple, there’s a lot of rom coms pretty similar but I get the impression this film inspired a lot of the films it reminds me of. Kinda reminded me a bit of the Disney Chanel film Geek charming but more similar to 10 things I hate about you.  Really simple Rom com but it worked well for what it was and clearly I loved the cast.  7.0/10

But I'm a Cheerleader 1999

½

Was a nice film, set design was amazing. I think it could have come together a little better at the end, the final scene felt a bit rushed and it would have been nice to see a lot of the horrible characters like any of the parents, get bad endings or a little character development, felt like there was so much more they could have done with the final scene tying it all together nicely. It was a cute film nonetheless with some funny moments and good romantic plot.  The two main characters had a good ending but I would have liked to see where everyone else ended up. The way they don’t even show the graduation after she runs away just made everything feel a little too open ended to me which is my only real issue with the film.  Natasha Lyonne is very cool.  7.0/10

Looks That Kill 2020

½

I’ve known about this film for a while and I always assumed it was a cheesy film about the 13 reasons why guy and how good looking he is.  The film was much more than that, it was actually quite a deep, emotional love story that tackled some themes that I didn’t expect it to. I actually found it to be quite enjoyable. One of the 13 Reasons Why guys was really good and there was some nice cinematography and some funny jokes. Also I liked the guy from maze runner.  Not sure about the ending I felt it was kinda a weird message it left you with but it was still quite nice character development and there was a lot I liked about it.  The film didn’t make sense and I kinda liked that about it, it didn’t care and ran with the absurdity of the whole thing. It also isn’t really about a popular attractive guy like you would expect. It’s more a film about health, death, mental health and self confidence.  Surprisingly I would actually recommend. It’s not amazing but it definitely exceeded my expectations. It was good.  7.0/10

Saltburn 2023

Cinematography honestly beautiful. Barry Keoghan is amazing as always and incredibly uncomfortable to watch.  Definitely too uncomfortable for me it wasn’t fun to watch. Reminded me of a more fucked up version of The Talented Mr Ripley.  Wasn’t really a fan of how it ended either. The twist wasn’t a twist as it’d have been hard for anyone to not have already guessed it.  I’ve heard a lot about this film, people usually seem pretty split with either loving it or hating it. I definitely didn’t love it.  5.9/10

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things 2021

½

Love all the doctor who references.  Palm Springs but teen rom com  I really liked the editing of this film, it wasn’t too special as far as time loop films go but it was a cute romance. Maybe the 7th time loop film I’ve seen and I never get sick of it it’s such a cool concept. Palm Springs was amazing as it was a funny film and a good romance that was set in a time loop, I think it was a lot better than this as a film but this was a cuter story and I didn’t hate it.  Really liked the lead actress.  Films like these always make me think a lot about the meaning of life n shit.  6.8/10

Our Friend 2019

½

“The truth was that, after two years of suffering, Nicole finally felt no more pain. After two years of horror, the girls and I felt like we had escaped something. Molly told me that, for the first time in as long as she could remember, she didn't dread hearing me call from the foot of the stairs, because she knew I had no more bad news to deliver.”  Really emotional film based on a true story. The quote above is taken from the real article that this is based on. It’s beautifully written if anyone else liked this film a lot and wanted to check it out.  <a href="https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a34905/matthew-teague-wife-cancer-essay/" rel="nofollow">The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word - Matthew Teague </a> I wasn’t a big fan of the fractured narrative the film used in order to tell the story, I personally found it made it more messy and would have preferred if it was told a little more linear, watching the relationships grow over time and not jumping back and forth. The only instance of this I found really effective was the scene where they told the kids the mum was gonna die, this scene is played twice, the first time we stay outside with Dane and the second time we hear the conversation and I cried a lot.  Casey Affleck, Jason Siegel and Dakota Johnson, all great in this. Best performance I’ve seen from Casey other than Manchester by the sea and it reminded me of his performance in that which may be my favourite of all time. Jason Segel I am a big fan of because of how I met your mother so it’s always nice seeing his dramatic roles and seeing how good of an actor he really is. Love that guy. Dakota Johnson I wasn’t the biggest fan of but she really gave a great performance in this, the three of them really made the perfect acting trio.  The non linear narrative definitely made me enjoy the film a little less. But it was still an emotional story that had me in the feels. Pretty nice ending, I like the emphasis on the friend in the story, he did so much and the focus on him instead of just the main two characters who were already driving the emotional side of the story forward pretty well. He stuck with it the whole time and put up with so much and the appreciation of that when it was all over was quite nice.  Yeah good film, felt very long, could have been better, but a sad true story that was told well.  7.4/10 Interestingly just read the director of this film is named Gabriela Cowperthwaite. She directed Blackfish, one of my favourite documentaries. Cowperthwaite *

Next Goal Wins 2023

So after the obvious L that Taika took after Thor: Love and Thunder, he really needed a win from this film. But the reviews came out and were quite bad, everyone I talked to about it said it was bad or said they didn’t wanna see it as they heard how bad it was. This is was quite disappointing as I love Taika Waititi and I put watching this film off for a while, but after seeing it pop up on my Disney plus I thought, fuck it and decided to give it a go. It wasn’t great, I can kinda see what people were talking about, it had some funny moments and I really liked the colour and set design, but the main character was a little annoying and his character development felt kinda forced. Couldn’t care less about his wife it didn’t do enough there to make you care enough about his life before the film. Just was something off about it where it just wasn’t grabbing me.  And yet the ending and me in tears. I don’t know why but the whole final act of the film I couldn’t stop crying I loved it. I do think the character development felt forced and it was kinda dumb for him to say your already perfect play how you did before when before they literally lost 31-0. Yet somehow seeing the final game and seeing them score a goal was the most satisfying thing I’ve maybe ever seen in a film it had me so emotional and I’m so happy for them. Everything that felt forced before came together in a way that really worked for me and I honestly went from thinking the film was a bit meh to loving it. Even the credits seeing the real life people and where they are today had be crying, really just a lovely story.  Weird film to have to rate, I think it’s hard as at first I agreed with everyone that said the film was bad and now I take personal offence to it. I don’t regret watching and I would recommend, even if you don’t like it at least so I can argue about it with you.  7.9/10

There's Something About Mary 1998

½

This was really funny I can’t believe I hadn’t seen it before. It got a bit too ridiculous towards the end and I didn’t care much about the characters during the ending, but I did earlier on and for me personally it went a bit too far with the crazy towards the end and I would have found the story to be way more impactful if it didn’t do this. Either way though it was really funny and I enjoyed it a lot. Lots of laughs out loud.  Some of the characters were super annoying but still funny. The story wasn't anything special but yeah it had a lot of charm, I liked what they did with the people playing the music and again it was super funny. 7.0/10

The Iron Claw 2023

This films so depressing that by the end you don’t even have any motivation left to continue watching. If trauma dumping was a film. Shit just kept happening and it was so depressing and it wasn’t even fun to watch it just made me depressed. The wrestling was the best part but by the end of it I lost all interest in watching it coz what’s the point of anything when your whole life is fucked.  Zac Efron did a good job you could feel the pain in his eyes. This film isn’t even sad it’s just straight depression.  I thought this would be a cool film about a bunch of brothers wrestling I didn’t expect to get traumatised.  Didn’t cry until the very final scene. 6.0/10 It’s pretty insane this is a true story

Ricky Stanicky 2024

½

John Cena may be one of the most likeable guys in the world and it definitely shows in the characters he plays.  Everyone in this film was really weird. They lie a lot and are definitely in the wrong, but the end of the film kinda justifies it in a way I don’t really think is justifiable. Made it look like they are all good people and they kinda just go with it even though they aren’t. There’s a lot of stuff that it would have been nice to get at the end too, then really becoming friends with Ricky after treating him kinda badly the whole film would have been really nice. Zac Efron having a bit more character development would have been good, it seemed like they were setting it up with his dad and him not wanting kids but that was never really resolved. Also weyndal something, one of the best characters and it felt like they kinda forgot about him half way through the film, could have definitely utilised him more being one of the main characters. Still a good film tho, watched it for the cast but it was an interesting concept for a comedy. I was really stressed out watching it the whole time as they kept getting deeper in the lie, they are just bad people and it never really redeems them properly but I still didn’t hate them.  Was a fun film. Been a while since I watched a brand new comedy like this. Andrew Santino is a very funny man. Almost as funny as John Cena.  6.8/10

Lemonade Mouth 2011

½

One of the classic Disney channel movies up there with high school musical and camp rock. Some bangers, some less bangers.  Determinate is a banger. Turn up the music. Watching this in primary school I feel like I’d a big reason I started doing music. Most influential film of my life.  But yeah it’s pretty shit. But only in a Disney Channel original movie kinda way. I still love it.  All of the take down the school stuff was pretty cringe. The be loud he proud stuff was annoying. Basically just Stella was annoying. I really liked the keyboard player who did the armed robbery. And good luck Charlie. All came together nicely at the end.  Them playing together for the first time is pure cinema.  6.7/10

Flora and Son 2023

I thought this was gonna be really good, then after watching the first 10 minutes I thought it wasn’t gonna be as good as I thought, then it ended up being better.  I think at first I didn’t really like her character but she definitely grew on me.  There was a lot going on, a lot of different complex relationships, it made it a little difficult to for it to all come together at the end. I loved Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s character and I liked her decision not to go and see him, but feel like his character was left a little open ended. It was bitter sweet as I’m glad she focused on her son instead, it actually had me quite emotional.  Not every song was great but there were some great ones in there, my favourite was meet in the middle, that performance made me tear up and I even had to go back and listen to it again.  The mother son relationship was great, my favourite aspect of the film. The father was a bit of a dick but he did something nice at the end begrudgingly, I don’t think it made up for what he did especially when they never explained why he did it.  as a songwriter and guitarist myself certain aspects of this were very relatable, especially the scene of her searching through tutorials on YouTube.  It was a very cute film about a mother and son and a cool music film. Also Joseph Gordon-Levitt is always great.  7.7/10

Whole film is boring apart from the ending that leaves you with hope the next one will be good. First hour was interesting and I enjoy the world building. Second hour was very boring. Most interesting parts were the flash forwards to the next one. I hope the next one is good after I made myself sit through this again.  6.9/10

Dune: Part Two 2024

½

I had a ticket to the midnight screening last night but I fell asleep attempting to rewatch dune part 1. Ended up waking up at 5 am and going to see this before my shift at work. I fell asleep.  I saw enough of the film to still write a review. It’s still quite long but at least shit happens in this one meaning it’s much better than the first one. I was actually enjoying it so I fought for my life to stay awake but it wasn’t happening.  The world building is really good. It’s a cool sci fi movie. I will watch it again properly. Paul was way more interesting in this film.  Zendaya was good as well, gotta really see her in this one she was barely in the last.  I really don’t have much to say, it’s exactly what you’d expect I guess, it’s dune part one except stuff actually happens in it.  7.5/10

The Sidemen Story 2024

This was a surprisingly emotional watch. I already knew most of this stuff about them, but it was interesting to see all of it formatted in this way, was edited together quite nicely.  The most interesting parts to me where when they were arguing, I find it most interesting to see a group of 7 people inevitably clash. The part when Ethan and Josh were arguing and where KSI got mad about getting the yellow card, both quite entertaining to watch. Was also quite nice to see it go a little deeper into some of their personal lives and it was also quite funny to see that Harry just clearly didn’t wanna be doing it but got outvoted.  Again it’s just the sidemen, nothing special, seen half of this shit before, but it was a decent watch and it had me emotional for Toby and Ethan’s sections. Watched this with my roommate Marcus, we love all the sidemen shit, went to the charity match together and we have a collection of prime bottles in our living room. Watching it together and getting nostalgic for the old sidemen videos was probably the most entertaining thing about watching it. They have made up a big part of my life and as much as I hate them sometimes I do like them a lot and have wasted countless hours watching their videos. Was cool to see them on Netflix. Ethan’s story will always be emotional and they handled it well.  At the end of the day it was just another money grab but I’m here for it.  One thing that annoyed me as most of the interviews were with completely irrelevant people like the editor of variety. Needed more interviews from YouTubers. Wanted to see more of Callux and Calfreezy and the rest of the troops. Also the best thing any of them have ever done, Laid in America wasn’t mentioned at all.  6.0/10

Thunderstruck 2012

My favourite part was when Kevin Durant's manager turned out to be half goat and took Kevin to a camp where he found out he is part basketball god.  This was terrible, but sometimes it’s nice to just watch a shitty movie. Lots of cool basketball moments. It’s hard to make a story like this too deep, but it’s still a fun idea and entertaining to watch. Satisfying ending that actually did have me invested.  Acting was bad. Whole thing was a little cheesy. Main character not that likeable. They also completely forgot about the side character played by the guy from pair of kings. Felt like they were tryna do something with him but they just gave up. Felt like 100s of other cheesy movies but didn’t do the cheesy stuff as well, but the basketball stuff made it a fun watch at least. Still not a good film tho.  4.5/10

The Holdovers 2023

½

This is definitely the recency bias but that was the best film ever.  Emotional rollercoaster. I was smiling and crying the whole film. I knew nothing about this film but I just had a feeling I would love it and I loved it more than I could have imagined. What an incredible film. The writing was soooo good, it felt a little long but it had some of the most well written characters I’ve seen in a long time so I didn’t really care. Definitely up there with my favourite films of all time.  Why are American bowling balls so small? Is that an America thing? That confused me.  The performances were wow. Paul Giamatti. Wow.  The cinematography was very very cool. I loved the crash zooms were very cool. Stylistically just very nice and wonderful soundtrack.  Overall the characters were incredibly interesting and the film had me on edge the whole time. When something bad or surprising happened I felt it in my chest. This is the kind of film I want to write and I’m gonna use it as a reference for every film I write for the rest of my life. That’s how you write good characters.  9.2/10

All of Us Strangers 2023

This was good. I feel like I need to watch it again either with glasses, or a seat somewhere other than the back row of the biggest cinema ever. The whole film was very blurry, there was one scene where he is in bed with his parents and turns to his dad but it’s his boyfriend and they kiss. With my vision this looked like something very different was happening and I was very confused.  The film was really good though, from what I could see, it looked amazing. But the story was really interesting. It got quite trippy at times which I didn’t like as much, but the overall concept of him getting a chance to speak to people he never got a chance to talk to because they had passed away was so interesting. That and the fact that he is gay and his parent didn’t know, giving him a chance for his parents to accept him for who he really was, led to some really beautiful and emotional scenes. The ending I liked quite a lot too, the reveal at the end gave me flashbacks to little details throughout the film and I thought it was done perfectly, it was so subtle and it tied everything together really nicely.  Just an interesting film to watch, I definitely would watch again with the full use of my vision. Also the cast was great, they had me at Pedro pascal and Moriarty. Pedro Pascal has a British accent.  8.4/10 Ok I looked at the cast and it was Paul mascal not Pedro pascal I definitely need glasses no wonder his voice seemed so different.

Ted 2012

I may be crazy but I think this a very deep and meaningful film about friendships and relationships and one of the best comedies ever.  I just finished watching the Tv show, which was really good actually, some aspects of it where actually better than this, I think it made me laugh more. I didn’t really laugh out loud from this film so maybe it’s not the best comedy ever, but the idea of a teddy bear smoking weed and swearing is just hilarious and will never get old.  But for real I think this is quite a deep story and quite well written. I don’t like Mark Wahlberg at all but this film makes that hard as I love him in this. Also the opposite with Laurie I don’t really like Laurie much, but I love Mila Kunis so it’s ok.  Joel McHale is in this. This is my first time watching this since watching community so that was actually very cool, he definitely gave me Jeff Winger energy. Also Ryan Reynolds… I can’t believe I’ve never noticed that before.  The shot at Brandon Routh at the end was unnecessary.  The TV show is recommended.  8.0/10

Mean Girls 2024

I actually enjoyed this. Maybe mostly as I haven’t seen Mean Girls in a while and mean girls is iconic so even watching what is realistically just a worse version with singing was quite fun.  Funny though there were lots of good scenes and it made me laugh a couple of times. I think my favourite song was either “world burn” or whatever the one is where she’s confronted after her party and there’s a kind of rap. I liked Janis a lot she was by far my favourite character along with Damian, she was so cool and likeable and the best singer out of all of them. I think I always find mean girls hard to watch and Cady becomes quite unlikable at a point but she redeems herself well at the end. The switch to being evil felt a bit too quick though. Honestly I didn’t hate it. The party song was quite good with the “sex cancer” scene. I also laughed a lot at the end when Regina was on meds and the perfect timing where she gets hit by the bus that was funny. A lot of moments made me laugh it was a fun film. my friends afterwords gave reasons for it being bad, like how weird some of the dancing was, but I kinda loved it. I used to hate musicals but I may love them now.  I just think it’s so cool that a film like mean girls gets a musical. People may say it’s uncreative and unoriginal but I think it’s quite impressive and fun to see a remake of a good film with some of the best moments turned into songs. I like that a film like mean girls has gotten this treatment. If u don’t like musicals you don’t gotta watch it, but I think it’s super cool to watch a film I like’s characters break into song and I don’t see why other people don’t think that’s cool. Some of its a bit cringe I get but imagine films like Jurassic park getting musicals, you can always watch the original if u don’t like the music but I think it’d be so funny to see them start dancing away from the dinosaurs. I think mean girls is such a cool film to get made into a musical, I would never have guessed that’d be the film that gets a musical but I’m kinda glad it did.  Seeing the live version next in June. Can’t wait now.  6.3/10 Also how cool is the casting. Jon Hamm. The guy from SNL and Brooklyn nine nine. The mum from himym was funny. Girl from Spider-Man. Wait Lindsey Lohan was the quiz master I didn’t notice. PAM! When tf was Megan Thee Stallion in this I don’t remember her.

Self Reliance 2023

½

Interesting. Jake Johnson very likeable as always, he’s gotta be one of the most likeable actors out there, he does wholesome friendships with homeless people really well. The film was interesting, I was kinda convinced he was crazy at one point. Some of the writing was a bit bad and the acting, particularly from his family who were annoying characters anyway.  Gata was in this for a bit, nice to see him in more stuff, he was in anyone but you too, slightly better in that film but good to see him nonetheless. The characters relationship with Anna Kendrick was very cute, but at one point in the film they very suddenly just gave up on that aspect after a quite poorly done montage. I liked how the ending mirrored the start where he knocks on her door but it was still quite unsatisfying to not see her again at all. It was a good way to end it but would have been nice if she had at least opened the door, felt that it left me wanting to see more, quite disappointed they didn’t resolve their issues. I guess a mixture of that and the fact he didn’t actually get the money he was promised and his family were still being dicks to him at the end, but I guess we got to see Wally again and that’s all that mattered really.  I’m torn on him seeing his dad again it was a bit too casual considering the circumstances, I feel like I would have more questions and wouldn’t end it with saying I love you, more like fuck you for leaving. Although the simpleness did have a certain charm to it and is part of the reason why the character is so likeable. Jake Johnson is the best. One of the best sitcom characters ever, he’s my favourite Spider-Man and now he is a director and I think he did a good job, I will definitely watch his next film.  7.4/10 This is my 400th review

The Kissing Booth 2018

½

It feels like I’ve seen this film many times but I’m not sure if I ever have. My mum used to watch it on repeat when it came out and I saw a lot of it and I’ve seen YouTube videos breaking down the film and how terrible it is so I basically know the whole film pretty well. It’s bad. But not unwatchable bad. A lot of the characters got on my nerves as they kept doing dumb stuff and the two main friends were really weird. But it made me laugh, not always on purpose, in fact almost always not on purpose, but it was still fun.  Still not good, so many things about this annoyed me and didn’t make sense. But the romance was ok ish I guess.  There’s so much I could point out that is wrong about this film but I can’t be bothered, Elvis the alien has a good video on it though. Bad film. Weird characters. Some reason didn’t hate it. Maybe my mum has brainwashed me into liking it from a young age.  They are both bad friends and weird.  2.6/10

Anyone But You 2023

½

This was kinda nice, the writing was a bit terrible but it was nice to see a rom com at the cinema.  It started off nice, a bit cheesy but fun, then they started to hate each other and the conflict just felt really forced, maybe coz it was all based on some dumb misunderstanding and was just kind of annoying. Also the way they both reacted when they saw each other again felt way over the top and made them both kind of unlikable from the very beginning. As the film went on it got a little better, their relationship was quite nice, I liked the scene where they fall off the boat and sing together.  The saving grace for this film for me though was Gata. He’s one of my favourite characters from one of my favourite TV shows called Dave where he plays himself. He is extremely likeable in the show and gives a very honest and emotional performance show casing his own mental health issues. So nice to see him in more stuff, found him to be the funniest character in this, his chemistry with his step dad was great. Super happy to see him in this.   The dads were both very funny, made me laugh a couple of times. The girls getting married were very likeable aswell, honestly some of the side characters were way stronger than the protagonists, I liked them all quite a lot they were all funny and cool.  The ending was a bit cliche but nice, I definitely would have enjoyed watching this at 4am in the dark, seeing it at the cinema was a bit different of an experience and made me analyse it more but it was still fun and I would maybe even see it again for Gata.  The fact she went people watching and was just staring at people was really odd to me. People who do this are weird.  The credits were really cool, everyone singing over scenes from the film. Nice way to end it.  6.8/10

The Iron Giant 1999

Can we get an iron giant 2? I wanna see them reunite, was a nice ending but I wish they got to see each other again at the end.  Such a nice film, some good voice acting, really cool style of animation and a really heartwarming story. I love friendship films like this, reminds me of how to train your dragon or Free Willy.  Short and sweet. A really simple story that feels super familiar, but it’s super wholesome and I’d watch it again just too see more if the iron giant, super loveable character, so weird how Vin Diesel of all people has such a wholesome voice, with groot as well. He should do more voice acting.  Weird that this made me cry more than maybe one of the saddest films ever, Grave of the Fireflies.  8.5/10

Godzilla Minus One 2023

Was really exited for this film and it was pretty good. Ever since Godzilla Vs kong became one of my least favourite films ever I haven’t been the biggest Godzilla fan but now I love it again this film was so cool.  Really liked that it was set right after the war in Japan, the main guy being a kamikaze pilot was really interesting, I loved his character. All the characters were quite good, it really made the film.  the fact you usually see Godzilla getting attacked by armies made this feel way more scary and it was super effective, seeing them in a little boat fighting this giant monster that breaks massive ships in two. When it finally reaches land, that scene was so cool. I loved that it wasn’t about like the military or government Vs Godzilla it was about real people and ex military after the war fighting to save their country, just felt way more grounded which made it feel more scary.  The soundtrack was awesome too.  As long as I never watch Godzilla Vs kong 2 I think I’ll remain a Godzilla fan from now on.  8.5/10 Also the guy who played Koichi, Ryunosuke Kamiki, voices Taki in your name. Also the director has done some anime stuff and he did the live action parasyte. Pretty cool.

The Marvels 2023

I had to force myself to watch this a little but my streak continues, I’ve seen every mcu film at the cinema since avengers came out in 2012. I think that used to feel like a flex but now given the current state of the mcu it feels kinda sad, but I see films for free and I may as well keep the streak going. I think maybe coz I literally just finished watching ms marvel but I didn’t hate this, she was the best part, weirdly captain marvel wasn’t as bad as expected either, she was actually quite likeable for once, I think thanks to Kamala. Ms marvels family are very funny too so glad they were in this, would have been nice to see Bruno tho. I think the mcu has been quite bad with women characters so far, but this was fine, it wasn’t annoying or extra it was just normal which is exactly how it should be. It was done perfectly.  The film itself wasn’t perfect for many other reasons though.  It wasn’t the best but it was good enough and I loved seeing Kamala get to meet captain marvel. Their friendship was kinda wholesome. Monica could have been a little better but she was still likeable. I don’t know what happened to nick fury though he used to be so cool now he’s less important than a cat.  Ending was really funny, made me excited for young avengers. was so happy to see Kate bishop on the big screen too, this is why I actually like the shows. The singing bit felt a little cringe.  Kamala and her family carried the film.  Overall this film had the potential to be the worst marvel film and it wasn’t amazing but it wasn’t even close to the worst. 6.8/10 After credits (no spoilers)  I gasped  8.5/10 The villain was so forgettable I forgot to mention how shit she was

The Maze Runner 2014

The maze runner I’m probably over rating but it’s just coz it’s been one of my favourite films ever since I read the book and saw it at the cinema in the same week.  Just so cool, I love all the characters, seen it so many times and can quote so much if it. When Thomas becomes a runner it’s all really cool.  The second 2 are still interesting stories with the same great characters but they just don’t have the same effect as the original with how cool the whole maze concept was.  Watching it gives me a really warm nostalgic feeling that I can’t get enough of, love this movie and refuse to see any faults in it even though I’m sure there are quite a few.  Maze runner > the hunger games  7.9/10

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 2015

½

Out of all the hunger games films this is the only one I remembered absolutely nothing from. Turns out it’s for good reason, this film was boring, dull and forgettable.  Definitely has the least enjoyable moments, after seeing the snow origin film, I was excited to see his ending, but even that couldn’t save this overly long, mess of a film.  I liked seeing *spoiler* coin die. That was pretty satisfying. I saw the shot coming a mile away but I was still glad it happened she was awful. Then deciding to do another hunger games at the end was so stupid.  Genuinely so drawn out and boring, felt like I watched them walk around in tunnels Doing nothing for at least an hour. Between the two parts there’s probably like 1 film worth of good content and 2 hours worth just of Katniss looking sad.  3.0/10

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023

½

It’s a good film, I don’t think the problem with it is just that it’s too long, it’s just structured kinda weird with the 3 parts, after the third one started I was just waiting for it to end and it didn’t for ages. Snow is interesting, his character development was good, he’s a well written character. Lucy gray was also very likeable, I was loving it up until the third part were it felt like it should have ended. Its not too say the final part was bad, that’s were most of snows character development took place, it just felt like the climax of the film came too early, the final part just felt like a really long epilogue.  Some people apparently have been saying the final part could have been a separate film which I can kinda see. I’m not sure how well that would have worked, but overall the structure of the film let it down a lot, parts of it I liked even more than the actual hunger games, could have been much better if it wasn’t so long.  Made me cry a little when she started singing the hanging tree. Loved the references to katnis. Motivated to finish the hunger games now.  Was hard to watch at times, really enjoyed a lot of it, not a bad film. Does really well to make you hate yet like snow at the same time. Makes you care about the characters a lot which is why some of it was hard to watch. 6.9/10

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 2013

½

Elements of this were better than the first one. Some really good new characters and some really impactful moments.  The stylist guy feels really underused, one of the nicest guys and so cool but gives me better in the book kind of vibes. Not read it so I don’t know.  I like Hunger games, first one sets up the world really well and stands well on its own. This one expands on the world in a really interesting way. The game themselves aren’t that interesting though, there are better characters but it’s a little boring for the actual game even, was way more interesting the first one. This one they just thought monkeys and mist.  What makes this one good though is the world building. Snow vs Katniss. The symbol for the rebellion. Peeta having to fake marry a girl he’s actually in love with. All that stuff was freaky good. I loved the scene when she goes and talks to rues district that was really impactful.  My friend Caitlin made a really good point while watching it that the whole victor tour thing is really messed up. You just watched your family get killed on live tv and the people who killed them going on a tour coming to your home to give a speech. A bit weird. Anyway I think catching fire is better than the first one as a whole but the first one is just more iconic I may like it just as much if not more.  Maze runner is better anyway.  7.4/10  Seeing the end where peeta is gone made me remember what happened to him which gave me flashbacks of skinny peeta which is traumatising to even have pop into my memory that shit was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen at the cinema my whole life. Also omg I just realised Effie is Elizabeth banks and now I can’t I unsee it, that’s so weird

This film is kinda hard to review as it’s not really a real film, and I wanna give it 5 stars because of how amazing it looked, but those 5 stars would only be for the sphere.  In vegas at the moment, this is one of the things I wanted to do the most, the Las Vegas sphere. Can see it from my hotel room, looks so good from the outside, usually either an Xbox or Spider-Man advertisement or a big yellow emoji.  If you don’t know what it is it’s basically a giant dome, with a screen on the outside that is constantly playing something, and on the inside is one of the greatest cinema screens in the entire world.  “Sphere houses a record 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED display on the interior, while the exterior is coated with a record 580,000-square-foot LED display. Both are fully programmable and accommodate 16K-by-16K picture resolution.” Basically it looks so good everything in front of you looks like it’s actually there. I just saw the Grand Canyon for real and I swear down the one in this film looked better.  The film itself I was super exited for, it’s directed by Darren Aronofsky. It was kinda what I expected, kinda a nothing story, only created to show off how amazing the dome is. Is about humans in space learning about what the world was and how beautiful it was and then why we all destroyed it. Basically a very simple, stop fucking up our planet film, with beautiful shots of nature, wildlife and people from all over the world. It was cool, story was pretty boring and I didn’t listen to any of the voice over but the shots were breathtaking. Was just sitting there for 50 minutes going “woahhh”.  Jawdropping. Feel very lucky I got to experience it. The u2 concert looks like it might be a bit better to go see but it also costs like $350 more and it’s an Aronofsky film so I’m happy.  I don’t know if this counts as a film but it’s on Letterboxd and I wanted to talk about it so fuck it. What an experience tho. Would love to see a real film on there one day. One of the best cinematic experiences of my life.  Film 2/10 Sphere 11/10

Absentia 2011

Pleasantly surprised. Recently I’ve been watching The Haunting of Hill House and it’s been incredible. Very much recommend it. Got 2 episodes left and waiting for my friends so I can finish it, decided for the meantime to make my horror film of the day one of Mike Flanagans films and decided to start with an earlier one called Absentia. It was made I think in a house owned by one of Mike’s friends on a very tight budget and you can tell, the acting was kinda bad and it had a very indie feel to it. But surprisingly, I loved the writing so much that I kinda liked the film, the story was interesting and creepy, with well written (yet poorly acted) characters. The editing (also done by Mike Flanagan) was also very good, I loved how the film was about this crazy concept that no one would believe was real, when characters try and imagine what really happened it would cut to a more realistic scenario.  The film just got better and better as it went on right up until the ending that I really liked. Very interesting concept, I like.  The main detective was a little annoying/ weird. Also didn’t like the main character much. But think it’s due to the acting mostly as she was written well and I weirdly cared about her character.  Not an incredibly well made film but I’d definitely recommend it, maybe one of my favourites out of the 12 horror films I’ve watched so far this month.  7.8/10

A Quiet Place 2018

Enjoyed this film a lot, maybe my favourite horror film I’ve seen this month. Still managed to keep up my streak of watching one horror film a day this month, though this kinda got me with a couple jump scares, it was more thrilling and had me on the edge of my seat. No film I’ve watched this month has made me that emotional, it was very sad, kind of added the the scariness, it wasn’t just pure horror, it was freaky as you liked the characters and you were scared for them, rather than just watching some unlikable protagonist get chased for 2 hours by someone in a mask.  I didn’t like the ending much, but I loved the ending for the Dad, I really liked all the characters and the concept was great, the silence made the film scary and made the jump scares really effective, it wasn’t too freaky but the fact she was pregnant and had to give birth without making any noise was kinda terrifying.  Really enjoyable film, can’t wait to watch the second one as I’ve heard it’s even better.

Us 2019

Us was freaky. I love Jordan Peele and now I can say I’ve watched and loved all 3 of his films. I really enjoyed this, favourite horror film I’ve seen this month so far, which is unsurprising for a Jordan Peele film.  The ending was so creepy, I kinda loved it, though I thought it kinda didn’t make sense, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense and the more it freaks me out. Such a good twist. Jordan Peele's films are so deep and they always leave you with so much to think about while also giving you a really fun and a little bit of a scary experience. And on top of that he’s a comedic genius with Key and Peele, honestly what a creative mind he has.  The film looked amazing, I don’t usually focus too much on cinematography in films, but this just had me in awe of so many shots, they all looked so good and some of them were really smart. Also was so nice to look at with its tone and colours, just like get out and nope.  Main thing to take away from this film though. Oh my god Lupita Nyong’o, what an incredible performance. Winston Duke was also good, but oh my god she was so creepy I loved her in this. She played 2 characters, who were both so different but also so amazing for different reasons. Just wow. Elevated this film so much for me.  Yeah us was a good film, I would even watch it again.  8.5/10

Creep 2014

½

He really is a creep. Fun film, kinda freaky which was cool, found footage felt a bit cheesy the way it was filmed sometimes, but it was weird in a way that worked for it. Some of the jumps scares felt a bit forced, but I liked the antagonist he was really weird.  Think it kinda fell off a little after they left the cabin but the ending tied it all together so well that it made it all worth it.  Wasn’t the most well made film but it was a good horror film I think, pretty good idea.  My second horror film of the month, it wasn’t too bad but hasn’t made me like horror films just yet.  6.7/10

[REC] 2007

I have never liked horror films. They are probably my least favourite film. I like to think I know quite a bit about films, more than an average person at least, but when it comes to horror films even the average, casual movie enjoyer has probably seen 5x as many horror films as I have. It’s not that I find them too scary, I’ve seen so little horror films I would even know if I did find them too scary, I’ve always just found them boring, with crappy characters and lazy writing. Because of that I’ve missed out on what I’m sure are some incredible films that I am being extremely unfair towards, so I decided to take this month to educate myself, attempting to watch one horror film every day the whole month, attempting to beat my current streak of 19 days in a row watching a film.   Rec was what I decided to start with, as it has been a film I’ve wanted to watch for a long time, it being one of my friends favourite films, who calls it the best found footage movie ever, and I sometimes find found footage quite enjoyable, even though the Blair Witch Project was one of those films I’ve found so boring it put me off the genre.  This was definitely a good found footage film, it wasn’t too scary, but it was realistically filmed, which I quite liked, I appreciate it as a found footage film, but found it a bit boring overall, with no characters I really liked too much and not a very interesting story. Zombies overall I don’t think are that scary or interesting in my opinion, but I can appreciate a film like this that managed to make them slightly interesting again, that’s why Shaun of the Dead is one of my favourites.  Didn’t like too much overall, but it was ok, I can see what people like so much about it. I’m sure I’ll like horror films more after this month, but right now it’s not really for me.  6.5/10

Love, Rosie 2014

This felt kinda over acted and the dialogue was quite cringey. I also don’t like how forced the start was, the starting the story at the wedding thing felt quite unnecessary.  Lots of moments in this that cringed me out too much and made it hard to watch. When the teacher puts his private messages on the screen in class I had to pause it and take a minute. Was a cute story tho, the mum stuff and their relationship was really nice, just felt kinda forced in every other aspect of the story such as the many marriages.  Lot of stuff I liked about it but it was also very cheesy and predictable. Just watched a show called normal people that this film felt kinda similar to, I love the When Harry Met Sally structure of telling a romance story.  7.6/10

Ali G Indahouse 2002

This man is a genius. Genuinely probably the funniest person alive.  The film was good, I didn’t expect it to go the whole political route, it felt very British, I liked it.  I don’t have anything bad to say about this film really, the main thing was it was just hilarious. Very good comedy and I would watch it again.  Ali g may be my second favourite character from him. After Borat.  I really respect this film.  “ And I put it to YOU... that you sucked off a 'orse.”  Also seeing Martin Freeman in that role was hilarious. I didn’t even recognise him at first. The fact he sometimes wears a suit and acts like himself then switches up to the character is really funny and just makes the character more ridiculous. Great way of showing someone trying to be something their not. Loved it.  7.9/10

Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1988

Such a cool looking film, the animation was so good, I was just in awe the whole time of how cool the live action looked with the animation. Seeing the animated characters hold real life objects was so satisfying, seeing the live action in animation didn’t look as good but was still really cool. Lots of funny gags, my favourite were when the real people acted like cartoons, quite a few moments that made me laugh.  Also the lighting was crazy, the way the animations were lit the same as the actors when they were in a scene together looked great, made them actually look like they were in the scene. I do love the first space jam film as it’s very fun but visually this looked quite a bit better. Really cool seeing the Warner bros characters and the Disney characters together too. Roger was funny too.  7.9/10

The Kings of Summer 2013

Not sure about this one, it was alright, kinda funny but a bit dumb, then the main character just decided to be a dick. If this film didn’t have such forced character development and such a terrible romantic plot/ love triangle I might have liked it a bit more, it did make me laugh and the acting was good, some how they managed to get (every sitcom actor ever) to be in it who I quite like so that was cool. Just made me cringe after he started treating his friend and the girl like shit. He’s a bad person and not likeable at all. Also they didn’t treat their parents too nice either, feel like they should have spent more time focusing on the father son relationship and him dealing with his mothers death instead of them making him a jealous incel.  Biaggio was funny, made me laugh a lot, maybe the best character, I liked Nick Offerman too. Me and my friend were tryna figure out where we recognised biaggio from and then we agreed he was that one guy from that one Disney show.  I may miss some but as far as I can tell we have actors in this film from:  It’s always sunny in Philadelphia  Silicon Valley Parks and rec  Arrested development  Community  Brooklyn nine nine The boys  Disney show  Hannibal Buress  And I’m sure more, So half the film was just me and myself recognising someone and going “ayyyyy”.  Yeah but no this definitely could have been a lot better, cinematography wasn’t bad at parts and it was quite fun, just got a bit weird towards the end. They built a house tho that was cool. Also pretty impressive that he managed to learn everything about snakes after spending a week in the woods. Turned into bear grylls.  Did you know that if you chop off a snakes head it’s venom will attract other snakes?  6.5/10 The 20th film I’ve watched with Marcus Chan

Past Lives 2023

½

Honestly one of the most unique romance films I’ve ever seen. No part of it disappointed me at all every decision they made with the characters was perfect. A beautifully written script, it was so simple yet so impactful.  From the opening scene it was perfect, what a smart way to start a film, showing a situation from an outside perspective. I loved the scene where she was in bed talking to her husband, and towards for the whole sequence at the pub this film cemented its self as a great film, with a perfect ending.  The cinematography was great, the acting was great, but the script was definitely a stand out for me. I loved the husband, he was completely self aware, in an ordinary film, from no fault of his own, he’s the guy we route against, but he was too likeable for you to route against him, which is why the ending was so perfect.  Such a great way to show someone from another country rediscovering their routes, through connecting with someone from their past. The film felt so real, my favourite kinda film, very character driven and emotional but not too crazy and unbelievable. Loved it, very unique, one of the best films of the year, maybe the best I just love Barbie too much to admit that to myself. Will definitely watch again.  8.7/10

The First Slam Dunk 2022

½

So slam dunk is supposedly one of the best sports mangas of all time. I tried watching the anime but it’s not that good and I wanted to read the manga but I wanted to read them all in their physical copies rather than on my phone so I never got round to getting past volume 2. Nonetheless I’ve been very excited for this film for a while and especially after seeing the animation in the trailer it became one of my most anticipated films of the year. When I realised it came out I started screaming and then spent the next 5 minutes literally dancing around my house with excitement. Then I read online that it adapts the last arc of the manga, from volume 25- 31. I wanted to see this film so much but didn’t wanna ruin a series that I knew I was gonna love. So I ran to the comic book shop and spent over £100 and spent the next 7 days reading all 31 volumes, 8 of them being the night before slam dunks last day in cinemas. After being up till 6am reading one of the best mangas I’ve maybe ever read and then seeing the film the next day at 12:50, I can’t even describe how good the feeling was of being able to see it on the big screen. I showed up 30 minutes early for some reason expecting the cinema to be packed but there was only 1 other guy who ended up seeing it. Everyone else other than that guy missed out coz this film was amazing and now that it’s over I feel empty lol.  So just to be clear if you do decide to watch this you don’t actually need to read the manga or watch the anime, it just kinda heightens the experience. Also the anime is really dated and never finished as it was cancelled by the writer because of some creative differences with the director wanting to take it in a different direction than the manga. The writer, Takehiko Inoue, who not only wrote the best sports manga of all time (debatable as hajime no ippo is incredible) but also he wrote the best samurai/ maybe one of the best mangas of all time, vagabond. Anyway he said he only wanted to do something else with the series if he could tell the story from a different characters perspective, so this film is about Ryota Miyagi, one of the least important characters on the team, who in this film was given a never before even mentioned, emotional backstory. Also fills in some questions we have about him in the manga and overall turns him into a great character. The film cuts between his flashbacks and upbringing to the final basketball match of the manga. It’s kinda weird coz the main character of the manga is the most interesting character in this match so it was weird not seeing him as the main character, but he was still my favourite part after seeing him so sick and just having read the manga, but honestly it doesn’t matter you can watch the film and it fills you in on everything you really need to know quite well.  The animation looks great, it’s CG animation which a lot of the time looks like shit but on occasion weirdly looks incredible, this along with beastars are the best examples of it that I’ve seen. It’s looks both incredible and kinda bad at the same time. I loved it, I don’t know why but it suited basketball perfectly.  Honestly if u haven’t already just read slam dunk. It’s way better than Kuroko’s Basketball, after watching that I just felt like playing basketball and after watching this I now feel like I’m a life long basketball watcher who understands the rules and respects the game. It is the perfect series for a basketball fan, and the perfect series to turn a non basketball fan into a basketball fan. I loved it so much and I can’t believe it’s over.  I love miyagi now too, his backstory was really sad and it made me cry. I’m gonna watch this again as soon as I can.  8.9/10

Blue Beetle 2023

½

A little cliche, but in a fun way. I didn’t like the villain too much, but the family aspect was kinda wholesome, just felt like a fun superhero movie that didn’t take its self too seriously, like back in the day. If we didn’t have like 50 other superhero movies I think this would have been a lot better as it didn’t bring much new to the genre, but it was still a lot of fun. The uncle was very funny, the main character was good and I liked the actor from Cobra Kai.  Kept thinking that the film felt like a mix of venom and iron man. There was nothing too interesting about the power or the villain. There was nothing too special about this film at all but it was just a bit of fun. Wouldn’t go out of my way to recommend to anyone but if u were already thinking of watching it  you will probably like it.  7.2/10 10th film in a row I’ve watched at the cinema. (With grown ups in there at some point ruining it)

Gran Turismo 2023

Actually quite an enjoyable film, the emotional beats hit quite hard, there were many aspects of it I think could have been better but overall it was a very satisfying underdog story that was very fun to watch.  David harbour was probably the best thing about it I think his acting was much better than anyone else. Definitely my favourite character, very cool, felt like a pretty perfect role for him and he was one of the main reasons I wanted to watch this so was happy to see how good his performance was.  The other reason I wanted to watch this was Neill Blomkamp as I studied him for GCSE film studies for his film district 9 which is quite good. Not sure on his directing in this but I think it was a well written story.  Some of the side characters could have been better I think. The antagonist character was a dick and it was satisfying to see him loose but I would have preferred it if he had a bit more to his character. Same with the love interest, their relationship was cute but there wasn’t much to it, felt like her whole character only existed for the sake of having some kind of romantic side plot, she definitely could have had better development. The dad was nice though, would have liked to see more of the brother in the final act but I loved the relationship with the Dad, though it was a little generic and predictable it still got me feeling quite emotional.  Kind of annoyed me that in the final race they brought back the racers that didn’t go through, was kinda just like what was the whole point in half the film where he learned to race through trial and error if one of the people he already beat could race one of the hardest races in the world without any of our main characters experience. Was nice enough seeing him again coz it was nice character development but I would have preferred it if he raced terribly. And there was another guy but he spoke like twice.  Overall a good story about chasing your dreams, had its issues but overall just a fun watch. I don’t usually like racing but this made me like it.  7.9/10 It kinda says at the end of the film but the true story aspect of it was kinda interesting as I would have thought I would have heard of him before if he was some big racer.  “The real Jann Mardenborough is a professional race car driver who was thrust into the world of real-world driving after winning the GT Academy competition in 2011. Following his victory in the competition, Mardenborough represented Nissan at the Dubai 24 Hour race. He then went on to race in the British GT Championship, before continuing to race at other major events. To do this day, he is heavily involved in the racing scene.”  It says he was the third winner of the completion so I guess the film wasn’t entirely true, but he was the youngest.  Another thing was the tragic accident that happens in the film. This is a spoiler. But it really happened.  “It's a similar story when it comes to Gran Turismo's most shocking moment where Mardenborough is involved in a tragic racing accident where a spectator is killed. This really did happen, but took place in 2015, rather than shortly into his racing career as in the movie. The facts are accurate though, as in real life Mardenborough was racing at the Nürburgring when his car became airborne on the Flugplatz which, as the movie states, translates as "airfield" due to the fact cars can leave the asphalt. His car crashed into spectators, injuring several and killing one of them.”  Really interesting story they should make a film about it.

Talk to Me 2022

My first horror film I’ve ever seen at the cinema and I actually enjoyed it! I was just so happy the whole time coz I love rakka rakka and I’m so proud of them for making such a great film. Proving that all YouTubers aren’t terrible at making movies. Street fighters gonna be perfect for them. You can kinda see some of their style from their youtube videos in this and it was so good, very fun film and very creepy. The shots where they titled the camera as the characters snapped their head back looked so rakka rakka I loved it. Also the sidemen showed up ! Weird seeing Harry on the big screen, one of his funniest videos too.  I really loved the opening. The mum looked creepy. The grousome scenes were all really cool. Need to watch more horror films! This was a good one to watch I think for my first one I had a lot of fun. The characters were all really natural and likeable.  Never watched a film that was this fun to talk about in detail after. My friend had to leave after the eye scene and didn’t come back, just sat out side and talked to the workers about Barbie.  Been so excited about this for so long. Was worried I wouldn’t like it as it’s a horror but I loved it. Would maybe even watch again.  I think I usually don’t like horror films as I find them too dark and boring with the characters walking around waiting to be jump scared, but I gave this one a chance and had a lot of fun.  Really good, happy for the directors. So talented.  8.0/10

Barbie 2023

½

Honestly ever since I saw this pop up on Greta Gerwig's letterboxd I’ve been so excited for it. It just looked so cool. I’ve had so many conversations trying to explain to people why this film is gonna actually be amazing and not just some kids film for girls. Now it’s finally here and everyone else being just as hyped if not maybe more hyped than I was to watch it just made me more excited. Me and my friends all dressed in pink (apart from my friend Marcus who thought dressing up as a pirate would count probably because there was an ocean in the trailer), they even took a picture of all of us at the Cinema and posted it on their Instagram because of how well dressed we were.  Honestly I feel like barbenheimer was like the biggest cinema event since I’ve been alive or at least since I’ve been watching films to the degree I do now, and I’m so happy I got to be a part of it with all my friends. And it makes it better that Barbie somehow met my expectations as I knew it would. I hate people that clap in the cinema but when Barbie finished I finally understood it.  Firstly this film is hilarious, I was laughing the whole time. Ken was perfect. Barbie was perfect. and Alan was also perfect. The music, the set design, the writing, the acting, it all was just as perfect as I was telling people it was gonna be for months.  Ken’s song is already by number 1 on repeat for Spotify.  Cast was stacked. Alan cast perfectly he was one of my favourites. Ryan gosling was made for that role he was too funny. I love Simu Liu, just made me more excited for the film coz he’s one of my favourite actors and he was hilarious in this too.  The mum and the daughter I liked, but think are the only characters that could have been better if we just got a bit more setting their characters up, I started to care about them eventually but it took a while as I felt like their characters felt a bit rushed. Will Farrell was in it. Also perfect casting as the CEO. I kinda expected everyone in Barbie to be weird and then everyone in the real world to be normal but they were weird as hell too. Pacing was very good, felt a little too quick at times but overall the fast pacing just works for the style of the film. Maybe I won’t find it as funny on a rewatch but best thing about the film for me is it was just hilarious. I loved it. Maybe the second best cinema experience of my life. Can’t wait to watch it again.  Dunno what I have to look forward to anymore. The boy and the Herron maybe.  8.8/10 Apparently it was Greta Gerwig's dream to make this film since she was like 17 and my new dram is to make a spin off film about Alan.

Oppenheimer 2023

½

It’s finally here, if Barbie didn’t come out on the same day I probably wouldn’t have watched this. I don’t like Christopher Nolan’s films. But it’s barbenheimer and I had to see it. Funny that most of this films hype came from a completely unrelated movie that came out on the same day, usually they avoid grieving big films the same release date but honestly this was genius. Whenever I think about this film for the rest of my life I will think about Barbie. I’ve never in my life been so excited for a film I didn’t actually want to see.  This was boring as hell. It got interesting at times, but it was so long and so intense the whole time even when it didn’t need to be that intense. Just like every nolan film it was unnecessarily confusing and hard to keep up with, I managed to pay attention for the most part but it’s so much confusing shit and so long it’s quite hard to know what’s going on unless your really invested.  Acting was good, I love cillian Murphy, love RDJ, couple of actors popped up, jack quaid was in it and I was like cool, rami Malik was in it and I was like nice, josh peck was in it and I thought that was quite funny and finally Casey afflec was in it and I was like Nicee and then remembered he’s some kinda creepy sex offender and was like less nice.  Einstein was in it and everyone laughed when he popped up, not sure why. He just felt a bit out of place I guess.  The female characters weren’t written too well, Oppenheimer was a really interesting character but the films just way too long I got so bored. Never been to a film with an intermission before, but it stopped in a really random place and gave us a 15 minute break. Preferred the second half to the first because more cool shit happened but it was still boring and the whole time I just wanted it to be over so I could watch Barbie.  The bomb going off scene looked really good and the sound for it was quite good, the sound in this was definitely better than tenet but I still have similar problems with it.  Honestly I think I just don’t like Christopher Nolan films. They are ok and I can appreciate he’s an incredible film maker, but other than the dark night and Memento I never really enjoy watching any of them.  7.0/10

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken 2023

Motivational film. I had to travel a long way to watch this and it was worth it. Dream works > Pixar.  Was actually quite a cool story, though predictable at times with very basic fish out of water traits, also it could be a little cheesy, but it was fun and I think the story was actually quite smart. The teenage school aspect to it was quite nice tho has been done too many times in other films with the main character just wanting to fit in as a regular school kid. Ruby Gillman was really dumb, was so obvious the mermaid was playing her. She literally got told by her grandmama that mermaids were evil and even if she did believe that it was a nice mermaid why would she agree to steal the one weapon that could kill her and her family the mermaids reasoning for that was really dumb I dunno why ruby went along with it. Her being smart felt so forced aswell all the trigonometry stuff when she uses the power of maths to destroy the trident it’s so stupid. But nice when the three join together to save the day.  Kept laughing the whole time though it was actually a fun watch. Maybe because I saw this with my friend Jennifer who was laughing before the film even started.  Her review “I was worried I wouldn’t be able to sit and watch this because as soon as the film started I couldn’t stop laughing 🤣for no real reason. I think Kieran was embarrassed or something because he kept telling me to stop laughing…  ” Was fun, I actually did travel a long way for it, wholesome characters, good voice acting. I was excited for this not coz I thought it would be good but thought it would be fun and it was.  5.9/10

Elemental 2023

When water boy met fire girl.  Best romance movie of all time.  They should have just made a fire boy and water girl film  By Pixar standards I thought the animation was really bad but my friend I saw it with thought it was good, I just didn’t like any of the characters designs, thought it looked weird. I feel like I love Pixar films coz they are really good at creating memorable and iconic characters and this didn’t really have that, the characters and overall story of the film I thought was kinda mid and forgettable.  I was lying about it being the best romance of all time but maybe the best animated romance film I dunno. Not including anime coz there’s some incredible anime romance films but this was a good romance for a kids film, was kinda like Romeo and Juliet but fire and water.  Honestly I did like this film despite my issues with it, some of the themes and messages it covers are done in a really nice way and I do think the writing was quite good. It’s a really interesting way to tell a story about a family that I’m sure a lot of people can relate to. They came from another place and set up a new life for their daughter and because of the sacrifices they made the daughter feels pressure to continue their dreams rather than focus on her own. Was a really nice story and did have me tearing up a little at the end when she bows to him. I didn’t love all the characters but the family dynamic was quite emotional and I really enjoyed it.  Was a weird one because I do think it’s a really good film, but it doesn’t have likable or memorable characters or a memorable plot but it still had a lot of emotional depth so I actually do kinda like it a lot.  Did a double bill of this and ruby gillmore in Crawley with Jenifer, enjoyed them both, was a fun day. Had to get a train but was worth it for gillmore girl kraken film.  7.7/10

First time I watched this was by myself at 9:30 am at a 24 Wes Anderson screening. This time I gotta watch it with some friends and I think I enjoyed it quite a lot more. Maybe because I understood it more, maybe because when I watch a film with friends I find them funnier, or maybe just because I hadn’t just watched 4 other better Wes Anderson films right before hand.  The thing I appreciated more this time around was the black and white scenes. I still don’t like the ending with the whole “you can’t wake up if you don’t fall asleep stuff” with it then cutting to all the characters having randomly left astroid city, but other than the alien scene, my favourite scene in the whole film was the scene on the balcony as he talks to Barbie.  “Why does oggy burn his hand on the quickly gurdle”  It’s a story about being ok with not knowing what the point in everything is, I really liked that aspect of it. Maybe Wes Anderson’s smartest film. The opening of astroid city where they show off the location with some really nice and smooth camera work was really cool but wes Anderson’s pans make me nauseous and that was a bit too much for me.  One of my favourite scenes was when the kids are playing the memory game, I really love the camera work as it pans from kid to kid I found it to be perfectly done and loved it.  Also one of the funniest characters was the “you dare me?” Kid, made me laugh every time, the emotional scene where he talks about why he always wants to be dared and then the dads like fine, dare you what and he just says some outrageous shit like climb a cactus, was hilarious.  Wes Anderson’s dialogue suits his camera work and his set design in such a unique way there’s no film maker like him and it’s always fun watching his films. This was good.  8.1/10

No Hard Feelings 2023

Saw at the cinema, not a good film but sometimes it’s nice to watch a bad film at the cinema. Not every joke made me laugh but some did, can’t remember the last time (if ever) I had to watch a scene at the cinema through my hands because I was cringing so hard, the second hand embarrassment on the part scene was awful.  I like Jennifer Lawrence, I can’t work out if I like her more or less after watching this but I think it’s one of them.  Jennifer Lawrence beats up a bunch of people while completely naked.  Story was a little weird, my boss said before I went in that this was the “worst film ever made” which I can understand, he used the whole “if it was about an older guy it would be bad” argument, but I think it’d be worse if they ended up together in the end. The films about a guy who’s never had a real friend and is scared of living due to being coddled by his parents, meeting someone who brings him out of his shell. Some of it was bad, predictable, unfunny and cringeworthy, but there were some kinda sweet, wholesome moments in there.  Still not the best film, but fun watching at the cinema and the core relationship between the two main characters was a little interesting, but that was the only thing I really liked about it.  Didn’t even realise Matthew Broderick plays the lasagne dad. can’t believe the dad in this is Ferris Bueller they look nothing alike.  Favourite scene was were the kid sings man eater, it sounded really good which makes sense since the actor comes from musical theatre and was in Dear Evan Hansen. Listening to it on repeat on YouTube now I need it in my Spotify playlist.  5.9/10

Asteroid City 2023

After 11 hours watching wes Anderson's films at the duke of york cinema for he wes anderson fest I finally have gone insane and feel like I have become a wes anderson character. seeing that many of his films in a row has driven me crazy and everything I do now is perfectly symmetrical, I feel very cinematic. Walking home from the cinema actually felt weird. Not even joking I waited for my mcdonalds and walked the whole way home like this. I apologise to all the people I nearly bumped into on the street while I was walking perfectly in the centre of the pavement. It makes sense that it was this film that finally did it, as for all the films I watched, this is the most Wes Anderson, and also the worst of the bunch. Not to say this was a bad film, I still enjoyed it. It goes without saying the film looked amazing, the cast was stacked with people like Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Jeff Goldblum and Scarlett Johansson. Sadly no bill Murray and Owen Wilson but I am fine with that as I think I've seen enough of those two after these last 24 hours. I didn't really like the film within a film stuff, but it starts to really work in probably my favourite scene of the film, where the character just up and leaves the set and starts to question the fact he doesn't understand his own character and has a conversation with the actress that was cut from the film, all felt really meaningful and emotional and I love how it was set up. also Bryan Cranston narrated which made it slightly better, led t a really funny joke where he realises he's in the wrong place. The ending felt a little underwhelming, didn't move me as much as some of his other films, as a whole it was alright but there was nothing really special about the final scene. Willem dafoe. The concept was very interesting, again the story within a story stuff was a bit much, but the actual story of asteroid city was fun. feel like the problem with films like these for me is there's way too many characters and its harder to relate to any one character, but I thought the alien coming down was so funny and I loved all the Brainiac kids and their messed up parents all quarantined in this weird town because of an event that's making them all question their own existence, very cool concept. Still I didn't love it as much as his other films, could have been a lot better as there were some interesting characters but there was just too many and the story didn't feel like it really went anywhere and then all the characters left a bit too suddenly for me at the end. but It still a wes anderson film and that man is a very talented director, though I'm getting a little bit of fatigue from his style now, the fact his style is so unique means he is able to pull of specific wonderful shots and filmmaking techniques that I don't think there's another filmmaker alive that can execute as well as he can. His films are all so weird which I love, as it all works so perfectly for him. overall I enjoyed the wes anderson fest and this was a nice ending to it, glad to be out of that screen though as there was a constant ringing the whole time that was starting to drive me insane. still the best cinema I've ever been to though and I'm so happy for the experience, I had a lot of fun. My asteroid city poster I won playing kahoot will stay on my wall for a while. I'm gonna give this film 4 stars as I rate everything between 7.6 - 8.5 4 stars. but I think my rating system is kinda flawed as most films I watch fall under that bracket unless I really liked or didn't like them. This was the worst wes anderson film I watched but Im gonna rate it the same as the other ones as I think it doesn't deserve lower than a 7.6 just because of how well made it is. 7.6/10

Shutter Island 2010

Minor spoilers but no major The twist in this film is really good. That’s probably the best, most memorable part of the film. Rewatching it and picking up on all the Subtle hints towards this twist was a very different experience than when I first watched it.  I found the overall film to be a bit slow and dry. I really liked the lighting in it, but yeah up until the twist I find the story kind of boring. Leonardo is one of the best actors of all time though and it’s pretty cool seeing him act alongside Mark Ruffalo, he gives a hell of a performance in this, and I also gotta appreciate the film for having one of the best twists I’ve ever seen, but up until that point I found it to be very boring. It’s a very long film and it doesn’t feel like much happened for the first hour. When we were an hour in we paused it and we’re shocked we went further in because of how long it felt like we’d already been watching it for.  The clues and stuff to the twist are cool and the twist is amazing but I just don’t like the film too much as a whole. But I appreciate it.  7.8/10

Bottle Rocket 1996

So one of my local cinemas is doing a 24 hour Wes Anderson binge and we are starting with bottle rocket. I can barely watch one film these days without falling asleep I don’t think I’m gonna last very long.  This is the schedule. 12:00 BOTTLE ROCKET 14:10 RUSHMORE 16:10 THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS Dinner break 18:50 THE LIFE AQUATIC 21:20 THE DARJEELING LIMITED + Hotel Chevalier short film 23:20 FANTASTIC MR. FOX 01:20 MOONRISE KINGDOM 03:10 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL 05:10 ISLE OF DOGS 07:00 THE FRENCH DISPATCH Breakfast time! 09:30 ASTEROID CITY - And…blast off! Fresh from its Cannes premiere, you won’t want to miss our extra special preview of Wes’s new out-of-this-world adventure. So if I last that long, which I very likely won’t, I will be seeing Asteroid City at 9:30 am tomorrow. I also have work the same day at 16:45, so I dunno how this is gonna work, but I realistically am not making it that long. I think the best time to sleep would be after fantastic mr fox, coz I’ve seen all the ones playing after apart from the French dispatch and I think I can survive not seeing that. That’s assuming I will even last till then.  Anyway on to the actual film. I liked bottle rocket. Wholesome chaos. I really like Wes Anderson’s earlier films, seeing Rushmore next which is one of my favourites. The film is fun and still has a lot of his style but it isn’t as obvious as his later films. I’ve seen the short film for this and didn’t love it but this was great, Owen Wilson and Luke Wilson look way too much like brothers to play friends, but their chemistry was great and I loved both their acting. Fun, very fitting ending, I liked Anthony and Inez. Just a nice film, I loved the characters. There’s a Wes Anderson quiz now which I will very likely lose. Excited for the next couple. I would say the one I was most exited for was this film and it was as good as I hoped it would be. After that would be the life aquatic or Royal Tenenbaums as I haven’t seen them. Also seeing fantastic mr fox in the cinema will be fun.  The final scene made me really want a burger. The quiz we are doing now is kahoot on the cinema screen. Wish me luck.  8.2/10 I came 3rd / 18th and won a poster. Hadn’t stood up in a while and nearly fell over when walking to collect it. Was pretty embarrassing. Won a pretty big poster for Asteroid City.

Rushmore 1998

So this was the second film of the 24 hour Wes Anderson screening I’m at, impressed with myself I haven’t fallen asleep yet. I’ve seen this one before but it was really nice to see at the cinema. 2 films in and I still haven’t finished my popcorn. Royal Tenenbaums next which I haven’t seen before so I can’t wait.  This is probably my favourite Wes Anderson film. His style is more prominent here but it’s still not as in your face as his later stuff. Cool to see a high school Wes Anderson film too.  I love Bill Murray in this, his characters friendship with max was so interesting. Such an interesting story to me, a kid who acts like an adult getting too attached to his adult friends and getting hurt in the process. I just think this films so cool, it’s kinda hard to watch sometimes because of the second hand embarrassment, but yeah it’s my favourite Wes film I love it and I love max’s character.  It can be hard to watch but it has its wholesome moments, Herman meeting Maxs dad at the end was such a nice moment. Feel really bad for Herman as his life was kinda destroyed after meeting max, but I love that he treated max like an equal and never treated him as a child through the whole film, they were actually friends.  Jason Schwartzman definitely doesn’t look 15 in this, but he was apparently 18 so it’s not too far off.  This film had me laughing, smiling, cringing and almost crying, happy I got to see it in the cinema.  Last interval between films they did a quiz and I came 3rd place which I’m pretty happy about still. This time they are making us do stretches in character and reading to us. The woman doing it is dressed as Margo from Royal Tenenbaums, which I’ll probably find funny after I watch it.  8.0/10

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou 2004

½

Currently at a 24 hour Wes Anderson fest at the cinema where they are playing every Wes Anderson film. I’ve been here for 9 hours now. I feel like I say this every time but I think this was my favourite so far. Noah bumbach co wrote it, it had a fantastic soundtrack, any film with life on mars on the soundtrack I appreciate and above all of that, it’s visually stunning.  I love films about the ocean, this may be the best film about the ocean I’ve ever seen, Steve was an incredibly well written character and his relationship with Owen Wilson’s character was done very well. It got really emotional. The scene where the helicopter fell into the water was AMAZING, it was filmed and edited perfectly I was actually shocked. The flashes of red, the camera dipping under the bloody water, very well done.  Willem dafoe.  After watching the third film in the cinema today I felt like I may have been losing my mind a little, but after some good food and a fantastic movie I’ve gained my bearings a little.  I am getting a little sick of Bill Murray at this point, because I feel like I’ve been staring at his face for the last 5 hours, but honestly him playing a guy who’s a bit of a dick but has a wholesome relationship with a younger person, it honestly works every time.  We are now getting to the point in the night where everybody behind me is talking about going home and coming back before astroid city, but I’ve never seen the next film that’s playing THE DARJEELING LIMITED, and I really really wanna see fantastic mr fox, I made it this far I think I’m gonna try ride it out and stay as long as physically possible.  I do think I may have reached my breaking point and I’m considering going home and coming back for astroid city. My brain feel overloaded.  The next film started and I was instantly just like I can’t do this any more and left. Really didn’t want to leave as I wanted to last longer and I have been excited about this for a while but I have work tomorrow and I wanna be awake for astroid city.  But I saw 4 films in the cinema today which was still an experience in itself and tomorrow I’ll watch astroid city.  Life aquatic was amazing.  8.6/10 It’s 9:30 and I’ve been at the cinema for 9 and a half hours  My dreams tonight will be filmed in the style of Wes Anderson.  The astroid city poster I won from playing kahoot is now stuck up on my wall

The Royal Tenenbaums 2001

3rd film down of the 24 hour Wes fest. It’s now 18:00 and I’m on a dinner break. Starting to go a bit crazy, feeling really uncomfortable, don’t think I’ll make it much longer, but hopefully my food will fuel me for a little bit.  3rd film was The Royal Tenenbaums, which may be my favourite again so far, but I’ve said that about all of them. Each film feels more and more Wes Anderson and this was almost the perfect one, loved all the actors. My favourite would be Ben stillers character, who was very well written and acted.  Honestly I was getting a bit emotional at the end, loved the film, very well made, funny and sad, so good.  Finding it hard to review these films as after watching 3 films in the cinema back to back my brain is losing me a little.  Love that the film started with hey Jude.  Definitely my favourite Gwyneth Paltrow role, she was very likeable in this. All the characters were, it was such an interesting family and I found each of them to be individually quite interesting, probably some of the most well crafted characters I’ve seen from a Wes Anderson film.  This 24 hour film thing is quite a fun experience but I do honestly feel at this point like I’m losing my mind.  The game they gave us on this break was they hid a bunch of pictures of Wes Anderson around the cinema and whoever brings one back gets a prize. I went to go get food instead as I feel like I’m dying.  Just loved how the film all came together at the end, really just an incredibly well made film. Wes Anderson is a very talented filmmaker.  I was told before watching this that this was his worst film, I definitely disagree. 8.5/10

Garden State 2004

Recently watched the entirety of scrubs so really wanted to watch a Zack Braff film and after talking to my friends, this was the only one people didn’t completely hate. Don’t really understand all the Zack Braff hate, liked him in scrubs a lot and I enjoyed this film. There’s some cool shots, it’s quite a deep and well written story considering not much actually happens in it I enjoyed the whole thing. Natalie Portman was really good, very likeable. I also really liked Zack Brad’s character, really awful what happened to him as a child and he had a lot he was struggling with, an issue like that is something I’ve never seen before in a film. The film felt very generic, like there’s hundreds of films just like it, but also managed to somehow stay feeling a little unique and I enjoyed it for that.  Everyone I’ve talked to about it have hated on this film but I really can’t think of anything I don’t like about it.  He bassically plays the opposite of JD in this film, but I like Zack Braff a lot and this managed to help me cope with having no more scrubs to watch.  7.8/10

Logistics 2011

½

This film, wow. Probably the most real film I’ve ever seen. It really makes you think about the value of human life and the effect we as a species have had on the world. I’ve never watched a film that made me think this much about my own life and my impact on the world, it was an incredible experience. The shot at the end where the camera messes up and it goes all fuzzy had be on the edge of my seat. Also the sunset shot at the end was cool, really satisfying when we get back on the ground again. Crazy how many seagulls there are just flying out in the middle of the ocean. The ocean is so massive, there must be so many seagulls out there in the world.  I heard about this film for a while, I think because the original one is like 35 days long. If you haven’t heard of it the whole thing is just a shot of a cargo ship sailing around. This version is a 72 minute edit of it taking 5 minutes from every day. Basically just a shortened version of the longest film ever made. It actually would be cool to watch the whole thing just to be able to say you have watched it. That’s kinda why I watched this, I was on the phone with my roommate and just had it playing in the background, always wanted to watch it for some weird reason and figured I may as well have it on. I did actually watch the whole thing and I didn’t actually like it, it’s just a shot of a boat tbh, was kinda cool to have on in the background though and I do like boats so cool.  Feel weird logging it as it’s barely even a film but I sat through the whole thing and I’ve heard of it before so I’m counting it.  Maybe one day I’ll watch the 35 day version.  0.7/10 Was gonna start the long version but I can’t find where to watch it My 100th film of the year

Idiocracy 2006

½

Cool. Decent. Not too long, short, fun watch. It’s quite a funny concept, not too funny overall. Terry Crews was in it.  Pretty scary to think that might be where our world is headed, obviously very over exaggerated for the sake of comedy, but I think this is scarier than a meteor hitting the earth, Luke Wilson being the smartest person in the world.  Don’t understand how they still have so much advanced technology, like the microphone he was using, was that invented ages ago or is there someone smart enough to make a microphone, coz surely whoever made that microphone is smarter than Luke Wilson. Or the cars and the TVs, if they break, who fixes them? I wouldn’t be able to, so maybe I’m dumber than the people in this film.  Really liked Maya Rudolph in this film, she was my favourite character, I don’t always like her but she was funny in this.  Some of the jokes felt a bit too much, it’s kinda funny but it’s so over exaggerated that it loses some of the humour I think.  That fart movie looks like a pretty good experimental film. I would watch.  Feel like I got dumber watching this. But it wasn’t a bad film, concept was quite fun.  7.1/10 I just finished watching a show called Silicon Valley, which I just found out is also directed by Mike judge, who made this movie. Doesn’t really change my review I just thought it was cool coz I really liked the show.

The Flash 2023

½

A couple of people have asked what I thought of this film after I watched it and I still can’t really think of what to say. So far I’ve responded with “meh” which I don’t really agree with. I didn’t hate it, the flash has always been my favourite superhero ever since I was a kid so I still liked the film. It had some really good aspects to it. Some cool cameos. There was one shot I really liked where Batman has his fist in the air and bullets fly past it. Flash in the films seems quite strong which he really should considering how OP his powers are. Nora Allen was really good, I liked her actor and the scene where Barry says goodbye to her is very moving and done quite well I think. But it kinda feels like the film is missing a lot, or it’s just made a dumb decision I can’t really understand. First off there’s no villain. There’s Zod who is barely in it and he kinda feels like a filler villain. Apparently even the actor had no idea why he was in the film. There is also another villain that’s a spoiler which I guess kinda seems like should be the main villain, but he’s in 2 scenes and I can’t understand why. Where is the reverse flash? He’s one of the reasons flashpoint was so good and he’s not in this film. He 100% should have been the villain and I can’t understand why he wasn’t in it. And it just feels like they forgot to replace him with a real villain and it just makes the film a little messy. I think a big difference that makes this film so messy is the film is about him and his past self, which kinda works but also doesn’t. It has good and bad aspects to it, just like the film in general. I have very mixed opinions about It. The side characters seemed underdeveloped. The cgi doubles looked awful. It set up some obvious plot points that never ended up going anywhere, for instance I really thought he was gonna save the Dad that died in his original timeline, they show a shot of him and his son and I kinda expected him to go and change it but we never see them again.  I thought the fact in the new timeline Eric Stoltz was in back to the future. Kinda a cool detail considering in real life he was in the film but was fired and replaced. Cool detail.  This film always had to be really good. Considering how many people before release said it was amazing and the fact this is the DC’s chance to fix the whole universe. And obviously the very big elephant in the room of the fact Ezra Miller is the lead. I always liked Ezra Miller, they are in one of my favourite films perks of being a wallflower, so I was really happy to see him as the flash. Until he obviously turned out to be crazy. Him being the lead meant the only way this film could survive was if it was amazing and unfortunately it wasn’t. They don’t reset the universe well in my opinion, but they still have a chance. It’s left quite open ended so it just depends on what they do next. Kinda unfortunate they had a hard reset on the universe meaning they could recast every single actor they wanted except for the person they needed to replace the most, Ezra Miller.  Lots I liked about the film but yeah it’s really not as good as it needed to be.  7.2/10 After credits 2/10 Got told the after credits were amazing but they were really underwhelming, I guess still stick around and watch them for a cameo, but it’s a pointless cameo that doesn’t mean anything for the universe, it’s just kinda a hey look this guy still exists.

Batman Returns 1992

½

Batman + Danny devito = masterpiece  I love Danny devito. He is one of my favourite actors alongside his always sunny costars, he is such a good villain. These films aren’t amazing but and they can be kinda cheesy or unrealistic but all those reasons just make it more fun and Danny devito works with it perfectly. I loved all the penguin stuff, his lair looked amazing. It’s so cool and fun and an enjoyable watch.  Selina was a little cheesy but again that just made it better, found her relationship to Batman to be a nice watch.  Also, Christopher walken, actually quite a good character. Found him to be quite a cool villain, I like how he was willing to sacrifice himself for his son and they never really show a reason for it. He’s just a cool guy, who is also evil.  Though I love Danny devito in this, the fact joker is one of the best villains of all time and jack Nicholson played him made it hard to top the first one. I think how much I like Danny devito and Christopher walken makes them pretty equal though for me.  Good film!  7.5/10

Psych 3: This Is Gus 2021

8 seasons and 3 movies. I still want more. Apparently there’s gonna be a 4th film. I can’t wait.  So good I love psych and this was one of the best films so far, Shaun and gus are on top form.  Some funny jokes about suits. “Did Meghan Markle invite all the actors from suits to her wedding?”  “No she did not”  Dule hill was in the last few seasons of suits so I love the 4th wall breaks with these jokes.  The final scene was hilarious, that was the most chaotic wedding I’ve ever seen, very funny.  Also Lassie is such a good character, would have liked to see more of him and Shaun but that’s what the whole last film was so it’s fine.   Love this show so much and I’m so happy there are films, I hope they keep making them forever.  7.6/10 Inbetween the lines there’s a lot of obscurity, I’m not inclined to resign to maturity, and it’s alright, when your all wrong, why dance around to the same damn song.  Rather run when you can crawl  I KNOW YOU KNOW THAT IM NOT TELLING THE TRUTH  One of the best intros of all time it makes me so happy when I hear it

Batman 1989

Directed by Tim Burton. Michael Keaton as Batman. Jack Nicholson as the joker. Comic book movie from before they got ridiculously overdone. Can’t believe I haven’t watched this sooner.  Really fun film, Jack Nicholson is obviously an amazing actor so seeing him as the joker was great. He looks weird, a bit cheesy, but so does Batman, I think this may be one of the best jokers we’ve ever had. Heath Ledger is the best but I think this one may be one of the most fun and cartoonish.  It is a very cool film, but it’s a Batman origin in its simplest form, which is quite refreshing, but we have so many other Batman films that have outdone it that it really doesn’t hold up as much. But it’s the least serious and most fun I would say and I will watch the next one before the flash comes out tomorrow.  Really isn’t much too it it’s a very simple but pleasant superhero film from a time where they were still cool.  I also don’t always like Tim Burton movies, but I love his style and it really works with this film. 7.9/10

BlackBerry 2023

BlackBerry is a film about the rise and fall of the phone company with the same name. Kinda reminded me of a show I recently finished called Silicon Valley, but if it was more like the social network, (one of my favourite films). It stars Glenn Howerton (one of my favourite actors) and Jay Baruchel (main actor in one of my favourite animated films) and it is directed by Matt Johnson (one of my favourite directors) who directed films such as The Dirties and Operation Avalanche. I saw this on letterboxd probably like a year ago and it seemed too good to be true. Honestly like the perfect film ever and I cant believe I finally got the chance to watch it because this was one of my most anticipated films of the year. As Expected the acting was what made this film for me. Glenn Howerton proved he is the kind of actor I keep telling my friends he is and I'm very happy about that. The actual story of the film was ok, it was very interesting to learn about the rise and fall of blackberry, the whole story was fun and it was nice to see Matt Johnson do something a little different while still keeping the documentary looking cinematography, but this film didn't really feel as innovative as his other films, which was fine, it was still a good watch, but it felt a little more simple and I don't think I would have liked it as much if it wasn't for my favourite actors being in it. I think the ending felt a little too abrupt and I wasn't really a fan of how it ended for Glens character, but the main guy looking though the boxes was quite a nice final shot. It was a really interesting story, I remember my mum having a blackberry as a kid, I never realised how much they fell off, crazy that they were once the biggest phone in the world. Even more interesting that they were the first ones to turn the phone into what it is today, before being completely blown away by Steve Jobs. My expectations were a little high, but mostly for Glenn Howerton who didn't disappoint. Can’t help the feeling though that something was missing from the ending. No idea what though, just feels like it’s missing something. I think maybe a better resolution between Glenn and Jay’s characters. Think the characters all could have gotten a better ending, Matt Johnson’s included. I will still forever love this film for putting some of my favourite people in the industry on the same project and for giving me the chance to see Glenn Howerton in a serious role where he shouts at people the whole time. Glad I could finally watch it. 8.0/10

Superman 1978

Was sitting at home doing nothing and saw this was playing at the cinema so head down to watch it. Was really nice to see it on the big screen.  It obviously has a lot of issues, it’s a bit dated but impressive for its time, way too long, I don’t think it really needed to be that long, probably one of the dumbest endings of all time that I probably don’t even need to talk about as I don’t remember ever seeing this film but I knew it was coming, the reasons why it’s the dumbest ending of all time are very obvious.  I liked the acting and it was actually quite a funny film, but honestly what elevated it most for me was the music, the soundtrack was incredible, so iconic, hearing it in the cinema was probably my favourite thing about seeing it and I don’t think the film would have been anywhere near as good without it. John Williams is a legend.  Was fun, stand by the fact it’s definitely way too long and I did find my self towards the end checking my phone and wondering when the hell it was going to end, but I’m glad I saw it as it was an enjoyable experience overall. Also most superhero films probably wouldn’t exist without this film.  Next I need to watch the Michael Keaton Batman films.  7.6/10

Mass 2021

Mass was not the kind of thing I was expecting. I was pleasantly surprised. It is a film that takes place over one long and very serious conversation between two family’s who both suffered from terrible losses. They talk through the tragic incident that happened, they blame and they forgive. It’s a very sad story and the acting was really good. I really like Jason Isaacs, I had a masterclass with him once in college and I’m a very big Harry Potter fan but this was THE best acting performance I’ve ever seen from him.  I think what makes this film so good is the suspense at the start, it draws you in with you desperately wanting to know what the film is about and what happened to these family’s. It starts off with the people who run the venue and the family’s arrive after, the whole time I was tryna guess what the tragic incident was and we learn more and more about it and feel so much for both family’s.  Without revealing what that was as I think it may ruin the film. I do wanna say I really don’t think in this situation it is the parents fault, they weren’t bad parents, there are definitely parents out there who are bad parents and deserve all that guilt way more than they do and I don’t think it’s really fair on them, but I guess in this situation you just look for someone to blame. One of the things I thought was done well was the way they show that these parents are grieving too, they loved their son just as much as the other parents did, but does that fact it was his fault take away their right to grieve him? It’s very interesting and is one of the reasons I enjoyed the film.  I love films that are just one conversation, like 12 angry men, one of my favourite films. For my screenwriting class in uni this year I submitted a script that was very similar to this which is kinda annoying coz it would have been the perfect reference. I really do like films like this that keep you so hooked for that long when nothing really happens. It’s also really interesting to see how films like this do their cinematography when there is so minimal movement.  I think the conversation is kinda unrealistic and was too resolved, I think it’s hard to have a film that serious that has any kind of real resolution, can you be so angry at the start and forgive someone on such a short amount of time. I think that’s why I found the character of Richard at the end to be my favourite, he doesn’t really get the same kind of closure they all do, just kinda leaves without being able to say what he truly wanted to say. But it does work and doesn’t feel too unrealistic, the ending is very emotional and I think they wrapped it up in the best way they could, which was quite a good ending.  I also liked the start how the family wasn’t in it, and how they incorporated these small little details that happened at the start when they weren’t there into the rest of the film. Like the tissues and the water and the choir singing at the end. The start also really did well to build up how serious this conversation was going to be, which added a lot to the suspense and really kept you glued to the screen wondering what they would end up talking about.  Really good film, very moving, very sad, good acting. I enjoyed way more than I thought I would based on me only having seen the poster and title. Just thought it was gonna be a film about church.  Watch this instead of we need to talk about Kevin.  8.4/10 Didn’t even notice till reading some stuff about it but just went back through and noticed the aspect ratio completely changed. Was very subtle and well done and does a good job on enhancing the tonal shift. My 1100th film logged. Nearly 100 films this year so far. And hello to Jason Isaacs

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty 2013

½

Probably the best thing I’ve ever seen from Ben stiller. No wait, Madagascar is the best thing Ben stiller has ever done. Zoolanders pretty good too.  Very well shot, there’s some incredible transitions and some really interesting shots. I like the films use of the colour blue. The whole thing is just really pleasant to look at.  You ever have that thing happen when you have a dream that’s so good you get a little sad when you wake up. Imagine having that feeling constantly throughout your day. Your whole life is just a constant disappointment. You tell the girl you like you like her and then wake up back up back to being too scared to say anything. You’re haunted by the version of yourself you wish you were.  This films about a guy like that going on an adventure so crazy he can’t help but think he’s dreaming. He’s finally able to live up to this perfect version of him. It’s a really fun, motivational story and I enjoyed watching it a lot.  I loved how they showed his inner thoughts through his fantasy’s. I really liked the Conan O’Brien taxi scene. There was one particular transition I really liked, where it cuts from the film stock to the water, it looked amazing.  Yeah it was a really nice watch, a really good film, good acting, fun motivational story and a really well shot film, nothing really to fault about it, I really enjoyed.  8.6/10

Playground 2021

Woah. I’ve never seen a film anything like this before, very impressive and unique. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film from a kid’s perspective filmed as well as this, may be the best film about bullying and even sibling relationships I’ve ever seen.  The main kid is a really good actor, can’t believe they were able to act that well at such a young age. The camera sticks with them the whole time, with some really long takes just of their face where they show so much emotion, it’s honestly quite impressive.  The whole film is filmed from the height of a kid, the only time we go up to the height of an adult is when she climbs up to them, we relate to them more than any adult in this and I just think it’s a perfect way to show the brutality of schools and what kids go through. Kids can be so cruel and this really shows that, but even the main character can be quite cruel at times, but it’s all out of self preservation and seeing it all from her perspective was quite an experience.  The relationship between her and her brother is really interesting as well, it feels so real and scary, as you view it all through the innocence of a child, it makes you feel so powerless and it’s terrifying, very anxiety inducing.  The final shot had me tearing up a little too, I loved the ending. This is one of the most unique films I’ve seen in a while, though some of the long takes did start to bore me a little, it was all very well done and I think it was a really good film.  I would recommend.  8.5/10

Happening 2021

One of the more uncomfortable viewing experiences I’ve had. This almost feels like a horror film, it’s terrifying. The films set in the 60s and it’s about a girl who gets pregnant and they don’t want to keep it, but abortion is illegal.  Some of the stuff she had to go through was terrifying, there were so many scenes I found really hard to watch. The fact girls have had to and still have to go through all that is so sad and scary.  You stick with her the whole time and follow her frightening journey and watch the lengths she has to go through in order to keep living her life. It’s amazing how a film can make you understand people’s experiences you could never hope to understand otherwise and it’s again just quite scary to watch.  I don’t think I’d ever watch this again, but it was a good film.  7.6/10

Fool's Paradise 2023

As I expected I loved this film. Charlie day is truly one of the best comedic actors I’ve ever seen, the protagonist doesn’t even speak throughout the whole film yet I was consistently laughing out loud the whole time.  I feel like if your a fan of Charlie you just will like this, with lots of cool always sunny actors appearing along with the horrible bosses lot and Ken Jeong as one of the main characters.  It’s such a simple yet smart idea, having a character who doesn’t talk and just goes along with everything, reacting along with us to the craziness of the situations he manages to get himself in to. It was so funny, the physical comedy is top tier and Charlie day is one of the funniest actors I’ve ever seen.  Some of the shots were really nice, in particular I liked the shots of him under water in the swimming pool, some of the shots of him running around at night or lying on a park bench, just all looked really nice. There was also a shot from the perspective of the free champagne tray walking around the party which I really liked as I think it suited the film a lot.  I saw lots of bad reviews for this, but Charlie day being my favourite actor, I was never not going to like it. Was too exited and I guess the bad reviews helped by lowering by expectations, probably made me like it more. But I was never not gonna like this Charlie is too funny and talented, always sunny is my favourite show of all time and it wouldn’t be without him in it. He brings so much to every role he is in making every single character he plays extremely likeable. New always sunny episodes out now!! And blackberry next which has a lot better reviews and I am a big fan of the director Matt Johnson so can’t wait for that.  I loved the character of latte pronto, it was like a silent film star got thrown in to modern day Hollywood. Also the fact he doesn’t speak makes him feel like the audience, just reacting to all the craziness going on around him, every now and then it would cut to him sitting somewhere really random with an uncomfortable look on his face and it never failed to make me laugh.  Charlie started taking notes for this film almost 10 years ago in 2014, I heard about it a long time ago and I never thought the day would come where I finally get to watch it. I pray Charlie day directs again and I will be here to watch it no matter how long it takes.  There’s a limit to how good a film like this can be with a protagonist who doesn’t talk, but I think it’s hilarious and I loved it, the ending is so good aswell.  8.4/10

The Little Mermaid 2023

I was moderately excited to see this film. I remember it being announced so long ago and it’s weird to finally have it in the cinemas. I never liked little mermaid much as a kid and this film helped me remember why. There is a lot I do like about it, the music is up there behind lion king as some of the best Disney music, but all of the good songs are in the first 3rd of the film, really it’s mostly under the sea and part of your world that are the only songs I love, and Halle Bailey’s singing was amazing, was finding it hard not too sing along to part of your world, was really good I enjoyed it. Another song that I don’t remember from the original was Eric’s song which I also really liked.  Sebastian didn’t look great but his voice actor saved him making him one of the best characters, he did really well considering what he was working with. When kiss the girl was starting I was in the toilet and ran back in to hear it.  As a kid other than the fact that I found Ursula terrifying, I didn’t like this film coz the main character didn’t speak for half of it and I found it a little boring, watching this I do agree with young me, it did get a bit boring, but it has its moments and I love the music, even the weird rap song was kinda entertaining. I usually find awkwafina quite annoying but she was funny with this and suited the role I think.  Yeah but the film was slightly boring but good music, and good acting and had some funny moments, a good live action adaptation I think but I’d obviously rather rewatch the original. The ending was kinda ridiculous and felt a bit much. Think Jen laughing at it made it too dumb for me and ruined it. As she said in her review “Funniest moment was when Eric and Ariel were leaving at the end and her dad just popped up like 🧍🏼‍♀️ I loudly said URM! Also by the end of it she’s not a mermaid so I don’t know why they keep referring her to a mermaid as if she didn’t just reject her own species.” she did say Urm out loud and it made me realise how dumb the ending was, also I’d just come back from the toilet again so was really confused and it all felt kinda dumb. She also said that she’s not a mermaid out loud.  I think it’s fair enough Disney are remaking everything in live action. As someone who loves Disney and likes animation over live action, I am finding it fun to see them made into live action. Not sure why everyone’s so mad about them making them, I can understand them not wanting to watch them, but seeing these amazing animated films brought to life, im finding quite fun, people always say that Disney should be making original content instead, but it’s not like they aren’t also making other new stuff, I think seeing all the live action stuff is cool and I will be watching more of them.  6.6/10

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse 2023

I honestly believe, into the spiderverse is one of the best films of all time. I’m sure very few people would agree with me because of all the amazing films out there but this is one of my favourites, no films come close for me in terms of the animation and soundtrack, even the voice acting. It sparked a new wave of animated films that look so good with puss in boots and the new ninja turtles film. I went into this with mostly excitement due to my expectations being so high but also with doubt that they can replicate the amount of emotion I experienced when watching the first one. But at the very least this was guaranteed to be an amazing looking film with lots of cool cameos.  I feel really underwhelmed, the film was amazing, obviously looked incredible, lots of cool spider people and I’m sure the next one will be good but, it was a part one of two, and I honestly don’t know how much I can love a film that doesn’t have an ending. The fight sequence was so cool and it was all really good, there were a couple of cameos that were unexpected and made me smile but i won’t spoil any of them for you.  The good thing about having a 2 parter is they flesh out all the characters way more, we really get to know his mum and Gwen, with some new additions to the spider team that really worked, such as Daniel kaluuya as spider punk and Andy Samberg as Scarlett spider. I really liked spot too, he was funny, though Oscar Isaac was the real antagonist and he was predictably really good also. Spot was funny and kinda like an underdog villain which was cool, he was one of the villains in one of the first comic books I ever bought, the mark wade daredevil series, so I was really happy seeing him in this. Honestly jake Johnson as Peter is my favourite Spider-Man so I wish he was in this more but nice to see him nonetheless. Lego Spider-Man was nice to see also, made me laugh. Gwens dad was nice to meet aswell, honestly so much cool things that happened, but overall the film is let down by the fact it doesn’t have an ending, it was amazing to watch and really well made, but didn’t effect me as much emotionally as the first film did, but that’s because we never get to see the emotional climax that I’m sure would have had me hiding in my seat crying my eyes out just like I do every time I watch the first film.  Good film, but only half of a good film, can’t give it my full opinion for another year which is very annoying, but I’m still happy I got to see it.  The film has No After Credits for anyone planning on sitting till the end.  Cameo spoilers  I wanna talk about the cameos but there will be major spoilers here.  Live action Donald glover showing up made me so happy. Fun fact about miles morales if you didn’t already know, there’s a show Donald glover (childish gambino) is in called community which is a great show. Donald glover wanted to be cast as Spider-Man so In an episode of community called anthropology 101, he wore a Spiderman costume, which led to marvel writer, Brian Michael Bendis to create Miles Morales. Donald glover was literally the inspiration for miles and it was so cool to see him pop up in the film. In the first film, I could be wrong but I think it’s in his uncles house, there’s a tv playing in the background which shows the very scene in community of Donald glover wearing his Spider-Man PJs. He also went on to play Miles’ uncle in the film Spiderman homecoming, where while being Interrogated by Tom Hollands Spider-Man, he references his nephew. So yeah, was pretty cool to see him as the prowler in live action, was probably my favourite cameo of the film.  That scene and all the over live action cameos are all live action on top of animation, which works, it’s a little weird but because of the animation style it works. There’s actually one scene where spot sticks his head into a lady’s corner shop, which is the lady from venom, her not being shocked by the weird shit happening is obviously a reference to her seeing weird shit from venom all the time and being desensitised, but yeah this scene is I think the only scene in the film that is fully live action with animation over the top, which probably should feel a lot weirder than it did but I don’t know it really worked.  Andrew Garfield and Toby McGwire. Very pointless cameos and it just takes a projection of scenes from their films, but always nice to see andrews Spider-Man in the big screen. A lot of the cameos were like this, basically pointless but nice to see anyway, would have liked it if the play station Spiderman had a bigger role but I wasn’t really expecting him to so it’s fine. None of the cameos effect the plot at all they are just there as little treats for us which is quite nice.  My rating will change one I watch the next one I’m sure  8.4/10 After credits 0/10 there weren’t

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. 2023

½

Mean girls for kids  Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is a film directed by Kelly Fremon Craig, who is known for directing the 2016 coming of age film, The Edge of Seventeen, a film that I remember enjoying when I was younger. I was excited about watching this, it’s based on the Judy Blume novel of the same name which I had never heard of, but when I was walking in to watch it one of my co workers told me it was their favourite book as a kid which made me more excited to watch it.  I liked seeing how they handled the topic of religion, it was really interesting to look at it from a kids view, having parents of different religions and forced into conflicting beliefs by different members of her family, was really interesting for a coming of age film and I found all the scenes with her talking to god really compelling.  I also really liked Rachel McAdams, she was an incredibly likeable character and she is becoming one of my favourite actresses at the moment. Some of the stuff that happened with her character made me cry and my friend made fun of me but I don’t care because it was sad. She was probably the best character of the film.  I don’t think they did too good of a job with the side characters, some of them were good but to me a lot of their characters at the end felt rushed or unresolved. It made the whole ending to me feel weirdly rushed and formulaic. It kinda felt like the blonde girl couldn’t show up to any more scenes so they just decided her character didn’t matter anymore, she was actually quite interesting and I thought they could have done something better with her character but just made her kinda into the bad character even though I really don’t think she did anything wrong. She deserved a better ending I think. Also the tall girl who didn’t at all look believably 12 created a really predictable plot point that still felt kinda rushed at the end to me.  I liked the soundtrack a lot and the acting was good. Was a nice story and I did enjoy it quite a bit. It wasn’t amazing but I think it’s a good film.  I didn’t like the grandma, her character was good but what she did when she showed up uninvited to crash the reunion of Rachel McAdams and her parents, starting an argument that upset Margaret and ruined a nice evening was out of order. The parents were awful aswell but I do think if anything what they did, though terrible was influenced by their religion which is exactly what I think the film addresses really well and that was my favourite part about it.  7.0/10

White Men Can't Jump 2023

½

I watched white men can’t jump a while ago and it was a good film, what I liked about it most was the basketball and the interesting way of tackling addiction. The main character was a gambling addict and that was his main flaw that made his life such a mess. This film doesn’t have that, they took the film and took out what made it great, making a kinda cool basketball film where we all got to see if Jack Harlow could act, and I think he did a good job. He was pretty perfect for the role I think, mostly because of his comedic acting being quite good. Was interesting to see him in the role. What the film does to replace the depth lost from cutting out important elements of the original, is we get quite an emotional relationship between Kamal and his father, making his character I think a bit better, however, though I think Sinqua Walls was good in the role, he brought no where near as much as Wesley Snipes did to the original film, making the original character much far superior.  Again I didn’t mind Jack Harlow, but everything about his character was better in the original, his relationship with his girlfriend wasn’t as interesting or important, he also has a happy ending which I don’t think he did in the original. It’s a different film, it’s more happy and a cool basketball film but doesn’t have as much depth as the first one, though I did enjoy watching it nonetheless.  Andrew Schulz was in it and his character was very cringe but it was still a little nice to see him.  To be honest just watch the original, some of my least favourite things about the original aren’t in this so I liked watching it because of that, but also all the things I liked the most aren’t present either which far outweighs the bad, there’s no reason to watch this over the original, except if u were maybe a massive Jack Harlow fan.  7.3/10

Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance 2009

Evangelion is like the breaking bad of anime’s for me. It’s not my favourite but I think it’s probably the best I’ve ever seen. This wasn’t any different, just so cool.  Currently typing this review on my phone on which I have an Evangelion case.  Not too much to say about this it’s just like the series but a little worse, there’s some new characters and I think it ends differently but I’m excited for the next one as I’m pretty sure it’s completely different and I’m even more excited for 3.0 + 1.0.  I definitely recommend this film, but recommend the series more as this is just one of the remake films, it’s basically the same as the show but the next two films have alternate endings, but I haven’t watched them yet.  Asuka is in this one which makes it slightly better and slightly more annoying than the first one. The ending is epic. Not much else to say it’s just (a remake of) a classic. 8.0/10

Return to Seoul 2022

Didn’t like this film much, the cinematography was beautiful but I found the protagonist to be unlikable and the story to boring and a little confusing. There were too many time skips. I came out of it with a lot of questions. Which is probably because I wasn’t paying enough attention and they probably all have simple answers to them but my friends I watched it with walked away with the exact same ones.  What happened with her dad in the taxi scene ? I don’t get it.  What happened with the mum? I don’t get it.  Where was she at the end?  Who was that girl at her party and who was the guy?  Why’d she randomly break up with her boyfriend like that and why did it cut to her sleeping on the street?  Why did she become a weapons dealer?  Honestly I was just bored and confused the whole time and the more bored I got the less I payed attention which just made me more confused which made me more bored.  Protagonist was just kinda annoying. Thought I would like this film but I just didn’t.  5.6/10

Hermercury 2023

Been a big fan of Jamie’s films since he released Gonzo last year. I loved Gonzo, it’s a very good film and it even inspired me to make my own improv film as well as another filmmaker that Jamie recommended to me who was a very clear inspiration for Gonzo, Joel Haver. He then released Dog Play Weekend which I also loved, and now we have the third film in the Gonzo trilogy, Hermercury, which I’m pretty sure is inspired by a short film Jamie made of the same title.  The cinematography in these films can be a little off putting at times, but I think Jamie’s got a very specific style that really works for him, and it’s a style I’ve grown to really like after watching all three of these now.  After seeing that a very large portion of this film is made up of Jamie doing all the voices and making his hands talk to each other I thought maybe this would be the first of the three films I didn’t like, but again it really works for him and I liked it a lot, which I think is largely to do with his editing. His voices are really funny and I found it really interesting to see Jamie play a mythological character rather than just a real person, it was really interesting seeing that same awkward character that I liked so much in the other films, but the idea of Hermes being that same awkward person. It’s funny and smart and I liked it a lot.  I felt like The hand stuff went on for a bit too long, but it is consistently funny and kept making me laugh. “Omg I forgot to take off the hat”. Also at a certain point the film became a story within a story within a story within a story within a film within a film which was quite funny.  I think it’s a really nice film about feeling out of place in the world and not knowing who you are. Going off on your own without anyone to make every decision for you is a scary thing, and I think it’s something that all 3 of these films address quite well, by the way Jamie ended this it seemed like he actually was Hermes, or that this film was the same as the film Hermes made in order to figure some stuff out about himself, which feels really personal and deep and I love it.  There was a shot of him walking that went on for a while and I didn’t fully understand why. But when the camera finally zooms out showing the whole building it was a really cool shot and a nice moment in the film.  Watching a feature film made independently and put on YouTube may be less easy to go for than to stick something randomly on from Netflix, but I think Jamie’s really talented and these films have interesting messages and I can’t wait to see what he does next so I really do recommend these films to anyone who is willing to watch them. Maybe start with Gonzo and see what you think, they are funny, they feel very real and they always get quite deep and emotional somewhere towards the end. Another great film from Jamie.  Please watch this, it has so much effort put into it and I think it really deserves your time.  7.8/10

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 2023

½

“Open the fucking door”  We are in a new area of superhero fatigue. Every mcu film to come out as of recent I’ve hyped up for myself and always liked them, even though everyone else hated them. I think I’ve been in constant denial about the state of the mcu at the moment. But then we have guardians 3.  Before I left to go see this film my roommate asked me, “what are you gonna do if the films not good” in which I replied “probably give up on the mcu”. this was the final straw in the marvel cinematic universe, and oh my god it paid off.  This was my favourite mcu film. Maybe that’s recency bias, but I honestly don’t think so, I have never experienced such a rollercoaster of emotions as I did with this film, and though as a film it’s overall reputation will be tainted due to it being a superhero film, I genuinely think this was an incredible film. I don’t think I’ve ever cried this much in the cinema in general (baring everything everywhere all at once) let alone for a superhero film. The feelings I experienced in the cinema watching this were on par with watching some of my favourite films of all time.  The way some of the character arcs were closed off, in every single one of the guardians, was incredibly done and I think James Gunn is a genius and I can fully understand why he was basically given the dcu. He really knows how to write the perfect superhero film. Adam warlock was a character I was quite excited to see as I love the character and Will Poulter, and throughout the film I felt as though he was quite underutilised and not developed too well, but by the end of the film even his character had me crying. The final act it was emotional blow after emotional blow, not all the jokes landed but some made me stop trying to contain my laughter and had me fully laughing out loud.  I fell in love with this film as soon as it began, almost feel like it’s a spoiler to tell you what song plays but it’s one of my favourites and rocket was listening to it and it set up the tone of the film and fixed how much end game messed up quills character in one sequence. I love crossovers more than anything but I feel like every single decision made about the guardians in other marvel projects should have been run by James Gunn first.  The villain, the high evolutionary, probably one of the best villains we’ve had in the mcu, his acting was amazing and I loved how much he tied in with rockets backstory it made him such a great antagonist.  The best mcu film in my opinion, maybe even my favourite super hero film of all time. The guardians are better than the avengers. I loved this so much I actually don’t wanna see it again right away as I don’t wanna spoil the experience I just had. I’ve been a big fan of the mcu for a while, since avengers came out in 2012 I’ve seen every single mcu film in the cinemas, and that was definitely the best experience I’ve ever had watching one.  Also can’t end this without commenting on how incredible of a character rocket is I love that little raccoon so much. But Peter, nebula, gamora, mantis and drax all had such satisfying endings to their story as well. End game made them seem less cool, but James Gunn has now cemented them as the best superhero team of all time.  8.8/10 After credits 9/10

Sick of Myself 2022

I enjoyed this, it was a very uncomfortable watch and I usually don’t like films with such an unlikable protagonist, but I found her really interesting. The weird games she played with her boyfriend, was like a weird game of sociopathic relationship chess. Seeing the lengths she would go through to get attention and sympathy, felt like a quite exaggerated version of a lot of real people. And at the end after she’s fucked up that much but still views herself as her own victim, it was really interesting and very real. The film was quite funny but I was mostly laughing at how insane she was.  Enjoyed this a lot more than I had expected though, kinda reminded me of the worst person in the world except I actually liked it. Was a fun experience seeing this at the cinema with my friend. Think it was very well written and I enjoyed some of the cinematography as well.  8.0/10

Miss Congeniality 2000

½

Once my friend pointed out how much Sandra Bullock looked like Michael Jackson I couldn’t unsee it for the rest of the film.  My favourite part was when she didn’t have a talent so she went on stage and started singing “beat it”.  Very fun, early 2000s film. Really liked the Long Island girl. Was a bit generic at times but in a fun enjoyable way.  Don’t really like that it’s about a beauty pageant but it was a fun premise and I liked Sandra Bullock’s character by the end.  7.2/10

How to Blow Up a Pipeline 2022

Always fun going into a film knowing absolutely nothing about it, not even having seen a poster, and loving it. Had 0 expectations, when the film started I went in without an open mind and was bored instantly, wishing I was at home playing minecraft instead of being at the cinema, I even considered taking a nap, but the film was so good it managed to draw me in and I ended up really enjoying it.  The editing was probably my favourite part, and the way they structure the flashback scenes. There’s one cut when they are destroying some evidence and are planning it in the flashback and a character asks if it’ll take weeks and it cuts to them blowing up a house, probably my favourite cut of the film and very memorable. There were also bits were I almost gasped, as the film kept cutting from big shocking moments that make you jump straight into a flashback, I really like how all the flashbacks were done and I think every single character was quite interesting and most of them where quite likable.  The acting and individual characters were the films other strengths, it wasn’t the kinda film I would usually like but it managed to keep me engaged and I really love films with a 4:3 aspect ratio.  Don’t care about all the environmental stuff, which is probably quite bad and would basically make me a villain of the film but I think films usually tackle environmental issues in quite a portentous way, but despite one slightly annoying character, this was ok.  Good film, glad I watched, would maybe even watch again some day but probably not.  8.3/10

Tetris 2023

½

I didn’t love this film but if the story is true it’s incredibly interesting. I was fascinated by the true story the whole time and I can see why it got adapted into a film, I also think Taron Egerton is a great actor, I loved him in kingsman and rocket man and he was pretty good in this. Again the story was insane and very interesting that all of that happened over the licensing rights to Tetris, though it was hard to believe at times, I don’t remember the history lesson in secondary school where we learnt that Tetris caused the collapse of the Soviet Union.  I did some research (watched a YouTube video) into the subject and it turns out the film is mostly true, it’s just some of the stuff in Russia with the KGB that was massively dramatised/ made up to make the film more interesting which makes sense considering without it all you have is a film about licensing rights and contracts, but personally I think that stuff was the most interesting part and the stuff in Russia felt a bit too much. For example the character of Sasha was boring and uninteresting and she wasn’t even a real person. The actual story on its own is very interesting and it was fun to learn about but I didn’t actually enjoy watching the film itself.  6.6/10

Baked in Brooklyn 2016

A film about a guy who starts a new relationship and has to make some money as he gets fired from his old job so starts to sell weed to give him inspiration for his writing while trying not to make his new girlfriend mad at him. Sounds like a really good idea, main problem was the main character was like an uncharismatic version of Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network and the relationship is the worst relationship ever. The girl was like too perfect and he’s a dumb asshole who treats her like shit, was just hoping she dump him for half the movie.  Acting was bad and main character seriously unlikable. The ending of the film is him going up to the girl and kissing her right in front of her boyfriend which is an asshole move.  6.0/10

Champions 2023

I went in to champions mostly hopeful of two things, it to be a wholesome asf movie and just Kaitlin Olson. It was indeed wholesome and it did indeed have Kaitlin Olson, so overall I liked it. Characters are all really good and though the basketball side of it and the relationship between Kaitlin Olson and Woody Harrelson I didn’t love, since every character on the basketball team was so cool and likeable I did enjoy the film.  It was a little predictable and them getting that good at basketball after how horribly all the training sessions went seemed a little unrealistic, but it is based on a true story so maybe I’m wrong.  I found the “your no McConaughey” joke kinda funny considering what’s happening at the moment with them maybe possibly being related.  Every single character on the team was unique in there own way and I found them all to be really cool and likeable. Wholesome asf and has my favourite actress in it.  7.9/10

Funny Pages 2022

½

Weird film. I don’t think there’s a single relatable or even likeable character in this. The main guy is a bully, spends the film looking for some random failed artist who is also a bully and just a bad person and then there’s one quite eventful day and the film just ends. Feels like not much happened, it’s just about a point kid who’s a bit of a dick, it felt like there’s a bunch of elements like the death of his mentor or his artwork that could have been really interesting but all of it just fell flat for me and I didn’t really enjoy it.  The film felt a bit uncomfortable and there wasn’t too much to like about it, went in expecting more for some reason but it was an incredibly forgettable film that I already find myself forgetting. Good thing I have letterbox as a reminder I watched it and didn’t like it at all.  5.5/10

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always 2023

½

Why watch John wick 4 for the action when a power rangers reunion just came out.  Yeah this was truly awful. I don’t know why I expected it to be good it is power rangers at the end of the day.  Since it won’t take too long, I’ll start by saying the things I liked about it. It was a nice tribute to the rangers actors who had sadly passed away and I really liked the ending where they were all singing together as it was a little emotional.  Everything else is a negative really. All I want, is for a reunion film like this to know its audience. I get that power rangers is for kids but everyone that cares these old people who are all terrible actors are back, are all also older now, imagine if they made a more mature power rangers reunion film that was really dark and made for adults, could have been incredible.  But yeah this was worse than actually power rangers, it felt like it was made during quarantine with only 3 or 4 actual characters who all felt stiff and uncomfortable. Even though it’s been a long time since the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers the effects haven’t gotten any better and the editing was awful. There was a really nice tribute at one point to the yellow ranger that I laughed through because it was done with a really weird zoom on the characters eye that looked dreadful.  The yellow rangers daughter was one of the worst and cringiest actors I have ever seen. I know it’s power rangers and I shouldn’t expect it to be amazing, but I have rewatched power rangers recently and fuck it it is good shit I don’t care. This is not good and I don’t know why I expected it to be but I feel like it could have been so much better. 1.0/10

Suzume 2022

Was kinda nervous going in to this as it was like I was waiting to find out if my favourite anime director is actually a good director and if he could ever make anything as good as your name again. Obviously this wasn’t as good as your name, but I think it might be his second best, really enjoyed it and so glad I got the chance to see it at the cinema.  Shinkai never misses with the soundtracks, loved it. And this film has a very strong female protagonist which weathering with you was heavily lacking. The story seemed a bit simple, but there were some funny moments with the cat and the chair, I think it all comes together at the end really nicely making it overall a much better film, but throughout most of the film I did think the plot didn’t have enough to it and it felt a little plain and boring. Though the ending was so good it makes up for it. It had me crying a little. Poor daijin, I wish the guy died instead of the cat. I do think it was a little forced how this girl was literally willing to give her life for a guy she didn’t actually know that well, but it was a cute story and as always the animation is incredible.  8.0/10

The Lego Movie 2014

½

The Lego movie is amazing.  Charlie Day is in it. SPACESHIP! Favourite character.  The film gets deep and emotional, it’s funny and the animation is really cool. So many recognisable voices. Will Arnett as Batman.  Alison Brie. Morgan Freeman. Liam Neeson. Nick Offerman. Channing Tatum. Jonah Hill. Cobie Smulders. Jake Johnson. Key. Will Forte. Shaq. Will Ferrell. Dave Franco.  Probably one of the best kids films ever, I remember seeing it at the cinema when I was younger. Haven’t seen it in a while but I will always love this film. Everything is awesome. This film is awesome.  The duplo ending is pretty funny. Masterpiece.  Made me tear up but had to hold back my crying at risk of embarrassment from Jenifer. If I watched this by myself I would have had a good cry tho.  8.6/10

Departures 2008

Been meaning to watch this for a while and I finally sat down with my friend and got forced to watch it. Glad I did. The topics and themes covered in this film were very deep and I found that to be my favourite part of the film. The whole things about death and mortality, in watching it, I found myself thinking a lot about death. I started asking my friend about whether or not he would work with dead bodies (if the pay was good of course). He said no and so did I after I saw the scene of him entering the old lady’s house 2 weeks after she’d died. (Made me feel a bit queasy) But I did really put some thought into it. Working with dead bodies would be terrifying at first surely, but the idea of death is something that scares us all, and coming to terms with your personal relationship with death, like the main character did in this film, I think would be quite healthy. I was sitting there watching the film thinking about how we are all gonna die, which is something that is hard to accept, but it is something each individual person in the world has in common, we all have to come to terms with the fact we will all one day die on our own. I think I have come to terms with the fact one day I will die, but I think it’s the idea that that day could be any day including today that still scares me. Death is sudden and unexpected, and that to me is the scariest part about it. A lot of people die in this film and it is often unexpected which feels very real and very scary. Sorry for the rant about death this film just made me think a lot which is what I think was so good about it. There were lots of other interesting themes explored on top of this one, the film really makes you think which is why I think the writing is so beautiful. The soundtrack was nice and worked very well with the film. The whole film was about music in a way so every time he played his instrument it was very nice, the scene from the poster where he plays in the middle of the field looked amazing.  I liked the stuff with his father a lot, how he views his father who walked out on him with so much hate, but because of this new job and his new outlook on life and death, he was able to mend that relationship in some ways which I thought was very interesting. I like all the stuff with the rock too the ending was perfect.  “Long ago, before writing, you'd send someone a stone that suited the way you were feeling. From its weight and touch, they'd know how you felt. From a smooth stone they might get that you were happy, or from a rough one that you were worried about them.” a slightly different review for a slightly different film.  8.4/10

Ruby Sparks 2012

I enjoyed this quite a bit, Paul Dano is one of my favourite actors and I always love seeing Zoe Kazan too who apparently wrote this film aswell.  The concept was really cool and interesting, I think I just like films about writers, kinda felt like a less intense version of adaptation. The pacing and editing was really good and I really enjoyed the writing and acting. The scene where he reveals his power over her is super creepy and well done, I also loved how realistic the reaction to her showing up is from him and his brother.  Lots of actors I recognised popped up, puss in boots, Karen Paige and Alan partridge. Was quite cool.  Overall this was very similar to the kind of film I would love to make some day, enjoyed watching it a lot. The whole idea of writing your perfect partner onto paper, but dating that same girl in real life and struggling to keep a stable relationship even though you have to power to change anything you want about her at all times is really interesting. I liked the ending, idk if it was the best decision to have it end like that due to his character becoming rather unlikable after some of the things he did, but he gets a fresh start after some character development and I like that. I also liked when he spoke with the ex and she said that he only wanted to date himself and that is effectively what he ended up doing with ruby, dating his ideal girl that he wrote, it’s all very interesting and fun to read into.  8.0/10

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves 2023

I had reasonably high expectations for this film and it met them perfectly. Extremely fun with great world building and characters. It could be quite funny and times and quite emotional, it was a little predictable and wasn’t anything amazing but it was just a solid, fun film that I took my roommates to see at the cinema knowing full well all of us would enjoy it and we did.  My favourite character was Simon, I think that’s his name anyway the magic guy, found the magic to be really cool. Have never personally played dungeons and dragons but I would really like to as it seems a lot of fun.  A couple of quite cool flip shots that stood out to me. All the characters worked and all had good chemistry. Just an enjoyable experience all around and I have nothing bad to say about it.  7.6/10

The Super Mario Bros. Movie 2023

As soon as I found out Charlie day was in this it became one of my most anticipated films of the year. I’ve had film shoots the last 3 days and now I finally had a break, and I celebrated by watching Mario. Sitting in the cinema I found myself almost tearing up because of how cool the film was. The soundtrack was the best thing ever, the animation looked so nice and Charlie day was in it. Jack Black was quite funny as Bowser and everything that excited me about the film paid off, they managed to reference so many of the Mario games, I haven’t seen the last of us but I truly believe this is one of the coolest video game adaptations of all time.  The story however was not so good, it felt very simple and predictable and something about the way it was structured just felt off to me. I don’t like how it was written, it felt like it was written just for kids, which to be fair it is a kids film but after puss in boots a kids film has no excuse to have such a boring story, especially one that a lot of adults who grew up with Mario were excited for.  Wasn’t a fan of the writing, but the soundtrack almost made up for it, every time a song from super Mario bros played I got so happy. And the cinematic Dun dun dun dunununununun nun. I know those dun nuns don’t mean much to you in writing form but in my head they sound very cool.  Overall I knew I would like this, and everything I wanted to see from it was really good, but as a film it’s not so good because of the writing, but if ur excited to just see Mario and hear some Mario music then you shouldn’t let the writing put you off, I’m still gonna see it again. The best part about the story I would say is Mario and Luigi’s relationship. Luigi’s always been my favourite Mario character and now that my favourite actor has voiced him in the film I may even get a Luigi tattoo. Unfortunately Luigi wasn’t in it much and it just felt like they could have made it so much better if they had expanded on this relationship which was already one of the films best aspects.  Still cool tho.  7.6/10 Was gonna give it a 7.5 but one extra decimal point for Charlie day.  After credits 4/10 (felt very unnecessary, needlessly setting up another film in a way that feels very forced, just teasing one of the only characters we missed out on in this film, doesn’t really leave me wanting more. First after credits of bowser were kinda funny tho)

Paddington 2 2017

½

Heard Paddington 2 was one of the greatest kids films of all time. Rewatched the first one as I was so excited to watch it. Preferred the first one.  I love Peter Capaldi and the bear is so wholesome. Loved the ending. Maybe just because I was distracted or maybe because I never prefer sequels to the originals, but didn’t love this as much.  Still a solid kids film with some good jokes, but I just didn't care as much about the characters in this film. Feel like the first one was much better.  “It’s not J dog anymore, it’s Jonathan Brown, and I like steam trains”  7.2/10 My 4th film of the month, been pretty bad this month

Shazam! Fury of the Gods 2023

I wasn’t too hyped about this film, but I liked the first Shazam film and I love Zachary Levi as he was in one of the first tv shows I binge watched called chuck. If anyone’s seen chuck I’d love to talk about it with someone coz it was me of my favourite shows and no one’s seen it. I also really like Freddie’s character and the older version of him is played by Adam brody who is another actor I like a lot, who was in a show called the O.C. I also really respect the director as he’s a YouTuber who continued to made videos after he made it big so check out pony smasher on YouTube as his videos are really good.  In my opinion… huge step down from the first film. It wasn’t awful, but to me the first one felt like it was a different kind of superhero film, bringing something new to an already oversaturated genre, but in comparison this feels really generic and boring.  I don’t think I like the superhero family stuff, there’s too many of them it feels messy and all over the place. The villains were kinda mid, tho I did like seeing Freddie and Anne as Freddie is just kinda the best character.  I like Levi, but I also quite like Billy’s actor too, and it feels like we barley see him in this, he’s always in superhero form and it really misses out on what could have been some good character development for him with him turning 18 and leaving the foster care system, but they made his character really boring in this which is annoying as him and Freddie were what made the first one so great, not just the cool super hero, it was about the foster kid looking for his mum and finding a family, in this film it felt like they cared about making a generic superhero film more than giving any development to Billy’s character, and with the whole family having powers now it all just feels a bit too much and didn’t work for me anywhere near as much as the first one did.  One thing that bugs me about Billy as well, the fact Zachary Levi acts like a child, I know that’s the gimmick as he’s a kid that turns into a man, but in this Billy is nearly 18 years old and feels more like an adult when he’s in his younger self, just feels a bit weird. I would have liked to see just one scene of regular billy interacting with the villain rather than just Freddie. Freddie is a great character on his own, imagine if he stayed in super hero form the whole time it would have been such a waste, yet they do the same thing with billy just because he’s the main character it’s just kind of annoying.  Cool dragons and stuff I guess.  5.9/10 After credits  7/10

Women Talking 2022

They weren’t kidding.  Women talking was better than I thought it would be. I liked all the stuff in the barn, I love films about groups of people having a conversation like 12 angry men so that aspect of it I quite liked and there was some good acting at points.  Everything else I just found boring, really not my kind of film, quite slow and uninteresting. There were good characters and some stuff I liked but overall I would much rather have been watching cocaine bear.  Frances’s mcdormand was good in the 5 minutes She was in.  6.5/10

Broker 2022

I really enjoyed this. The plot was described to me pretty poorly by my friend and I was expecting this to be a wholesome family film and it was kinda the opposite, but it still was in an entirely different way than I expected, a film about a family.  Was lucky enough to see a Q and A with the director (not in person obviously), I’ve had masterclasses before that felt really similar but never been to a proper q&a before and it was a really nice experience. I’ve never seen anything by the director before but I instantly like him a lot and will definitely be watching shoplifters and some of his other films soon.  My friend I watched this with was bawling their eyes out at the end and I can’t say it got me that much, but it was a very emotional film and I did find myself tearing up a little towards the end.  The characters were really interesting, I love the relationship between the mother who abandoned her kid and the guy who was abandoned as a kid, seeing their relationship develop and seeing the guy find a little bit of closure with his own mother because of her was really well done and probably my favourite aspect of the film. The Ferris wheel scene was probably my favourite scene of the entire movie. The other guy with a daughter was also a really interesting character, the whole film was about family’s, but it was done in a way I wouldn’t have expected with the whole broker stuff.  Really enjoyed this and I would maybe even watch again. But don’t think I could ever beat seeing it in the cinema, glad I went and watched it. Would recommend to anyone currently looking for a film to watch currently. 8.0/10

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania 2023

½

Antman quantumania is finally here, and I gotta watch it a day early as I work at a cinema. My rating will probably drop as every time I watch an mcu film I get a bit too excited and rate it a little too high, but I really liked this. There was a lot I didn’t like about it, but I think the good kinda over powered the bad, the good being the reason I was exited for the film, the villains.  From early reviews of this film I was a bit excited. Stuff like “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania is an eccentric and essential spectacle, which further expands the possibilities of what the MCU’s tentpole projects can still be capable of.”, but then it was given the second lowest Rotten Tomatoes score after eternals of every mcu film, so I kinda figured what kinda film this would be. People have been hating on the mcu recently, with end game the mcu peaked, and everything they have put out since in comparison has been kinda mid. We are in a bit of a bad era I would agree, but after the peak of the mcu I think that’s ok, it’s setting up new stuff, setting up the next phase, just like phase one all over again we are getting all these new characters, with TV shows and origins and sequels, the mcu is kinda just expanding for the sake of expanding right now and the quality has dropped for a lot of the film, but as someone who has been following the mcu since I was 9 years old I’m all for it and excited to see where it all leads to. We are getting a secret wars film and that’ll hopefully make it all worth it! Unless secret wars is bad in which case I may not be able to continue with the marvel cinematic universe.  Modok I kinda loved. People will probably hate him. Every time he popped on screen I laughed because he looked comedically bad, but it’s modok, he was never gonna look good unless they did a cop out and made him wear the mask the whole time which I’m really glad they didn’t. I don’t think we will see him in anymore films which is a shame as I really like modok but I’m glad we finally gotta see him on the big screen and he did get a little character development.  I can really see why people wouldn’t like this film, it’s a cgi fest that doesn’t really have any qualities as a film that make it on par with some of the top mcu films. I don’t think it’ll help much with the mcu hate that people are justifiably starting to get, but as a massive fan of the mcu, I found it really exciting. The side characters of antman I never really liked, Hank is ok sometimes but I don’t like hope, Cassie or the mum whose name I’ve forgotten. I like Michael Peña but he wasn’t even in this. Scott isn’t even that good of a character and his main motivation being his daughter has become a bit of a worn out character trait in my opinion. Really kinda feels like he’s had no character development after the first film and is exactly the same every time we see him now. But Paul Rudd plays antman and he’s so likeable that it kinda carries the whole character, really a perfect casting. Scott Lang wasn’t that good in this and he hasn’t been that good for a while, but Paul Rudd is amazing.  So the reason this film is good is Jonathan Majors, this is Kang’s film, he’s incredible and I’m exited to see what he has in store for us. I have been so excited for Kang’s entrance into the mcu since before even endgame, and this was it. I like him more than thanos, such a good actor and a really interesting villain, really everything I wanted it to be.  Some of the one off side characters were fun, kinda funny but there were really simple and were kinda useless, I liked the hole guy but we will very likely never see him again and he was just a pointless side character, and there were others even more forgettable that weren’t as fun as him. But overall the quantum realm was fun, again it was a bit of a cgi fest but the overall world they created was pretty well designed and I liked it.  Honestly probably not the best Marvel film and I’m sure people are gonna shit on it, but kang was great, I love the mcu and I think this phase is quite good, excited for future movies and glad I gotta watch it and keep up my streak of seeing every mcu film at the cinema since avengers came out 11 years ago.  I kinda get the whole argument that a lot of directors, most notably Martin Scorsese have made, that marvel films feel like theme park rides and have ruined cinema. Realistically though it’s kinda keeping the movie industry going right now bringing more and more people to the cinema. A film like this that is pretty much entirely cgi, I do get the comparison to a theme park ride, with every shot being filmed in a big green screen studio and the cgi being a little shitty and cheesy. If you don’t wanna view these films as real films I guess that’s fine, but they are, some of them can be kinda lazy and follow a simple and basic formulae, but they are entertaining, they can make you laugh and they can make you cry, we are invested in the characters who all develop and I think as long as people still enjoy and watch them they shouldn’t be looked down on as much. This was a fun film, it wasn’t amazing but I liked it and think it was a fun addition into the mcu.  Also kang.  7.5/10 After credits 8.0/10

White Men Can't Jump 1992

½

They are remaking this film with jack Harlow.  Favourite woody harrelson role, I don’t mind him but don’t always like his acting, but he was good, Wesley snipes was really good too, they both had great chemistry. Fun little basketball film, but also a good film about gambling and addiction. I really like how it ends with him getting everything he wants but then going back to the game, he wins and the end but looses more just from continuing with his addiction.  Fun film. I enjoyed. Exited to see how bad or maybe good the remake is, I will be watching it. Favourite basketball film maybe? It’s about street ball which is more interesting anyway. Maybe after kuruko no baskets film. Favourite basketball film.  Nearly missed watching a film today because of Harry Potter Hogwarts legacy, so my next 8 logs are probably gonna be Harry Potter.  7.5/10

Operation Avalanche 2016

I watched this right after watching first man. This was way more interesting than a film about someone actually going to the moon.  I think I now have a new most anticipated film of the year. Blackberry, directed by Matt Johnson and starring Glenn Howerton. Sorry Barbie maybe if Glen was playing Ken.  A documentary about them faking the moon landing. A film about government conspiracies and friendship. Loved it. A lot of it was really dumb, no way they’d be able to film and there’s loads of historical inaccuracies, but it was such a fun film and I really enjoyed it. I do think the main characters were a little annoying, maybe after seeing Matt Johnson play a school shooter in the dirties I can’t view him in the same way, but just shows how good of an actor he is.  Was watching first man and got a little bored and in the middle of it remembered this film existed and I never finished it, so watched it straight after. The film gets funny and pretty dark and is just a really cool idea, the moon landing being fake is my favourite conspiracy theory so seeing a fake documentary about two people trying to pull it off was a lot of fun. I’d love to see something tonally similar to this but as a regular feature film not in mockumentary style, like first man but the moon landing was actually fake. 7.9/10 My 50th film of the year and it’s only February 8th.

TÁR 2022

Directed by Todd Field  DOP Florian Hoffmeister Editing Monika Willi Casting Simone Bär  Staring Cate Blanchett Nina Hoss Noémie Merlant  When the film started my friend turned to me and said there was a 5 minute opening credits. I assumed they were joking or exaggerating. Or maybe there would be something interesting over the top of the credits. But no, there was a black screen and we all had to sit through what felt like over 5 minutes of credits at the start of the film. I almost starting laughing at how weird it was as I’ve never seen anything like that before. Start off the film and I already wanted to leave.  You ever watch a film that you feel like was just made for you? This felt like the opposite of that for me. It was very well made, I enjoyed some of the cinematography and Cate Blanchett was very good. A lot of people are obsessed with her I guess but I never really liked her that much, but I respected her acting in this, she was good. The film really just wasn’t for me. It felt really pretentious and was about characters that also felt just as pretentious. I did like her breakdown towards the end and I did find her character quite interesting, but overall, at the risk of personally offending my friends who love this film, I found it really boring and was kinda just waiting for it to end. I wasn’t a fan of the ending but I don’t think I really understood what was going on so maybe it was really good.  Didn’t think the film would be for me but I held out hope considering how much my friends liked it, my friend I watched it with had already seen it before and loved it, really it was kinda exactly what I expected, a good film but not my kinda thing.  5.9/10

Nowhere 1997

Teenage apocalypse trilogy 3/3. This film had the teen aspects of totally fucked up, being described as “90210 on acid” and then all the strange randomness from the doom generation. It was a very weird film. The ending was very strange, it was a bit messed up but in a really random why were your just sitting there like ….. why?  I think it has a bit of a cult following which definitely makes sense. I don’t think the films that good. Because of how random it was I found it kinda hard to keep track of what was going on.  Watched mysterious skin a couple of weeks ago and now I’ve seen 5 Greg Araki films. None of them have come close to mysterious skin but I have enjoyed watching them, partly because of how short and easy to watch they are. I was supposed to watch Babylon today but ended up not going and I just watched 3 films that when added up equal to what is basically Babylon's run time.  The ending felt somewhat similar to how they ended the doom generation with James Duvals character. They tease him with a somewhat happier ending and then give us some weird unexpected ending, except this film it was even more random and unexpected, kinda like a weird joke from Rick and Morty except tonally more depressing and seeing it in live action makes it more messed up.  Didn’t really care about any of the characters. I guess I kinda liked James Duval the best which isn’t great considering how annoying I find him. But after watching 3 of his films in a row I may be warming up to him a little.  If I had to rank all 3 of the films I’d probably put this in the middle.  6.3/10

First Man 2018

½

Was meant to see Babylon today but didn’t so decided to watch another Damien Chazelle film instead.  I don’t think this was a very good biopic, the only character I liked was Neil but I didn’t really like Ryan Gosling in the role. I like the actor tho. Moon landing being fake is like the only conspiracy theory I kinda think could be true, maybe this is all just fiction. The moon stuff was cool, if the moon landing was real this was a film about one of the coolest things ever, I think the stuff on the moon was filmed really well, I really liked how silent it was to empathise how quiet it would have been for Neil Armstrong in space if he actually ever went on the moon.  Found it interesting learning about some of the stuff that happened before the moon landing, like the protests and Neil Armstrong's friends unfortunately being killed. But I didn’t really like anything else about the film. I think I would have liked it more if it focused more on the public's reaction to the space race, as it was an interesting debate, should tax payers dollars be spent on something that seems so important yet pointless at the same time. I think if it focused more on this and on why Neil wants to go to space so bad I would have enjoyed it more. Also none of the family were too interesting and I think it could have done a better job at showing how Neil’s daughter's death affected him. I also found all the drawn out shots of people panicking while in a speeding rocket kinda boring.  I’d like to clarify I was joking I don’t think the moon landing was fake. Think there is a possibility it could have been though.  6.7/10

The Doom Generation 1995

2nd of the teenage apocalypse trilogy I don’t know if weird is the right word to describe this film. Odd maybe? This film was odd. A lot happens in it that I thought was kinda weird and I don’t really get why it was done other than the sake of just being a bit odd. Like the 666 stuff. Everyone recognising the girl.  There’s a lot of shots and edits I really liked in this. I liked the shot with the speech bubbles over both the guys heads. I liked the cut from the bathtub scene to the news warning us of graphic content. I really liked the shot of the two of them at the end after the really messed up stuff happens, sitting there in silence for a minute, as you kinda sit with them processing what just happened. The, what I will keep referring to as “the messed up scene”, if you’ve seen the film you will know what I’m talking about, felt really sudden and weird at the end. But I guess they kinda make it out like somethings gonna happen between the two guys until the very end where they are interrupted by the weird nazi homophobic frat guys.  I think the main girl was a good actor, still don’t like James Duval much. He felt different from the other role in the trilogy in this film, reminded me of a young keanu reeves from bill and ted.  preferred more than totally fucked up, but not by much. Just felt lacking in the story. This was the R rated version though as I couldn’t find the X rated directors cut that’s 12 minutes longer.  A dog dies in this. Find dogs dying hard to watch.  6.3/10

Totally F***ed Up 1993

1st film of the teenage apocalypse trilogy.  This got a little better the longer it went on. I was kinda bored at the start and wasn’t enjoying all the text and interviews. It had a lot of characters and I don’t think any of them were particularly interesting and none of the acting was that good in my opinion. The overall group of kids were interesting as a collective, seeing their struggles with being gay kids in the 90s, but I don’t think I even have a favourite character because I didn’t really care about any of them individually, maybe the ginger girl was my favourite, but that’s just because she’s likeable she doesn’t really do much in the film.  It felt kinda predictable. I also didn’t really fully get what was going on the entire way through. Not sure why everything was being filmed for example.  It was ok, I didn’t hate it, it felt kinda like if skins was made in the 90s and was about gay people. Seeing them hang out and all go through their issues and stuff was ok to watch but nothing in particular stood out as being really interesting, it was all just ok. Too short to really get to know any of the characters properly or care about them. Maybe if it actually was a tv show it would be better. Watched my first ever Greg Araki film this year and this was my third. Still disappointed after finding out he directed 13 reasons why. But mysterious skin was really good.  (Ok according to his IMDb he directed 4 episodes of 13 reasons and 1 episode of riverdale)  6.0/10

"Sr." 2022

Most people know who RDJ is. Mostly because of iron man. But have you ever wondered who Robert Downey Sr is? Maybe you know him already for some of his films, but he definitely isn’t as well known as his son. I looked into him a while ago and added a couple of his films to my watchlist as I found myself wondering who he was, but I still haven’t seen any of them. If you like RDJ or his dad, or you just wanna learn about a filmmakers entire career, this is a good film.  I really liked how it documents Sr's career, and RDJ's. It was interesting learning where they came from and seeing how important filmmaking was to them. It’s also Interesting to the relationship between the two. This film is RDJ's final love letter to his dad. I didn’t realise this at the time but Sr died on the 7th July 2021. This film is incredibly personal and it’s the final homage to one man’s career and his entire life.  It felt so real watching this. It was real. Seeing a man at the end of his life, talk to his son and make one last film about himself after spending his entire life making movies. It was kinda beautiful. I think the film felt a little pretentious because of RDJ, but overall one of my favourite documentaries. Could have gone into more depth about certain subjects, such as the drug stuff, but I respect this film for being a final tribute to someone who has given his life to film making.  Chris smith is really good at making documentaries, this, fyre and Jim and Andy are all really good.  Made the ending sadder coz I didn't know he was gonna die.  7.9/10 Did the maths and I’m on pace to watch 635 films this year. Will probably give up on my film binge soon tho.

The Whale 2022

½

I’ve been exited for the whale for a bit, but I didn’t really care that much. My friends were way more exited than me, all I’ve cared about for a while was puss in boots. But still was looking forward to it and saw it opening weekend. Honestly, it has been a bit since I watched a film that left me that speechless.  First off Brendan Fraser was incredible. I really hope he wins best actor because he deserves it. Knowing some of the stuff he’s been through, this is the best comeback film ever as it’s probably his best role. The acting was incredibly moving.  I love films like this so much, all set in his house and really character focused, with incredible acting and serious topics. Probably the best film about obesity ever and also a generally good film about mental health.  To give you an idea of how emotional this is, I find it slightly harder to cry at the cinema than in the comfort of my own home but I had tears rolling down my face through the final act and the ending really got to me. I turned to my friend after the film finished and all 3 of us were a mess. One of the people I watched it with said  “A film has never made me feel that much”  The whole cinema were crying.  A sign of a good film and a good ending for me is when the credits roll I sit there in silence staring at the credits as I try and process what I just watched. Or sometimes I let out a little laugh at how good it was.  My second favourite film of 2022.  Loved every single character and every single actors performances. I love how much feeling you got from them. Sometimes Brendan Fraser would give a look there’d be so much emotion behind it.  Really just the exact kind of film I like to watch and the exact kind of film I want to make. Very emotional and character focused. Loved the aspect ratio.  The essay, the bucket of chicken, the laptop. So many things I can name that I loved about this. So glad I saw it at the cinema.  Well done Brendan and welcome back.  8.7/10

I’ve seen and reviewed this film before but it’s been a couple of years since I watched it. In its sphere of comedies like this that usually include Seth Rogen or Jonah Hill I think it’s probably one of the best.  The 3 friends dynamic was really funny. So many hilarious one liners.  “You look like Aladdin”  “You don’t have the technology or the steady hands to pull off a procedure like that”  “To people respecting women”  Mclovin is so iconic. The b plot with Seth Rogen and Bill Hader is so funny, maybe even funnier than the party stuff with Michael Cera and Jonah Hill.  Jonah Hills character got kinda annoying but it’s a really good friendship film and both characters are both really funny in their own ways.  Love that their night ends with a calm hang out like every other day and the final scene with the escalators was perfect. 8.0/10 Just re read the last review I did of this film and said “so manny funny one liners” and proceeded to quote my favourite lines just like I did in this review. Which if anything just shows how funny the one liners really are. Also shows I haven’t changed in 2 whole years. The quotes I used that time were “You look like Aladdin” “Prepare to be fucked by the long dick of the law” “Have you ever looked into his eyes? It was like the first time I heard the Beatles.” Proving my favourite line of the film is you look like Aladdin.

Avatar: The Way of Water 2022

One of my main problems with the first film was the villain was really boring and generic, so was excited to see what conflict they would add to this film, but no, the sky people came back and the same exact villain came back but as a blue person. It felt very lazy and I was disappointed, the villain was made slightly more interesting and more nuanced because of the character spider, who is somehow his son, but I still don’t think he was a very good character.  I think they had too many kids, if they had a few less They could have focused a bit more on each of their characters but there was one too many that none of them stood out or were particularly interesting. It was kind of disappointing because some of the characters had potential but none were utilised fully. It was quite a nice family film, but the ending wasn’t as impactful for me because they didn’t make me care as much about one of his kids in particular. (Spoilers)  The water stuff was so beautiful and one of the reasons I wanted to watch this. I love underwater cinematography in films and all the stuff with the animals and the swimming was really nice to look at and watch. the film was long. Proud of myself for not falling asleep. Didn’t drag for me too much as I think it was paced well. I’m a Sucker for films where a guy makes a friendship with an animal especially a water animal (Free Willy)  Bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro bro. They used that word too much. I think this was made more annoying to me coz I read about it before watching the film, but Jesus learn some new words.  Feel bad for the clan, them taking refuge with them and getting them into trouble was kinda predictable and I don’t like films that do that. Also are we just never gonna hear from their old clan again?  Overall enjoyable watch, felt different from the first film in a good way, a lot less generic and I loved the water stuff a lot. I think sully is a good character. I wish it was even more different from the first film, as the whole stuff with the sky people felt very boring and I wish they had different villains for this film. Would be nice in the third one if the marine guy got a little character development and redemption and I really hope he isn’t the villain again the third time around.  Will probably see the third one in the cinemas. If it comes out in my life time. And if I still get free cinema tickets.  8.4/10

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 2022

½

I was very hyped for this. Probably an annoying level of hyped. Wouldn’t shut up about it for a while. Had really unrealistically high expectations. Just from the trailer, the animation looked insanely good and it was, I was smiling the whole film and my expectations were met.  Every frame looked insanely good, the nicest looking film DreamWorks have put out and looks better than anything even Pixar have released. Some of the fight sequences just looked insane.  The villain was very scary and still really likeable and the whole fear of death and being down to his last life was really interesting and made it a lot more than just a beautifully animated film.  Honestly so happy I saw this and I’ll probably see it again, first cinema trip of the year and it’ll be hard to top. Dunno what I have to look forward to now until Mario.  Not the best DreamWorks film as I love how to train your dragon more than anything but it was still incredible and THE ANIMATION!  8.7/10 The director of this film is making kung fu panda 4 so kung fu panda 4 may end up being the greatest movie of all time.

Avatar 2009

Finally rewatched avatar and can now watch avatar 2 before it leaves cinemas. Sort of felt like I may need a quick 162 minute refresh since I haven’t seen this film since my friends 6th birthday party when I watched it in the cinema.  Avatar is a good film. It looks amazing, which is so impressive for a film made in 2008, it looks better than some recent marvel films. Yeah it’s a good film, blue people, the forest and creatures. Villains all feel extremely boring and generic but the world James Cameron created was so incredible it didn’t really matter.  Took me a while to get through but I made it to the end and liked it.  8.5/10 40th film of the year. February 4th. Will probably see the second film later if I can be bothered.

The Kid 1921

½

I don’t know what possessed me to watch a silent film at 3am but I’ve never enjoyed a silent film this much before. I’ve tried watching a couple of Buster Keaton films such as The General and Sherlock Jr but the only Chaplin film I’ve seen is the great dictator.  I must have been in some weird mood because I liked this. It was a very nice and heartfelt story and I quite enjoyed watching it. I’ve never liked a film like this before, the whole non talking thing was always too much for me to deal with considering how many other films there are out there for me to watch with colour and dialogue, but it is kind of amazing to see what they were able to do at the time. Seeing the emotion we can get from the characters without hearing their voices was really interesting to me, I will always rather watch a newer film but I really like Charlie Chaplin because of his Great Dictator speech and watching this felt like a little look back on film history and was a really nice late night watch. Not too long too.  1921 actually makes this the oldest feature film I’ve ever seen.  Really hard to rate films like these as they aren’t really comparable to films I’m used to rating.  7.0/10 I might explore more into Chaplin’s filmography and give Modern Times and City Lights a go

Airplane Mode 2019

½

This film left me with a lot of questions. A lot of them start with “why did anyone think it was funny to-“ and end with make that weird sex/ incest/ racist joke.  The main thing I like about this film is I no longer wanna ever go on the internet again so I guess it helps with social media addiction but I’ve also lost faith in humanity so that’s less good. I hate influencers now. Truly awful film. Really unfunny and gives YouTubers a bad look.  Logan Paul wasn’t good in this but I do think he could be a decent actor in a film he had less to do with creatively.  Think it’s kinda weird Vitaly was the villain since he genuinely seems to be quite a messed up person. It’s like watching Kevin Spacey in American Beauty.  “In April 2020, he was arrested and later charged for aggravated battery by Miami Beach Police. Zdorovetskiy allegedly tackled a female jogger and struck her multiple times in the head and chest. He was released from custody after posting a $7,500 bond.“  And yeah there’s loads more messed up stuff he’s done but I think he’s currently just chilling and doing only fans.  Really cringe unfunny film. I exhaled out my nostrils slightly once on a sort of funny joke, but other than that I didn’t laugh and mostly was just weirded out. The romantic plot was fine I guess, but there wasn’t much else to the film other than bad jokes.  Luckily the film was short.  1.1/10

Sorry to Bother You 2018

½

This film was really weird but kinda in a good way.  There was lots I liked about it, the cinematography and editing, some of the transitions were very cool, I love iris transitions they were very different and don’t always work but in this they did. Lakeith Stanfield was very good, probably the best performance I’ve seen from him.  Got a bit bored of this and didn’t finish it for a day and ended up breaking my 1 film a day streak at 19 days. Starting again now from February the 1st.  It’s good though, very quirky and fun style of filmmaking that I enjoyed.  Not sure how I felt about the ending. The credits scene made it a lot better I think. Was a weird cliffhanger but also quite cool.  David Cross as the white voice really made the film for me. The lip synching was awful but I really love that guy and recognised his voice instantly. 7.5/10

The Big Sick 2017

Instantly like any film that has bo burnham in it.  Probably up there with some of my favourite Rom cons, I liked Kumail Nanjiani a bit before watching this, but respect him a lot more now, kid acting and writing was really good and this was clearly a very personal story that meant a lot to him and his wife.  Really enjoyed this. May even watch it again some day. Just a really solid, funny and emotional rom com.  The whole family aspect of it was very sad and interesting, seeing the differences between their parents and cultures.  Zoe Kazan was also very likeable. Not much else to say about it. Bo burnham. Seeing him do his stand up and get intently recognised and brag about it but still be a really nice guy. He is the funniest comedian in this film so it makes sense.  8.4/10

Smiley Face 2007

A character popped up that I thought was Adam Brody and I was like oh cool it’s Adam Brody and then I realised he wasn’t Adam Brody and then shortly after Adam Brody showed up. I know this isn’t very relevant but it was a really weird coincidence coz I didn’t know Adam Brody was in this and I’m still kinda shocked.  Felt like the most accurate stoner movie of all time. It was like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas but instead of Johnny Depp on every drug ever it was Anna Faris really stoned.  So many cool actors that popped up and excited me.  Adam brody from the OC  Louis from Suits  The dean from community  The guy who talks really slow who’s in like the Big Bang theory or something Girl from Glee and smurfs  William Zabka Either Harold or kumar  Grandad from spy kids who’s in the flash/ Brooklyn 99 Older lady in glee and another Cinderella story  Couple more people I recognise but not sure where from  And obviously Jim / John krasinski  I liked the editing, I liked Anna Faris, she was really convincing at high acting. Was quite funny and a lot of second hand embarrassment. My second Gregg Araki film, not as disturbing as mysterious skin. Fun film, not amazing, but I recon I’d like it even more if I was high.  7.6/10

Son of Rambow 2007

½

This was an alright little coming of age film about filmmaking, religion, family and friendship. It was enjoyable and it was cool to see a young will poulter.  Apparently Edgar Wright played one of the teachers in this but I didn’t spot him, however I did notice a very young Asa Butterfield and Paul Ritter.  I also made a film when I was that age but it was less crazy and inventive. Would have been so cool to go out and recreate these crazy stunts, doing it for fun and not having to worry about what people think of it or if it’s any good at all, it’s just kids having fun. Was a nice friendship movie and i really enjoy watching films about film making . Not really much else to it though. Didn’t think the main kid was that good of an actor.  6.9/10

Paddington 2014

Honestly probably the perfect kids film. Super wholesome, excellent cinematography and Paddington is super likeable.  Super sad, very funny and weird. Fun watch. I think the villain could have been better. I’ve seen this before and completely forgot about her, assumed the villain was just Peter Capaldi. Her backstory with her dad was pretty interesting but don’t think she was a very strong antagonist overall.  The family were all pretty likeable, the mum especially, but overall found them pretty simple and plain, but I liked them more towards the end. Not many other faults with the film, overall I think it was a very well made kids film and I’m very excited to watch the second one, which I’ve never seen before.  David Heyman produced it too! Founder of the college I went to.  8.0/10

City of Dreamers 2012

½

“What’s the verb for being a lesbian”  That’s not actually a quote from the film it was in the bloopers, I just thought it was funny. A quote from the actual film would go a little like this.  “I didn’t actually have a penis, I just wanted to show him my vagina, is that weird?”  Jesus Christ.  I don’t wanna be too harsh on this film, as it was clearly very low budget and independent. But if I’m being honest I don’t think there’s many nice things I can say about it. I think the homeless guy was an ok ish character and he had a nice ending, but was played by quite a bad actor. There were some decent songs, but I got kinda sick of the music pretty quickly. It was also kinda nice to see some of the locations in Brighton I see a lot in person in the film.  Ok…. Main girl was a terribly written character, not a good actress, her main struggle as a character was she didn’t become famous after doing one open mic. Bit stuck up to expect the whole bar of busy people who aren’t there to see you to fall in love with you after one song. It didn’t wrap up what the whole film was supposed to be about. The last reference to her music is she busks for a day and makes £50. It feels like the film didn’t care about the whole music storyline, it just used it as a shitty plot device and as a way to have all the characters play the soundtrack. The roommate was a weirdo, waking her up like that. Also wasn't in it enough, really useless character. Not a good actor but probably the best actor in this film after Jamie Patterson himself.  Harry was an awful actor and his character felt really creepy, didn’t like him. The homeless guy actually was maybe the closest this film has to a good character, but like every other character in this film he just felt like a bit of a weirdo.  The cinematography in this film stood out to me straight away as being terrible. So many really uncomfortable close up shots or just really questionable shots that almost made me laugh. The audio mixing was also kinda bad and sometimes the audio was too quiet and I found it hard to follow what was going on.  The ending sucked, I would have preferred if she ended up with the homeless guy, made out with a guy she’d had one previous conversation with and the film ends, really boring ending.  Really bad film. But made in 2011.  1.0/10 Thought of something else. It genuinely wasn’t that hard to watch. It wasn’t good, but at no point did I wanna turn it off for any reason other than the fact it’s nearly 6am and I’m really tired. So I guess it could have been worse. All just my opinion though I’m sure it took a lot of time and effort to make a film like this and I do respect that. I can see people enjoying it but it wasn’t for me personally.

Mysterious Skin 2004

½

“Two boys. One can’t remember. The other can’t forget” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a film quite like this before. It may be one of the most disturbing films I’ve ever seen, but in a really sad and depressing way.  Joseph Gordon Levitt is quite a versatile actor. Maybe one of my favourites. Was thinking about watching this film and when I saw he was in it I put it straight on. His character in this is somewhere between Hesher and 50/50, probably more like Hesher. His character was the most disturbing and the film very quickly gets in to why this is. The other kid was played by Brady Corbet, who did very well. The contrast between the two characters, the one who can’t remember and the one who can’t forget, was the most interesting part of the film. They don’t meet until the end which is probably one of the best scenes in the film, very emotional and shocking. He also gave a very good performance in the scene when he was shouting at his dad.  Honestly just a very hard film to watch, but amazing nonetheless. Very well written characters and I enjoyed the editing.  8.6/10 This was my 300th review

Super Mario Bros. 1993

I thought this was recognised as being one of the worst films of all time but it really wasn’t that bad. Mario and Luigi were cast very well and were very likeable characters and I actually really liked the start of this film. It’s when they go to the mushroom kingdom where this starts to feel like a low budget, made for tv, power rangers movie. Though the likeable cast and the couple of funny jokes made it watchable.  It was a weird choice to have the mushroom kingdom be a dystopian world and I think they could have done this better. But for a live action Mario film, it’d be really hard to make something that’s true to the game and I think they did a good enough job, getting as many references in as possible. The 9/11 bit made me backtrack a little. This film came out before 2001 though, just a weird coincidence that they destroyed the twin towers.  Honestly could have been worse, but obviously still wasn’t that good. Some of the characters could have been adapted better but it was fine.  5.7/10 The score was pretty good too.

Definitely, Maybe 2008

This was a nice little romance film and a nice film about the relationship between father and daughter. Not been liking Ryan Reynolds recently due to burnout of him being so similar in every role but he’s still a likeable guy and was quite good in this film.  It was a nice little guessing game of who the mother in the story is. Kinda like how I met your mother, except that show was 9 seasons and the mother is the last girl we meet. This films about three girls and it could be either of them, but one of them saying the title of the film kinda gives away who he will end up with at the end. Was surprising tho that she actually *spoiler for the film and himym* was more like the Robin of the story which I actually didn’t expect. The ending went in a different direction than I thought it would.  The way the story was told was done quite well, they had a nice mixture of him in the future telling the story and him in the past and the actor who plays his daughter was a good actress.  The film did get me tearing up a little after we found out who the mum was and he told his daughter the storys happy ending, and was nearly crying towards the end in the final scene. Was a nice scene. Was a bit messed up he didn’t give the book back for so long but they addressed it in the film. I kinda thought she wouldn’t forgive him but he gave the romantic speech and we got the happy ending. Don’t usually like endings like that as I kinda wanna know what happens after but it was nice.  I like the film, been looking for a nice new romance, thanks for the recommendation Marcus. 7.7/10

Aftersun 2022

½

Didn’t love this as much as I thought I would, but it wasn’t a bad film, may have been over hyped for me a little. Some of the cinematography was very unique and stylistic and it worked quite well. Lots of memorable shots that I really liked. In particular the shot of the tv plugged into the camera. That shot lasted a while and I really liked it. The cinematography was probably my favourite aspect of the film.  I did really like the relationship between the father and daughter, but felt like I didn’t fully understand the film. I’ve looked into it a little now and there wasn’t much I didn’t understand, but I did find the ending kinda confusing. Feel like I just didn’t connect with the film as much as I thought I would, but there were definitely aspects of it I could really appreciate.  Not a bad film, but it didn’t impress me that much, I think my expectations were too high.  7.5/10 Feels like the kinda film that would have affected me a lot more if I had watched it at the cinema. Really disappointed I missed it which is why I put off watching it for so long.

Tall Girl 2019

This film is exactly what you think it is. Tall girl is sad because she’s tall. Gets bullied. Has best friend who has crush on her. No other guys like her. Meets a guy that likes her and then a bunch of boring stuff happens. Realises the guy she liked wasn’t that great and the best friend was who she was meant for the whole time.   Except they didn’t make the tall guy that bad of a person and they made the best friend a bit of a weirdo. I actually think she came off as more annoying and a worse person than the tall guy that didn’t appreciate her.  Obviously didn’t expect this film to be good at all. Was kind of in the mood to watch a bad film. The acting was awful, the characters were generic, dumb and difficult to deal with.  I watched this with my friend Jennifer, am going to quote some of her review as she did a very in depth deep dive into the characters that was very well written. “Everyone is so possessive in this film it’s weird… they are literally children but acting like they own people after a day of knowing them or whatever? that Gordon Ramsay impression was HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!! These two boys together are so unfunny I would probably off myself if I went to school with them. Maybe I am like Tall Girl after all, just negative and always complaining and kind of tall. I feel like I’m a good tall though.” The relationship between the best friend and the tall girl was kind of weird and uncomfortable. The main bully viv (Kimmy) was just really unnecessarily mean and had no depth to her character and it was kind of annoying. The sister was kind of funny but mostly just kind of insane and cartoonish which was a little weird.  None of the characters were particularly likeable, I didn’t like tall girl as she was really whiny and as Jen said in her review “She needs to get over herself and get a sense of humour. How can she expect to “claim” the exchange “hottie” (who is not hot) when she is that plain and boring. Just mopes around and thinks about herself.”.  Her speech at the end was hard to watch. I always find it really annoying when the unpopular girl does a speech where she tells off the whole school and tells everyone how great she is. She really isn’t that great or “smart and fun”. Stood up in the middle of prom and told everyone how amazing she is and how good she is at piano. Her sister interrupting her actually made me laugh a little tho. Realistically no one would clap for that speech they would all just stand there uncomfortably. She was a bit over dramatic at the end. Didn’t really want her to end up with either of the guys.  2.5/10

Room 2015

This film broke me half way through. Really scary and emotional tale of a mother and sons relationship in some awful circumstances.  The kid, Jacob Tremblay, did really well and so did Brie Larson. Both gave very convincing and emotional performances. My favourite scene is when they were reunited in the police car.  Seeing Jack learn about the world, and try and comprehend how big it was having spent his whole life in one room and only seeing the outside from his tv and his skylight was really interesting. I loved the little voiceovers he had where he would talk about how he viewed the world, and it would change more and more every time he learnt something new.  Didn’t love the second half of the film as much, it was interesting to see the characters adapt to the new situation, but I felt like it went a little too far and I didn’t feel like everything was resolved. Would have been nice to get some closure between her and her dad, but I guess all that mattered in the end was her and her son made up and I did really love the scene where she apologised to him as Brie Larson's acting was very good.  Need to watch a happier film next, too many sad films. 7.9/10

Tall Girl 2 2022

½

Really unfunny introduction scene with a very unnecessary and poorly done recap of the first film that was extra annoying considering I literally just finished the first one.  Tall guy comes in and is really nice to them coz he’s really just a lovely guy, but they all act awful to him. Her boyfriend even says “how can you forgive him after his twisted mind games”. He basically did nothing wrong that is a bit harsh and instantly made me dislike half the characters of the film.  They all keep referencing her speech from the last film which really annoyed me as it wasn’t a good speech and was very self indulgent.  The first film the plot was very obvious and simple, but I didn’t know what they were gonna do for the sequel. Apparently the film is mostly about her imposter syndrome because of how good her life is now and she develops schizophrenia. I’m not sure why the film even got a sequel. I can’t imagine anyone actually enjoying the first one and a sequel really wasn’t necessary. Feels really forced. Them trying to recycle the Swedish guys character who they really didn’t use very well in the first place just feels really weird as none of their hatred for him has any validity whatsoever. If anything he has more of a reason to dislike them but he just keeps being really friendly and polite and gets treated horribly.  The whole voice in the head stuff feels like a very tired trope and it got old very quickly. Every time it happens it just really annoyed me. It’s actually ridiculous how nice this guy is to people who are horrible to him. short guy messes up his date and he not only helps cook the entire meal but waits on them for the evening. Waits on the person he lives with who basically bullies him for no reason, and the girl he broke up with his girlfriend for who then acted incredibly superior and stuck up, making him look like the bad guy when he really didn’t do anything wrong.  The fact that that speech at the prom made her some kind of popular girl is really unbelievable considering how bad the speech was and the fact that they are in high school.  Then the tall girl and short guy break up because of how stubborn and awful they both are tall girls friend first instinct is to blame the Swedish guy and say “you’d made a terrible therapist”, literally no part of that was his fault. I guess if the characters were decent people the film would have no plot and they wouldn’t be able to squeeze a sequel out of it. The really nice guys sister shows up who is also really nice and she reveals to short guy that the really nice guy was actually really nice the whole time. Dunno why nice guy even wants to be friends with short guy, he’s awful.  “So you’ve been judged your whole life based on your appearance and you just did the same thing to me” - I’m glad someone finally called her out on her shit she’s such a hypocrite it’s annoying. He seems like a nice guy but kinda in a weird way that feels really forced. He’s a bit too much. The new guy feels really unnecessary, she’s fighting with her emotions trying to choose between her ex boyfriend who is really annoying and the nice guy. Nice guy just feels like a more boring version of the Swedish nice guy. But I guess he had more depth because he used to be overweight.  We then have to watch short guy deal with how much he misses tall girl, which I feel like would be more impactful if they didn’t break up for a really stupid and annoying reason.  I don’t know if it has become clear yet from this review but I really like the nice Swedish guy. He’s very nice. I like him a lot more in this film than I did in the first film as all the characters in this seem awful in comparison to him.  I actually quite like her sister too she’s quite funny. I actually think I like this film a little more than the first one. Most of the characters except the ex boyfriend and tall girl are more likeable, which is annoying as they are the main two characters and they kinda ruin the film with their bad acting and annoying character traits. Even the mean girl who started this film with no character development after the first film starts to become a little likeable and gets her own little redemption storyline. I think if I pretend this film is just a romance between really nice guy and tall girls best friend, it becomes a lot better. The theme of body issues and all that is ok I guess but this film doesn’t really handle it well which is quite bad as that’s basically what the whole film is meant to be about.  Even nice guys slight argument with the fashion girl that lasted 5 seconds is only brought on by him doing something kinda stupid because he’s too nice.  Tall girl then shows up late to her best friends birthday and her friend the whole time feels guilty about kissing nice guy after tall girl was awful to him and dropped him for no reason and had no right to be mad at all. The voice over just makes her more annoying.  Her panic attack was actually a kind of emotional scene but I feel bad for her parents that think they are bad parents because she made them feel like that when they only do what they think is best for her and have done nothing but love and support her. The dad saying “especially with parents like us” was kind of sad because he’s actually a really good dad and in the first one he had one of the most emotional scenes in the entire film. I do start to like nice guy and short guys friendship, makes short guy a little more likeable and brings him up slightly from being the worst character leaving tall girl at the very bottom. I still don’t like how he treated nice guy at the start and for most of the first film and I still hate his relationship with tall girl and hate how annoying he is but I love a good wholesome friendship in a film so I don’t completely hate his character anymore and I’m a little less annoyed now every time he opens his mouth.  Then we get her big voice in her head moment which is where I realised it’s supposed to represent her anxiety. This film is a pretty bad representation of anxiety. Then the most evil girl in the whole film who has been bullying tall girl friends most of her life proved that even she is a better person that tall girl.  We then have to watch her sing and dance for a bit.  Then the film is concluding with again the tall girl deciding she is really cool and amazing and talented. At least she didn’t give a speech to the whole school about it this time she just told her sister who she always makes out like only cared about her self when literally for two films tall girl has done nothing but make everything about her.  I do think this was better than the first film, the voice in the head kinda ruined it a little for me, but some of the side characters made this film a little less terrible.  Sorry this review is so long, me and Jennifer just sat writing about it the whole time the film played. This is probably the longest review anyone has ever written about tall girl 2.  I’d like to end this with an excerpt from Jennifer's review.  “Apparently her favourite book is “A Confederacy of DUNCES” by John Kennedy Toole. According to “In A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole uses the experience of Burma Jones, a marginalized black man, to demonstrate the way in which the American South's historical legacy of slavery and racial prejudice affected the lives of black people living in the South during the 1960s, when the novel is set.” Is she trying to suggest being singled out for being tall is the same as being singled out for your race? I think this is problematic if that’s the case. Maybe I’m just grasping at straws at this point though.”  3.0/10 1439 words

KSI: In Real Life 2023

½

The Ksi documentary is finally out. Me and my roommate were pretty excited for this being fans of his because we thought it was directed by Louis Theroux, but he produced it. Ngl I’m a little disappointed I didn’t get the Louis Theroux: Ksi doc I thought I was getting but this was a good documentary I think.  My biggest fear for this was that it’ll be too much about how amazing he is due to his massive ego. I’ve been watching him for a long time, I’ve grown up with him and seen him change as a person. I find it difficult to watch him now, but every now and then I’ll stick on a video as I will always have a connection with him. I think as he started to become more famous and mainstream I kinda stopped caring about him as much, but I know a lot about him and his family so this was something I was interested to watch. I really didn’t want them to focus too much on the boxing or too much on the music, but I feel like they balanced it quite well. It was about his childhood issues and his relationships and did focus a lot on the music, but mostly on his personal connections to some of his songs.  I feel like films like this really don’t get YouTube but this portrayed it in a pretty natural way. I liked the opening and the way they showed any clips from his YouTube channel.  Some of the shots were quite nice looking and cinematic. I don’t think I like the style of interview they went with with the guy talking behind the camera that we never see, but it worked well enough.  My favourite scene that made it a much better film for me was the final scene with his dad. I’ve seen a lot of videos with his dad from ksi but mostly deji. To hear him talk about the difficult relationship they’ve had was interesting. I feel like it’d be difficult to watch as his parent as ksi is pretty brutally honest about the negative aspects of their relationship in the film. But the final scene of them having a very intimate chat was quite nice, it felt very real and like a big moment in their relationship, almost too personal that it felt weird to watch, but it was nice being able to see that aspect of his life.  Stayed up till 6:20 for this.  7.0/10

The Florida Project 2017

This film looked amazing. The cinematography and colour grading was so well done, some of the shots outdoors looked incredible.  Really liked willem dafoe in this, his character is quite likeable and he’s a great actor, I didn’t realise he was in it so was happy when he showed up. I really wonder how they do film like this staring young kids. Their acting feels so real that it’s like they just turned on the camera and let them just be themselves. Would be interested to know how closely the script was followed for all the scenes of Jancey and Mooney just talking.  The ending really got me. A film hasn’t made me cry like that in a while. The scene where Moonee is saying goodbye to Jancey was really good and very sad.  7.6/10

I’ve reviewed this before and talked about how much I love it in my reviews for other films, but I want to try review 100% of the films I watch this year so going to have to re review some stuff. My favourite dream works film. Read my other review of it. All I’m gonna say is  I love hiccup  I love toothless  I love their friendship Also I Love the music and the animation and the relationship between Stoick and hiccup. Just one of my favourite animated films of all time really and the sequels are just as good.  I wish dragons were real so I could befriend one.  Always reminds me of Free Willy. I love films where the main character befriends an animal or in the this case a dragon. Wholesome.  8.7/10

Blindspotting 2018

½

This year I watched my first film on the 12th of January and I have now seen 22 films in 12 days. This was the first one to really blow me away, truly amazing film. Ima bout to text all my friends telling them to watch it because this is gonna be my most solid recommendation from now on.  My friend Marcus told me to watch this after I recommended him a film I really love called on the count of three. He said he liked it but Blindspotting was done better. I don’t think that is entirely fair as one, they are very different films and two, obviously it’s done better this film is incredible.  The cinematography and editing are sooo good and they are paired with a very moving, funny and emotional story. The acting from the two main characters Collin and Miles played by Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal who I had never heard of before, was very good. I think I was mostly impressed with Rafael Casal until I saw the ending where oh my god, Daveed Diggs’ performance was fantastic.  I love the films style, I loved the rapping that wasn’t always necessary but never felt forced. I love both of the characters and their friendship. This was just an expertly written, acted, directed and edited film and I am shocked. It wasn’t just well made it was also just really cool, some of the comedy and the characters, it was all just a really fun watch. 8.9/10

Fruitvale Station 2013

Based on a true story. The ending to this film leaves you traumatised. It’s one of the most heartbreaking and terrifying endings of a film I’ve ever seen. It was directed very well. The film kinda leaves you so shocked it’s hard to comment on anything you just watched, making it hard to review, but Michael b Jordan gave a great performance and this was a well made film.  The entire final sequence was all very emotional and well done, but the final shot in particular was perfect.  as a whole the film was good, just a film where we get to know this flawed character and watch him try and be better, then we sit there and watch as he is robbed of his chance to and it’s devastating.  Very hard ending to watch. Good film.  8.5/10

White Noise 2022

Not sure if I liked this. I didn’t find it amazing but it was somewhat interesting. Adam Driver gave a good performance and this may be my first time I’ve seen Greta Gerwig act, only know her for her directing, she was pretty good in this.  This film is about death. I found that aspect of it very relatable. 2 people who are scared of death. We are all scared of death and all spend our lives coming to terms with the fact we are all going to die. If there was a pill that could eradicate that fear or death, would you take it and to what lengths would you go to to get your hands on it? Found that interesting, made me like the film a little more.  Overall there’s a lot of characters that don’t really stand out. Best performance I’ve seen from Don Cheadle but I feel like I’ve never really seen a good performance from Don Cheadle. The film felt a little pretentious and annoying and I didn’t have much fun watching it but I’m not sure I understood it completely. Although there were aspects of it I liked and it wasn’t completely terrible. I always list Noah Baumbach as one of my main creative influences even though the only film I’ve seen from him is marriage story so glad I’ve seen another film from him now. I preferred marriage story though.  I like Adam Driver I think he’s a really good actor but he can come across as quite whiny and annoying sometimes.  Ok film, wasn’t very memorable for me. Made me think about death though so that was cool.  6.5/10

The Menu 2022

This was ok. A bit dull. The overall concept was somewhat interesting but as a film itself was nothing special.  I really want a cheeseburger now.  Ralph Fiennes was the main standout for me, his acting was pretty much the only thing I liked about it. I also liked Nicholas Hoult's character he was a bit nuts and I found him quite funny.  The ending kinda sucked, felt really anticlimactic, exactly what they say is gonna happen happens and nothing really surprises you in any way.  The film in all just felt really one note, the whole menu thing and food stuff was a little interesting but other than that it was just a boring film about punishing the rich and the only thing that really gave it any flavour was Ralph Fiennes.  I do like Anya Taylor-Joy but her character felt like the one thing giving us an actual story and she failed to make it interesting or bring any real depth to the film.  Wasn’t a big fan, but I didn’t expect to be. Mediocre film.  6.0/10

How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 2003

½

Was gonna watch all quiet on the western front but decided to go with a slightly different mood for my 4am film.  This was a nice rom com, one person trying desperately to make a guy break up with her in 10 days while the guy is trying desperately to make her fall in love with him in 10 days. The way they did this was a little weird, it makes more sense on her part as she’s writing an article for a magazine, but his boss saying he will only get to do his pitch if he can make a random girl they picked in a bar fall in love with him was really weird and didn’t make much sense. But still, it’s just a dumb Rom com so it’s fine, and overall I did find the concept quite interesting.  I found this quite funny actually, at times quite hard to watch out of second hand embarrassment, but seeing her messing with him was very funny at times and did make me laugh a little.  Seeing Matthew Mc- (not gonna attempt the spelling) in a rom com seemed quite weird and I think that’s what put me off watching this sooner, but he was actually really good in the role. I also really loved the female lead who’s name I don’t know….  Oh ok it was Kate Hudson. She was really likeable and funny and made a good protagonist. And as the supporting cast we have Kathryn Hahn and Adam Goldberg who I really like as he’s in friends and I think … Saving Private Ryan and some other stuff. Also Thomas Lennon who has probably been in lots of stuff but I know him mostly from How I Met Your Mother. Anyway nice cast, bunch of likeable characters.  Yeah this film was enjoyable, I didn’t love it but it was funny and a nice romance.  7.0/10

One Cut of the Dead 2017

One cut of the dead is a 2018 film by Japanese director Shinichiro Ueda. It was made with a budget of $25,000 and went on to make $31.2 million in worldwide box office sales.  I’ve never seen anything like this film. I would recommend it to anyone who has ever tried to make a film before as everyone who has knows that when your on set something if not everything will go wrong. Imagine being tasked with creating a zombie film about a camera crew making a zombie film, where real zombies start to invade the set and Not only is this one shot, and one take, but that one take is being broadcast live throughout Japan. Sounds like one of the hardest films to make every and is a terrifying thought.  Well obviously this film is filled with mistakes, awkward acting and weird camera choices. As I was watching it I started to get a little bored and wrote down a couple of notes about it.  “Acting felt like a stage production”  “Got a bit boring after 30 minutes where we are just following the girl limping around, running away from zombies and then the director would jump in and shout action like a crazy person.” “Dunno why they acknowledge the camera man coz it just made there too many questions. Why weren’t any of the zombies attacking him? Why wasn’t he helping? Why weren’t they getting more mad at him for filming and not helping? It’s not weird that he’s filming it’s more weird that they aren’t mad at him for filming.” “Purposely cheesy at times which is quite funny. The rooftop scene at the end of the first act where the crazy director is filming the same scene as the start except it’s real and then gets mad at her for not following the script was funny.”  In hindsight this may make me look a bit dumb, as in the second act all my questions were answered. The second act is what makes this film so good but the reason it’s good is a big spoiler for the film and I recommend just watching it for yourself and if you don’t like it at the start hold out for act 2.  The second half of this film isn’t one take and looks a little less bad. In fact it feels like a completely different film and it’s about the director making this film. It’s about his relationship with his family and about his job, where he is being forced to make a live one cut zombie film.  The film then becomes about film making and about directing and I really enjoyed it. It explains every weird thing about the film and shows what went wrong while filming that caused it. Was really cool to see the same film again but from a film makers perspective, explaining to us why every little weird thing you didn’t like about it was in it. Really the film is about how difficult it is to make a film, and how wrong everything goes on a set no matter how much planning you do.  Some of the acting was cheesy but only in a funny Japanese way, and obviously everything got taken down a notch in the second half of the film.  The ending was really satisfying, seeing them complete the film and and lie back in relief and exhaustion, it really feels like you’ve gone on a journey with them and it had me feeling a bit emotional. I’m not the biggest fan of zombie films so I’m glad this wasn’t just a dumb horror, I really enjoyed it and would recommend.  8.4/10

Big Fish 2003

Almost clapped when Danny Devito popped up on screen. Lovely little surprise.  This is definitely my favourite thing I’ve seen from Tim Burton, really lovely film. It’s told in a very unique way, showing a man’s life through his fantastical stories that he tells his son. It’s about his son at the end of his father’s life, looking for something real about his dad and discovering that maybe the stories he was told are enough.  I love how this film was structured, very well written. The unbelievable stories that were meant to be unbelievable. It also has a really lovely ending that I really enjoyed, made me a little emotional.  Surely he could have just asked his mum for stories that were true?  Ewan McGregor, Danny DeVito, Helena Bonham Carter and Steve Buscemi. Pretty cool cast. Some of the fantasy elements were really cool. I liked how time froze in his story about when he met his wife for the first time. Him walking through the circus and brushing aside the floating pieces of popcorn was a really cool effect. Little stuff like that was what made this film so fun. The fact the film is based in reality, yet in the father’s stories of his past, which makes up most of the film, they can be wacky or Tim burtony and it still feels so real as you know it’s all just exaggerations to make the stories more interesting. I kinda like that by the end of it you don’t really know what’s real and what’s fake, as the point in the story is it doesn’t really matter and just like his son at the end you are left content with the way the stories were told.  I think this was a very smart way to write a fantasy story and I really loved how the film was written.  8.5/10 First film I’ve watched on my TV in a while. It’s 5am now, glad I stayed awake for it though.

Minions: The Rise of Gru 2022

½

I was against watching this film for a while. I work at a cinema, and I’m sure a lot of you may have seen what was going on at cinemas when minions 2 came out, and yes it was as bad as it looked.  If you don’t know what I’m talking about, a bunch of “hilarious kids”, because it became a meme, decided to show up to the cinema to see minions 2 wearing suits. For the first week half the people in the cinema looked like they were here for their secondary school prom. We had people wearing tuxedos, banana costumes, we even had one guy show up with a briefcase that was filled with bananas.  It didn’t annoy me that much at first, it was a little funny that people actually did it, but kid after kid coming in thinking they were hilarious after I’ve seen 100s of kids before them make the same joke got a little annoying. If you didn’t acknowledge how funny they were they would sometimes get really annoyed, so I would act like none of them wear actually wearing a suit, until it got so bad our managers had to tell us to let every single person going into see minions wearing a suit not to mess around in the screen. So many kids were being kicked out every day. We had people filming the film constantly, because of course they had to document how funny they were for TikTok or Snapchat. We had people screaming and cheering when gru came on the screen and running around the room, up and down the stairs. To make it worse, cleaning the screens was horrible, having to clean up bananas after these kids was just annoying. Sorry I went off on a little rant about how annoyed I am at this film and haven’t even reviewed it yet, but I really didn’t want to watch it due to moral principles, until I told my friend Jennifer she could pick any film she wants and now here we are. Anyway Barbie is out soon, and I know people will be showing up again in suits to watch it, so if you are thinking about doing it, I think it’s funny, but please don’t be like these minion kids. Especially considering Oppenheimer is coming out the same day.  On to the actual review, which will be a lot shorter than my rant about how much I hated working at the cinema during the release of minions 2.  It was better than the first one, I think, don’t really remember it, but this one had gru in it, a character that’s, actually a character, so that made it better. Enjoyed the whole despicable me prequel aspect of this, but don’t think the minions are that interesting. They are funny gag characters, which is why they are so popular, but I don’t think they are funny enough to carry 2 whole films just about them, considering they don’t even talk.  Was a little bored watching this, the relationship between the old guy and gru was nice and kinda wholesome, but feel like they had a chance to make an interesting origin for gru and it fell kinda flat . The villains were boring, there wasn’t much to the plot. Honestly as a kids film it was good, which is fine as that’s who it was made for. But despicable me was so much better.  5.1/10

Glass Onion 2022

Enjoyed this a lot, definitely better than the first one. The opening was very good, very funny, Daniel Craig’s character playing among us with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was quite funny.  The first half was just really nice to watch, it has a great cast and felt very vibrant and colourful. Then the murder scene happens and it starts to feel like a different film. I think the murder scene was done really well and the second half was still good but I didn’t like it as much. Felt a bit too cheesy or unbelievable at times, but the ending with the fire and the Mona Lisa I liked a lot and as a whole it was still a really fun watch.  It felt quite different from the first one, the first one felt more like a classic murder mystery with a slight twist bringing a new element to it. This felt more like a revenge story with a murder mystery theme, it wasn’t just a murder mystery there was a lot more to it. I’m not sure I liked how they played with the murder mystery genre at times, with the whole main character inviting everyone onto the island to solve his murder, but it was still a very good film with a great cast and I enjoyed it much more than the first one.  The covid stuff feels kinda outdated which obviously isn’t much of an issue as I could easily just be watching a film released in 2020. It did feel a little forced and unnecessary though considering they only reference it for like 5 minutes until they reveal this rich guy somehow has some kinda cure for covid he’s not telling anyone about and it’s never mentioned again. That all didn’t have to happen. “You’re good”.  8.2/10 On a 7 day streak with my 1 film a day thing now.

Legally Blonde 2001

Nice little underdog story where the underdog is a blonde girl who becomes a lawyer. Made me laugh a bit, Jennifer Coolidge was funny.  Overall didn’t think the film was anything special, but it was a really fun film to watch and I can see why people like it so much. Very cool seeing the main character prove everyone wrong, films like that are pretty satisfying.  Glad I finally saw it, pretty much got exactly what I expected from it and it didn’t surprise me in anyway, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing coz it’s a nice, solid film that I wouldn’t be too opposed to seeing again one day. 7.8/10

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory 1971

Haven’t seen the Charlie and the chocolate factory films for so long but rewatched this one because of grandpa Joe.  Probably my favourite thing about this film was the guy that played Willy Wonka, he was quite a good actor and gave a good performance. No one else really stood out for positive reasons like he did. But I was pleasantly surprised by how funny this film actually was, it wasn’t hilarious and some of the jokes felt a bit dated, but it really has that dry, 70s/ 80s humour and it made me laugh a couple of times. Some of the jokes made me think of “aeroplane” in their delivery, which came out like 9 years after this I think.  I also think some of the music was quite good. “The candy man can”. (Thought this was from Madagascar)   “I’ve got a golden ticket”  “In a world of pure imagination” (thought this was from wizard of oz)  And of course the Oompa Loompa song. Haven’t seen this film for so long that I was really surprised to find that I somehow remember the words to all the songs. Really like some of them and a couple are still playing through my head hours later.  Watched this film with my friend Jennifer, who I’ve been watching most of my films with recently. She is a “grandpa Joe hater” which is why we watched this film because apparently that’s a thing. There’s like a small community online of people who despise grandpa Joe which I found funny enough to watch this again, seeing her get annoyed and rant about him was pretty funny. The other day we even watched a detailed video essay on why he’s an awful person.  I do agree with a lot of their points, but for others it does feel like they are clutching at straws a little just looking for reasons to hate him.  He was a little annoying, I do think he cared about Charlie at the start of the film with the whole tobacco thing, but the fact he stayed in bed and complained that the floors too cold and as soon as Charlie wins a golden ticket he jumps up and starts dancing and singing “I’ve got a golden ticket”. It is annoying that he probably could have walked the whole time and Charlie’s mum was having to work hard to take care of him, but I do think the whole point is supposed to be that his joy of him being able to go to the chocolate factory with Charlie was enough to give him the energy to get up again. Though I can understand both arguments to this.  On a side note, why’s everyone getting so obsessed with this golden ticket thing when the prize was free chocolate for life. Surely you’d get sick of chocolate after a while and it’s not worth spending so much money on chocolate that you could probably could have just instead bought a life supply of chocolate. Yet it seems like all the world cares about at the time are these golden tickets, with all the updates being on the tv and in the papers and the teacher ending class early to go look for them and teaching about them in lesson. I get that part is just probably for comedic purposes, also this is kinda a kids film. People spending money on the chocolate did lead to some of the funniest jokes in the film however, such as lady who’s husband has been taken for ransom who said she’ll do anything to get him back except give up her chocolate bars.  Sorry I’ve still not finished this tangent. If the reason everyone wanted the tickets so much was to go meet wonka and visit the factory, then why did every single character just complain the whole time. It got really annoying and it made me like Willy wonka a lot coz of how he dealt with it by basically getting a bunch of spoilt kids nearly killed.  Back to grandpa Joe.  People also get mad over him and Charlie stealing the floating juice. But they were just having fun the whole time and we’re less complainy than everyone else, who all also broke the rules and nearly got themselves killed, hating on grandpa Joe for being the same as everyone else yet bring the only one who doesn’t complain about it as he knew he did something he wasn’t supposed to, seems silly. I mean he did complain at the end but I think that’s mostly because he cares about his grandson and wants Charlie to get the prize he was promised.  A lot if the other points I agree with though, him calling wonka a crook and then telling Charlie to steal the gobstopper, yet Charlie proves he has a good heart by not listening to joe for which he is rewarded, and grandpa Joe is quick to jump in and claim the reward alongside Charlie after he had just proved he is the opposite of the pure heart Charlie showed, so probably shouldn’t be rewarded for it.  Anyway I wrote way too much about this I just found the whole weird obsession with his character interesting. I’m supposed to be doing an essay for uni currently that’s due 16:00 today. It’s 5:49 am right now. I haven’t slept. Was supposed to do a quick little review and go to sleep. I just wrote 870 words on Willy wonka and the chocolate factory. My essay due today is also 870 words.  7.7/10 935 words

Stand by Me 1986

Rob Reiner is great. Tried watching this with my dad once but never finished it. Very good acting. River Phoenix. All very talented young actors who gave emotional performances. I wasn’t paying attention the whole film as I was distracted, so I may have to watch it again, but it was good. Couple of really good scenes and I enjoyed the acting.  Been watching one film a day, very close to missing it today, it’s 23:38. Great song.  7.6/10

A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song 2011

The third in my nostalgia trilogy of Cinderella films. This one has the worst evil step mum, a little boy instead of a 2nd evil step sister and better songs than the Selena Gomez one but none of them are as catchy as tell me tell me tell me something I don’t know.  I thought Tony was funny. I didn’t find the little kid as annoying as my friend Jennifer did. None of the other side characters were interesting at all. I think she had a best friend but I don’t remember coz she/he was that forgettable. I didn’t hate the step sister, felt bad for her. The whole plot of her lip syncing for her sister was kinda annoying and not very interesting. Definitely the worst of the 3, but still nostalgic. Like the main girl.  Ranking  1. Another Cinderella story  2. Cinderella story 3. Once upon a song  3.9/10

Tinker Bell 2008

½

Used to love this as a kid. I’m trying to watch one film a day at the moment but when I’m logging films like Tinker Bell that I’m barely paying attention to when watching it feels like cheating.  Used to watch with my mum and dad. Mae Whitman voices Tinker Bell.  Very simple film and not very good, I’ve watched it a lot of times as a kid but the nostalgia wasn’t hitting too hard either. Maybe because I wasn’t paying attention.  3.0/10

My Sassy Girl 2001

½

My sassy girl was recommended to me by a friend. I texted him saying I was going to watch it and he instantly called me and said he wanted to rewatch it with me and made the claim that this film was EASILY the greatest romance film of all time.  Ok well it’s definitely not the best romance of all time Marcus. It’s good, the ending got me a little, because the ending was amazing. And there were lots of really funny moments, though the humour mostly relied on slapstick, which was fine because it made me laugh a lot. Though, just like an anime, it felt like the film wasted a lot of time with pointless tangents that weren’t integral to the plot, which would be my main fault with it, as it bored me a tiny bit. Feels like the film could have been shorter and cleaner if it cut out a lot of the unnecessary moments that almost felt like “filler”.  That being said, I love the rom com genre, and I love anime, so a romance film that feels like an anime may be my new favourite thing to watch and I’m definitely open to more recommendations. The film had it moments and the ending was fantastic. As much as how the style of humour in this isn’t something I usually enjoy, it made me laugh a lot and was a very fun watch.  Also it being based on a true story makes me happy. I hope they are still together.  7.3/10

M3GAN 2022

½

I don’t like horror films and I don’t like robot films that much, so after watching the trailer this honestly looked like the worst film I’ve ever seen. Some of my friends wanted to see it at the cinema and I figured I’d go, as I thought they wanted to go for ironic reasons and I thought it’d be fun to laugh at a bad film. But then the reviews came out and I started to get worried, as everyone said it was really good which wildly made me less excited to watch it. But begrudgingly, I ended up going and seeing the film anyway and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.  It made me laugh a couple at times at the absurdity of the doll, it was dancing and singing and I laughed a little and then face palmed. Felt like I was laughing a lot less than everyone else, but I do think it was a funny film and that may be one of my favourite things about it.  I liked the main girl she was really cool and smarter than most horror protagonists. The film felt a little long and again I don’t really like horror films so the part I appreciated the most was the whole comedic element to it.  Definitely better than I thought it’d be. I thought I’d hate it more than any film I’ve ever seen in my life and the fact that I kinda liked it is pretty surprising.  Not awful.  The doll sang. 7.0/10

Camp Rock 2008

½

Someone give Demi Lovato a sandwich. Every time she ate in this her plate would be almost empty, or she’d give her cake to her friend or say she’s not hungry. Very worrying.  Had fun watching high school musical/ mean girls/ Cinderella story, the songs are amazing and the acting is cheesy, one of the best Disney channel movies, on par with high school musical.  Maybe not the best film, but it’s a Disney channel original I’m not watching it coz I’m expecting some expert film making. Couldn’t stop singing along and I’ve watched it countless times, so I think it’s good enough.  “This is real, this is me, I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be now, gonna let the light, shine on me” I really like the Jonas Brothers too because of these films. Joe plays a bit of a dick in this one but when he’s playing his music and towards the end he becomes quite cool.  What a film. Can’t wait to rewatch the second one. because of “introducing me”. Love that song.  6.8/10

Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again 2022

½

This was nicely animated, hope they animate more Disney films like this coz I really enjoy this style of a animation and some of the shots and editing was actually quite comedic at times.  The plot wasn’t great, we were just watching nick chase after the Egyptian guy for like an hour and it got a little boring. Also the whole film nick is doubting himself because he couldn’t ask out the girl he liked and couldn’t audition for jazz band which are kinda boring motivations in the first place, but then his dad said working as a night guard will change you and he does it for one day and we get this cute little montage of him re auditioning for the band and holding hands with the girl. She’s in like 2 scenes and doesn’t even say anything in the final one, I think it would have been nice and given the character a little more closure if we had a scene where he actually talked to her after his character development and asked her out showing how he changed, rather than a 2 second clip of them holding hands  stuffed in the middle of a cheesy montage. Anyway the characters were all fine, just the characters from the original night at the museums, they were funny. Some Good voice actors too, like Zachery Levi and jack whitehall. I also like that it was about Ben stillers son from the original trilogy (I think it was a trilogy?). Cool little animated sequel. It was nice, not amazing, but fun enough that I didn’t hate it.  5.3/10

The Fabelmans 2022

I know film is so much easier and accessible now, but it would have been so cool to grow up as a film maker during this time period. Even going the cinema seems like such a different experience than it is now.  Clearly a massive passion project for Spielberg, a semi autobiographical film. Really a love letter to film making and everything it’s done for him, along with a quite entertaining family drama.  I enjoyed the whole film making aspect to it a lot and I really love Paul Dano so any role from him I am pretty happy with.  The main guy who played Sam also did a good job. Enjoyed him throughout the film. When he started going to school I think the whole him getting bullied straight away for being small and bad at sports was a bit forced but it got better.  Probably my favourite scene in the film was after Sam showed his film to the school, the chat with the guy who bullied him after where the guy cried and told Sam not to tell anyone about it and Sam said he won’t  “unless I make a movie about it, which I’m never ever gonna do”, I really hope this was a completely true story coz if so that’s hilarious that Steven Spielberg didn’t break that promise till he was 76 and he finally made a movie about it.  Really liked the final shot, “if the horizon is at the bottom it’s interesting, if the horizon is at the top it’s interesting” final shot the horizon is in the middle and then there’s a quick slightly comedic upward movement of the camera placing the horizon at the bottom, very cool. Overall a good film. I liked it. Paul Dano.  8.4/10 Did some research as I heard the film was semi autobiographical and I wanted to know how much was true, apparently it is quite accurate and sounds like it’s almost a completely biographical film, which is a pretty cool thing to do as a film maker, grow up and make an introspective film about your childhood and your love of cinema.  <a href="https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/fabelmans/" rel="nofollow">www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/fabelmans/</a> “Although director Steven Spielberg has called The Fabelmans "semi-autobiographical," aside from the name changes, the film is more historically accurate than many biopics. Spielberg has conveyed that he avoided labeling The Fabelmans as being "based on a true story" or "autobiographical" because he didn't want to promote it as a movie about himself, which might be seen as narcissistic.” It’s basically a biopic but Spielberg didn’t wanna call it that coz it sounded too up himself.

Another Cinderella Story 2008

½

“TELL ME TELL ME TELL ME SOMETHING I DONT KNOW, SOMETHING I DONT KNOW, SOMETHING I DONT KNOW”  “It’s become so hard, for me to be surprised, bringing back the real me no judgment in your eyes, it’s the way you make me feel, like I’m finding something real” Watched this film so many times I remembered the words to most of the songs.  Basically the same film as a Cinderella story but with bad dancing, so will be hard to not make this identical to my last review.  Again watched this with my friend Jennifer, right after watching the other one. It’s my mums favourite film so been watching it since I was a kid. Had to write an essay for school recently where I talked about my earliest film memory, I said it was Ice age but now that I think about it it may have been this film, seeing Selena Gomez and telling my mum “she’s hot” may actually be my earliest film memory. This film gave me my first celebrity crush.  The dancing seemed really bad for a film about dancing, but all the characters were quite likeable and i overall like it more than a Cinderella story. Really liked “the funk” and Selena gomez’s best friend character. Joey was ok and I liked some of the songs (not the dancing though). There’s this really weird scene at the start where the main girl is dancing in front of a window, and joey is there giving a dance lesson, face to face dancing with her on the other side of the glass. People keep trying to dance with him and he shrugs them off and runs back to Selena. It’s kinda romantic until you think about it and realise it’s a one way mirror that she uses to secretly watch the dance class, so for her it’s romantic but from his perspective he’s just a massive narcissist that can’t go 2 minutes without romantically gazing into his reflection. I think I’m gonna have to watch the another Cinderella story: once upon a song now as I remembered liking that one more because less shit dancing so maybe me and Jen will have to watch that next. Also camp rock kinda follows the same structure and has better music so maybe I’ll watch that too.  last year I said my New Year’s resolution was to watch 1 film a day and now it’s the 13th and all I’ve watched is 2 Cinderella films.  5.3/10

A Cinderella Story 2004

½

Saw this film with my friend Jennifer because I thought it’d be funny to watch a Jennifer Coolidge film (Not because they have the same name). This is also one of my mum’s favourite films so I’ve watched it an unnatural amount of times along with another Cinderella story and another Cinderella story: once upon a song. I don’t know what it is about the whole Cinderella remake thing but she watches all of them, but for her it was just those 3. It’s weird coz they all feel like the exact same film, they have the same structure, this one however isn’t about singing or dancing making it a little more boring but a little less annoying. The structure of the films are so similar and basic I feel like I could write my own one in a couple of hours and my mum would probably watch it on repeat. Anyway this is just kind of a cheesy, early 2000s film.  She says laugh out loud, out loud while she texts it. It’s not great, but unfortunately thanks to my mother I have a lot of nostalgia for it so I’d probably watch it again.  The whole looking for the girl you met at the costume dance is a thing that happens in all the Cinderella films I’ve seen and it annoys me every time because she is wearing a mask on her face and a wedding dress not a ski mask and …. A wedding dress ….. how the hell do you not recognise her after interacting with her so many times after. Very dumb.  Jennifer hated the male best friend character but I thought he was cool.  Jennifer Coolidge makes a good evil step mom, very funny.  4.9/10 I accidentally made this the first film I watched in 2023. Oops.

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio 2022

Last film of 2022, and it was a good one. Took over 15 years to make and how can you not respect that. The amount of care and effort that goes into every single frame of claymation is inspirational and incredible.  Takes a much darker approach with the Pinocchio story, closer to the original story rather than the Disney version and I enjoyed it a lot. Pinocchios character was so interesting and the whole him being immortal until he gives it up to save someone who isn’t, I really enjoyed. The film looked amazing, some of the creatures and spirits were so well designed.  I loved the ending, the final shot of the pine cone falling, a lot of voice actors I love in it, honestly just a wonderful enjoyable film.  I really loved how dark it was and I loved all the characters, final film of 2022 and it’s high on my list of the years films.  Loved the ending too, made me tear up a little.  8.3/10

The Killing of a Sacred Deer 2017

My New Year’s resolution is the same as it is every year. Watch one film a day. Pretty impossible, doesn’t usually last long. This film doesn’t count as it’s till 2022 but ima start early to get into the habit. 1 film a day. This may be one of the creepiest films I’ve ever watched. Took me a while to watch it, just made me feel incredibly uncomfortable. The acting was really good, dialogue all so rebooting and it really added to the uncomfortability. The way the characters interacted with each other was so strange, my first Yorgos Lanthimos film, not scary just strange. Even the opening shot was kinda uncomfortable and I found myself feeling a little happy it was over.  i like films that can make me feel stuff, but I don’t know if I enjoyed what this film did to me. It was really good but I didn’t want to keep watching. Had 40 minutes left and didn’t come back to it for a couple of weeks. Soundtrack Also was quite good and added to the creepiness.  Love Colin Farrell, one of my favourite actors, like him at his best under the direction of Martin McDonagh as he’s hilarious but he is also quite good in serious roles like this. Barry Keoghan I also like quite a lot now. Saw him in The Banshees of Inisherin with Colin Farrell and I think he’s the new joker aswell, he was really good in this, very creepy.   “Dad, quick bobs dying”  Ending annoyed me a little 5.9/10

DC League of Super-Pets 2022

Finally gotta see this film. Wasn’t amazing, but a nice animated kids film with DC superhero’s, pretty cool. It was basically secret life of pets but superhero’s. The Rock and Kevin heart as the two main dogs, the two have a lot of chemistry, although I don’t like them that much I do enjoy seeing them as a duo .  Could have been better. Could have been worse. It was fine, made me chuckle a couple of times, worth seeing if you have a child or a friend who loves Guinea pigs, but wouldn’t really recommend it to anyone else.  6.3/10 After credits  7.9/10  Dwayne Johnson talking to Dwayne Johnson while there’s another Dwayne Johnson talking to John krasinski was funny.

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules 2022

They made another one of these. First one was genuinely awful, surprisingly this one wasn’t so bad. They changed the tone of the diary of a wimpy kid films and books completely with these films and I kinda think the new tone works better for Rodrick rules. It still feels like a film for 8 year olds and the voices are kind of annoying, but the ending was a little wholesome. Doesn’t feel like diary of a wimpy kid and the animation is awful, but the brotherly love stuff was good, Greg and Rodricks relationship worked well in this children’s film and though the film isn’t good I definitely got more enjoyment out of it than I did the first one.  The story is simplified but in a way that kinda works this time for the film, still prefer the original book and film tho.  Please don’t make more of these (because if you do I’ll probably watch them)  4.5/10

Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery 2022

Murderville is a fun idea, it’s a show that takes actors and celebrities such as Conan Obrian, Ken Jeong and Kumail Nanjiani, and puts them aside the hilarious Will arnet. It’s a murder mystery show with a catch, the celebrities don’t have a script, they have to deal with the absurdity of the show while by the end of it having to solve the mystery themselves. I didn’t love the show but It’s a really fun idea and will arnet is a great person to execute it.  This Christmas special film has the best cameo yet, Jason Bateman, who starred along side will in the popular sitcom arrested development. This was quiet funny, but I honestly think it might have been better if they had just stuck with Bateman rather than adding in Maya Rudolph half way in and Pete Davidson at the end for no reason. It created some funny moments, but took away from the overall story which isn’t massively important in something like this, but still somewhat important, adding in Pete Davidson at the end for no reason was funny but kinda ruined the ending for a joke and ab extra cameo as he wasn’t raking it seriously and I don’t blame him considering he had no idea what was going on.  Some funny moments, cool concept, but still has a lot of the flaws prominent in the tv show. Could be done better I think.  5.9/10

If you don’t know who Joel haver is, he’s a YouTuber who makes short films and the occasional feature length independent film. He just casually dropped an hour long film of him talking to himself in a wig and it’s a film that made me feel more emotions than half the films I’ve seen this year.  I think this line will help you understand this film.  “You know what you never see in movies and tv? You never see somebody just drink a glass of water, you just take a big drink of water and just take it in”  “I’m sure there’s plenty of movies where someone drinks water but usually it’s like somebody finishes a big sports game, the championship match and they cut water, they cross the desert and they find water. You don’t see somebody just go through a hard day, a day that’s so hard that they just forgot to drink water that day and then when they finally remember they *drinks water* they just feel good for a second”  This film is that drink of water. It’s real, it’s a man talking to himself in a wig but after a while you just forget about that and your watching two very real people in a relationship talk to each other. It doesn’t skip an awkward silence, it makes you feel uncomfortable, you stick with it through the tough moments and through the not so tough moments, like when someone does something so simple yet so necessary and real like drink a glass of water.  I respect Joel a lot, he can motivate me like no other filmmaker. His films are so personal and it’s amazing that he puts them out for us to see, like we are really getting a look into his mind. It’s incredible.  This films about love, about letting your feelings get in the way of that love. About forgetting to tell the person you love what they need to hear or simply not being able to. Not saying I love you when they need to hear it even though you know you should and you know it’s what they need to hear. Not telling them what a great person they are, telling them it’s ok to not be ok, instead just sitting in silence, going about your day, having regular conversations and having to let that person deal with their emotions wishing there was something more you can do about it, wishing you could make them feel better. You can write them a poem or sing them a song but they tell you they don’t need that stuff. “I want those things, but I don’t need them” “Is our love predicated on being together”  This film was beautiful. It looked great, acting was great and there’s no soundtrack, nothing to take us away from the silence of that house, I loved it.  Joel haver you are incredible.  8.3/10

Drinking Buddies 2013

½

Had never heard of this before, stumbled onto it randomly on Letterboxd while going through Jake Johnson’s films. There was a good review for it and the cast looked great; Jake Johnson, Anna Kendrick, Jason Sudeikis and Emilia Clarke. Had me at Jake Johnson.  The acting is quite good, felt very natural, there were lots of really long takes where I think the actors have really good performances, especially Emilia Clarke and Jake Johnson. It’s not a typical romance, the people you expect to get together don’t get together, it’s a realistic film about love and friendship.  The ending was really good, I enjoy endings like that, feels anti climactic in the best way. Just two people sitting there. Life goes on.  I really like Jake Johnson, coz new girl and Spider-Man. He was good in this. Also Anna Kendrick because pitch perfect and 50/50 and because she’s Anna Kendrick. This film was kinda uninteresting at times, not too much happened, but it was good. I enjoyed. 6.6/10 Ok backtracking on my review real quick. I liked this film for how natural it felt, how it felt like real people having real conversations. I just read that it was entirely improvised, I didn’t even realise. That’s kinda incredible.  6.9/10

White Chicks 2004

It’s 2am and I have a film shoot tomorrow but worth it, I loved this film. It’s dumb, stupid but funny and has some really nice moments that can still be taken seriously even given the ridiculous premise.  Sometimes it’s nice to sit down and watch a movie you know you will love knowing full well it’s not gonna be some kinda masterpiece, I enjoyed it a lot and would probably watch it again, because it was hilarious.  Been meaning to watch it for so long and am not disappointed at all it was great. Can’t write a long review about it as it was just some dumb fun, but sometimes it’s nicer to sit down and watch something like this than watching something like the godfather, it’s nothing close to the expert level of film making in a film like that, but over all I’m not so ashamed to admit, I think I got more enjoyment from white chicks. Hilarious. 7.7/10

Strange World 2022

½

Jake Gyllenhaal  I actually enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Expected it to be a kinda middle of the barrel, average Disney film, but it was quite nice. The story wasn’t a nothing too special, the world looked amazing and was quite well designed, the characters weren’t too complex and most of the side characters were a bit average/ boring, but I found the relationships between the three main characters to be quite moving. It’s about a son who always felt forced into living a specific life by his dad, then his dad chose that life over him and disappeared, the kid went on to have a son of his own and wanted to be completely different and be a good dad. He ended up having a good relationship with his kid, he was there for him and he was a loving father, but while trying to be different he ended up doing the same thing as his dad did, then his dad came back and there were clear parallels between the two and how they treat their kids, it was just a really interesting family dynamic. It was simplistic, nothing incredible, but I found it enjoyable. It’s about the expectations and pressures forced on you as a kid and about the pressure to be a better parent than your own, and how this pressure can make you become the exact same as them. Very fun and interesting, as this happens we get to explore this beautiful and wonderful world the film creates for us, with lovable creatures such as Splat who was my personal favourite character. It was a very progressive film with openly gay characters and wasn’t too in your face about it, just treated it as normal as it should, and honestly just quite a lovely wholesome film, nothing too special, but definitely wasn’t bad and I had a good time watching it. Even made me chuckle a couple of times.  Also Jake Gyllenhaal (I hope I spelt his name right after saying it twice)  6.9/10

High School Musical 2 2007

½

So I watched this with 3 other people and I was the only one that thinks the first one was better. I am right. They are wrong. As a story, as a whole, the first one is better. The first one I was close to tears at the end, this one I was barley even paying attention to it. A couple of characters improved in this film. Ryan mostly. Sharpay was ok. All the other characters got a lot worse and their relationships and problems all felt trivial and cringe.  The first film I felt bad for Troy coz all the other characters were being dumb for not letting him sing. This one I thought he was being a dick. But so were his friends. They were all dicks.  Sure this film has a couple of bangers. Bet on it is amazing. But most of the other songs felt a bit too over the top, where the first one felt like a real film with real characters, though obviously it still can never be taken completely seriously, this one felt like it gave up on any sense of realism.  The first film is better. I am right.  The start of something new.  Breaking free.  Them two alone make the second film look trash.  Maybe I’m taking this too seriously as it’s high school musical but I am defensive of the first film as I like it. Still like this one tho.  3rd one I don’t remember too fondly but will probably watch it next.  6.1/10 Shout out for Josh.

High School Musical 2006

What a film.  May unironically be my second favourite musical of all time (tick tick boom). Watched this at 4am on a projector in my friends living room while they drifted off asleep and I sang all the songs with a blocked nose. Lots of fun.  Some good songs, cute little romance, I nearly cried at the end but was with people so managed to control myself and I don’t think they noticed so please don’t tell them.  Fun film, the plot is very dumb, it’s about a school realising kids are allowed to have more than one hobby, they come off as quite weird, but there’s some fun quirky characters and I have some high nostalgia here so ima stand firm and say this is a good film.  I will forever love the music in this film.  Sharpei - sharpay- sharpie - (I’m sure one of those is the right spelling) is a bit over the top but I love her and I think they fixed her in the sequels a lot. Ryan definitely gets cooler in the later films.  After the film finished I thought it’d be funny to instantly go back and rewatch it but everyone had fallen asleep and I realised it wasn’t worth committing to the joke so I only lasted 15 minutes but I kinda regret not just watching the whole film again.  6.5/10

Summer of 84 2018

½

Watched an actual horror film this time, though until the last 10 minutes it felt less like a horror than the thriller I watched yesterday. I actually didn’t mind this one, the acting wasn’t great except from the killers monologue in the last scene and the main kid was on. I didn’t really like most of this, it was ok, don’t really have anything against it, it just didn’t stand out much as a film as there was nothing special about it, it would have been really forgettable if not for the ending.  I don’t usually like spoiling films in my reviews but the ending is the only thing I wanna talk about as it was the only part I like so just gonna plonk a spoiler warning here.  I was kinda convinced the girl was the killer so I did look a bit dumb, I thought it was too obvious for the guy they suspected to be the killer and she kept tryna jump scare us but nah it was the guy they suspected, a bit boring but ok. The scene was fine, just horror chase scene, whatever, but a cool murder of one of the kids and it was a little creepy which I guess is quite a good thing for a horror film (this is genuinely like my first one). The thing I liked about it, which was the main stand out of the whole film, was the monologue from the villain, such good acting, something he hasn’t shown us really at all so far so it was surprising. The decision to let the kid live, as he wanted him to be living in constant fear and paranoia of his promised return, was really cool. I feel like films always end with one of them winning, I’ve never seen it just end with the serial killer just letting the kid go promising he’ll be back, which is something I found really interesting.  Rest of the film was just fine but the way they ended it kinda impressed me. 7.1/10

Red Eye 2005

I must admit, I wasn’t fully paying attention for the entire film, so I don’t know how well I can review it. Round a friends house and someone stuck it on the projector and I was kind of only half paying attention for a big portion and didn’t pay attention at all for the start but I think I kinda get what was going on.  Again I can’t judge it properly but it did feel a bit cheesy. Not really my kinda film, hence the boredom, that and the fact I was sitting uncomfortably on someone’s floor for most of it did make this one of the most uncomfortable viewing experiences I’ve had, but I like the actors, the plot was kinda simple but a little interesting I guess, a good thriller film I think but again just not my kinda film. I think the dynamic between Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy was quite good, and the film had some intensity to it, but also at times felt a bit over dramatic and cheesy. I think I’ve watched like 5 horror films in my life coz I find them boring so no surprise I didn’t love this, but I am trying to make one at the moment so should probably be taking notes instead of trying to balance a vape on my phone because of how bored I was.  You can definitely tell this was an early 2000s film from watching it, definitely gave off those vibes. Long fight scene at the end, again, not my kinda thing, the moment with the dad at the end was pretty cool, and I like the girl from glee. Ending also felt rushed.  This wasn’t bad it just really wasn’t my kind of film. Clearly I’m not the intended audience.  5.9/10

Captain America: The First Avenger 2011

½

So every year or two pretty much I rewatch the entirety of the mcu. Doing it this time chronologically starting with this film. When I did this during covid I managed to beat all my records, watching 7 films in one day and 58 films in just one month.  Not one of my favourites of the mcu films. I have it ranked at 33 in my marvel films list and 23 in just my mcu rankings. It’s an ok film. Red skull is definitely an under-utilised villain in the mcu and I hope we get to see him again properly (I know he’s been in it a couple of times since but that wasn’t really red skull) Steve looks weird as fuck at the start, but this film actually makes me kinda appreciate his character development a lot more and I really like his relationship with Peggy. Howard stark is also a very likeable character and I think Tommy Lee jones was quite good aswell. It’s a pretty simple, run of the mill, basic origin mcu film and captain America can be quite boring sometimes, but the film still kinda holds up and it’s watchable. Seen this so many times I’ve lost count and I don’t love it but I can still rewatch it pretty easily. I love Sebastian Stan and this is the most normal and likeable his character gets, so I enjoyed him in this.  Only mcu film set so far in the past so respect it for that. When cap comes back with all the soldiers it’s a very cool moment that is very satisfying. But it is just quite a simple generic story and I think captain America, though I like him very much, can be quite boring on his own without the rest of the avengers. His relationship with Peggy is the thing that makes him somewhat interesting to me in this. (I’m sure most people would disagree though, just my personal opinion) Phase one is incredibly different and I respect these films very much, but they aren’t all Amazing as it’s just the introduction to the universe we all loved up until end game and now everyone just likes to complains about.  (except me coz I controversially think this new phase is the best but I’ll get into that once I’ve rewatched a couple more of them) I’m mostly just chatting shit as it’s 7am, I haven’t slept yet and I honestly don’t have much to say about this film, but I think this review was fine I guess.  6.9/10 After credits 5/10  (It’s sets up the avengers so very cool but the ending kinda does that well enough already so it was mostly pointless, also the exact same scene that plays in the after credits is in avengers so it’s really just a teaser, which is what the after credits used to be)

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever 2022

If I’m being perfectly honest, I had no interest in seeing a black panther film without black panther in it, I was curious to how they would handle it, which is why I saw it 12:30 opening day, but I didn’t expect the film to be good at all. It was. They handled it better than I could have imagined, the opening and ending scenes where both incredibly moving and I loved them. The first mcu film (maybe second coz of guardians of the galaxy 2) to make me full on cry in the cinema. Like hood up hiding my face cry. The end scene was actually beautiful. The perfect tribute. I’ve never really liked Shuri, that’s one of the reasons I didn’t care for this film, I knew it was about her, but she was incredible. Her and the queen gave some of the best and most emotional performances throughout the entire mcu.  I don’t wanna give anything at all away but the campfire scene at the end was actually amazing, the credits rolled and no one spoke, it was silence, we all just sat there and processed it and it was something I’ve never experienced before at the cinema.  Martin freeman is in this again, I love that guy, was good to see him. The thunderbolts lady was also in it, as always, not good to see her, she kinda sucks.  Action scenes are great, soundtrack, cinematography, acting, all was done very well. The chillis even played at one point. The villain was also quite good, I love namor, I’ve been really excited to see him come to the mcu and I think they adapted him into quite a well thought out villain. Even though Chadwick is gone, the whole film is still really about him, but the grief just all feels so real simply because, it is. When the characters grieve him, they aren’t just grieving the character, they are grieving the actor, and so are we, which makes it one of the most impactful deaths I have ever seen.  It does get a bit slow and it is a little longer than it needs to be, but overall I found it very enjoyable and I would recommend it.  8.2/10

Black Adam 2022

½

So this was pretty much exactly what I expected, another completely average DC film, this time bringing the rock in, which is both kind of cool and extremely uncool at the same time.  I never cared about this at all, from the first trailer I thought it looked shit, but after seeing a post from the rock and seeing how much of a passion project it was for him I started to care about it a little more. “15 hard years of fighting to make this passion project a reality. Years of studio execs saying “is there any other DC superheroes you want to play INSTEAD of Black Adam?” My answer was always no. To me Teth Adam’s story mattered. when I was a little boy the one thing that drew me to Teth Adam when I saw my first Black Adam⚡️ comic….  He was a hero of color.  That mattered to me then.  As it matters to me now.  Kids of ALL colors around the world will now be able to see themselves in Black Adam⚡️ 15 long years.  Worth the fight. “ I thought that was kinda cool. I remember him being announced to play black Adam ages ago and it’s weird to finally see it, and he wasn’t awful.  The film it’s self wasn’t that good, very generic. It had some interesting topics and the cgi is miles better than anything the mcu had done recently. But the pacing was a bit all over the place and most of the characters were a bit dull. Dr fate was ok and surprisingly hawkman was good, but there wasn’t much else to the film other than a boring action film that got a couple chuckles out of me and wasn’t a terrible revenge story. But for most of the film I was trying not to fall asleep. My roommate had to tap me on the shoulder a few times asking if I was sleeping because I looked so bored and I was so close to dozing off. The film was…. Fine…. And that’s probably the nicest thing I’ll say about it. 5.0/10 After credits 8/10

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story 2022

A biopic about weird al with Daniel Radcliffe and Rain Wilson is one of the best things I’d ever heard, and I loved the trailer so much, I was really excited about this.  It was an Interesting one, it Felt fake, like a kids film. Like actors playing actors, or a YouTube or tick tock skit. It didn’t feel real. It was…. Weird. I guess that’s the point, it’s like a parody of his life, but hard to take seriously, which makes most the emotional moments all fall a little flat. Most of it isn’t true, like him turning down joining queen to play live aid (I don’t know that that’s fake for sure it’s just an assumption). I have no idea how much of this film is real and how much is fake, like all the stuff with his parents. It’s not a very laugh out loud funny film, kind of like how parody songs aren’t, they are just smart and creative, that’s what this feels like, it feels like a parody of Bohemian Rhapsody and weird als life. I say that but I did laugh out loud quite a bit so maybe I’m wrong.  The film is very fast paced. LSD doesn’t kick in that quick. The film falls off the rails pretty quickly and continues to spin out of control for the rest of the runtime. Just as it gets a little too crazy he finally says no and returns back to normality. (More or less)  Ok I laughed at the Michael Jackson bit. I found my self laughing at the absurdity of the film, it just got crazier and crazier and I quite liked and enjoyed that aspect of it. Never seen anything like it before. It feels very much like a parody of a biopic genre and the kinda film that weird al would love to make about his life.  Fuck it I liked the ending, the Amish paradise stuff was really good and I always love seeing Daniel Radcliffe. Also rain Wilson at the end was quite funny. I enjoyed this.  It was weird.  To anyone else that was curious. “Alfred Matthew Yankovic was born on October 23, 1959, in the Los Angeles suburb of Lynwood, to Mary Elizabeth (Vivalda) and Nick Louis Yankovic. His father was of Yugoslavian descent and his mother was of Italian and English ancestry. He first took up the accordion when a salesman came around to solicit business for a music school. His parents decided on the accordion because of polka king Frankie Yankovic (no relation). As a child and young teen, Al watched a lot of television, which gave him much inspiration for his later work. He also became a fan of such musician/comedians as Allan Sherman and Spike Jones. He became especially acquainted with these musicians through the radio show of Barry Hansen, aka "Dr. Demento", which would later become a great source of publicity for his talents. “ So it wasn’t all a lie.  8.0/10

Short Term 12 2013

Another recommendation from Marcus. I never would have seen this film, but I’m glad I did it was a very emotional story with some great characters played by some great actors. Everyone did such a good job and gave incredible performances, Brie Larson, the guy that played her boyfriend (John Gallagher Jr) , Marcus (Lakeith Stanfield ( I should have known that one)) Kaitlin Dever, Rami Malek and Rosa Diaz (Stephanie Beatriz). All did great, especially John Gallagher and Brie Larson who have very emotional performances, Brie Larson in particular who I haven’t always liked but now I really respect her as an actress after this. Her characters relationship with Jayden was so well done, such a well written film.  Lakeith Stanfield's break out role, he was also so good in this, all of them were, it was just a very solid film that made me sad.  8.4/10

The Big Short 2015

I enjoyed this film, it was pretty similar to Wolf of Wall Street, it just was slightly more confusing and had characters that were likeable and not based on cunts. One of Steve Carell’s best performances, up there with beautiful boy, he plays my favourite character in this. It was also very interesting, learning about all the housing and banking terms I’ve already forgotten, not sure how I felt about them getting celebrities to explain everything as it felt a bit out of place, but was kinda cool as I’ve not seen a film do anything like that before. A very interesting style of story telling, especially when it’s telling a true story, the fourth wall stuff works really well. There was one point in the film where the character pauses, looks at the camera, and explains that what was just shown wasn’t what happened in real life and was just done for dramatic effect which I thought was really cool.  Great cast, Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling. It also had Max Greenfield who plays a pretty scummy character, I was happy to see him as he’s from a tv show I quite like that I won’t reveal the name of out of embarrassment for one of my guilty pleasure shows.  I don’t really like all the stock footage and stuff they would cut to, I think that’s something that was also done in Wolf of Wall Street but it wasn’t done as well in this. Also the ending felt a bit too quick but I liked the happy ending psych out that they did.   It was an interesting film and I feel like I almost learnt something. There wasn’t really a main character just lots of groups of characters that never even meet but are mostly all equally interesting. A fun film, I enjoyed it.  I haven’t seen spotlight though and everyone says that’s a better film.  8.0/10

The Banshees of Inisherin 2022

My expectations were definitely high, it didn’t exactly meet them but it was still undeniably a good film.  Martin McDonagh is a legend, I love all his films ( mostly) and this was no exception. Fantastic script, cinematography and acting. Really cool story that felt very small and isolated in this quiet town in Ireland which made it feel so real and emotional and made the film very cool.  Farrel and Gleason were both good of course, but Barry Keoghan was the main stand out that surprised me, also Colin Farrell has a great monologue when he’s drunk on whiskey. I will probably see this again, it was slow and wasn’t incredibly entertaining, but it handled the theme of friendship so well and it worked incredibly in the location of the film, I really enjoyed it.  8.0/10

Super Dark Times 2017

½

1000 My 1000th log, thought very hard about the last 3, went with 4 lions, my first Louis Theroux documentary and super dark times. Now I can finally watch black Adam after holding off from not wanting it to be my 1000th log.  This film was a recommendation from Marcus, I trusted the recommendation and it paid off, I was on the edge of my seat. To be fair though it’s kinda hard to dislike a film when the person you watch it with is constantly commenting on how good everything is. It was so intense and had such a cool vibe to it. It was filmed and edited extremely well with great performance's. I loved the soundtrack, I was so invested into the film the whole way through and couldn’t look away which is always a sign of one of my favourites.  The film was funny and well filmed throughout and just got more and more intense, it felt so real and natural up until the end. I recommend watching this knowing nothing like I did coz it was a fun experience.  Interesting characters and a good story, slightly unsatisfying ending but done very well. Loved it.  Now on to the next thousand.  8.8/10

Entergalactic 2022

½

This film was fine. It was pretty cool, the animation was great, a stoner animated romance film is also one of the best sounding films ever. I love animation and I think we need more films like this we’re we get animation and adult topics and themes. The story of this was kind of mid though, a very basic romance film that I didn’t really enjoy at all, didn’t really care bout the characters or what they were doing and the film had too many montages…. But it’s so cool.  Playing on the success of Into the Spider-Verse, this film has incredible animation, I loved the opening shot so much. I also like what it did when every time a different character tells a new story it’s in a different style on animation. I also appreciate one of those styles was anime. It did some other cool stuff, like his hoodie said closure on it and his ex passed it to him as he received closure on that relationship, it was really cool the way they did it and was very obvious, I think it was kinda unneeded that the word stayed on the screen after I think it was already good enough and got the point across before.  My 1001st film.  7.1/10

Louis Theroux: A Place for Paedophiles 2009

For my 999th log on Letterboxd I decided to watch my first Louis Theroux documentary, which is something I’ve been meaning to do for a while. I chose a bit of a disturbing one for the first film, but I get the impression most of his films are disturbing.  This was quite interesting, he interviews lot of people who seem completely normal, but are one of the most hated groups of people in the world. I prefer documentaries that focus on people rather than stories, and this just is just a bunch of messed up people having conversations with Louis about their crimes. It covers topics of guilt and recovery, posing the question of whether or not these people deserve another shot at life after the crimes they have committed, or if they should be locked away forever to keep people safe. It was a hard to watch but interesting documentary, I really like Louis Theroux which is why I thought his film deserved to be my 999th film, I am making a documentary for uni and want it to be in this style as I think it is such a great type of documentary filmmaking. Louis also is so good at asking the right questions, which is one of the reasons this works so well.  Exited to watch my next Louis Theroux doc, and low key exited for his film on KSI.  Thanks Luke for the recommendation.  7.6/10

Four Lions 2010

I am on 997 films logged. This is my 998th. I wanted it to be my 1000th but my roommates made me watch it now so I have to find a new film for number 1000. I wanted it to be this one coz it was a film I knew I would enjoy and I did.  This may be one of the darkest comedies I’ve ever seen and I loved it, they managed to use such serious topics and such terrible characters and make them hilarious and likeable. I think it’s really smart, it humanises them by making them funny, really showing us how they are also victims in this story. The ending is so dark and real and scary, the fact they managed to make it so funny at the same time is something I’ve never seen before and I found it really interesting.  I like to think people are wrong when they say a film like this couldn’t be made in todays climate. I’m sure there would be people who have something to say about it on Twitter, but I feel like the majority of audience will be able to watch it and have the same opinion on it as I have on this having watched it for the first time today.  Riz Ahmed is one of my favourite actors, every character in this was really funny but I was glad to see Riz in this. I may rewatch his short film the long goodbye now after seeing the rapping scene in this. A far more serious film with similar topics.  I would recommend this, it was very good.  Film 998 8.5/10

Ben 10: Race Against Time 2007

Remember this film? Loved it as a kid and still remembered the plot. So much nostalgia. It felt like watching an episode of smallville, it’s kinda crappy with the cgi, and a little cheesy with the music and the acting, but who cares.  The fighting also wasn’t great it felt like watching the power rangers but what do you expect from a live action Ben 10 film made in 2007. The villain was kinda shit but his acting wasn’t that bad in parts.  It was funny a couple times, the head teacher was pretty funny once or twice, obviously the film wasn’t good but, but it’s Ben 10. 3.7/20

Vengeance 2022

Best podcast ever. BJ Novak’s first film. I really like that guy so had to watch this. That man wrote the 2nd episode of the office, which is often referred to by the cast and crew as the pilot after the pilot, the episode that really defined the US office. And his first feature film was good, he is clearly a very talented man. The film wasn’t all good, it was a cool concept, a guy who’s a bit of a dick gets called to Texas for a girl he used to hook up withs funeral. The whole family thinks he was her boyfriend and he uses this to his advantage by making a podcast about how they are all crazy, but starts to connect with them and realises they are really nice people, and so was the girl he never really gave a shit about before it was too late.  A fun watch, my favourite part was BJ Novak and his character’s character development, was done quite well, apart from when he switched on the whole family for no reason that was a little forced and unnecessary. But it was an intriguing plot and I really wish I could listen to that podcast.  I really wanna go and solve a crime and record the whole thing.  Also I really liked the ending tho it was a bit hard to believe, the character development was very interesting. 7.8/10

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On 2021

One of the best films about a shell I’ve ever seen.  Jenny slate has the best voice ever. This film was really good. Maybe one of the most wholesome films I’ve ever seen. I’ve been really excited for it for a while and it didn’t blow my mind like I expected it to but it was a film that is impossible to dislike. It’s a documentary about a shell with shoes on, that’s all you really need to know, it’s great.  I have nothing to fault about this, it went by really quickly really nice and meaningful story about such a simple yet likeable character.  One of the top A24 films for me. Below the Daniels films so probably in the top 3. 7.9/10

Meet Cute 2022

Weird how I won’t watch bodies bodies bodies because it’s got Pete Davidson in it but I watched this film just because it’s got Pete Davidson in it.  This film was quite bad, the core concept was quite interesting, it’s about a girl who can time travel and repeats the same day over and over again where she goes on the perfect date. I found her emotional journey to be quite well done and it was slightly entertaining, but the acting and dialogue completely ruined it. Kaley cuoco was way over the top and her character was kinda unlikable and hard to route for. She just seemed crazy. I like kaley cuoco, I don’t like the Big Bang theory but I have watched all of it more than once and I did name my dog penny after her character so yeah she’s cool, she’s also quite good in the Harley Quinn show, but not too good in this as the leading role. Pete Davidson wasn’t even that bad. He may be a decent actor.  Yeah overall not a good film, felt very simple and very weird (in a bad way), the main character is just odd.  4.5/10

The Greatest Beer Run Ever 2022

Surprisingly quite a nice film, it’s actually insane this is a true story, it feels like it must have been exaggerated in this. The story is very inspirational and the film is actually quite interesting.  The concept drew me in, it’s about a guy who decides to go to Vietnam to drop off some beers for his friends who are out there fighting in the war. It sounded weird, and it was, also it stars Zack efron who is pretty cool.  It was also quite interesting though and had a strong message, it showed one of the most interesting sides of war, the people who are fighting for their country and the people back home hearing about death after death, I think this film explores this well.  This is basically a modern day version of Buster Keaton's “The General”  Enjoyable watch. Still had its faults, but I had a nice time watching.  7.6/10

The Kid Detective 2020

I really like Adam Brody coz he played Seth in The O.C. He’s also a good actor, was in Shazam. He’s very funny and suits this role very well. An interesting premise and a very different kind of detective film. I liked the ending quite a bit, especially the final scene. I found the scene in the shed at the end felt very unrealistic in an almost comical way. Nice watch though, would recommend.  7.7/10

Plus One 2019

½

Is it normal to get invited to that many weddings. Pretty wholesome film about two likeable characters getting together. The conflict in the final act felt a little forced but it had quite a nice message.  Watched this coz of jack quaid who I really like but his characters all come off as a bit of a dick.  Got from this exactly what I expected, and I got all the entertainment I wanted from it.  7.5/10

Don't Worry Darling 2022

This was awful. It made me feel like I was high, a complete mess and watching it was a waste of time. Some of the acting was good but at other points it just felt awkward and uncomfortable.  I’ve never walked out of a film at the cinema before ( though I have slept through many films) but for this film I couldn’t stand it anymore and I walked out. Then I realised the shop I wanted to go to had shut so I came back so I could finish watching this piece of shit and so I could write this review.  I have no problem with Harry styles, he wasn’t even that bad in this, seems like a cool guy and wouldn’t mind seeing him in more stuff. Florence Pugh is also a great actress, but their characters in this are awful.  It’s so unnecessary confusing just so they can give us a shitty twist at the end. I think the film would have been better if the main character was actually insane and they did a s******  ****** (spoiler redacted).  So many weird and random moments in the dialogue and the film was just so strange and unrealistic. Hated every minute of it. I just sat there in the cinema with my friend as we both had out heads in our hands groaning, completely dumbfounded by the complete mess of a film we were witnessing. It even made me laugh a couple times before of how ridiculous it was.  Even behind the scenes this film was a mess, I don’t know everything about what happened but I think Harry styles was dating the director, everyone hated each other and Harry may or may not of spit on Chris pine.  Speaking of Chris pine his character was probably the worst of all of them, he was supposed to be the creepy man in charge but they never really explain what he’s in charge of and then they randomly reveal that he’s evil in the weirdest way. Complete mess.  1.9/10

Decision to Leave 2022

½

Park Chan-wook is an incredible filmmaker. Oldboy is one of my favourite films and this is the only other film I’ve watched from him, but it is incredibly well made.  I didn’t love it as much as Oldboy, but some of the cinematography is incredible and I also really loved some of the transitions. There was one shot of him thinking about an X-ray and the X-ray arm fades into his arm that I really liked.  The story was ok, I don’t think I was too invested in it but it was kind of interesting, it’s about a detective who falls for a murder suspect. The ending was quite good and I really liked some of the chase scenes, but I didn’t care too much about the story, probably coz it took me three days to watch the film due to work so I kept forgetting exactly what was going on.  Good film tho, think I may watch again, or watch Handmaid’s Tale.  7.5/10 *I don’t know why I thought it was called Handmaid’s Tale it’s called The Handmaiden

Clerks II 2006

½

The same as the first film except slightly over dramatic, slightly less funny and just less cool. The main characters are kind of annoying where they were really likeable in the first film, they turned Randal who was so cool into more of a stifler character. It has some nice moments and good pieces of dialogue, I loved the Star Wars Vs lord of the rings debate, didn’t love as much the racism and bestiality. The film was slightly weird, still has some of the charms of the first one but felt quite different tonally. Some nice new characters and a pretty satisfying ending. Excited to see number 3 now.  7.0/10

Chasing Amy 1997

½

This movie really fell apart at the end. I ended up saying “what the fuck” out loud a couple of times coz of the incredibly weird direction they took the film in. The main character is an idiot, I quite liked him for most of the film and now I hate him, he’s a weirdo.  I really like Jason Lee. He plays a massive dick in every film he’s in but he’s weirdly still quite likeable and I was happy to see him in this. Him and Ben Affleck as comic book writers is a really cool idea for a film, but all the lesbian stuff was done so poorly and it was really weird. Ben Affleck’s character is just an asshole.  Some of the monologues are really stretched out and get quite boring. The intense shouting matches got quite annoying. But the ending really just killed the film for me I don’t recommend this film, a really poorly done time skip after an almost laughable scene with the three main characters. This film was mostly watchable but I’m in shock from the ending so. 4.9/10

Clerks III 2022

½

Clerks 3 wasn’t an amazing film, but I liked it. There were points where I thought I wasn’t going to like it, like when they started talking bout NFT’s or had the same argument they’ve had for the last 2 films, but when it got into the part where they started to make a film, I started to accept the film for what it was, Kevin smiths passion project, and I’m so glad I got to see it at the cinema.  I recommend you stay for the credits as at the end kevin smith starts talking about what the film meant to him and It made me respect the film a lot more.  The opening of the film is very cool and I think it had a great ending also. “He wasn’t even supposed to be here today” It surprisingly had me tearing up a little which is something the first two never managed to do. It was just a great ending to a trilogy that it is clear someone really cared about. I’m not sure how I felt about the ghost stuff, what I loved about the first clerks film is how grounded and realistic it was, and this film doesn’t have that, but it’s the final one so I think that’s ok.  The surprise cameos were very cool, I’m not gonna spoil them for u but it’s at the auditions for their film and a couple people I’m sure most people like and recognise show up.  Some of the background music I found quite weird, there’s rock songs playing quietly at scenes like at the hospital which didn’t feel right. It wasn’t always funny, but it was sometimes. But Kevin smith is a legend and I loved it, don’t regret spending most of my day watching clerks.  7.5/10

Clerks 1994

Such a cool film, so much passion behind it and it’s just really fun to watch. When I first started trying to watch films my uncle made me watch this after I said I don’t like black and white films. So really clerks was the film to make me change my mind about that, opening me up to so many new films, some being on my list of favourites such as 12 angry men.  The films about a couple of store clerks who go through troubles at work and in their relationships, it’s so simple yet so well done. I like Kevin smith and I respect how nerdy he is and how much he loves films. They have a debate about Star Wars in this film, everything feels so natural and it still manages to get a little deep with some emotional moments at the end.  Would definitely recommend. It’s very funny.  8.0/10

Dog Play Weekend 2022

This was really good. It feels like just 3 friends hanging out making something and it’s about 3 friends hanging out and making something. Feels really natural, the three of them are really good actors and the whole thing was really believable. I loved how meta it was, a film about a play about a play. I also really loved the ending where it reveals Jamie did some Nathan fielder script and wrote how he wanted the weekend to go, and he kinda mentions how scary it is living without a script, your whole life is like one big improv film. The fact that he says this at the end of a film about this weekend was just so cool and I found it really interesting. Such a cool ending.  “I’m scared that every day of your life is like some weird improvised thing”  Jamie, jack and joe are really funny and they all work so well together. There’s lots of great things I loved about this, like jacks frustration about the whole project, the very real stress of trying to get everyone enthused about your project and trying desperately to make them take it as serious as you are. With Jamie’s other film Gonzo, we stay with Jamie’s character the whole time and go on a journey with him, this film is more natural with two other people and I really enjoyed seeing them interact. The dialogue was really natural and funny and the editing was quite unique and fast paced and I think it added to the comedy of the film. Jamie scales up certain shots with weird zoom ins that worked really well with the tone of the film but felt a little like a YouTube video.  Another great film from Jamie Evans. I would recommend to everyone, especially if your a student in the same position trying to desperately make whatever you can.  8.3/10

Nope 2022

½

I work at a cinema and I saw this before my shift and in the evening I was getting really annoyed coz we were getting people walking out saying “that was shit, I want a refund”. Firstly that’s an idiotic request you don’t eat a whole meal and then ask for your money back just coz you don’t like it, and secondly, I don’t understand how anyone can hate this film that much.  I get not liking it, I personally quite enjoyed it, but it was a bit weird and confusing and dragged a bit, but how can you come out of a film like this and hate it so much you want your money back. The acting, as I’m sure most people would agree considering Daniel Kaluuya is probably one of the best actors of his generation, is fantastic. Keke Palmer is another surprise stand out as I had never heard of her before and I will probably remember her after this. Brandon Perea was great and quite likeable and I also quite like Steven Yeun. Jordan Peele is a creative genius and this was a really interesting take on an alien film.  The monkey stuff was cool but I don’t really understand it’s relevance, I might have to watch it again. I was half expecting the monkey to hop out the UFO (or UAP), it just seemed really important to the plot but never really led to anything, but I’m sure it had some underlying meaning that went over me and my friends heads.  This film felt really meaningful, maybe coz it’s Jordan Peele, but I couldn’t really understand why. I think it’s about animal cruelty in films or about our need as a society to capture everything on camera, but I’m interested to see what other people took from it.  Good film. I do not feel like I deserve a refund at all. Great acting, great cinematography, had a really bright and enjoyable tone. Don’t be put off by any bad reviews, form your own opinion.  7.5/10

Bullet Train 2022

½

This was kinda the perfect action film for me, it’s fun and keeps your attention, it has an interesting yet maybe a little stupid story and cheesy acting from a good cast. The editing was fun and entertaining, really just a great watch especially at the cinema in screen X.  I don’t like action films, I find them incredibly boring, John Wick sucked, there’s cool fighting but That’s not enough to keep my attention. This film may not have the best story, but it’s incredibly fun and I enjoyed myself. My favourite style of film making managed to make one of my least favourite genres fun to watch. I love how it all came together at the end, I loved all the fighting, Brad Pitt is always great and he was pretty funny in this. It’s set in the best country in the world. I would watch this again.  8.7/10

A day in a fucked up life 2022

½

<a href="https://youtu.be/7izylwbakrQ" rel="nofollow">youtu.be/7izylwbakrQ</a> There’s a link to the film if anyone wants to watch this.  A day in a fucked up life is a film I’ve been wanting to make for a long time, mostly because it’s kinda easy to film, it’s me playing a character, talking to the camera and doing a bunch of improv stuff. I personally quite like it, again it’s very simple but it’s the longest thing I’ve ever made (apart from my feature length Star Wars fan film that no one will ever see).  A lot of the bad film making choices kinda make sense because the character I’m supposed to be playing is meant to be a bad film maker so I can pretty much use that as an excuse for most things, like the bad cinematography (if you can even call it that, it’s pretty much just one shot). Though I did credit myself as the editor and the editing at the end is kinda shit. I wanted to include a whole song and the end but I ran out of footage so just played the music with a black screen.  One of the reasons I love making films is because I love watching them back over and over again, which I kinda can’t do for this as it’s very long and gets kinda boring after a couple of watches, so I wouldn’t even say it’s my favourite thing I’ve made, but it might be one of the best. (That isn’t including the star wars one)  The character of Jimmy Jackson is someone I came up with a bit ago, I’m kinda building up for a big found footage/ mockumentary type film where he kinda loses his shit and this was one of the previous films he would have made before this to make him seem like a real person. There’s a scene in this where he posts on Instagram and that’s actually a real Instagram account I made for him as I wanted to do a Blair Witch type thing where people actually think he’s a real person that lost his mind. Anyway Jimmy is kinda like a super exaggerated version of everything I hate about myself. He’s supposed to be the worst version of me, who takes shit too seriously and gets depressed over the tiniest things and never does the dishes. Improv and acting wise I quite like this film, I’ve done a lot of acting now and I’m having a lot of fun with it, being in character for hours was really fun and I enjoyed making this.  There’s a certain point in this film where there’s a loud bang and Jimmy thinks it was a bomb which was semi real coz can someone please explain to me what that loud bang was it freaked me out. I did stuff like check my door after the bang, which is something I would think about doing but not actually do, when acting in character I just made Jimmy act on every dumb little thought and that’s kinda how I play him throughout.    I like the film, I think there’s a lot that could be better but I am satisfied with the outcome considering what it was and how fast I made it. Mostly I’m glad I actually made something instead of just talking about making stuff. Hope you decide to watch this and enjoy it coz it was fun to make. Also it’s pretty cool to have a film on letterboxd, that’s kinda been a goal of mine for a while.  Also I’m sorry this was so depressing. That’s just the kind of films I make, but at least Jimmy didn’t die in this one.  6.8/10

Cuban Fury 2014

The dancing was good in this film. The acting wasn’t as good. The romantic plot, actually just the plot in general wasn’t good also. Felt very simple and lazy. It was an ok watch, I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, really the only thing I liked about it were cool dancing moments.  Pretty dumb film. Not much to say about it really. I like Nick Frost but this was the worst acting I’ve seen from him. I quite like Karen from the office too. Also I think there was a guy from IT Crowd who played a pretty bad character.  6.1/10

Going the Distance 2010

½

This was about as simple and predictable as you would expect from a film about a long distance relationship. It was extremely generic, and though it was entertaining I do think it was poorly written.  The cast is great though, Justin Long plays a likeable protagonist. He is in a film called accepted that I quite like. Drew Barrymore is normally pretty likeable too and Jason Sudeikis is also pretty cool. The most likeable cast ever that kinda saved the film. We also have the most likeable guy in Hollywood, Charlie day. They really should put him in more films, he brings so much to every film he’s in. This film actually made me laugh out loud a couple times and it was always because of Charlie day, he was the best character in this.  The story again was pretty simple, it was about a long distance relationship, the same kind of thing that’s been used as a plot device for countless sitcoms. Extremely predictable. It also felt like towards the end they kinda gave up on the film. Without spoiling the film for no reason, this film kinda just has no climax. The conflict happens and then there’s a time skip and after one short talk with Charlie day, without showing us how and why all the issues in the film are just resolved and the film ends like 2 minutes later on the most predictable joke ever.  Casting was amazing. Story was too simple.  6.9/10

This may be one of the most beautiful, visually stunning animated films ever made. Your name is incredible.  It kinda doesn’t make any sense at points. Which is mostly fine considering the kind of film it is. But the stuff about all the diary entries being deleted and him losing his memory, then they get into all the time travel stuff which never makes sense anyway.  Probably one of my favourite films of all time. Shinkai’s films are all the best looking films in anime and this one actually has the story almost on par with the animation making it a masterpiece. I love the editing, but I think the pacing is a little annoying at parts. I don’t like the long montages and stuff like that. The film also dragged at little in the final act. The twist is incredible and it effected me so much the first time I watched it, but this is my 4th time now and I still think the film is great. I’ve actually reviewed this before so I could just be saying the same stuff again but I don’t care coz I love talking about how amazing this film is.  I like a silent voice a little more because of the characters and story, but no anime or even animated films can match this and a silent voice, both are incredible. And I do think this film has better animation, some of the scenes of the comet or just the town or Tokyo at night or at sunrise are simply breathtaking. I wish I lived in a shinkai film it looks so much better than real life. Even the animated cigarettes made me want a smoke and I don’t even smoke.  What a film.  8.9/10

On the Count of Three 2021

½

That was sooo good.  I never really knew much about this film but some reason I’ve been incredibly excited for it ever since it premiered at Sundance. I think it was around a time when I was trying to watch every new film that came out and this one looked the best. But all I knew about it was the plot and poster, though they both seemed really good.  I knew I was excited for a reason though, this was so good I’m seriously tempted to watch it again right now which is something I’ve never done before (by choice).  The final scene was incredibly moving and I loved both the characters. The plot was kinda simple, it’s about two guys who wanna kill themselves so they make a suicide pact but wanna spend one last day on earth before they go. It was emotional and I personally think it was a great representation on depression/ mental health.  There’s a scene where one of the main characters who’s about to kill himself is drinking in the car listening and singing to Papa Roach.  Probably one of my new favourite films. If I don’t watch it now I’ll most likely watch it again some day. Both the main characters were incredibly interesting and again I really loved the final scene and the message behind the film.  There’s more I would say about it but I don’t wanna give anything more away. I would 100% recommend this film. It reminds me of the kind of films I try and make so I found it pretty inspiring.  8.8/10 Gonna try remember Jerrod Carmichael who’s acting was amazing and he also directed the film. And the other lead actor who was also amazing, Christopher Abbott.

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa 2013

½

Very funny, Alan Partridge is a good character who up until around a week ago I thought was a real person. Very British.  Fun type of film, when they take a good but weird character and throw him in a crazy situation. It’s the kinda thing Sacha Baron Cohen does. It’s done very well here. It wasn’t laugh out loud comedy but it was funny none the less.  7.4/10

Hunt for the Wilderpeople 2016

This kinda felt like moonrise kingdom but cooler and more wholesome. Taika waititi is one of my favourite directors now, his style is so cool and his films are so funny. I think New Zealanders have the funniest accent too.  Really wholesome film about a foster kid who follows around the husband of the woman who took him in who wants nothing to do with him. It was a really nice story and fun to watch.  I also liked the cinematography and editing, I loved the flash to red after the lady stabs the pig, it felt very similar to Wes Anderson but less OCD.  The main kid who plays rustle in deadpool 2 was really funny and I wanna see him in more films.  8.2/10

The Change-Up 2011

½

I used to like this film. I think I just really enjoy the whole body swap thing and I can’t think of another film that does it other than Your Name which is obviously a lot better than this.  This is my third Jason reitman film I’ve re watched in a row and it’s just coz I can’t think of any good films to watch.  This was ok though. A little unfunny at times, but I enjoy the concept and I like the whole family Vs no responsibilities stuff.  Please someone recommended me a film that doesn’t have Jason reitman in it or I might watch horrible bosses 2 next.  7.4/10 I can’t believe out of all the good films out there I just rewatched the change up

The Switch 2010

½

I thought I was watching that Jason Bateman film where he switches bodies with Ryan Reynolds and then Ryan Reynolds never showed up and it was too late to change the film.  This was oddly familiar, I feel like I’ve watched it before but i don’t remember it.  The whole premise of this film is really messed up. What the protagonist did was really wrong and I found it kinda hard to relate to him after that. But it’s ok coz he was drunk. Weird.  Probably exactly what you would expect from a Jennifer Aniston romance film.  7.0/10

Happy Anniversary 2018

½

Kinda reminded me of marriage story but with worse characters. Structure was interesting at points. The characters were ok. That’s about all I liked about this film. It was a background film I had one while I slowly died in this heatwave eating McDonald’s.  I like Ben Schwartz kinda, his voice annoys me a bit now coz of sonic but he was in bojack horseman so I like him. Their characters were both a little dumb. I feel like there’s tons of films just like this. But it was ok. I didn’t at any point wanna turn it off so I guess that’s a W. Will probably forget the whole plot in about 30 minutes.  6.7/10

Horrible Bosses 2011

I wish there were more Charlie day movies. Preferably ones that don’t have Kevin spacey in. He’s probably one of my favourite actors and I really think he’s the most likeable guy in Hollywood.  Pretty funny film, Ive seen it a couple of times now. Good actors, interesting plot. Could be kinda funny sometimes.  Kevin spacey is good at playing a dick.  It’s 3am right now.  7.6/10

Nathan for you is amazing. Actually incredible. I think Nathan Fielder may be my favourite comedian ever. He is a genius. This film is everything that’s great about the show, with a little less comedy, but all the emotional and real moments. I think that why it’s so amazing, because it feels so real, it feels so real that we don’t even know if Nathan is acting at some points or just being himself, which is something I think the film gets into a little.  This film is about a bill gates impersonator, a regular old guy who has a wish. This guy is deeply flawed, there’s some bad stuff he does that could easily have been removed from this for the sake of keeping him as a character more likeable. Yet this film is just so raw, it keeps in all the imperfections with the people, making everything feel like you are experiencing something real and beautiful. Honestly I would love to make something even close to this level as a film maker one day, it’s brilliant and I’ve never seen anything like it before.  8.6/10

Turbo 2013

½

Turbo, is it a masterpiece… probably not. Is it a perfect film? Absolutely. What makes a good film? is a technically good film that causes no enjoyment better than a poorly made film that causes lots of enjoyment. I of course know this film wasn’t very good, but this film wasn’t made for me, it was made for kids. When it came out I was a kid, so my review back when I was the target audience means more than now. Back then I loved this film, I thought it was a 10/10, therefore though I would never rate that film that Score now, what I think now doesn’t matter.  When I was a kid, I was unsure of my future. I didn’t think I was smart enough to go to college, I didn’t think that someone as dumb as me could ever go to college and work towards their dream, then 2013 came and I saw a little snail named theo, overcome his obstacles and achieve his dream, doing something no one would have ever thought possible. That moment changed my life, as I never thought I’m not good enough again, as turbo never hesitated.  I’ve kinda wanted to watch this for a while coz as a kid I loved it but I recently heard it wasn’t actually that good which was really disappointing to me. It’s the dumbest film ever and has a bunch of stereotypes but it actually is a nice film with a good message. Also this time round I can appreciate the voice acting more, Snoop Dogg, Samuel L. Jackson, Ryan Reynolds, Michael Peña, the cast was kinda stacked. One of the worst DreamWorks villains and dumbest DreamWorks films (obviously no matter how fast a snail was no one would let him compete in a race like the Indy 500) it’s still one of my top 10 maybe even 5 DreamWorks films.  7.3/10 May even watch this again to write a more in depth sober review on it coz I actually think this is a good film with a lot of stupid and bad things I’d love to rant about.

Man Up 2015

½

Simon pegg is one of the best most likeable British actors and they somehow managed to make him kind of annoying. The film was unfunny, with some bad acting. It takes place over one day which is way too quick for you to care about anything going on and the plot wasn’t even that interesting. It was watchable but felt like it needed more stuff to happen and a less cheesy and kinda strange ending. The final clip was really weird and un natural. Didn’t like any of the characters, mostly played Wordle while I had this in the background. It wasn’t terrible but I didn’t like it and wouldn’t recommend.  3.0/10

The Sea Beast 2022

Kinda like a worse version of how to train your dragon but with sea monsters and pirates instead of dragons and vikings. Character wise it’s definitely not as good, but I watched this mostly coz of karl urban and he didn’t disappoint. Surprisingly though the animation in this film is amazing, I normally love how water looks in animation so I loved watching a lot of scenes in this. I didn’t like the main girl Mazie, her character was kinda generic but there were some cool sea monsters and I liked karl urbans character.  Really none of the characters were that likeable and the story wasn’t that entertaining, everything I liked about this is just stuff that reminds me of how to train your dragon, when httyd does it a lot better anyway. Although I do like pirates.  6.1/10

Run Fatboy Run 2007

Pretty motivational film with Simon Pegg who is always incredible and directed by David Schwimmer which was pretty surprising but he actually is a good director, this film was great.  Whitt was not a good character, his whole character was just an obstacle for Pegg's character and he was really simple himself. Made me hate David from friends. I will always see him as the nerdy guy from friends so it was weird how they tried portraying him as the perfect guy. He also plays Gargamel in the Smurfs.  The message behind this was great and very motivational. Kinda made me wanna run a marathon. His character was really interesting and had nice motivations, I think the whole running concept was done really well and I really enjoyed the ending. There were a couple of kinda funny and likeable side characters but they weren’t funny enough to be memorable or noteworthy at all. Just generic side characters. I haven’t watched this before as one kid I didn’t like said “run fatboy run” to me as I was running to class and I remember it to this day for some reason. But Yh glad I finally watched it coz it was good.  8.2/10 This was my 500th film logged

Crazy Rich Asians 2018

½

I don’t enjoy this that much but it had its moments. I like the relationship between the mum and main girl, the mum being played by the amazing Michelle Yeoh, star of my favourite film, everything everywhere all at once, who was of course great.  The story was kinda interesting I guess. Awkwafina is in this who I find a little annoying yet she’s weirdly also kind of likeable. I really like her but find her really irritating at the same time.  I really don’t have much to say about this film, it was kinda forgettable and the story was fine. A little cheesy and unfunny at times but still watchable.  Wouldn’t necessarily recommend this to anyone apart from my mum (except she was the one that told me to watch it in the first place and has apparently watched it 8 times) Didn’t love the ending but it was a little emotional. 5.3/10

Thor: Love and Thunder 2022

Seen this twice now.  Ragnarok is my favourite mcu film and I think Taika Waititi is one of the coolest guys and best directors in the mcu. That guy is a genius and pretty hilarious. So I was pretty excited for this, I went in without watching any of the trailers and was just excited to see a genuinely good and funny film.  I don’t think this was as good as ragnarok, but it was a funny film with good character progression. They fixed the empty gap in the mcu that is Jane foster and had a top 5 mcu villain. Christian Bale was incredible, probably one of my favourite performances from any villain except maybe Jake Gyllenhaal.  The film itself wasn’t amazing, but it was pretty funny and there were some really great moments. The ending was really cool and we gotta see a new super powerful marvel character that I really don’t expect to show up in this. Jane foster was great, soundtrack super cool. Just a fun marvel film, but kinda simple. It is mostly just a comedy at this point but I am ok with that. Slightly more boring on the rewatch. Felt really weird, kind of messy and poorly structured. Given me kinda conflicting feelings about it.  8.3/10

Brokeback Mountain 2005

½

Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are two of the best actors of all time. Legends.  This film was good, been meaning to watch it ever since I did a pub quiz and got a question about this film wrong as I thought “I wish I knew how to quit you” was from when Harry met Sally. The acting was amazing, it was a very sad story structured really well, it takes place over a long period of time but flows quite well and naturally.  The ending was good, it felt very unsatisfying but it was well done. The “I wish I knew how to quit you” scene was the best scene in the film, beautiful shot and emotional acting from both the leads.  I liked this film, not too much wrong with it. Very well made.  7.3/10

The Proposal 2009

½

Really generic and forgettable, not necessarily boring I always like Ryan Reynolds and the concept was fun. This was my first ever Sandra bullock film but she was alright.  I was always put off by the films poster so never watched this before but I was really bored. It was ok. A little cheesy and not a very great romance, but yeah I liked the concept, just don’t think it was executed too well, the side characters were all over the top and bad actors and even the main two weren’t very believable.  5.5/10

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent 2022

I’ve not seen pig yet but this is probably my favourite Nick Cage film. Really fun watch.  Such an interesting new type of film, where Nick Cage plays himself. I know this isn’t based on a true story but I like to think it was. Pretty dumb film like a lot of Nick Cage films but in the best way possible, it was funny and self aware and a stupid yet cool action film that is also pretty wholesome. Some of the family stuff is kinda hard to watch, Cage doesn’t come off well in some scenes. It also feels really stupid at points but that’s also what I loved about it. The LSD scene was really fun to watch. All of the CIA stuff also wasn’t that great, but once you just accept the stupidity of the film I feel like it becomes way more enjoyable. Overall just a fun film that I would recommend, especially to anyone who’s a big Nick Cage fan. Nick Cage is his own genre.  7.7/10

About Time 2013

Was looking for a crappy Rom com to watch at 3am but instead got a touching story with a nice and surprisingly motivational message behind it.  I didn’t know what the concept was for this film and it was a nice surprise to find out what kind of film this was.  Weirdly I feel like this kinda effected me in a way. Though I have just wasted my entire day watching films and outnumbered, this film is about how every day is a gift, your gonna run out of days eventually, your not gonna be able to spend as much time with certain people as you would like, we shouldn’t wish we could relive our days and do stuff over, you should live every day like it’s your last chance to experience these new things. At a certain point in this film I got kinda sad that I didn’t have this power as I wished I could go back and relive some of my past days, but as the film went on I realised I should be living all my future days to their fullest so I won’t be wishing the same thing in 10 years time. Live every day like your doing it over.  I really liked Bill Nighy's character in this, he’s one of the coolest film dads ever. Definitely my favourite of his films. Also Rachel McAdams played the perfect girl perfectly.  Such a nice film and not at all what I expected. I really love films. I keep going into films and having a real connection with them, then feeling kinda empty after, as I search for another film to fill that emptyness. Then I find a film thinking it won’t have the same effect on me but then it all happens all over again.  I’m very tired now. Good film. It’s 3:35am, but if I could go back in time I’d probably watch a couple more films.  8.5/10 I used to think this and “me before you” were the same film and I’m really glad I watched the right one.

Flipped 2010

Really nice film with a unique style of storytelling that I don’t think I’ve ever seen before. Rob Reiner is just the best. What this film does is show the same story from two people’s points of view, back to back. It’s a really interesting way to show how there’s two sides to everything, I really love the way it’s told through the boys perspective, making the girl seem crazy, and then it flips it round and shows that she’s actually really nice and cool. Then later in the film, similar to what happens for us, his perspective of her is also flipped. Really cool and different way to tell a story, and just a sweet and wholesome film.  I really would recommend this, it was a great watch.  8.5/10 Just got the title. Nice.

The Spectacular Now 2013

It’s like they tried writing sutter as a nice character but miles teller just can’t help play a dick.  This was like the most uncomfortable romance film I’ve ever seen. I feel like I spent the whole film just waiting for something bad to happen. They built Amy up as this amazing, sweet, smart and kind girl who had no character flaws at all and sutter was this troubled, kinda funny, kind of nice and yet kind of a dick played by miles teller, so I just spent this whole film waiting for him to be a dick to Amy and it wasn’t a nice experience.  And then it happened coz of course it happens and then something bad happens and it just made me really annoyed. (If she died i would have turned the film off). Tbh his dad could have been worse.  It was a nice film, I liked the first half, though it felt really weird for a lot of reasons. The second half was kinda interesting because of sutters character but as soon as he was rude to his mum I just completely stopped liking him. I do like that he was nice but a bit of a dick and she was just nice, and though they had a cute relationship he kinda was a bad influence considering she didn’t drink at the start of the film and half way through he bought her a flask. I don’t think it handles the topic of alcoholism well. Sutter is a really interesting character, his relationship with his dad and his he felt as though he was becoming his dad. But yeah I didn’t really relate to the film and it felt very weird to me.  A pretty nice ending. I wish Bob Odenkirk was my boss.  6.5/10 This has made me feel sad ima google wholesome films and watch one of them next.

Free Willy 1993

I really love this film. Free Willy is a big part of my childhood and to this day orcas are my favourite animals and I want to meet one in the wild so much. I’d love to meet an animal and form a mutual friendship with them, that’s like a dream of mine and I find films like this and how to train your dragon so cool. I watched this while cleaning my house, because I’ve watched it so many times I knew exactly what was happening even when I was in another room. Such a cool story about a boy who wants nothing more than to meet his family, then meets a whale who wants the same thing. This film probably isn’t a masterpiece and I never recommend it to people, but it’s just one of those films that means a lot to me. 8.4/10

Crazy, Stupid, Love. 2011

Steve Carell and Ryan Gosling film. Actually was pretty entertaining. For a lot of the film I kinda disliked the way it switched from the two main storylines, mostly because they weren’t connected at all, but it all comes together at the end in a pretty cool way. I think the two main friends had a cool friendship but they didn’t have much chemistry on screen and it would have made a better ending if we gotta see more of them together. The whole romance side of it on Steve Carell’s side was kinda dumb as he’s going through all this shit to get his wife back who cheated on him. Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone had a nice romance but it didn’t show enough of them and only showed very short and uninteresting clips of her own life. Then it had the weird side plot of the son and the 17 year old girl which just felt a little weird. The story as a whole was pretty nice though and it all comes together for a nice ending that I had to pause multiple times because of second hand embarrassment. Steve Carell changing his wardrobe and learning how to talk to women was fun. La la land spin off. 7.7/10

10 Things I Hate About You 1999

Heath Ledger and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are both so likeable that this film just has 2 protagonists that just switch back and forth. I quite like this film, likeable characters and simple yet nice story. Is pretty funny sometimes but can also be quite cheesy.  I found the being paid to take her out was some extremely basic romance plot device as it was too obvious what was coming. Obviously she’s gonna find out at some point. It’s gonna be awkward. They make up. Happy ending.  Both sisters are just as likeable and cheesy as each other and both their relationships with the guys were pretty fun and entertaining. There’s a lot wrong with this film. But cool soundtrack and some cool shots, nice film.  7.6/10

Hustle 2022

Another good Adam sandler film and it’s about sports. Like happy Gilmore meets uncut gems.  This is a very heartwarming story about a talent scout played by sandler and a player that he’s the only one to believe in. Just a nice wholesome story about one of the coolest sports, basketball.  There’s a couple of montages that are a bit drawn out but well edited. The acting is good and it’s a cool story. Top 5 sandler for sure  maybe even top 3. 7.7/10

Kung Fu Panda 2008

Not as good as I remembered but still one of the best DreamWorks movies and best kung fu movies. A pretty cool underdog story starring a fat panda voiced by the incredible Jack Black. The story wasn’t that interesting and the furious 5 of whatever weren’t that interesting either. Shifu and Po were cool though and so was Po’s dad.  There are many memorable quotes that were cool to see again as I remember them randomly sometimes. Overall a bit too slapstick and simple but it’s a film I haven’t seen in a while that I have a bit of nostalgia for which I enjoyed watching again.  7.6/10

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World 2019

½

Fuck lord of the rings, this is the best trilogy of all time.  This is my least favourite of the trilogy, but it’s still incredible, with a much better villain than in number 2 and just as many emotional moments. The story and message is really nice and it all wraps up really well with a beautiful ending that I forgot the film had which made me really happy.  The first film is definitely the best. It didn’t need a menacing villain as it had stoic and the alpha, we also got to see how hiccup and toothless friendship started, but in this one we gotta see how it ended which made it very sad.  This film is a romance between two dragons who can’t talk with was done really well, and as always the final battle was incredible. Just such a good film that everyone needs to watch whether you’re a kid or adult.  8.6/10 I might try watch Kung fu panda now but I don’t know if I can ever love an animated film as much as I love how to train your dragon again.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 2014

½

How to train your dragon is so good, this is a really good sequel. Extremely emotional covering adult topics, with the wholesome dragon stuff and excellent animation and soundtrack.  This one didn’t have the best villain, but I don’t think hiccup was amazing either, him insisting on talking to the villain was kinda dumb. Stoick tho was great, probably the best character in this film. That animated man made me cry multiple times.  Toothless is always amazing, though I always find the scene when him and hiccup fight hard to watch, one of the reasons I don’t like rewatching this as much as the first one. The stuff with hiccups mum was great. Really just an amazing film. I love how to train your dragon.  8.7/10 My 200th review

Look at Me: XXXTENTACION 2022

The xxxtentacion documentary that I have been waiting years for is finally here. We got our first trailer on the 18th of June 2019 and now finally we have the film. When this trailer dropped Juice Wrld was still alive. It’s so weird that it’s been so long since this legend died.  Xxxtentacion probably wasn’t the best person to look up to. He did some bad shit. But he made music for people feeling down, and he helped a lot of people, including me. At a pretty shitty time in my life, I would come to school every day and literally listen to 17 and ? On repeat from the start of the day to the end with no breaks. He genuinely helped me and because of that, he will always be someone I have a lot of respect and admiration for. Without X I genuinely believe I would be a different person.  This documentary was very honest and I liked that. Jahseh Onfroy did a lot of bad shit. This is something I’ve always known but not looked into too much, hearing about what he actually did in detail was hard to hear, especially when some of it was on camera, this is a guy I genuinely look up to and I didn’t want to think of him in that way. But yeah I don’t agree with the bad shit he did and I’m sure most of his fans don’t either, but this doc also showed us the reasons a lot of us still respected him despite his flaws, without shying away from some of the awful shit he did.  Jah was a very interesting person, which is why I was so exited for a doc about him, it’s a story I already know a lot about, but seeing it in detail, learning about his friends and his family, finally hearing Geneva’s side of the story too, it was exactly what I wanted. There’s shit that could have been better but overall I think it was almost worth the wait.  I will be watching this again.. and I will most likely have a lot more to say about X… right now though I’m tired and I wanna fall asleep listening to ? 8.0/10

The Bob's Burgers Movie 2022

Bobs burgers is a series I've been binging recently. I’ve really enjoyed it so far but I’m only on season 4 and I think there are quite a few characters in this that haven’t been introduced yet.  It’s a great show, very wholesome with funny characters. This film was like a really good, really long bobs burgers episode. The animation was really good, the stakes were high and the story was interesting. Great seeing the characters on the big screen. Overall just a very enjoyable experience. I would definitely see it again at the cinema with friends.  The best character in this was Louise, who is my favourite character of the show so I found this very fun to watch, she actually kinda got decent character development which I didn’t expect from a film like this.  I don’t know why cartoons that get films decide these films have to be musicals, but there weren’t too many songs and a couple of them, like the carnie song were actually pretty good.  The film wasn’t too funny, didn’t really make me laugh out loud much but I did chuckle a couple of times, but I don’t think Bob's Burgers is the funniest show anyway, it has a lot of funny jokes but it’s more the characters that carry it and they were all great in this.  8.0/10 Definitely in my top 5 films of 2022, maybe even in the top 3

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers 2022

If this was R rated it would have been the best film ever made.  Andy Samberg and John Mulaney in a mixed live action and animation Chip 'n Dale film. Yes. This is a really random film, the literally plot of the film is no one wants this film. It was really cool though, there’s no other film like it, there’s a reference to like every property that Disney own in it. It’s not just a mix of animation and live action like roger rabbit (who’s also in this), there’s CGI, stop motion, muppets and sock puppets. There’s references to South Park, Rick and Morty, Simpsons, phineas and ferb, Batman, ugly sonic, Beavis and Butthead, Snoopy, Garfield, He-Man, Voltron, Peppa Pig, Indiana Jones and Ant-Man. It feels like they trying to fit in as many references as possible, although since it’s Disney I’m surprised they didn’t overuse any Marvel and Star Wars characters. Other than that it’s a super generic film, it has a pretty simple story and considering how cool the film is, it feels like a waste to have such a boring story. It’s a nice story about chip and dales friendship but feels too familiar and the plot felt so forgettable. The voice acting was good but I felt like it didn’t really fit. I quite liked JK Simmons though. I also think it was cool that Peter Pan was the villain and Will Arnett is a legend so it was cool to see him voicing sweet Pete. The animation for dale was ok but chip looked kinda weird.  I quite liked when Seth Rogen's characters all showed up. There are lots of cool moments like this which are what make the film, but it doesn’t have much else making it actually a good film.  Honestly I would still recommend this, it’s unique and interesting and worth a watch, but that doesn’t make it a good film. Chris Parnell shows up for like 30 seconds.  6.0/10

Drowning in potential is also a really good title. 3rd Joel Haver film. Starting dax flame, the guy that went to school as superman, the guy from 21 jump street and project X who had a documentary about himself called ice cream man made by the youtuber Idubbz. I didn’t expect him to be a good actor, he’s too awkward, but in this his character is awkward and he plays it as himself, which is perfect. He also plays a struggling actor which I guess he also kinda is in real life which makes the film feel so genuine. I just think he’s a really interesting guy and his acting was great in this. I kinda relate a lot to his awkwardness and passion for creating things. Also Alex Ernst is in this who I genuinely think is a good actor and a really funny guy. some of his videos are really good but most people may know him as he was a famous vine star and the roommate of the youtuber David Dobrik.  Joel haver plays each of his characters so differently, there are similarities but considering how much improv he does I find the fact he’s not playing the same character in every film kind impressive.  Probably my least favourite of his films, but some of the shots looked amazing and the acting was good.  6.7/10

Recommended to me by Jamie Evans. (The director of my favourite independent film Gonzo) I actually took a break from writing my own script to watch this and this film was kinda similar to mine so watching this really helped.  I wanna get more in to watching independent films, I’ve really been enjoying them. They are normally an hour long and they don’t have a lot of different shots so it relies on great dialogue and acting. Also even though there aren’t a lot of them the shots in this are quite good, I think I just love films that have lots of still tripod shots that last a long time. Feels very minimalistic. (I have no idea if I just used that word correctly but ima go with it.  It’s nice watching a film like this though, on YouTube, not too many people have seen it, it feels like you’ve discovered something great. I quite liked the plot for this one. All set in one house, a guy is house sitting and a drunk guy keeps showing up and they become kinda friends. Very fun idea, executed in a great way.  The characters were good. Nothing really stood out to me too much about this and it got kinda slow after the guys stop talking, but it was a nice watch and would recommend. Well written. Nice ending.  If anyone else has any more Independent film recommendations or has made one themselves that I can watch I’d love to give them a go.  7.2/10

My second Joel haver film and I really like this guy now. I really like the title of this film aswell, and I really like the improv.  To be honest I think I prefer “forget about everything for Awhile” because I preferred the story and found it more entertaining, but this one felt more personal and emotional. The way it was done was very weird, it shows Joel on a bunch of dates then has a weird musical number that I really didn’t expect, then it breaks the fourth wall a little and becomes a film within a film.  All the girls did great, I really liked the girl with the accent and girl in the last scene but they all did a fantastic job acting and so did Joel. Also the last scene was really good and very emotional. I like the credits aswell.  Interesting film, very different from anything I’ve watched before. Will most likely watch more Joel haver soon, preferably one with Dax Flame in it.  6.9/10 Also the shot of the bridge that’s the header of this review I loved.

Bed 2019

Calling up work sick and trying to make urself sound sick is super relatable. Even when I’m sick but in ways that don’t affect my voice I have to try and make my voice sound sick so they don’t think I’m lying. This film was very, natural and real. It’s about two very normal people lying in bed.  Recently I’ve been trying to write a film all set in one location, this did that very well and it was pretty inspiring for me, even though I didn’t love it I sent it to my friend that I write films with and told him to watch it. I find any film able to keep your attention for an hour when it’s just 2 people lying in bed is pretty impressive. I really enjoy films like this. Like 12 angry men, 127 hours and reservoir dogs, especially with my incredibly short attention span, any film that is able to do this and keep your attention because of how good it is I really appreciate. For this film it was the dialogue that kept it engaging, it was very natural and interesting, the main thing I didn’t like about it were the characters, the girl was ok but the guy was really annoying, his voice kinda pissed me off at times. Though the film was directed by the actor and based on his novella so he is very talented. Also I’m not saying the acting was bad, like I said it felt very natural, just his voice. Also they were both kinda annoying as characters but they still felt real so it’s fine.  In their argument I really get where the guy is coming from, talking about what they dislike about each other and starting an argument is a bad idea, but he’s such a dick about it, disregarding all her feelings. He acted like a child and never stopped talking, even if it meant he was just repeating himself. They were both in the right and both in the wrong and it made it a little difficult to watch. They just kinda feel like they shouldn’t be together. She deserves better.  Sweet ending tho. Ok ima stop procrastinating from my uni work now. It’s 2pm so I should probably get out of “bed” 6.5/10

Everything Everywhere All at Once 2022

Mrs Wang and the multiverse of madness  Initial thoughts  “I can’t review this properly right now but this is genuinely the best film I’ve ever seen in my entire life. I will review this film properly when I can think properly coz this blew me away.”  9.8/10 Have you ever watched a film that was so good that within the first ten minutes you already knew it was your favourite film ever made?  Have you ever watched a film that was so good that before any of the emotional parts started you were already tearing up because you were so happy you were watching a film that good? Have you ever had unrealistically high expectations for a film that were not only met but easily exceeded? Have you ever watched a film that amazing that you were terrified of it ending because you didn’t want to go about your day for a single moment that didn’t include you watching this film, but you also wanted it to be over as soon as possible so you could tell all your friends how good it was and watch it again?  That was this film for me. Everything everywhere all at once is the best film I’ve ever watched.  People often ask me why I never rate a film 5 stars, and I say I don’t wanna rate a film 5 stars because if I see a film that is incredible in every way, I want to give that film my only 5 star review. I enjoy films so much, but there’s always an aspect of it that holds it back from being perfect. Sometimes the acting blows me away and inspires me like Manchester by the sea, sometimes it’s the editing like Scott Pilgrim vs the World, sometimes it’s the genuine emotion and characters like a silent voice and sometimes it’s just some cool comic book crossover shit like Spider-Man no way home. This is the film I’ve been holding out for. The film I can comfortably give 5 stars. It had everything. I can’t explain every reason it’s my favourite film as there’s so much and I need to watch it again, but every couple minutes it just gave me another reason to say… Everything everywhere all at once is the best film I’ve ever watched.  9.8/10 Yk when you watch a tv show like the office or breaking bad, you put so many hours into that show and your so happy to see the ending but after you just feel numb coz you want to keep watching the show and there’s nothing else left and it makes you feel weirdly depressed. Normally that happens because you spent so long with the show but this film did it to me in 2 hours. It’s all I can think about, I don’t wanna watch anything else. I just wanna watch this again. But I’ve already seen it. Yesterday on my break at work I bought googly eyes and we all stuck them to our heads as we greeted customers. I need to see this film again I’m going crazy.

Swiss Army Man 2016

½

I first watched this the 4th May 2020. It’s 2 years later and yesterday I watched everything everywhere all at once. The film effected me way more now rewatching it. The Daniels are incredible. They are able to tell such beautiful story’s with heartwarming messages in such a fun and weird way, paired with incredible cinematography, acting, editing and music. For the second time in 2 days I am blown away by their genius. Not on the same scale as everything everywhere, but I reckon seeing this at the cinema would have been incredible.  I was really exited for Paul Dano to play Riddler as I really like him but forgot why as I hadn’t seen him in many films. I just remembered why. He is incredible in this, and starring alongside him is one of my favourite actors/ people in the world, Daniel Radcliffe who plays the best dead body in all of cinema.  Such a nice message, presented to us in a great way, showing us a man who has forgotten everything. And another guy having to explain to this man how we as humans have to be embarrassed by things that people will laugh at you for or think you’re weird for, like farting in public. Building up to and ending that I loved so much. I am so inspired by the Daniels. I now know what kinda director I’d hope to be. I now have something to work towards.  8.8/10

Ghost Rider 2007

When I was a kid I watched this without permission and I was banned from watching all 15s and my mum took away my Batman game that I was really enjoying but haven’t played it since.  I really like ghost rider, he’s probably one of my favourite super hero’s and as I kid I liked this film, so on my attempt at watching every marvel film ever made, I decided to rewatch this.  Also I watched adaptation recently and I’m very exited to see the unbearable weight of massive talent so it makes sense for me to see the nick cage marvel film right now. Fuck Tom Cruise as iron man, this is who should have shown up in multiverse of madness. I’m so exited to see ghost rider in the mcu (not counting agents of shield), he needs a film or show ASAP. An mcu ghost rider show would be incredible. Nick Cage can play Mephisto. This film was super dumb and super cheesy almost to the point where it was comical. The acting was kinda weird. I think the character of ghost rider is cool but this was kinda boring.  Anyway this wasn’t a good film, but it was about a great and interesting character, who is fucking awesome. He rides a flaming motorbike off a building. It’s epic. I think it has potential to be a great series, but this film had bad acting and a simple plot, wasn’t great.  5.7/10

The Bad Guys 2022

½

Pretty nice childlike twist on heist movies. Although when are kids films gonna stop using anamorphic animals isn’t it getting old now. It’s pretty simple and generic, though it has a decent cast and such a cool and unique style of animation. The backgrounds and and smoke and other effects looked so cool and cartoonish, something about it is so satisfying to watch.  I love Sam Rockwell and I love DreamWorks, I think it is just as good as Pixar so I was exited for this for a while, though I wasn’t gonna see it at the cinema as I’ve been traumatised by cleaning some of the messy bad guys screenings at work.  The British guy from it crowd plays the villain of this film, something about hearing his voice in animated films is weird to me, I think it’s coz he has too cool of a voice I can’t not picture his face and it takes me out of the animation.  Wholesome ending yet kinda depressing when you think about what would probably happen next. What would normally be an extremely forgettable film will leave a lasting impression on me due to the animation, but other than that nothing else too noteworthy about it, I’m sure most kids would love it.  6.9/10

Once Upon a Deadpool 2018

In case you don’t already know once upon a deadpool is a re edit of deadpool 2 made to be a PG-13, proving that not only is an mcu deadpool possible, but it can probably be a 12A and still be pretty funny. Sure it’s not as good but it’s still good. The film cuts away to some American sports guy, baseball or American football, which I would probably think was pretty cool if I knew who the hell he was. Though it was kinda funny, as he makes comments on the film that we were all thinking making it extremely meta.  I don’t like all the time travel stuff in this film and the xmen stuff and a lot more shit that doesn’t make sense but it doesn’t matter because it’s deadpool, he breaks the fourth wall so much that they can do stuff like lazy writing and deadpool will comment on the fact it’s lazy writing and all of a sudden it’s funny. Deadpool 2 is still better, and deadpool one is better than that, but this worked, which is exiting, because it means deadpool isn’t just funny coz of his profanity, he’s funny coz he’s deadpool, and the live action one is funny as it’s deadpool who was perfectly cast as Ryan Reynolds.  So yeah I’m exited for deadpools future in the mcu, he’s one of my favourite superher- comic book characters and this film gives me a lot of confidence in his future films.  7.8/10

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness 2022

For anyone who is wondering if the mcu shows matter for this, You don’t really need to watch what if to understand this but it’ll help, it explains what the dark hold is, but if you don’t watch it it doesn’t matter too much. You really do need to see Wanda vision though, you don’t have to but it would be incredibly confusing if you don’t understand wandas motivations as she is the main antagonist. These aren’t necessary and you can still enjoy the film without these, but if you are a big mcu fan and you want to have the best experience possible watching this then I think it’ll be better if you watch both of these.  Sam Raimi’s grand entrance into the mcu. I’m gonna post this the day after I see it as I’m not really allowed to talk about it atm as it was an early screening. But wow, what a cool film. It was very Sam Rami, I think he did a good job and I hope he directs more films in the mcu, I think he was the perfect choice to direct this.  It would have made my job a lot harder if this was a 15, but I felt like it would have made the film better. It very much felt like it wanted to be a 15, and it pushed the limits of a 12A by adding a couple of pretty gruesome deaths, but I think they get away with it by not showing much. It was a 12A horror film where they try and pretend Elizabeth Olsen is scary.  I’m not gonna give spoilers, but honestly there’s not much to spoil, it didn’t have any crazy cameos that people were hoping for except the ones you can guess from the trailer. If you expect your mind to be blown like it was in Spider-Man no way home you will probably be a little disappointed. (Though there was one scene that may do it for u) a lot of the things I was exited for were great but felt a little underwhelming. Scarlet witch was a good villain, though much of the depth for her character very much relies on the events of Wanda vision, though I spoke to some people who hadn’t seen Wanda vision after and they said it made perfect sense.  A new character was introduced and I really liked her though I think she’s gonna be a little forgettable, she didn’t leave a massive impression but added a little depth to doctor strange’s character.  A random noteworthy scene is one where they use musical keys as magic and it was like a music battle, I thought the soundtrack for it was pretty cool. Overall a lot of action, a lot of cool magic, very crazy and very different from the first doctor strange film in good ways and in bad. I think coz there’s so much going on it can’t focus as much on Steven’s character but also there’s so much cool shit going on.  A really good multiverse film, them hopping between multiverses was really cool to see and this film was a very good introduction to this after what happened in Spider-Man. Some of the comedy falls flat, there are jokes that I felt where trying to be like all the other mcu films but I didn’t find it as funny as even the first doctor strange film.  I’m finding it hard to remember much else about it right now but it was just another fun mcu film. That I’m sure most mcu fans will enjoy. Can’t wait to see it again tomorrow.  7.9/10 I’m so not looking forward to working on Friday the cinemas gonna be packed.

Beautiful Boy 2018

This is a pretty depressing office spin off. Sad that holly and Michael had a drug addict son then got divorced.  I cried the whole way through this. Deeply emotional and based on a true story. It’s about a dad and a son with a great relationship, but the son is depressed and he turns to drugs. Their relationship was amazing and they were played by two great actors, Steve Carell who gives one of the best performances I’ve ever seen from him and Timothée Chalamet, another great actor who I really respect. They both did amazing and have truly heart warming performances.  This film often is compared to the film Ben is back, which was released in the same year and both tackle the subject of drug addiction in great ways. Personally I preferred this as watching it was genuinely a very emotional experience for me. But I think they’re both good movies and are very different. I think I just preferred the characters more in this one, this one also focused on the characters childhood and spoke more on the subject of mental health and why people turn to drugs.  I really liked this film and I haven’t had an experience with a film like that in a while. Everything. 8.5/10 This made me really wanna act. I was in a short film a bit ago (that I haven’t seen yet) and I have plans to do more. The acting in this motivated me.

Dan in Real Life 2007

Dan is kinda a dick in real life. My second Peter Hedges film in two days. This isn’t as good as Ben Is Back but I don’t think it was trying to be. So this film started and I was pretty happy, coz it looked like we were gonna get a completely nice, non awkward, cool Steve carell character. But then he was presented with an awkward situation and became a bit of a dick, extremely awkward and the opposite of cool.  This film is weird. There’s a scene when Dan is about to go on a date with a girl they remembered as having an ugly face, so one of them starts playing piano and they all sing together as a family about how Dan is about to go on a date with a “pig face” girl. It’s super weird and kinda cruel. They were all laughing like it was funny and not mean it was so strange. It was also extremely obvious from as soon as she was called pig face that she was gonna be extremely attractive and she was. Also (sorry I still have problems with this) why the hell would he agree to make this a double date with his brother and the girl he likes. He’s either a complete idiot or it was an extremely forced scenario that the film makers tried adding in.  Also a scene when Dan is hiding in the shower from his daughter so she doesn’t see he’s in there with his brothers girlfriend. His daughter wants to talk to the lady and she says she was about to have a shower. The daughter says it’s fine have a shower while I talk, so she awkwardly strips off naked and gets in the shower while Dan is hiding in there. Why she didn’t say I’m not gonna have a shower while you're in the room, or let’s talk outside first and I’ll shower after, or many other options that don’t involve creating an awkward sitcom scenario, I have no idea. This film just was weird sometimes.  Also I kind of just felt bad for Dan. He handled the situation horribly after I was ready to say he was my favourite Steve Carell character, then the film got kinda depressing. They tried using comedy to make it less depressing but it wasn’t that funny.  I sound like I don’t like the film, I did it was fun. It’s just they made the brother a really nice guy so you don’t even want Dan to end up with the girl, you just are left feeling bad for him. I do like the story, though it was kinda simple, there were other interesting elements like the fact his wife died and his family want what’s best for him. Also the argument he had with his daughter at the start about how long it takes to fall in love, mirrored in his own life when he meets the girl and falls in love instantly with his brothers girlfriend. I also really liked Dan at the start, he was a great Dad and seemed like a really nice guy up until the dinner scene when he started being a dick.   His daughters also both were kinda annoying characters. Shower girl who wants to drive and the one that’s entire character is that she loves her boyfriend and Steve Carrel is against it. I found it funny that after all the shitty stuff Dan did the older daughter was mostly mad about him not being a good driver since he wouldn’t let her drive. Such a weird film, I could see what it was trying to do and I feel like it could have been a good film but it ended up just being a basic dumb romantic comedy.   Also it’s funny how they never explained why the whole family showed up and caught them at the bowling alley. It’s like the writer wanted them to get caught kissing on a date but thought it didn’t matter why they ended up there. It’s such a weird moment, the lights turn on after the old lady turned them off and literally the whole family is there. And the stuff with the brother is never fully resolved.  I’ve written too much about this I didn’t hate it I just had a lot of problems with it. Still gonna give it a  6.5/10

The Worst Person in the World 2021

½

So I’ve wrote a review for the last 74 films I’ve watched, but I’m not too sure how I feel about this one. I was pretty exited for it, I was really hoping to see it at the cinema but never really got a chance. I hoped I would like it as much as my friends did, I thought I would, but I didn’t. Don’t get me wrong it’s a great film, good cinematography, well written all that shit, I just don’t think I related to it too much. Obviously you can’t relate to every film you watch, but I dunno it just felt like I didn’t understand it fully. I didn’t like the main girl too much, I quite liked the second guy but you saw the ending. I didn’t really get the ending too much, I guess she finally found happiness in being herself or something like that.  I guess the film just felt really deep, like it was trying to move me but failed to do so and that’s why I feel a little disappointed. I get that it was a great film, I quite liked the voice over and I liked the stuff when she turned on the light and everyone froze, but I just didn’t enjoy it as much as I thought I would. Maybe my expectations were too high. Maybe it’s because I’ve watched like 5 films today and I’m very tired now. Or maybe it’s because I’ve never experienced the subject matter of the film. Just wasn’t for me and I’m not sure why but wanted to express my thoughts on the film even though I don’t really know them.  7.5/10 I think I’ve just watched too many films this month now my mind can’t process them fully.

The King 2019

Why’d they never let Timothée Chalamet get any sleep?  I liked this film. Timothée Chalamet was cool. Also that Shakespeare’s a pretty good writer I can see why he’s so popular.  Seeing Robert Pattinson as a cocky French guy was kinda funny but he did well. Guy is a fantastic actor. His character was a dick tho seeing him die was kinda satisfying. “Giant balls” The king's speech before the battle in France was an incredible performance and probably my favourite scene in the film.  I liked this, it was cool. I got a little bored. But fun movie. Good acting. Interesting characters. Enjoyable.  7.8/10 Johnny Depp's daughter was pretty good too.

Bubble 2022

Bubble is an anime film on Netflix that released a couple of hours ago. It’s done by studio Wit, the studio you may know from the very popular anime’s (that I love) attack on Titan and Vinland saga. Directed by Tetsuro Araki who has worked on both attack on Titan and death note (2 of my favourites). The script was written by Gen Urobuchi, who had previously worked on another one of my favourites, Fate/Zero.  Pretty much this is just the end game of anime movies, so I was up at 8 in the morning, sitting at my tv refreshing Netflix, and I was extremely exited. Was worth it? Well the animation was awesome of course, the parkour stuff looked great. The main guy coming in and doing some mad parkour was a pretty cool moment. Though from the start it’s pretty clear his character is kinda dull and uninteresting. Then the bubble girl comes into it and the film becomes about their relationship, she was also not that interesting and she didn’t even speak so the film became a bit boring. I found it hard to care about anything happening in this film. The parkour was still cool, I just had no emotional attachment to the film whatsoever, also to be honest the parkour was only cool to look at I didn’t really care about that either.  The bad group had this weird gimmick where they talk with a machine on their hands, it’s was kinda cool the first time and then got old straight after. Their bubble boots and stuff was kinda cool and it was cool to see these really good parkour duo go up against the bad guys with the advantage. But again… I didn’t really care about any of it. Also the bad guys coming in at the end and asking if they wanna buy the boots (the one thing that made them not shit at parkour) was a little weird. Everything just felt kinda pointless, I didn’t get any of the characters’ motivations for the parkour, I think a parkour film is a really cool idea especially when paired with a great studio like Wit. But the story isn’t there, I’d like to see a parkour show at some point with some god of high school style animation, but this in all was only ok.  At one point one of the background characters downs a Coca Cola and his friend says “wow that was so cool”. Some of the background or side characters looked like they could have been interesting, but ultimately they were just as generic and boring as the main ones.  I’m not too disappointed. I’d seen letterbox reviews so I knew it wasn’t gonna be great, but maybe I regret waking up at 8am after only 2 hours sleep to watch this film.  I kept nearly falling asleep near the end but tbf I’m on 2 hours and this film is kinda boring, it got to a point when this film could have ended in pretty much anyway and I wouldn’t have given a shit.  I’m gonna go back to bed now.  5.9/10 I was incredibly tired so I might have to rewatch this.

The Talented Mr. Ripley 1999

Apparently this isn’t a film about the guy from the Ripleys believe it or not books.  The talented mr Ripley really wasn’t a fun watch, for me anyway. It was really weird and uncomfortable. It’s a 2 hour film but for me it was a lot longer as I paused it many times since I found it so difficult to watch.  I think because it was about a really creepy guy telling a big lie and the whole film I was just waiting for that lie to be exposed so I just constantly felt uncomfortable.  Ripley was an extremely weird character. He seemed really smart but was also really dumb. He was also really lucky and extremely unlucky at the same time.  After the first half where the thing happens, it kinda gets a bit boring. I think because it becomes entirely only about Ripley and I just found that kinda annoying.  It had its moments. But i just feel strange after watching it. And I feel bad for Peter. Didn’t like the ending, but it wasn’t too bad, I just didn’t like it.  6.3/10

War Dogs 2016

½

This was ok. Jonah Hill plays a massive prick who’s character never really redeems himself in anyway. Miles teller was alright, even though that guy is kinda a dick in most of his films I quite like him.  This film did a weird thing where they quoted themselves every 20 minutes or so, idk why they did this but it was interesting, never really seen it before. I found myself tryna guess what could happen to lead them to say that and who’s gonna be there one to say it. I never wanna see it again in another film but I didn’t hate it in this.  This kinda felt like Wolf of Wall Street with the voiceovers about money and stuff. It even had Jonah Hill except he wasn’t giving a performance of a life time.  I didn’t love this film but it was ok, Todd Phillips is good at directing films like these, but it doesn’t come close to the hangover films.  Interesting story especially since it’s based on a true story.  I’ve already forgotten the characters names. It was somehow both better and worse than I expected.  6.8/10

ReWatching sonic 2 alone in the cinema. I have work in a couple hours and I work in the cinema so they stuck it on for me, I’ve already reviewed it but I’m just gonna write a more in depth review as I watch the film considering there’s no one else here.  Sonic kinda feels like it’s tryna make him funny like Spider-Man but it really doesn’t work, maybe because it’s a kids film. The superhero stuff at the start was kinda boring and feels forced.  Egg man is actually kinda cringy, it’s bearable because it’s Jim Carrey but if it was any other actor he would be the worst part of the film.  Kinda feels weird how they dump these new characters in and the chaos emerald stuff in all at once so close to the start of the film, a lot to process at once and I feel like it makes the chaos emerald stuff seem cheesy or unbelievable.  I think I’ve been acting like this isn’t a kids film coz it’s sonic and I love it but a lot of the jokes are very childish. Especially from sonic and egg man. Knuckles becomes the best character pretty early on. His naivety paired with Idris Elba’s voice is amazing and I love it. “Earth is my turf g, if you don’t know how to floss you’ll be lost without me” one of the cringiest lines I’ve ever heard and it almost made me dislike Jim Carrey.  I kinda don’t like this other police guy I don’t think he’s that funny and he’s quite weird.  Longclaw and sonics relationship is really cool and interesting but I think it needed developing more. She was in it in just the short flashbacks and then it adds in these emotional moments when sonic thinks back to her and I think if they were in the film a lot longer it would have made a lot of this way more effective. Like if she got a way longer segment in the first film it would have made this film a lot better as we’d have a reason to care about sonic helping longclaw by finding the chaos emeralds. I feel like it keeps mentioning her but glosses over it every time never really giving us a real reason to give a shit other than the fact it’s sonics backstory character. I fckin love knuckles.  I like that this film becomes about how they want sonic to make friends his own age and then we get tails and knuckles who are both CGI characters just like him. Just like the first one this is a pretty nice film about friendship.  Kinda creepy that tails has just been watching everything this whole time.  “Dot dot dot dot dot dot”  I fckin love knuckles. x3 “Tiny magic hedgehog destroyed”  Genuinely the best part of this whole film is how perfect they managed to get knuckles. It makes me excited to see other films just so I can see knuckles again. I fuckin love knuckles x4 Feels a bit too similar to the bar fight in the first film but I think this one is a lot worse. The time in a bottle scene was pretty good in the first film but in this one it’s kinda childish. There’s a dance fight and they are terrible but suddenly become way too good considering how bad they were before. In all the scene is just kinda boring. Honestly really weird how they got amazing at dancing just coz they changed the song. You can’t even say it’s because tails is copying his moves, he isn’t looking at sonic, he just got weirdly good coz it suited the story.  You know I don’t mind tails. They don’t nail him as well as they do knuckles, but their friendship is still super wholesome. His character development feels kinda forced at this point but it’s still wholesome.  “Like Vin Diesel and the rock” lol Sonic needs to take better care of these rings man isn’t there like a finite number of these extremely valuable and useful items, yet he’s always losing them. Maybe invest in a better bag.  “We both lost everything that day” Like I said before that short little flashback would have been more emotional if they went in more detail for the flashback in the last film. It also could I have helped set up knuckles character way better and made sonic and knuckles connection more interesting. Look at them with a perfect face time signal, I can’t even get that good signal In my house. All this wedding stuff is extremely awkward. The punch was unnecessary and if it wasn’t for what happens after he would have completely ruined the wedding.  This weird twist of everyone at wedding being undercover is extremely weird and unbelievable. I really disliked it, how’d they know sonic was going to show up, also that’s genuinely an evil thing to do to his fiancé. Really really dumb and I really don’t find this general guy who likes Olive Garden funny.  The stuff with her sister wanting to murder her fiancé is kinda funny but I really don’t like any of this wedding stuff. It’s super unrealistic and unbelievable and takes away from the film. Also how the fuck does the chaos emerald just happen to be the island next to where the wedding was happening I found that super weird.  I think egg man is actually pretty bad. I like his new look but he’s really just not funny.  The knuckles and sonic fight is actually pretty cool.  When knuckles and sonic start becoming friends I start to love this film. I fckn love knuckles x5 Also not to add to much to the knuckles stuff but the Scene on the plane was great. Honestly this would just be better if it was a knuckles film. x6 This is like like the first avengers film in the battle of New York but better.  Super wholesome Ohana moment (o hana means family and family means nobody gets left behind) Super sonic is one of the most epic film moments of all time.  Knuckles picking up tails and putting him in his shoulder and then talking bout sprinkles honesty made my day. I start work now so I can’t actually finish the film but Ima log it and count it since there’s not much left. But the ending was the most wholesome thing ever, knuckles is genuinely amazing and though the dad moment is kinda weird I loved it. Also I fckn love knuckles. x7. The ending after the baseball game is the best scene in the whole thing. Also SUPER SONIC AND SHADOW! So fuckin cool. I Fr just pretty much wrote an essay about sonic 2. 7.5/10

Ben Is Back 2018

½

This is a really interesting film about addiction and about the lengths a mother is willing to go to to protect her son. Even though she probably had no way to help him, and her showing up would probably make it worse for him and her, she couldn’t just sit there while her son was in danger. Kinda reminded me of my mum. I’ve never been in a situation where I forced her to come and save my life as I was a drug addict but I’d like to think if I was a drug addict she’d do her best to help me.  I dunno why I like Lucas Hedges but I watched this for him. Probably because Manchester by the sea is such an amazing film and his acting is superb in that. He was really good in this also, but though I’m not a fan of Julia Roberts I thought she was great in this too, she gave a very believable and emotional performance and I quite liked her.  This film made me miss my dog. A lot of is about a dog. The dog in this is amazing and it made me miss my dogs a lot. I’m away from home as I’m at uni atm so I don’t get to see them often. I wanna give my dog a hug.  This is a very sad film. It’s pretty much sad the whole way through so I really wanted a happy ending. I wouldn’t exactly call the ending happy I’d just call it…. Not sad. It was a good ending, mostly because of the dog.  Yeah I wasn’t too bothered about watching this film I just couldn’t pick any other film to watch, but I was pleasantly surprised. It wasn’t amazing but it was enjoyable, the characters and relationships between the characters were all very interesting and I liked the acting.  7.4/10

Boiling Point 2021

New fear unlocked: working in a restaurant When Stephen Graham was shouting I felt like I was in trouble. It felt like a real workplace, because of the one shot and the acting being pretty good, it felt so intimate and real, like I was really experiencing the most stressful day at work ever.  So many great moments with so many characters all done so well with the one shot. Honestly looks like the most stressful but most fun film set to be on and I have so much respect for everyone involved.  I don’t know how I feel about the ending, it felt like it was missing something. It felt kinda rushed and kinda abrupt. I was a little annoyed, just like, is that it. It was getting really good and then it just ended. I guess the way it was filmed would have made it hard to do anything else after but it felt like it ended in the middle of the film.  This was so stressful. So well made. The acting was great. The characters were great. The way it transitioned between characters and showed their experiences and back to the other characters so naturally. And because it was about regular people working and not about a war or a flying bird person, and the fact it genuinely just had like no cuts, it just felt like I was experiencing a regular day at work and it was amazing. The fact it involved food and there was so much going on at once, it must have been so hard to film but it paid off.  Honestly I loved this film, storywise it was limited by the one shot thing but I just love how it was made so much. The ending really didn’t sit well with me but other than that I loved it, I wanna see more films done like this. What a film. It always just feels like an experience to watch a film in one shot like this, it’s just like your actually following them around and your with them the whole time you see everything that’s going on, it makes you feel more connected to the characters and I love it. 1917 was such an experience to watch at the cinema and I kinda wish I saw this at the cinema also.  Made my job look like Disneyland. 8.3/10

Asakusa Kid 2021

I really enjoyed this. I need to watch more Japanese films. Japan is such a beautiful country, some of the exterior shots just look so aesthetic I fckn love Japan.  This film was about Takeshi Kitano, who’s name you may recognise from the popular Japanese tv show Takeshi’s castle. (Pretty much a cooler Japanese version of total wipeout). He’s a Japanese comedian and actor and this film is about his start in comedy.  The thing I liked most about this film was the relationship between the two main characters, takeshi and fukami senzaburo. Their friendship was incredibly heartwarming and I loved it. The ending was kinda predictable yet still sad, but the final scene of them two when they went out to the bar was amazing. I also really loved the actual ending with the older takeshi.  The tap dancing stuff was really cool, another favourite moment for me is when takeshi is about to go on tv for the first time and he’s tap dancing.  Really cool film, I really liked it.  7.8/10

Moonrise Kingdom 2012

Wes Anderson has the most distinctive and recognisable style in all of film. It really is quite amazing. Moonrise Kingdom is probably one of his best films. The characters have more depth and are more interesting than I’ve found others to be in his other films I’ve seen.  Wes Anderson’s style looks amazing, it’s looks better than real life, everything is so colourful and perfect. Sometimes I find it to be a little much which is why I’m not a massive fan of his films but I can’t deny his films all look incredible.  I really liked this one, I did get a little bored at the end but that could just be because it’s 1pm and this is the 3rd film I’ve watched today. Also my friend was spam calling me through the ending while I was tryna watch it. 7.9/10

Isle of Dogs 2018

It’s a Wes Anderson’s stop motion animation. Do I need to say anything else? It’s a Wes Anderson’s stop motion animation. And It’s about dogs. And I’m back home right now so I gotta watch it while sitting with my dogs.  You heard the rumour right?  I’ve watched 2 Wes Anderson films in a row now, it’s not too much but I only slept like 4 hours last night so ended up falling asleep half way through this. I don’t remember my dream but I’m pretty sure it was in the style of Wes Anderson.  I need to rewatch fantastic mr fox because this looked incredible. Honestly just an amazing stop motion animation. We need more of these.  It was also set in Japan which I loved very much and the story was pretty cool. The main dog was voiced by Bryan Cranston who is obviously great and he was a pretty cool character.  Kinda like my last Wes Anderson film I got a little bored towards the end and I wasn’t as invested in the story as much as I was just enjoying such an amazing film maker, but I had a good experience watching it.  7.9/10 4 films in one day coz I couldn’t be bothered to get the train home from my parents house

Prisoners 2013

What a film. Hugh Jackman's performance in this is outstanding. We also have Paul Dano who after the Batman I can now say he is one of my favourite actors, his character didn’t say much but Paul Dano is always a plus.  Roger Deakins on the cinematography. Legend. Incredibly intense and emotional film. Jake Gyllenhaal played a very serious character who is kind of a pretty bad detective even tho I don’t think he was meant to come off as it.  Second watch of this film. Really love it. I’m not sure how I feel about the ending. Leaves a lot of unanswered questions as I wanna know what happens next, but stylistically it was pretty cool. 8.4/10

The Social Network 2010

½

I genuinely think this is one of the best films ever made. It’s the social network. I must have watched it like 6 times at this point. It’s not just an amazing piece of film making it’s really cool to watch making it super rewatchable.  I really like Jesse Eisenberg and it’s mostly because of this film as he’s not really in anything else this good. Also Andrew Garfield remains one of my favourite actors of all time and he did great in this.  I love David Fincher, he’s my second favourite director after Edgar Wright. This film is written very well and I really like the editing and the soundtrack. Particularly the scene where mark invents facemash, I think that was edited really well and it’s one of my favourite scenes in the film. I feel like most people love this film. It’s the social network. It’s fckin awesome. 8.7/10

Marriage Story 2019

½

I fckin love this film. It’s so good. I think it’s the only thing I’ve seen from Noah Baumbach but it makes me wanna see more.  The acting was amazing. That scene was incredible. If you’ve seen the film you probably know what scene I’m talking about it’s an obvious stand out. The confrontation. Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson in that scene delivered 2 of the best performances I’ve ever seen and I loved it.  This film is so emotional, so frustrating and so real. I really liked how it started with them talking about what they liked about each other making it look like a regular romance. I also love the ending when him and Henry read the same list from the start.  I started to get really frustrated watching this. How it was so complicated. This is why I never wanna get married. I’m scared of this film happening to me. The story was great the whole way through. Such a complex and interesting relationship portrayed to us in such an amazing way.  Such a good film.  8.8/10

What We Do in the Shadows 2014

½

My favourite twilight film. Taika Waititi is one of the best and funniest  people. He directed, wrote and starred in this film and it’s really funny.  The beast was terrifying.  Just a really cool mockumentary with a really sad but then wholesome ending. Not really much to say about it other than it was really funny.  Very fun take on vampires and so many funny jokes and characters. Stu especially was my favourite.  Anyone that wants to watch a comedy that’s actually funny this is a good one. 7.5/10

Second time seeing the Batman. Saw it again at the cinema before they stop showing it with my friend who hadn’t seen it yet. Once the film had finished he kinda had the same reaction I had after seeing it for the first time, he was kinda in awe of how amazing it was. Said it was one of the best cinema experiences of his life.  On a rewatch, yes it’s very long, but I don’t regret seeing it again. The fact it’s long and gritty made it harder for me to sit through and I doubt I’ll see it again for a while now, but seeing my friends reaction still made it really entertaining.  I don’t think I really noticed much that I didn’t the first time. The first time I watched it I thought it was perfect and this time I could definitely pick out a few moments that were a bit unbelievable or a bit too slow, but mostly it was just as good as the first time. Incredible acting. Batman’s leitmotif was great. Soundtrack still stuck in my head. “Something in the way” Amazing film.  My friend also hasn't seen the dark knight yet so he couldn’t make that comparison but I’m gonna try force him to watch it soon.  8.7/10 I really love that he’s a detective that’s probably one of the best parts. DC is literally called Detective comics. We needed this film.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004

½

I love films because of films like these. Sometimes you watch a film that’s so amazing that it makes you feel something, like it has almost changed you in a way. Eternal sunshine of a spotless mind was one of those film for me. Normally when I see these films I’m alone, but first time I saw this I was sitting with my whole school in college, they played this, it ended and I just sat there amazed. I don’t think that had ever happened to me before, at least when I was with other people.  Now I’m getting more into the genius that is Charlie Kaufman I thought I’d rewatch this, I was on the train for most of it which probably wasn’t the best time to watch it but I still enjoyed it immensely.  The best breakup film ever made.  I love this film so much. Jim Carrey’s best film in my opinion. It also has Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood and Mary Jane Watson.  Jim Carrey is amazing and he gives a non comedic heartwarming performance.  The writing in this film is honestly genius, the non linear structure was amazing and it’s honestly such a unique and incredible way to structure a breakup film. Incredible.  One of my favourite films of all time, I couldn’t recommend it more, the first time I watched it my <i>highlight</i> was the way it played with his memories by using incredible film making techniques. This time I was just amazed by the writing and structure. The way it started at the end but also the beginning. I don’t wanna give anything away. Watch this film.  8.8/10

Anomalisa 2015

½

This was a weird film, I don’t think I understood it fully. I did understand it but it felt like the deeper meaning was lost on me. The film felt so real yet so strange and abnormal at the same time.  The stop motion was incredible, I feel like I could watch a whole feature length documentary right now about the making of this film having just finished it. I’ve really never seen such a deep stop motion film and I think we need more.  I wouldn’t say it was forgettable because it certainly left an impression because of how unique it was, but I dunno if I connected to it too much. It was a great film and a little sad, but I feel It should have impacted me more and it just didn’t. Maybe I need to watch it again when it isn’t 3am when I’m half falling asleep.  I loved the realism though, it was slow and made you feel really connected to the character. Just when it started getting weirder I think it lost me a little.  Great film though, stunning stop motion animation, I respect anyone able to do something like this very highly as stop motion takes an insane amount of effort and it pays off.  Slowly making my way through every Kaufman film.  7.3/10

Adaptation. 2002

“You are what you love, not what loves you” This was really cool, it felt like we were really getting a look into Charlie Kaufman’s mind. I didn’t love this, I found it kinda boring at times, the characters were kinda dull and sometimes a bit weird. But I think the writing was amazing, it was incredibly unique. It was a film about writing this film, an adaptation of a real book that Kaufman wrote himself into just like he does in the film.  Kaufman’s character was really depressing. His loneliness made me sad, though it’s so fascinating how he wrote this about himself, making the character feel more real than any I’ve seen before, because he is real. I didn’t necessarily enjoy this film a lot I just found it so interesting.  Donald was kinda annoying sometimes but Kaufman’s character was relatable in a really depressing way. Hearing his inner thoughts weirdly helped me feel understood, I felt I could relate to him on many different levels. Fantastic film about writing written by a fantastic writer about a fantastic writer.  7.7/10

Remember Me 2010

So I heard this had a shitty ending and I love shitty endings, also this has Robert Pattinson so decided to watch it. The fact I knew something disastrous was about to happen meant the closer I got to the end the more intense it got but oh my god, I could have never predicted something like that. I mean I think I could guess what was gonna happen but the way they revealed it with the date and the zoom out was awful yet amazing at the same time.  I was crying and laughing. This is a good film though, Robert Pattinson is great, it’s a nice story about romance and family. Then it ends like that, I’m not even mad I loved it.  I feel like it has a nice message, an asteroid could hit our planet at random and we could all die, I could even get hit by a car on my way to work in 20 minutes, anything can happen. Make sure you do the things you may not have a chance to do tomorrow. Life is scary, things have shitty endings, enjoy every moment before that shitty ending comes. Eat your dessert first. 7.7/10

The Northman 2022

My second favourite film based on Shakespeare after Gnomeo and Juliet.  I probably never would have seen this. Not my kind of film at all. I can’t even be bothered to see the lighthouse even tho it’s a film I’ve been kinda excited about since it’s release in 2019. But I got the day off work today and there’s a cinema 10 minutes from my house (also I get free films) so I thought I may as well go see it, and it was very good.  I think I just don’t like too dark films as I get kinda bored but this one was just really cool. It was extremely violent, intense and tragic, and kept my attention for like 90% of the film. It was a little forgettable I feel, I probably will forget it completely in a couple of days, but it was a lot better than I expected it to be. I love revenge stories like this, this was a pretty satisfying one. The gore was pretty cool and the final fight at the end was really good. I quite enjoyed this, I probably wouldn’t recommend it to any one other than my one friend who loves vikings, and I will probably never see it again, but I’m glad I got to experience it at the cinema and I had a nice time.  Also Anya Taylor-Joy is one of the best actresses in Hollywood atm.  7.9/10

Metal Lords 2022

This made me really wanna play drums I quite liked this, sure it’s cringy, generic and stereotypical at times, but each character had pretty good development. When Jaeden Martel started playing drums seriously his character became really cool, he also had a pretty wholesome relationship. The music was great and I really enjoyed it. I mean it wasn’t necessarily a great film, it had a lot wrong with it, the main guy was really unlikable until his forced character development at the end. Also a lot of it felt kinda unrealistic like his doctor being some rock musician guy who gave him a helpful speech.  But I enjoyed the story of two friends, their friendship was really interesting and that and the music I think made the film quite enjoyable for me. This isn’t for everyone and I’m sure many people won’t like it, but I love films about bands having been in a band myself and I thought this was really cool.  7.7/10

The Rocker 2008

½

Dumb comedy with some good music and rain Wilson.  Your average forgettable comedy that was kinda funny sometimes but mostly just something your sticking on because it’s 1am and what Tf else are you gonna do. It did have the music going for it tho which was pretty cool, the whole story wrapped up pretty well and had a good ending, but it mostly was just an average awkward comedy. Rain Wilson was weird as ever but less in a funny way.  Sons of the music was good and it really motivated me to write, but most of the characters weren’t that great. Also will Arnet was under-utilised that guy is a legend.  I just really enjoy films about bands.  6.9/10

Hesher 2010

I need to see some more shitty films so I can stop giving everything 4 stars. (7 four star reviews in a row)  This film was really good.  Joseph Gordon-Levitt is an amazing actor to be able to pull off a character so different from the characters he usually plays and make it so believable. hesher was a great character.  I feel like I could name quite a few films like this, the protagonist is going through something, then meets an interesting character who is very different from him and his friends. I feel like hesher pulls this off better than any other film I’ve seen like this. It was emotional, funny and entertaining.  Rain Wilson was in this too which is always a good thing. His character I feel could have been used better, but the ending was beautiful and his Character was wrapped up pretty well.  Natalie Portman was in this too and she was pretty good. Although I feel again it felt like it was missing some stuff. How and why her and hesher got together and what happened after. I feel like the film had a nice ending but it did leave quite a few plot points inconclusive.  Overall a good film with good acting, them pushing the coffin was beautiful. It was a little predictable at times but was a pretty cool film. 8.0/10

Sonic the Hedgehog 2020

Just nearly cried on the bus ride to see sonic the hedgehog 2 while watching sonic the hedgehog 1. This film was better than I remembered, really cool friendship film and Jim Carrey is amazing as eggman.  Sonic is just cool. He was a little annoying coz of how childish he is and coz he does the floss but I found him less annoying on a rewatch.  Not an amazing film but probably one of the best video game films. Haven’t played any of the sonic games since I was a kid so it was really cool to see him in life action.  The bus is arriving at the cinema now and sonic 2 starts in 1 minuite so I just hope the second one is good.  Also I really respect what they did changing Sonic’s look after the fans all memed how bad the first trailer was. Because of that I will always like this film.  I think I started liking Ben Schwartz as Sonic more after I realised he voices Rutabaga in Bojack Horseman.  7.6/10

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 2022

Possibly Jim Carrey’s last film includes him making a “funny” rhyme about flossing.  “If you don't know how to floss, you'll be lost without me!”  The after credits actually made me gasp out loud.  I really enjoyed this film, definitely better than the first one. Knuckles was probably my favourite part, his character was interesting, he was funny and his voice actor was perfectly cast as Idris Elba. The ending was amazing. Don’t wanna give any spoilers but epic final fight and super wholesome ending.  It’s kinda weird sometimes, the weirdness works when it’s Jim Carrey coz he’s a legend but some of the stuff at the wedding was a bit strange. Like the general guy who loves the Olive Garden.  The first film was just about sonic in the human world making friends, but in this one those friends become his family and he makes new friends just like him. Him and tails friendship and then knuckles as well was the best thing about this, it felt more like a sonic the hedgehog film in the sense that it was more bout all these cool characters rather than a bunch of humans and one cool character.  Such a cool movie.  8.4/10

The Intouchables 2011

Isn’t there an American remake of this with Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston.  Super wholesome film about two very different people forming a friendship. Definitely my favourite french film, I really liked it. I love super wholesome films like this, it was funny, sad and had a really nice ending.  I really don’t have much else to say about it, the characters were great and it was very enjoyable, I would recommend it.  I like how it’s a true story aswell, I prefer films when the main character dies as it’s a conclusive ending, but films like these based on true stories where it can tell you where their lives ended up are really cool too.  Watched this on my break at work and I have 1 minute left so I better wrap this up.  Good film. 8.4/10

Saving Private Ryan 1998

I don’t usually like war films, but I feel like some of the best films ever made are war films so I’ve ended up watching a lot of them. This is one of them. I don’t think this was particularly special in anyway other than the fact it was really good. I guess them doing all that to save Ryan was really interesting and made the ending a lot more emotional.  Well acted, one of the best parts of this film was the acting, Tom Hanks is great, two of the actors in friends, Vin Diesel, Matt Damon and all the rest of them, extremely good. All their characters, or most of their characters were really interesting also. A couple of them had their own character development, like the coward who spoke German, his character ended up being really good.  I loved the ending a lot, probably the best part, very sad. Also the first war scene when they come off the boats is iconic, I’ve never seen this film before but I feel like I’ve watched parts of that scene so many times, wether it’s on YouTube, in history class or just some big shaq meme on Instagram.  Very violent, lots of devastating and incredibly acted death scenes. Really good film, should have watched it a long time ago but was never really in the mood until today.  8.5/10

A Beautiful Mind 2001

Wonderful film that made me feel like a crazy person. Seriously though how do we know we aren’t insane. How do we know what’s going on around us is actually going on around us and isn’t just something our brain has convinced itself is going on because we are crazy. The human mind is beautiful but really scary. Such a scary, yet interesting subject, I throughly enjoyed this film. There were so many twists and turns, we got a good will hunting type thing at the start and then it had a time skip and turned into a mental health film. The Paul Bettany twist was quite good though I was disappointed because before that moment I thought he was a really good character.  The romance was great, she was amazing and the ending of the film was really emotional.  Mostly just the main character and his schizophrenia was so interesting and I really enjoyed it. Seriously though what if I live alone and my roommate is just a figment of my imagination. The scariest thing is I’m only like 99% sure rn that I actually do have a roommate. This film has made me afraid of my own head.  8.5/10

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World 2010

I’ve never given a 5 star review so this is a big deal for me. But it’s my favourite film of all time. It deserves it. Scott Pilgrim vs the world is incredible.  The perfect amount of geekiness. The comedy is so geeky. The traditions are insanely cool. Some many subtleties that are amazing.  I love the comic book style.  I love the transitions. I love the camera work.  I love the way they use eyes.  I love the music.  I love the sound.  I love the characters.  I love Ramona.  I love the comedy. I love all the gaming references.  I love the fighting.  I love the actors.  I love the effects.  I love the pacing.  I lesbian this film.  The vegan stuff so funny. Kieran Culkin is funny. The way it uses transitions and camera work as a comedic tool. The music is amazing, the Ramona song is stuck in my head rn. Also “hello again, friend of a friend” Edgar Wright is a genius and he made the best comic book film of all time. ( he nearly directed antman)  This film is just sooo cool and while I’m watching I’m in constant awe of how good it is.  Chris Evans is great, so is Brandon Routh. I like Michael Cera and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Brie Larson I don’t like too much but I love her in this. Anna Kendrick I also love. Great cast.  My favourite film of all time. A lot of people ask me what my favourite film is and I had to decide on one to give to people and this became my default. It’s incredible. I love Edgar Wright’s style of film making so much and it’s meshes perfectly with Scott Pilgrim. 10 seconds in to this film I remembered why it’s my favourite film of all time.  I know I said it already but I love the transitions. Stuff like how the next scene breaks into the one before with a character shouting at Scott for being dumb. Also little cool stuff like “he smacked the highlights out of her hair” and Scott wafting away the I love you from knives. The dumb vegan jokes and dumb jokes from Wallace like “kick her in the balls”. I really love the music in the film but I also love the actual sound effects and music. I love how the musics used to join scenes together, like when Scott is shocked and we get that one bass note and when they’re actually playing in the next scene they call him out for being so distracted that he was only playing one note.  I really love the pacing of this film, it’s very fast and it’s constantly keeping you entertained by throwing new random craziness at you. It never feels too fast though because of the way it all perfectly fits together.  “You once were a vegon, but now you will be gone.”  I love how it uses text for comedy too. Sometimes it was to transition a scene like “moments later” but sometimes it was to go against what a character was saying like when Scott was talking to Ramona about envy.  I could probably talk about this film for longer but I think I’ve explained thoroughly enough why it’s my favourite.  9.6/10

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore 2022

Can confirm this was better than the last one This was alright….. it’s not really fantastic beasts anymore it’s a prequel about Dumbledore and grindelwald. That wouldn’t necessarily be a terrible thing but the first fantastic beast film that was actually about the beasts was the best one. Newt was a great character and though it’s cool to see Dumbledore and hogwarts again, it’s not enough to make this a good film. It was really boring at times and super forgettable. If you are worried about seeing this because of JK Rowling being a weirdo then u may as well not watch it, I really don’t think it’s worth it.  Personally I love Harry Potter and seeing them expand the universe will always be cool (even if they aren’t doing it well). I really want a Marauders TV show or maybe another fantastic beasts film that’s actually about newt and the beasts. Still it was cool seeing Jacob and queenie again, the magical combat is always fun to see, Dumbledore, Aberforth and Grindelwald had a decent yet forgettable story. Other than that there’s nothing else really too noteworthy about it. I usually review films right after seeing them but for this I couldn’t even be bothered until the next morning.  I think part of the problem was because of how forgettable the second film was I was wondering what the hell was going on. Why is queenie a bad guy now when Tf did that happen. It was pretty much exactly what you’d expect after seeing the last one… maybe a little better but still not good. Watchable tho. Also although Mads is a great actor I really like Johnny Depp and I feel like he would have been a more relatable character which is kinda what they were tryna do by having him have a relationship with Dumbledore but personally I think changing the actor to someone quite different didn’t work too well for them. But a lot of people love that guy so they may disagree with me I just like Johnny Depp more.  6.5/10 I feel like this deserves a lower rating but for some reason this is what I rated the second film and I can’t give this a lower score. Fuck it I’m removing half a star

Morbius 2022

½

When this film ended I was filled with many emotions. I had gone to see it at the cinema with my friend. We both looked at each other smiling, and we then stood up and began to give the film a standing ovation.  That is a joke but it’s also a true story.  Pros: Matt smith (not the character just the acting)  Cons: literally everything else Genuinely, and I don’t say this lightly, one of the worst films I’ve ever seen. Definitely the worst marvel film. This made venom look like a masterpiece. Genuinley it’s impressive that they managed to make a film worse than fantastic 4.  This was so bad it didn’t feel like a real film. I had no reason to care about any of the characters, or the story. The shots were weird and uncomfortable and the dialogue was shitty and cringy.  I expected this to be average, but it wasn’t, it was terrible. It felt like a YouTube montage, I feel like even I could make a better super hero film than this. Impressively awful.  The after credits were cool but I still don’t think they made any sense.  It was so bad it made me laugh in a couple times, but not enough for it to be entertaining in anyway, it was too mind numbingly boring for it to even be so bad it’s good.  Me and my friend stood up and the end and gave it a standing ovation which was pretty funny, but the film was truly terrible. Will probably go see it again tho (but definitely not sober)  0.7/10 Just like to add Matt smith is a legend. My favourite doctor and an amazing actor. We need him as a films protagonist asap. Maybe if he was morbius and Leto was Milo this film would have been watchable.

Grown Ups 2010

Is this a good film?  Probably not  Did I watch this because of Chris Rock being slapped in the face by Will Smith? Probably But I’ve always really liked grown ups. Sure I liked it kinda less this time round but it’s still an entertaining film with a couple of funny jokes and a cast with some good chemistry. You can tell they’re all friends in real life too.  This film is like number one on Netflix today. I wonder why. Will Smith making Chris Rock rich. (Will Smith was deffo in the wrong by the way but who cares it was funny)  This was a fun film about family that I used to love a lot.  It’s still ok i guess.  6.5/10

Silver Linings Playbook 2012

This was ok. Well acted and a nice mental health/ romance film. I like both Bradley Cooper and Jenifer Lawrence. Though the film was a little messy at the same time. I didn’t find The characters relatable but maybe someone with bipolar would have, I didn’t think the characters were even that likeable though, all the dancing stuff and the weird football superstition stuff was all kinda weird. I just wasn’t that entertained. It was cool, but forgettable, something to pass the time but not a film that left a strong impression on me or a film I will ever watch again. But I like romances and this was a decent one.  Also De Niro is in it.  Really isn’t that much else left to say as this film didn’t leave me with much to think or talk about. I would never recommend this to anyone but if you were thinking bout watching it anyway don’t let my review put you off, it was ok, I just didn’t connect with it at all. I don’t think I was in the right place and I don’t think it’s the kinda thing you watch early in the morning before work.  5.8/10

One of my favourite films of all time.  A lot of my favourite films of all time people can easily agree with, great pieces of film making, this one tho is more just coz it makes me feel things. I can relate to it. Not all of it, because I haven’t gone through the same traumatic experiences as Charlie. But I relate to being the quiet guy with a lot of problems. The guy with no friends who sits on his own at lunch, who wants to have friends but is too awkward to make them. Charlie is a great character and Logan Lerman is a great actor, his character is so interesting and when he meets his friends who understand him it just makes me feel happy.  Emma Watson is also just amazing. Probably my biggest celebrity crush, I really loved Sam in this film.  Ezra Miller is great, his character is a really cool and really nice guy and I like Ezra Miller as an actor. He is a cool flash, just has been a little unlucky with the dc not being in the best place atm.  The soundtrack in this film actually nearly brings me to tears, David Bowie, the smiths and lots of amazing songs that fit the film so well. When Heroes played at the end all I wanted to do is go on the balcony close my eyes and listen to it with my airpods. (Though my roommate took the balcony key so I can’t get out there. I’m compensating by sitting next to the open window listening to the soundtrack for this film while writing this review. Come on Eileen is playing rn).  I’ve watched this film so many times and I will keep watching it for the rest of my life, I love it, and it’s one of the few films that isn’t just good, but it feels like an experience watching it even on rewatches which is really rare.  This film is emotional, funny sometimes, has amazing music, actors, characters. I get that most people won’t get the same thing out of it as I did, but I’ve watched it so many times and it still makes me happy, which even if it isn’t a masterpiece, that makes it a pretty perfect film for me at least. I hope to one day make a film that someone can feel that way about. (Asleep is playing now and it’s making me really pissed at my roommate for taking the balcony key)  Not much else to say, one of my favourites, I don’t care if you don’t like it. One of the best mental breakdowns I’ve ever seen in film.  9.0/10

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 2021

½

Seeing Gojo on a big screen was all I really needed.  MAPPA’s animation is actually perfect, it doesn’t leave you in shock like ufotable, it’s not amazing to look at every frame, but the fights are incredible and the rest of it just looks perfect, not too good but definitely not bad.  After a week of working at a cinema every day, letting anime fan after anime fan into see Jujutsu Kaisen, one of my favourite anime’s, and waiting out side for them to all come out and talk about how good it was, I’ve finally seen it, and it was exactly what I expected. This film is based on volume 0 of the manga which I read before the anime finished airing so I knew most of what was gonna happen but had forgotten a lot. The characters were great, It was set before the anime, back when the second years of jujutsu high were first years, so all the characters apart from the 3 main first years are in it. We also have a different main character who isn’t in the series. I love Itadori but this guy probably would have been just as good of a protagonist for the show. Gojo is always amazing and I liked seeing more of the second years. The villain was also cool and had interesting motivations, overall there was a lot of good things, but the pacing felt really quick and the story felt kind of boring. It was a shame coz with such good characters it could have been great, but it felt really short, like not much happened when if it had a bit longer it could have been amazing. But the characters were really good just weren’t used to their full potential. Overall though Jujutsu Kaisen is really good and I believe it’s gonna be one of the next big anime’s, so having a film now as a prequel that anyone can watch, I think was a really good idea as it’ll get a lot more people into the show.  Jujutsu Kaisen is great and I recommend this film to anyone who has or hasn’t watched the show. I was extremely excited to see it at the cinema and it didn’t disappoint.  7.1/10

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel III. Spring Song 2020

The darkest of all the fates yet pales in comparison to fate/zero and unlimited blade works. The first 2 movies were cool, it was setting up characters that hadn’t been expanded on in the other versions, but this was the final battle, and it was a little boring. I think if it was a series I would have liked it more. This film probably had the coolest Kirei Kotomine moment from all the fate routes, which is pretty cool as he’s still my favourite fate zero character (just been used poorly in fate/ stay night)  The animation for the final fights were amazing. Overall tho the film was kinda mid. All the characters were more likeable in unlimited blade works. Even Sakura who is barely in it. I’m glad it was so dark tho coz we gotta see that evil piece of shit Shinji get brutally murdered.  Ending was pretty cool tho. 6.1/10

Tokyo Revengers 2021

Tokyo revengers is amazing. I’ve read all the manga and watched the anime, now I’ve finally seen this film. One of the better anime adaptations I’ve seen in live action. Tokyo revengers is just such a cool story with great characters and it makes me so happy. Draken is awesome, mikey is the coolest anime character ever so they didn’t quite manage to get him as cool in this, I think I even liked draken more, but he was still great. Even tacamichi was a little less annoying in this than he is in the anime. Would love to see a second film. They made a couple of changes but they all worked really well and helped it fit into the story. Really just a cool film.  The fighting was a bit unrealistic (like it is in the anime but it works less in live action) and the film was a bit cheesy. But I think that’s to be expected from a Japanese live action adaptation. I enjoyed it and I would recommend to anyone who refuses to watch anime or loves Tokyo revengers like I do.  If u don’t like anime you can still watch this, old boy is based on a manga and it’s one of the best films ever made.  7.6/10

The Adam Project 2022

Good film. Mark Ruffalo, Ryan Reynolds and a kid version of Ryan Reynolds, very enjoyable, best time travel film since avengers end game.  I thought the kid was a very good actor, he played a young Ryan Reynolds really well. The main reason this film was so good was their character was really interesting, and the chemistry between themselves was really good. The stuff with his mum and his dad was all what made the film so good. I actually just watched this film with my dad after not seeing him for 3 months, but he falls asleep every time he watches a film but at least I gotta watch it with my dogs.  Mark Ruffalo is great, but just as an actor, he’s just a great person. There are certain actors, such as Charlie Day, who are so likeable that whatever film they’re in they really just elevate the character to a point it wouldn’t reach with any other actors.  Other than those great parts it was just a generic sci fi film with a simple plot. It had a lot of unique, emotional and funny moments. But at it’s core it was pretty simple. The villain was terrible, I couldn’t have cared less about her, and all the other sci fi shit was … well, shit.  It didn’t show us anything from the future and it was set in the past, which was a cool decision as I liked how we were following young Adam, but since all the sci fi shit is from the future, the fact we don’t see it means we don’t really get a proper explanation, which made it all feel kind of dumb. It’s also a time travel film which means it just makes no sense anyway, so many questions left unanswered because when your making a time travel film like this I think you just gotta kinda accept that it’s gonna be really stupid.  Also I don’t care bout action scenes but this film had quite a lot of cool sci fi moments. Also I liked the fighting, even with the bullies, all very cool.  But yeah there were some great moments and a great cast. I liked the game of catch at the end and the hug at the end almost had me tearing up. Very fun film, and it really had an interesting and complex character that I quite enjoyed, it’s just too bad the rest of the film let it down.  Not amazing but much better than free guy  8.0/10

Hot Tub Time Machine 2010

I kinda don’t like reviewing films like this. Films I know aren’t actually that good they just late night comedies you put on for a little entertainment. This is one of those films I always wanted to watch as a kid but was too young. I finally watched it, And it was ok I guess.  It’s not even that funny, it’s just a lighthearted dumb story that’s easy to sit there and enjoy for a couple of hours. The characters didn’t have that much chemistry but it was cool. Shitty ending, completely dumb story, but entertaining. That’s the only thing I can find to complement it on, it was entertaining. This is why I don’t review films like these.  I really like craig Robinson coz of Brooklyn nine nine and now I’ve watched the office so I half watched this because of him. Clarke duke is cool too he’s also in the office. Yeah some fun moments, it’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect. A bunch of films just like it, except this one has time travel so it’s kinda fun.  5.9/10

I was not murdered. 2021

After watching gonzo I thought it’d be cool to watch another feature length student film and I saw this pop up in letterboxd so I thought fuck it. I mean it’s harder to write serious reviews for student films coz I don’t wanna offend anyone, so ima start with everything I really liked about it.  (Again I’m rating this like any other film so if it gets past a 2/10 that’s a compliment as it’s rated on the same scale as stuff like The Batman) Script was well written, it was pretty funny sometimes. As it went on it started getting really interesting, I really liked it when the second guy finally interacted with the girl, and there were cool details like her wearing the glasses and her talking to him and him being the dead one, I got really invested in the story at the end. I also think a lot of my main issues with the film were resolved pretty well at the end.  Acting was good especially from the main guy. The second guy was a good actor but his character was kinda dumb and a little weird…. A bit of a dick too, why’d he keep insisting she was alive and insistent on strip searching her. Did they not check her pulse? Also if you think she’s alive call the ambulance lol. And why’d he keep calling her an attention seeking whore, that was a little weird. The main guy tho I did like, he was also dumb sometimes but the acting was surprisingly quite good. Although it was annoying that when he called 911 someone else picked up and he never tried using another phone considering the circumstances. I liked how it kept cutting back to him talking to the dead girl in black and white that was a pretty cool narrative technique.  Some of the Edgar Wright type stuff was really cool, like the opening when he’s shouting “what?” Out the window, or the quick cuts when they scan her finger print (that was cool but then they did it for every single finger and it ruined it), if it was filmed a little better with a big crew I probably would have loved the film a lot.  Cool title credits of the dead body.  Cons  Editing and shots could have been better, there were moments where I could hear the camera mans footsteps so I guess the audio could have been better too, but I guess for a student film stuff like this is quite difficult so it’s really impressive what they managed to accomplish.  I think this film could have been a lot better since it had such a good script if it had less cuts, sometimes I’d be kinda engaged in the story and there’d be a weird unnecessary cut to a close up and it takes me out a bit. Or maybe they could have just made the cut feel a little more natural I don’t know. (Though as the film went on I stopped noticing this more and more, it just felt a little messy at the start) If I’m being honest I don’t think this film was amazing though there was a lot of good about it, I think some of the ideas the director had were great, and if some of the bad things were fixed this film would be really good. If his guy makes anymore films I would probably watch them as I think he’s pretty talented. I would like to film something with him some time since I’m pretty sure Adam goes to my uni.  Was the dead girl sitting up watching them in the background a mistake or was this like a Swiss army man type situation ? I know she’s alive (kind of) later so I dunno if that was intentional.  This was a really weird film and once I expected the fact it was just plain weird I enjoyed it. Was pretty cool.  4.0/10

Fresh 2022

½

This film was amazing. I really like Sebastian Stan, he’s really cool in interviews and I’m a massive mcu fan so I love the winter soldier, but in those films he’s really one note. The best acting I think I’ve seen from him is the Falcon and winter soldier show but I’ve never seen him in anything serious like this before and it was great, he’s a really good actor. So this film I think is near impossible to talk about without giving spoilers so spoiler warning from this point forward. I knew nothing about this going in and I recommend everyone else does the same. But yeah to sum it up I really recommend this it’s really good.  This film was very creepy, weird shit was freaking me out in real life when I was watching it like getting a call from a life insurance scammer and sounds coming from outside my flat. It felt strangely eerie the whole time even in the first 30 minutes when I was just happy to see a romance film staring Sebastian Stan. Then it got really cool and really fucked up. It kinda reminded me of the show “you” Sebastian Stan was like a cannibal version of joe Goldberg. (Does it look suspicious If I google “what does human taste like?” Obviously I’d never do that shit coz I’m not crazy but I’m curious and I don’t want to end up on some kinda list if I search it up )  The main girl was really cool, I don’t know the actress too well but apparently her name is Daisy Edgar-Jones and I love her. I’m glad her character is actually smart too, that’s how u handle a situation like that, you emotionally manipulate your captor just like he did to you to get you there in the first place. I liked Mollys character, she was the cool best friend who was extremely likeable the whole film (apart from when she got herself kidnapped after doing something a little dumb) and another character I weirdly really loved was the girl who was stuck next door to her. I liked how we didn’t see her face until the very end it made the ending even more satisfying. This film was creepy and fucked up… I wouldn’t call it scary but yeah it was definitely creepy. I really liked it, there’s not even anything I want to fault about it right now. Just an all around entertaining film with an interesting, creepy plot and incredible acting. Maybe the twist at the 30 minuite mark could have been less obvious, it could have been like baby sitter with a genre shift as a plot twist, they kinda did that and I loved it but I feel like you could definitely see it coming, I would have been shocked if he didn’t end up trying to kill her after how creepy he was at the start.  Also weirdly if having Instagram is a red flag, that kinda makes me not wanna have Instagram. I thought he was kinda cool for it before he ended up being a complete psychopath. On second thought….. maybe I’ll keep it.  8.6/10 Ok I just realised I’ve seen devil all the time and I Tonya but this is still the best I’ve ever seen Sebastian Stan.

I Want You Back 2022

I don’t wanna read any other review for this coz I don’t wanna hear anyone talk shit about it. I get it may be kinda dumb, it has a simple premise and some of the moments felt kinda outlandish and weird but, I loved it. Partly because Charlie Day is just one of the best people. He’s so likeable and his character was perfect. The girl was really cool too. Like I said the story was dumb but the characters and the jokes that made me laugh out loud even though they weren’t even that funny, made me really enjoy this.  Ben McKenzie from the OC was only in this for a minute but his scene made me laugh out loud a lot and it made me happy. Also Pete Davidson was pretty funny, his other film, big time adolescence was directed by the same guy and I like that film too, so I’ll have to remember this director and look out for his future films coz I’ve liked 2/2 so far. Jason Orley.  The ending was sudden and unexpected, I thought it was really cool but again it felt a little unbelievable. I kinda wish I could have had a more complete ending, I feel like it wouldn’t have been that hard to add another scene. I’m torn coz it was a great ending and it was cool how they did it but I feel like they sacrificed a natural ending for the characters by trying to do something special. Saying that though the way it ended still had me crying. Another thing is Charlie day and Noah’s bromance was one of the best parts of this film and it was left unresolved.  Charlie day is great.   7.6/10

Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone 2007

So this film is pretty much just a remake of the start of the 1995 show. The show came first but had a shitty ending and they released the film end of evangelion which was an amazing ending which is the film that most people probably have heard of (it’s literally called the end of because it’s the end of the show if you want to watch it don’t skip the show). Then they made the rebuild films that there are now 4 of, the final one released last year I think. This is the first rebuild film which is just nearly completely the same as the start of the show. I believe it’s the end of the 2nd/ start of the 3rd film where it stops being the same as the show and they give us an alternative ending that doesn’t make you want to die (but in the best way possible) like end of Eva does. So yeah this one is just a remake of a masterpiece which obviously means it wasn’t as good, buts it’s still Eva and it’s amazing. There’s a great soundtrack and plenty of deep and intense moments. The show is just better though, but only coz the show is incredible, on its own this film is really good.  It’s structured well and works quite good as a film, I’m excited to watch the next one and see how it differs from the series. There’s not much else to say about this, evangelion is amazing, this is amazing but not as amazing as the original.  Watch the show and then watch end of evangelion.  7.7/10

Mainstream 2020

Andrew Garfield is an amazing actor. The fact he can turn a film with annoying directing, editing and Jake Paul into something kinda watchable is pretty cool. But other than that this film is pretty shit. It had a cool start, the characters were kinda interesting and I thought it could be quite good but then they started doing YouTube and it turns out this is just another YouTube film that doesn’t understand YouTube at all. At the end it had a cool twist and got interesting again, it included a really nice monologue from Andrew, but then it ended. The main girl was a pretty boring character that I didn’t really give a shit about, Andrews character was cool until they turned him into a psychopath in a way that felt kinda forced.  My only pros for it are that it had an interesting start. Andrew Garfield is good. And it has a character could have been really interesting, but I don’t think they used him in the right way, they could have expanded on his character, his family, his past and the reason he ended up the way he did, but they didn’t and it was pretty disappointing.  This film was kinda forgettable, Andrew Garfield pushed it up to the point of kinda average rather than completely awful.  But yeah it’s watchable but I didn’t really enjoy it to much.  Wouldn’t recommend. 4.4/10

United 93 2006

Woah. That was a weird one. Super intense and super sad, I mean it’s 9/11, one of the saddest and scariest tragedies of the last 25 years. This film kinda gave you an idea of what it would be like to be one of the people on the ground or in the air having to deal with what’s going on. It kinda makes you think about what you would do in that situation, if your plane was hijacked would you sit there and wait to die or would you attack the hijacker for a chance at survival. It’s a very sad film and had me tearing up, which isn’t hard to do since the real event itself is also enough to make anyone tear up. We never really got to know any of the characters, there was no protagonist, it felt just like we were a witness to what was going on, and it felt very much like real life in that way, makes the situation scarier as it’s just a realistic intense journey based on a real event. I think it would have been a lot more emotional if they had a main character, maybe if they focused more on the guy who was leading the rush on the hijackers. But there’s a lot of characters and we never really connect with any of them, we just watch them experience it.  If this wasn’t based on a true story it probably would have been a really boring film, but it felt informative and extra sad since it’s actually real. It felt very fast paced which I don’t really like with an abrupt and un natural ending. Also as it started to focus more on the characters on the sky it kind of forgot about the characters they introduced on the ground. I usually like a sudden ending like that, but I think I would have preferred it if we were with the people on the plane the whole time as then their story would have been over and the ending would have hit harder. But they showed us too many characters on the ground so you only end up caring because of how real it feels and how fast and intense it is. I feel like this film could have been way better, but it was interesting and informative and it was an enjoyable (feels wrong using that word it was horrible at the same time) watch. 6.4/10

The Batman 2022

½

No spoilers. That was incredible, honestly one of the best films I’ve seen at the cinema in a long time. There’s so much to talk about, so many reasons why this film was so good, honestly just amazing.  So I saw the midnight screening for this, I was really excited, but I’ve never been a massive Batman fan so I didn’t care too much, but I should have, after 5 minutes I knew exactly how good it was gonna be and from then on it didn’t disappoint me once.  This film was so good I don’t even know where to start. The cinematography was amazing, some of the shots were so good that it had me just as happy as some of the crazy points of the film. The film was also crazy, had so many cool twists and fun moments. The soundtrack was amazing, most people would have heard it already as it was in the trailer but I loved it so much.  I also really loved the films use of the colour red, it looks amazing. You would also be able to see this in the trailer, but there were so many great shots in the film that looked so much better because of the cool use of the colour red.  The acting….. wow. Paul Dano outdid himself, I really like that guy and him as the riddler was one of the best performances I’ve ever seen from him. I love Colin Farrell too and he was unrecognisable as the Penguin, he’s so talented, that man just became the penguin and it made me so happy. Robert Pattinson was an amazing Batman, at first my only fault with the film was that I don’t think he was a good Bruce Wayne, but as the film went on and we saw some more of the emotional and intense moments, I began to really like him, maybe not the best Batman but a really good one for sure. Some other noteworthy performances, Zoë Kravitz (I think that’s her name) was a great Catwoman, she was one of the most likeable characters in the film which I didn’t expect and she added more depth to Batman’s character. And really just the whole cast was great, Alfred, Gordon and falcone, all great, but the biggest stand out was definitely Dano.  The film honestly was on par with Dark Knight and it was maybe even better. I love Dark Knight, mostly because of Heath ledger, but I honestly had a much better experience watching this film. My hand was over my mouth in shock for like 40% of it. It was a little long but I honestly didn’t want it to end, Gotham looked amazing and it was a real experience watching.  Matt Reeves 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻  It wasn’t like your average super hero film, it was a detective/ mystery film, it was incredibly dark yet beautiful. I was genuinely tearing up not just at the sad moments but just in awe of how good it was. I love comic book movies so much and this wasn’t just an incredible comic book movie, even as a stand alone film, this is just amazing. My review may change as right now I’m still in shock at how good that was but right now ima give it a 8.9/10

Home for Christmas 2014

I know Jamie Patterson, the director of this film, he’s one of my lectures at university. I feel kinda bad coz he’s a really cool guy and I do think he’s a good film maker, but this was one of the worst films I’ve seen in my entire life. It was still watchable tho, it was more like the room, it was so bad that it was hilarious and super fun to watch. Me and my friend stayed up till 7am watching this, I have a lesson with Jamie in like 3 hours, but it was worth it because I had so much fun watching it. The film made no sense at all, it was so dumb it was funny, the acting was terrible and the characters were all so needlessly stupid and annoying.  Like I said I like Jamie so I’m gonna take a minute to say some nice things about the film. There were a couple of genuinely funny jokes in there (not funny bad jokes actual good jokes) I liked the aesthetic and it had a cool title sequence.  Though it was made a little difficult because of the writing, the main girl was kinda likeable sometimes  It was hilarious. Other than that the film was just a bit shit. I’m excited to see some of Jamie’s other films as I know he has grown as a film maker but yeah this just wasn’t good.  Generic romance, bad characters, dumb plot, really really stupid characters, weird songs that didn’t fit their scenes and it’s a Christmas film that makes like 2 or 3 references to Christmas at most. It almost felt like a parody of romance films. But yeah it was a fun watch.  1.8/10

Uncharted 2022

½

Tom Holland’s films that aren’t marvel are all pretty bad, he’s a really good actor and he’s good in all the films he just needs to be in better projects, so I didn’t expect much from this, but I was pleasantly surprised, it wasn’t amazing but I enjoyed it. Nathan and sully had a really interesting friendship and there were some really cool action sequences, especially at the end with the pirate ships.  There were also some really cool shots that stood out to me, I don’t typically like films of this genre but I really like Tom Holland and I quite liked this film, it was fun.  Other than that though it was pretty average, boring villain and though I like Mark Wahlberg, (mostly because of ted) I think his role could have been cast better. I didn’t care bout any of the other characters and it felt like it could have been way better, but it was still better than I expected it to be. I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone because there are lots of better films out there but if you were thinking bout watching it and want to know if you’d be disappointed, you probably won’t be, it was cool. Glad I came and saw it at the cinema today.  6.8/10

The Godfather 1972

½

So I finally saw the godfather. I thought I was holding off on watching it because I was so excited to see such an amazing film, but really it wasn’t that amazing and I’ve realised I wasn’t watching it because I knew how boring it would be. I liked Mike, I think that was his name, he was pretty cool at the end. To be honest with you though I wasn’t paying too much attention to what was going on, I was falling asleep the whole film and at one point I closed my eyes for just a second after the wedding at the start and when I opened them again  (spoiler) don had been shot (spoiler)  I then had to keep myself awake as I had been so excited for this film for so long and I was finally seeing it for the first time for the 50th anniversary at the cinema with some people from work, and I was fucking it up by not staying awake. So I spent the next 2 or so hours of the film ( I honestly have no idea how much I missed so of someone could let me know that would be great) every time my eyes began to shut I would stab myself in the hand or leg with the needle from my name tag and that more or less worked. I should have just gone and seen uncharted and had a nice nap.  long film, some good acting, some less good acting, but I understand why people like it so much, I need to give it another go.  I never used to understand how people would fall asleep in the cinema and now I’m becoming my dad and it’s making me ruin my first ever watch of a “masterpiece”.  6.8/10

Gonzo 2022

½

“Look I know Jesus suffered a lot, but did he suffer as much as me” This is a feature length film so I’m gonna rate it properly the same way I rate all my films.  I like a lot of student short films, but I thought it would be a real struggle to get through an hour and twenty minute film but it wasn’t, it was funny and entertaining and a good fucking idea that I wish I had first. Very jealous.  Jamie is genuinely a good actor and good director and a big congrats to him for being able to start and finish something like this. The editing was really good and there was some really good shots in there which is hard to do with just tripod stuff when your filming yourself.  Jamie plays a relatable and interesting character and both of the parents (and jack) were such good actors that I stopped being able to tell if this was a film or just Jamie recording his life.  The interview stuff felt so awkward and it was so relatable. I felt scared for Jamie as he walked around with a microphone with his dad filming him.  Even the slightly less interesting moments in the middle were filled with so many funny moments.  The longer this went on the more I started to worry that this was genuinely real and I felt a little worried for Jamie’s safety.  Surprisingly emotional scene at the end aswell.  to anyone who follows me on this app I genuinely recommend this film. Thank you Jamie for motivating me to try and make something just like you have.  I really wanna act in one of your films some time.  7.5/10 - which is a good score considering I’m ranking this higher than a lot of films which Hollywood budgets.

Jackass Forever 2022

½

Jackass is so cool and this was a good reunion. Jaws the skater was in it. Eric andre. Tyler the creator, and I gotta see MGK get slapped by a giant hand which was nice. Crazy stunts, a lot of fun to watch in the cinema. I’ll probably forget I watched it eventually but it was just a fun time, I laughed quite a bit. Love Steve O and Johnny Knoxville, not much else to say. The bee shit was the only one that had me closing my eyes and covering my face. 7.0/10

Initial D: Third Stage 2001

½

So this is pretty much the 3rd season of an anime about racing but done as a film. If you like fast and furious or cars and racing you gotta watch this show it’s really good. This is my review of the film and the show in general.  This feels like a generic sports anime but about racing. When I say generic though I mean it in the best way possible, it’s done in the typical sports anime formulae but it does it perfectly. I don’t care about racing or cars in general, but I also didn’t used to care about boxing and volleyball before I watched hajime no ippo and haiykuu. This show makes me care, it’s really good, 10 x better than fast and furious and I may actually apply for my provisional licence now 2 years after turning 17.  The stage it’s self definitely wasn’t as good as the 1st one, it was an alright film because it’s pretty much just a season of initial d but some of the characters became really unlikable and none of the races were as cool and intense. It focused to much on Mako which is a character that I’ve really began to dislike and the one race I was really hyped for was at the end and too fast paced. I could see why this is a film and not a season because it would have made a boring season but it kinda works like this. The intro was really annoying as we didn’t need that poorly done recap, but I like initial d and it was still a cool film.  Also the ending gave us a takami hero Moment which was really forced and it got a little dark, it would be ok if they didn’t force the cars to be involved somehow.  Not the best of initial d but a cool continuation  of a great series.  6.8/10

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel II. Lost Butterfly 2019

Ufotable are amazing. The animation in this is next level. The rain scene was beautiful. The berserker fight was not my favourite fight in anime or even in fate, but it was one of the best looking.  I said a lot in my last review of the first film, but this film was much better. It expanded nicely on a lot of the characters and relationships between characters. Like emiya and Elyia. Sakura and Rin. This film was also wayyyy darker than anything I’ve seen in Fate so far, and that was pretty cool. We even got a sex scene which I really didn’t expect. I still love UBW because of emiya and archer being wayyyy cooler than they are in this, but this route does have its pros. I guess if you like the dark and edgy stuff then this route might be your favourite, but for me I like all the blood and stuff coz I think it’s cool, and I did think this was cool, but I prefer all the fucked up shit when it’s mixed with comedy not just trying to creep us out as I get a little bored.  Still really interesting story and characters. It gave me end of Eva vibes.  Fuck Shinji man.  Also wanted to end this same way as the last review as Rin still best girl.  7.6/10

Super 2010

Taxi driver if it was directed by James gunn and was about Dwight K Schrute. I love James gunn and I just finished the office so of course now I love Rain Wilson.  This was a really fun film, I loved the ending and I loved the main character. Elliot Page, though their character was a little weird and annoying, was good also. I really love James gunns directing style, he’s obviously come a long way since this but his films are all just so fun to watch and pretty unique. It was an interesting take on a superhero film, tackling the question that I think is best represented in the film kick ass which is admittedly better than this, how comes no one has ever done what Batman did? Why can’t anyone just put on a suit and become a hero? It was interesting to see gunns take on this and again, Rain Wilson is just the best.  I liked some of the transitions to a yellow screen, was pretty cool and suited the film pretty well. I also found the bit where he gets his brain cut open by hentai tentacles to be quite funny as it got me to laugh out loud. Overall I would really recommend this to anyone who is a fan of James gunn or Dwight from the office.  Also this film had both Linda Cardellini and Ellen Page which was really confusing for me as I can never tell those two apart. 7.7/10

Fate/stay night: Heaven's Feel I. Presage Flower 2017

½

So fate is kinda confusing but it’s based on a visual novel. You can think of it like a telltale game, it has 3 different stories and which one you get depends on the decisions you make. This is an adaptation of one of the 3 routes. The rest of fate is pretty much just spin offs.  I haven’t seen the first route from 2006, fate/ stay night but I’ve seen unlimited blade works. This was pretty weird to watch because it’s the same thing as the series, but there are little differences that put the story in a different direction the longer it goes on.  Unlimited blade works is the Rin route, this is the Sakura route. UBW is really good but there are certain things that are kind of glossed over, particularly with Sakuras character who was expanded on a lot more here which was cool to see.  The important backstory where emiya calls on saber is completely skipped here, they turned it in to an opening credits montage which is a shame because it’s in unlimited blade works and is really good. I guess it wasn’t important to this route but that’s surprising considering it’s the whole explanation to how Shiro gets wrapped up in all this.   I do like how emiya finds out about what his father did 10 years ago which is shown in the prequel series “Fate/ Zero” that I watched first (probably my favourite out of all of them), that was another subject that was kinda ignored in UBW that I found it really cool to see. But yeah this was ok to watch, it wasn’t as good as the other Fate stuff I’ve watched, but it was the same story just slightly different and an interesting expansion to the universe that I really enjoyed in previous shows. I feel like it was kinda perfect to watch after UBW as it skips all the important parts in UBW which I didn’t care about too much as I’ve already seen them.  There were lots of interesting new characters I hadn’t seen before and a lot of good characters that had interesting  stories were killed off quite early which was weird to see.  Archer (the best character) doesn’t show up till like an hour in which I guess is because he isn’t as important in this series which will be pretty weird to see considering how big of a character he is.  I did like that the film was a little more violent and graphic than the show but all the Rin stuff was so important to the story and it was all rushed which wasn’t great.  Animation is still amazing, lancer vs assassin was so good. Think I prefer the shows tho.  Overall this is just the first of 3 films and it just sets up the world (skipping all the best parts)  it isn’t amazing but I’m excited for the next 2 films.  Sakura is cool but Rin still best girl.  6.7/10

Juice WRLD: Into the Abyss 2021

This is probably one of my favourite documentaries, maybe one of my favourite films of the year.  Travis Scott documentary I hated coz I couldn’t care about Travis Scott, but this was similar in the way that it felt like you were just hanging out with juice, and unlike travis juice has had a massive effect on my life, so seeing this really resonated with me.  Most of it was just shots with no cuts, of juice just chilling with his friends, then going into a freestyle, it really felt like you were there with him and I loved it.  There were also shots of him vibing  to x, there was stuff about his relationship, his mental health and of course his death. It was really interesting, and being a big fan of him, I loved it so much. The way it explained his life, but not in typical documentary fashion with interviews about his childhood, it all felt really real, stuff taken from real conversations or concerts. I loved it whenever one of his songs came on as me and my roommate would sing along.  Learning exactly how he died was really emotional. I didn’t know all the details and being told in that way by the people that were there, with videos from the day, really messed me up.  Whenever I was sad in secondary school before he died, I would listen to him, like Benny Blanco said he was a therapist to millions of kids around the world and I was one of them, I feel like I still hadn’t processed his death and this documentary helped me get there and I love it for that.  This was amazing, now we just need the X one.  8.5/10

The 400 Blows 1959

½

It hurts to admit this but I think I don’t have the attention span to enjoy old black and white foreign films. I force myself to watch them sometimes and they’re good, but I just find them so boring. Never watched one in the cinema though where I physically couldn’t turn it off, but yeah I haven’t been that bored in a cinema since I watched Ad Astra.  This film did help me get better at my Japanese, not because it has anything to do with Japan, just because I was so bored I was practicing in my head, so at least I now know that I just wasted ku juu ku minutes of my life.  It wasn’t a terrible film, the protagonist was sort of interesting and there was some nice cinematography, it was just so slow and nothing really happened.  If you are a fan of old French films I’d ignore this whole review because I don’t really know what I’m talking about, but it just wasn’t for me really. And though I was bored a lot there were certain parts of it that I did find interesting so I’ve definitely watched worse films, but this wasn’t particularly bad or good, it was just forgettable and a little bit of a waste of time. But I got to see it at the cinema so I don’t really regret it. 4.7/10

Manchester by the Sea 2016

½

This film really is incredible. It’s not my favourite film of all time, but it’s really fucking good. There’s so much of what I love about film making in this film and it’s my dream to become a film maker, I hope to one day make something as moving as this.  The acting is phenomenal, truly just amazing. Some of the most emotional scenes with the best acting are also complimented by a great soundtrack that really elevates the  performances. It just felt so real, so melancholy, so depressing and so insightful. It has such good characters played by really talented actors who it felt were really giving it their all. I just love films like this that feel this real, so if anyone has any recommendations that can make me feel how I felt while watching this film again I will be really grateful. One of my favourite films of all time and I couldn’t recommend it more. It’s about loss, grief and guilt, topics that are handled in great way. There are so many memorable scenes and fantastic performances. Watch this film.  8.7/10

Don't Look Up 2021

I liked this film more than I thought I would. I don’t like apocalyptic disaster movies, especially ones that are so political, but I think this one did a good job. Probably mostly because if it’s fantastic cast, Leo, Jonah Hill, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep, Timothée Chalamet and Himesh Patel. I love all of Leonardo DiCaprio's films, he’s a fantastic actor and I love watching him shout of people so this was pretty entertaining. I also don’t like films that try to hard to comment about society, because they usually just use Twitter and Instagram and it annoys me, but this didn’t do a terrible job, it was sort of a realistic depiction of how annoying we are as a human race, how we're so stupid that we would take a risk that could actually end the human race just because if we are successful we could end up a little richer. (Ok a lot Richer) Even tho if the world ends all money is destroyed and obviously becomes worthless. There was also little things like on a live stream to save the entire world there were comments from only fans spammers, I thought that was kinda funny to think about. I also really liked the ending, I genuinely didn’t know if the world was going to end or not. And the what they did with the main characters deciding to stop caring and have a nice meal was pretty cool.  The film obviously wasn’t perfect, it was too long, sometimes the jokes didn’t land. Also the editing had lot of continuity errors and I thought they were really obvious and it irritated me. I did find a lot of the stuff of Leo’s character becoming famous in the middle a little boring, but I really enjoyed the start of the film and the end of the film.  I normally would have turned this off after the credits but I was writing this review, there are actually after credits with Jonah hills character, just thought I’d let you know if you didn’t already.  I think the main message to take away from this is a question. A simple yet complex question, that this film left us to ponder. Why would you charge someone you barely know, for free snacks in the white house?  8.2/10

Titane 2021

½

I knew nothing about this film going in, I saw it at the cinema, I didn’t even know it was french, all I knew was it was weird, and holy fuck was it weird. I’ve been trying to actually think have I seen a film as weird as this before but I genuinely think this may be the weirdest thing I’ve ever watched. I’m not gonna talk about the plot at all as if you decide to see this you should go in completely blind like I did, but it was a fun experience to see a film this strange at the cinema.  The first part of this film I quite liked, there was a little too much unnecessary nudity and the main character was a little too ….. I don’t know …. French…. No that’s rude, she wasn’t too likeable and I found her a little hard to relate to. But the concept of the film, though weird, was interesting. But as the film went on it just got weirder and weirder up until the point were I was either laughing at the absurdity of it all or sitting there feeling really uncomfortable. Then the film heads in an even weirder direction that I didn’t like that much, but I think the characters…. Again though weird….. we’re rather interesting. Still not likeable at all, the character gets to a point we’re she was so strange it felt un human, but I think if you read into the psychology behind the characters a little more it is rather interesting. Would I recommend this film, to be honest it depends who you are. If you are my friend then I probably would as it is kinda good and I would like to see your reaction, but if we just met or are acquaintances then I probably wouldn’t feel comfortable putting you through that yet. But if you like films that are a little unordinary then by all means go for it and u won’t be disappointed.  7.5/10

Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts 2022

Never again will any films accomplish what Harry Potter did. This made me way more emotional than I expected. I love Harry Potter, and I loved this, hearing the actors experiences, just seeing more of this incredible series, was amazing. Seeing everyone reunite, the memorial to the actors we’ve unfortunately lost. Harry Potter shaped my childhood, and finding out more about how it was made and seeing the characters together again was so cool. I would have liked to see more of the actors interact, but it wouldn’t have been possible to fit everything in, tho I would have liked to see an interview with Emma and Tom Felton. I like how this reunion was structured, going through each of the films. I can’t really say much more about it, it’s Harry potter, it’s exactly what you’d expect, it was done really well. I thought a lot of the clips used worked really well in the context of the interviews, one of the better reunions I think we will get. Better than the friends reunion. I can’t help but compare them, this was way better, except I did prefer the intro to the friends reunion where they all see each other for the first time. Other than that though this was done really well and I enjoyed it, if you love Harry Potter this is a must watch.  8.0/10

Licorice Pizza 2021

I’ve been excited for this film for a while and I got the chance to see it at the oldest cinema in the country in 35mm. It was a fun experience and a decent film. The second PTA film I’ve seen, punch drunk love is one of my favourite films so I really need to see more.  This film felt kind of perfect for me, it looked amazing and it was a very character driven story about an interesting romance, kinda felt like a slice of life and it was done by someone I already knew to be a brilliant director. I also like the cast, the waitress ( she isn’t a waitress in the film that’s just her real name), Bradley Cooper and Sean Penn. Stylistically it felt similar to another one of my favourite films, Almost Famous. Really liked the soundtrack too. This film really should have amazed me and that’s why I was so excited for it as just watching the trailer in the cinema made me really happy. But it didn’t amaze me, don’t get me wrong it’s a good film, it just wasn’t as good as I expected it to be. The story was good and the characters were interesting, I just didn’t like them. This isn’t a big critique on the film as they were good characters, but in such a character driven film, the characters have to be likeable, and maybe it’s just my personal opinion and maybe no one else will feel like same way but I just found them kind of annoying. I feel like if the leads were more likeable and maybe it focused more on the kids acting rather than making him become a business man and really zig zagging with the plot of this film, I would have absolutely loved it, but I didn’t. It was still a good film and I’d recommend it, but it just wasn’t what I expected and I feel a little let down.  Felt a lot like once upon a time in Hollywood, nothing really happened, not in the same way, stuff happens, but the way the story was structured felt kind of … unique. Once upon a time in Hollywood was much better on a rewatch though so maybe I shouldn’t give this a go. It had a lot of good moments, an ok ending I guess, it just didn’t grip me in the way I expected and there were a lot of times were I felt like I was just waiting for the film to end. I don’t entirely know why, but I think I explained it to the best of my ability. It was the kind of film that should have amazed me, but it didn’t, I had high expectations and it didn’t meet them at all. But it was alright, a memorable experience because of the cinema not because of the film.  7.8/10

The King's Man 2021

½

This film was ok, definitely not as good as the other kingsman films, but it had a similar style and was set during World War One which was interesting to see. I quite liked how they twisted real events to progress the plot of the film. The villain I don’t think was great, but he’s made a little better once it’s revealed who he is in a kind of cool twist. Some of the dialogue is a bit cringy or cliche, but Voldemort is a great actor and I really liked him in this. The film picked up a little during the final act, the stuff with the main characters son in the war was really good and the final fight was very similar to the style of the other films and was entertaining. I would probably never watch this again and I think it might end up being a quite forgettable film, but it wasn’t bad and I don’t regret watching it. If you like kingsman I’d recommend it to you I guess but not because it’s an amazing film just coz, why not?  6.8/10

South Park: Post COVID: The Return of COVID 2021

½

My favourite part was when they didn’t make space jam 2. Not as good as the first one but it was ok. The ending was pretty cool, and it was funny to see butters and Ike. The start of the first one was really good, and then it got kinda mediocre and less funny, and this film kinda stayed like that. I laughed a little but not as much. It was entertaining, but it just felt like regular South Park, it didn’t have the fact that it was in the future going for it as the novelty had already worn off. The cartman stuff is still funny though and the time travel stuff was cool. Also the fact we are actually (maybe) going into another lockdown made this film kinda relevant, and the ending has a good message, the future doesn’t have to be shit if we don’t act like idiots.  6.7/10

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018

½

3:42 am. Just finished an 8 hour shift at work. Sitting on a bean bag. Eating pizza. Watching into the spideyverse. Crying.  I’ve watched this film a lot of times but I feel like I’ve never enjoyed it this much. With no way home out now a lot of people talking about which is the best Spider-Man film, I’ve seen no way home now and it’s this one, this film is incredible. It makes me so happy that a comic book film like this exists. The only thing I don’t like about it is kingpins not an interesting villain and I didn’t care about some of the other Spider-Man’s, but that’s literally the only thing I think is wrong with it, other than that it’s literally perfect. The animation is…. Indescribable…. One of the nicest looking films ever and the fact it’s a comic book film brings me so much joy, and the fact it’s a Spider-Man film brings gives me even more.  Juice Wrld is on the soundtrack, one of my favourite artists of all time, this film is honestly so perfect. The characters are so good, this is probably one of my favourite Peter Parker’s and I love him and miles relationship. Also Peter is voiced by jake Johnson who I really like. As I write this his song is playing in the credits and I’m laughing. And miles is great, I wanna see him in live action, after he becomes Spider-Man he is soooo coool. This is one of the best comic book films of all time, and it probably won’t even be too hard for them to make a better one, it’s gonna be in two parts, I’m so excited. I’ve been feeling empty after no way home but I kinda feel like there may be hope after watching this.  8.9/10

Spider-Man: No Way Home 2021

½

I’ve been too excited for this film for so long now I’ve seen it I feel all empty and stuff. I don’t know if I will ever be this excited for a film again, maybe deadpools mcu debut or daredevils mcu film.  This film was, well it was incredible, but kinda average at the same time. It was everything I wanted it to be yet still painstakingly average.  I was going to try do this without spoilers but I don’t think it’s possible so heavy spoiler alert. Though if you’re like me you’ll be too scared to open any letterbox reviews until you’ve seen the film. IT FUCKING HAPPENED. All the fucking rumours were true. Andrew, Toby and Charlie Cox, everything I wanted in this film, was in this film. It was funny, some of it, like the long drawn out shots of Peter panicking about people knowing he’s Spider-Man, was done pretty well. It was definitely an experience to see at the cinema and I just did it twice in one day back to back. I truly love this film so much, it didn’t exceed my expectations, it just kinda hit them perfectly, I could never have guessed that all the rumours were true though that’s insane.  A lot of what Is good about this film is also kinda a bad thing which is why I’m having a lot of difficulty rating it. The fan service. This film was kinda dumb sometimes, like the memory thing. Honestly everything felt kinda forced, like they weren’t making it to make a good film they were just making it to play with our nostalgia. It didn’t have a real villain, Just all the old ones that weren’t as good as they were originally. Goblin’s cringy Power Rangers style villain didn’t mesh well with this kinda Spider-Man film and I feel like his cheesiness took away from the more dramatic moments, which didn’t happen in his film as the whole thing was kinda cheesy. Max, they made him cool, well they made him just Jamie Foxx, which is a good thing coz the old one looked kinda bad and was dumb, but they sacrificed a lot of his character In making him cool and I kinda liked him more before. Also they never fully explain why he’s cool now. The lizard was awful, I wanted more of connors abs less of the lizard, he was really just there coz they wanted more villains and he really served no other purpose in the film which I thought was a waste. Sandman didn’t really make sense, why was he trying to destroy the box that sends him home when all he wants is to go home to his daughter. Surely its in his best interest to let Peter help him. Also I don’t like that he was just sand the whole time. There was too much CG and it didn’t even look that good. Doc Ock was probably the best but he still wasn’t great, they made him look really stupid.  Andrew and Toby being in it is literally a dream come true. Sure they are old, it could have been done better, the CG wasn’t great, but seeing them talking was one of the coolest film experiences I’ve ever had in my life, so I’m torn between disliking the fan service and absolutely loving the fan service.  The ending was cool. I like how we got our great power responsibility uncle Ben death even if it was done with may. I feel like the grief peter went through with Ben is one of the most important aspects of his character, now peter had that, and no one knows who he is. He has a chance to start fresh on his own with a suit he made himself. Really really cool.  8.6/10 I need to see it a couple more times

Doctor Strange 2016

Doctor strange isn’t the best film of the mcu, the montage at the start was kind of boring, it doesn’t have a great villain and I wish we could have seen more of him training to be a sorcerer but it kinda felt rushed. However doctor strange is one of the best mcu characters, he’s cast perfectly and the magic stuff is really interesting. The world building and trippy vfx in this film were pretty good. It was also very different from any of the other films we’d seen at the time and I loved that. He was a great inclusion to the mcu and he is one of the best of the remaining characters, I’m very glad he’s in Spider-Man NWH and I’m really excited to see multiverse of madness and see him interact with Wanda.  Rewatched this because Spider-Man NWH is nearly out and he’s going to play a big role in it. Also it’s rumoured the trailer for his second film will be a Spider-Man post credits scene.  Also great soundtrack and wong and mordo are great. I’m excited to see mordo again some day.  7.6/10

The Amazing Spider-Man 2012

½

The coolest Spider-Man, the nicest Spider-Man, the funniest Spider-Man and the smartest Spider-Man. Just not the most comic book accurate Spider-Man.  Andrew's Peter Parker is way more likeable than Tobey's and the film looks a lot better cinematography wise. There’s something about Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man that feels more iconic and comicy, but personally, though it hurts me to say it, I like this one more. It’s feels more realistic and the characters feel more Interesting. The romance is better and there’s a skateboarding scene, also the old Spider-Man film where we getta see peters actual parents.  I really really really really hope Andrew Garfield is in No Way Home. But even if he isn’t I’m glad we get the lizard and green goblin.  I liked this uncle Ben more, and Peter was less of a dick to him in this, but his death doesn’t hit me as hard in this version. Sam Raimi's uncle Ben death scene makes me cry every time without fail. And Curt Connors wasn’t a great villain, the lizard is cool but he was pretty generic.  I love Peter and Gwen's relationship and I really liked Gwen's dad. This was a pretty cool Spider-Man film.  7.5/10

Spider-Man 2002

½

Damn I have 7 Spider-Man films to rewatch in 3 days.  I’m starting with this one, the best Spider-Man origin film, it has MJ, Harry and the green goblin, flash Thomson, Jameson and uncle Ben. It also has an awkward/nerdy Peter Parker. Personally, though this may be an unpopular opinion, this is my least favourite Spider-Man. I love these films and I hope more than anything to see Toby again in no way home, but I don’t think his Spider-Man is as likeable as the other two. I think this is a very faithful and well done origin story. But it’s also kinda cheesy and old, with an almost power rangers like villain with the green goblin. Don’t get me wrong I love it, but I think it has a lot of problems, as a film this is better than Andrew Garfields ones but Peter is kinda annoying sometimes here. MJ is all over the place and Harry is kind of dumb.  Love this film but it’s not the best Spider-Man film, but it’s maybe one of the most iconic.  Sorry to anyone I’ve offended.  7.3/10

Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2021

While watching this film all I wanted to do was watch the 2010 version, I kept remembering scenes and it kept annoying me how much this film fucked up all the best moments. Also if I hadn’t read the books or seen the other films this would be incredibly forgettable.  Awful film, I only watched it coz diary of a wimpy kid is my childhood. I still remember how good it felt reading them for the first time, weirdly, it got me into reading which got me into writing, so I probably wouldn’t be where I am today, in film school, if it wasn’t for diary of a wimpy kid. So Yh this film being awful really saddens me. It was rushed, they ruined a lot of good moments, the background/side characters made me cringe, and Greg seemed too innocent when he’s meant to be a psychopath. They fucked up haloween, rodrick had one scene, he didn’t even wake Greg up for his first day at middle school, all he did was tell Greg about the cheese touch which should have been chirag. So annoying. Animation was so bad that it feels like they did it on purpose, a film for 5 years olds that are too young to realise how shit it is.  2.0/10

House of Gucci 2021

½

Was excited for this for quite a while….. I’m not exactly disappointed, I just can’t remember why I looking forward to it in the first place. I didn’t like any of the characters, and I especially disliked Lady Gaga’s character, she was such a bad person but in such an annoying way. Adam drivers character wasn’t that great either, my favourite part in the film was when he actually stood up for himself and called his wife out for being such a bitch, but then he went back to doing exactly the same shit and it annoyed me. I did like when Lady Gaga’s character left and wasn’t in the film for a little bit but every time she came back and acted like the main character again that also annoyed me, I dislike her, and I don’t know how accurate this film is but I dislike the woman she’s based on too. Al Pacino was alright tho. Anyway now I’ve gotten how annoying I find the characters out the way, just wanna mention it had nothing to do with the acting, the acting was very good and I really like most of the actors in this film. It had a nice soundtrack, I enjoyed the wedding as it played faith by George Michael. I dislike the ending, the two years later shit was… well kinda shit, and I think his death scene could have been done a lot better. I think this film covered an interesting topic of wealth and power in an interesting way, but overall with the irritating character and the kinda long drawn out story, I wasn’t the biggest fan of this film.  6.7/10

C'mon C'mon 2021

This film brought out unresolved childhood issues I didn’t know I had. Honestly it was kinda distracting, I was trying to watch the film but my mind kept wondering on to moments from when I was a kid. It was an experience. I really like joker and her but I think this may be one of my favourite Joaquin Phoenix films, the acting from him and the kid was really moving, which is an adjective I haven’t used before in a film review. There were some beautiful moments that felt very real, the story was so simple yet complex at the same time yet I feel like I really understood it. The way it used the sound recording equipment in the film was really unique and I loved all the deep conversations between Johnny and Jessie, like when Jonny explains to Jessie that he won’t remember any of this stuff when he’s older. Honestly not much happened in this film and in about a week I’ll probably struggle even explaining the sinopsis, but honestly right now the best word I can use to describe it is beautiful. The cinematography, the characters, the soundtrack, the whole thing, truly just beautiful… 8.5/10

Employee of the Month 2006

I remember watching this a while ago and loving it, but they removed it off Netflix and I couldn’t remember what it was called until today, coz they brought it backk. It’s not an amazing film, it’s just a late night comedy to entertain you for a few hours, but it is a very good late night comedy to entertain you for a few hours. The characters and all very likeable and have good chemistry, even the antagonist is pretty funny. The protagonist does become a bit of a dick when the story goes in to a kinda forced and predictable direction, but he has a lot of charisma and he is mostly very likeable. (reminds me of Chris Pratt). The story is simple yet entertaining, and I really enjoyed rewatching it. If you are scrolling through Netflix and you see this film (if you aren’t in the mood to watch a masterpiece or an Oscar worthy performance… just some entertainment) them maybe stick it on, coz I had fun watching it. 7.7/10

South Park: Post COVID 2021

½

South Park post covid was cool, we see the South Park kids like we’ve never seen them before, as adults. It’s set in the future (as it constantly reminds us and the characters) and all the kids are all grown up and haven’t seen each other since they fell out during the pandemic. They all reunite at their old town because (spoiler alert) someone killed kenny (bastards). I really enjoyed the start, I got a bit bored during the end and I think I fell asleep for what I hope was only a minute or two, but seeing them all older was an entertaining aspect to it which I enjoyed. I also found cartman the funniest character even though he wasn’t telling any jokes, cartman is actually nice and Kyle just thinks he’s fucking with him and that made me laugh a lot. The story was kinda shit, the Randy stuff was funny but it was just them tryna find out how kenny died, using the fact they are all older to make it interesting, and also adding in a little bit of a social commentary on covid and vaccinations just like the last 2 specials. Once you got used to the fact they were all old it just became a boring kinda funny and extra long episode. I will watch the next one, I really hope butters is in it and I really hope cartman is that much of a psychopath he devoted his entire life into becoming a Jew just to fuck with Kyle. I would recommend it just coz they older and it’s kinda cool, but that’s pretty much it. 7.0/10

Pirates 2021

This film was a little weird, at times it was really funny, at times it was really annoying. I think what let’s it down the most is the story, it was really bad, too simple and I feel like it was a direct copy from a bunch of other films that I didn’t even like that much. They were just 3 friends driving around London, tryna get into a party, having Superbad like friend troubles, and of course one of them was tryna get a girl. Genuinely I wouldn’t be surprised if this was a remake as I feel like I’ve watched this exact same plot before, but set in America with a festival not a club. What makes this film stand out though, is it’s characters, sometimes they were kinda annoying, mostly the main one, but mostly they were really funny, especially kid. I also liked it coz they were from London. It’s weird because I thought this film was really bad but also really good. The jokes were kinda funny and I liked some of the cinematography. It reminded me a little of Edgar Wright the way Yates involved the camera in the jokes using visual comedy. It wasn’t a great film but stylistic wise it was pretty cool and I’d like to see something like it done right.  6.4/10

King Richard 2021

King Richard is based on the true story of the lives of two young girls from Compton named Venus and Serena Williams and their dad Richard Williams. Not gonna lie before watching the trailer I had no idea who these girls were but apparently they’re like a big deal in tennis or something. But this film isn’t just about tennis, it’s about a dad who wants his girls to be successful and goes about it in a very forceful and strict way. It’s about whether this man is a crazy person or if he’s a genius, and based on where Google tells me Venus and Serena are now, I guess he’s a genius. I only saw this film because Will Smith's acting looked really good in the trailer, and it didn’t disappoint, his character was very interesting and of course the acting was great. Serina and Venus were also good, but I feel like will smith overshadowed them in a way that made them seem like less important characters when I think the film should have been a little more about them. But Richard was great, it’s a very interesting true story and it’s emotional, has a great ending and has some pretty intense moments in Compton. I enjoyed it, it looks like 2021 suddenly has a lot of good films. I do feel like somewhere around the middle the film slowed down and became a bit repetitive, but I liked the ending, it wasn’t as predictable as I predicted, and it almost made me cry.  7.6/10

tick, tick... BOOM! 2021

I’m not a big fan of musicals, I enjoy the songs, but when the story is put on halt just so the characters can sing about it, it really bores me. Tick tock boom felt different though, the songs were really good but so was the music, for the first time I actually wanted more music, the music in this film actually progresses the film in a really good way and I really enjoyed it. We also got one of the best performances so far from Andrew Garfield, which is saying a lot coming from me given that I’m a big Spider-Man fan ( also the one about the salt lake was really good). A favourite song of mine was probably the first one about the happy birthday 30/90, which I’ll probably go back and listen to now. But I think the story was very interesting and it felt very real which is a feeling I don’t usually get from musicals, I think it’s mostly because it’s a musical about a guy writing a musical so it all felt very natural. The tick tick boom stuff was also cool, I like how in intense moments you can hear the ticking, and how he is watching his friends die and is getting older ( though he’s only 30).  I think there were a few too many characters to keep up with and I think them mentioning his death (even though it was mentioned at the start) felt kind of abrupt. But I had a good time watching it, acting was good, characters were good and the music was good, it also almost made cry… almost. Definitely the best musical I’ve ever watched.  Also the fact Andrew Garfield learnt to sing and play piano in what I think was a year is amazing, his voice was so good.  8.4/10

Ghostbusters: Afterlife 2021

½

I wish Paul Rudd was my teacher.  This film was cool, especially after just today having rewatched the 2 Ghostbusters films. It was pretty much exactly what I expected, not a great film, but a cool nostalgia trip, a Ghostbusters film with Paul Rudd, good CGI and one of the stranger things/ it kids. Paul Rudd was Paul Rudd, amazing, and the main girl was kinda likeable. It was a simple story about one of the grandkids of one of the ghostbusters trying to stop the end of the word, it seemed kinda lazy, there wasn’t much to it, it was just kinda cool and there was some, almost too crazy final battle that for some reason just all of a sudden turned into some homage to Ghostbusters. I enjoyed this film, I don’t think it was good, I think it lacked some of the charm of the originals, but it had some likeable characters and it was a fun story. Even tho podcast was the exact kinda character I’d usually really hate, he was really likeable and his friendship with the main girl was nice. Not much else to say, bad film, but it’s Ghostbusters so it was cool. I’d rather watch it 30 more times than watch the female remake once.  By the way there’s after credits to this film which you might wanna watch as it features a character from the originals who isn’t in the actual film. I was sticking around to hear the Ghostbusters song but some people left and missed it, so when the film ends don’t go anywhere! Spoilers for the film but one line actually made me laugh out loud. When the villain asks Ray if he’s a god and he has to think about it while everyone stares at him. Really nice call back to the first one.  7.2/10

The Power of the Dog 2021

½

I think I might have to rewatch this film coz I am utterly confused. I don’t know if I was confused because I was bored, or bored because I was confused, but this film didn’t make sense to me. It probably didn’t help that I turned it off half way and picked it back up again around a week later, but I will probably watch it again, most likely only if I get the chance to watch it on the big screen.  Benedict Cumberbatch is an incredible actor, in a way I think he kind of carried this film for me. I just rewatched Sherlock and I just wanna put out there that I didn’t dislike anything about his performance, he was great. Also I will forever have great respect for any actor that was in breaking bad so I liked Jesse Plemons, didn’t like the Spider-Man girl that much or her kid.  I think this film was a gay romance maybe, or maybe about jealousy. I’m pretty sure the characters were all really complex and interesting but I didn’t understand them so I don’t know whether I just watched a masterpiece of a complete shit show. For now though until I rewatch it, I’m gonna stand by the fact that I kinda hated it, I disliked the ending when I normally would like it. For now ima give it a low rating.  Just like nomadland the most boring film of the year will probably win best picture, they also both have a shot of the main character bathing naked in a random lake.  Also I forgot to mention that like nomadland this film is technically brilliant, excellent soundtrack (I like what they did with the comb) and brilliant cinematography. I think I was just not paying enough attention.  5.4/10

Spencer 2021

I kinda knew nothing about Princess Diana. I knew she was a very interesting person and wanted to know more about her which is one of the reasons I went to see this film, I also knew she died in a car crash which is another reason I want to see this film, I wanted a depressing ending ( spoiler alert she doesn’t die in the film). But yeah before I watched this I thought the queen was William and Harry’s mum. The acting in this is really good, Kristen Stewart did a fantastic job as Princess Diana, not only was her acting great but her character was incredibly interesting and that was probably the main reason that I liked this film way more than I expected. Kristen was great and Diana was great. I liked the tone of this film, I went to film school but I’m not entirely sure what that word means, yet I know I loved the tone of this film. The soundtrack was really good, it made simple scenes of Diana sitting at the table eating with her family incredibly intense. The set design was pretty good and it was cool seeing a film about the royals. It was a little boring at times since not much was actually happening, but I really enjoyed it. It came out at cinemas yesterday and I’m glad I got a chance to see it so early, I didn’t care too much about it so I almost didn’t go in and watch it, I’m glad I did. I feel weird rating this as my 4th favourite film of the year coz it felt kind of forgettable and I’m not sure if I got as much enjoyment out of it as I did for a lot of the other films this year, but honestly it was really interesting and I can’t think of anything to fault it on right now.  The fact that I knew she died made the whole film a lot sadder for me, every time she was in a car I was waiting for it to crash and all the happy moments at the end I was tearing up and I thought she was about to die or would die a year later. For Anyone who was wondering, this film is set in 1991 and she died in 1997. It’s not long but she got to spend 6 more years with Harry and William and that makes me happy so I thought I’d leave this at the end.  7.9/10 So watched this like an hour ago and I have made it home, just now googling it and realising Princess Diana was not the Queen’s daughter she was her daughter in law which kinda changes the film for me. Also now I get the whole Spencer thing coz it was her last name. Diana and Charles separated in 1992 less than a year after this film and she was divorced in 1996 a year before she died.

No Time to Die 2021

So I’m not a big James Bond fan, I’m not really a fan of spy films at all really, or even action films, I find them all very boring. But I sat through all the Daniel Craig bond films so I could see this at the cinema. Most of them were kinda boring, but I also kinda had a good time. My favourite I guess would be Casino Royale, but I’d probably put this at number 2. I don’t really care about all the big action sequences and the fact that there’s a new Bond girl every film makes it kinda hard to care bout any of them, but bonds character development across the films was pretty interesting, and this, being Daniel Craig’s last bond film, was a really nice ending. I actually loved the ending of this film, the rest of it was a pretty average bond film. One of the main reasons I disliked Spectre was because it has one of the worst Bond girls out of all of them I’ve seen while watching these films. She was kinda annoying, I feel like I would have liked this film way more if it was someone like vesper instead of this French girl.  One of the main reasons I wanted to see this film before I started the rewatch was coz I was excited about Rami Malek as the Bond villain and I think it could have been great… but it wasn’t. Rami Malek was ok but his character was kinda shit, he was interesting ish but he wasn’t in the film too much and I really didn’t care about him at all when he was. I liked him in the first scene but he was pretty boring and kinda weird for the rest of the film.  Gonna talk about the ending now coz I liked it. So spoiler alert.  So I work at a cinema and when we went in to clean the room after the film had finished I heard a guy say.  “I can’t believe he fucking died at the end”  So yeah I knew it was coming and it made me sad through the film, ( thanks for that random guy), but some of my favourite films and shows end with the main character dying…. I can’t name any of them coz that’s instant spoilers, but I also make films sometimes and I always kill off the main characters. The ending was kinda perfect. I liked the shot from behind bond with the missiles coming towards him. And I love the whole reason that he stayed because of the poison. The only thing that annoyed me was the girl he did it for and the villain that forced him to do it. I feel like if this film had Spectre’s villains it could have been a bit better. Anyway that’s it, I watched 4 films just so I could watch this one, it wasn’t really worth it but I don’t really regret it.  7.7/10

Dune 2021

So dune was good, it was a little boring and I knew there was gonna be a second part so for half of this film I felt like I was just waiting for it to end. It was also really slow and I felt like I was in the cinema for about 4 hours. Despite this, it was really interesting, it had good world building and great characters played by a great cast, (gonna attempt to spell and remember all of these without checking), Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin and ….. drax…… gonna have to think bout this for a minute……. It’ll come to me later never mind…… The film was very well made, and though I was slightly bored I am now very invested in the story and will be at the cinema opening night to see the second one. I will also probably read the book now, I attempted reading it once a couple of years ago in anticipation for this film, but it was very long and very con- DAVE BATISTA… sorry… Dave Batista? Is that it… sorry i thought of the name and I’m pretty sure that’s it. Sorry …. The book was very long and very confusing so I dropped it (also I stole the book from school so I had to give it back). I feel like the film was kind of easy to understand. It was a little confusing…. I work at a cinema and when I went to clean the screen after dune finished I heard a guy say to his girlfriend that it was the worst money he ever spent. I think she tried to defend it and he just kept saying  “WHAT WAS THE PLOT??  TELL ME WHAT THE PLOT WAS!”  I hadn’t seen it yet but it made me laugh. I guess it was pretty confusing to some people, and even though I knew it was just part one, I imagine if I knew nothing about it and just wanted to see a random film at the cinema, the fact that it ended so abruptly in such a random place after being so slow would have really pissed me off.  Anyway it was a good film, mostly just set up to the next one which I’d imagine should be better and I’m excited for it. Sorry if this review was all over the place, I am writing this on my walk home from the cinema. 7.9/10

Venom: Let There Be Carnage 2021

Venom 2 let there be carnage wasn’t a good film, but the after credits made it all worth it for me so if you watch it remember to stick around for that.  So yeah, not a good film, it was somewhat enjoyable just because Eddie and venom are likeable characters who I do want to see again (just maybe not in venom 3). Everything else though other than the banter between Eddie and venom was pretty bad, and even that felt kinda forced and unfunny at times. It’s like they realised the only good thing about the first one was Eddie and venom so they just decided to make that the plot of the next one, but also throwing in that popular villain guy carnage so more people will actually go and see it.  I like Woody Harrelson, but it was a weird casting, he is kind of cringy as Kasady. His girlfriend was also not great, the fact her power is sound and that’s venom’s weakness added some predictability to the film. And for Eddie, it’s just the same shit as the first one, he’s in love with his ex who’s in love with someone else and he finds venom annoying sometimes because venom likes to eat faces, throw in too many jokes about Eddie and venom being in love and that’s basically the whole film. It really just felt like not much happened, there’s a serial killer in jail, he becomes carnage and escapes, there’s a detective that finds eddie suspicious, venom and Eddie have some relationship problems, they fight carnage, the end. It felt like a really pointless film and the only reason I’m not walking away disappointed is again because of the after credits and the fact the main 2 characters and cool and I wanna see them again. Venom didn’t even look good, carnage didn’t look that good, this was definitely worse than venom 1, the first one had its flaws but it was more interesting.  Not too disappointed, I saw this for free because I work at the cinema, though I did pay £5 for the bus, so It’s currently 5 and I’m gonna wait till 8 and see dune to get my money’s worth. Sitting at the beach cold writing this review to pass the time but I think I’ve pretty much said everything now. 6.0/10

Eternals 2021

½

Gonna try keep this spoiler free Came back to London to see this with my dad in the imax, my favourite part was when the Spider-Man no way home trailer played at the start.  This was my 25th favourite Marvel film (marvel not just the mcu), it wasn’t as bad as rotten tomatoes says it is, it was actually pretty good, but I feel like it definitely could have been better. I’ve read the Neil gaiman eternals comic and I loved it, in fact watching this film made me wanna go back to Brighton so i could read it again, because this really isn’t that good in comparison.  My favourite character Makari ( I spelt that wrong but the one with super speed) is a girl who can only talk in sign language. The most powerful eternal Ajack, is the lady from grown ups, where in the comic he’s this big homeless looking man who is kinda intimidating and has a big beard. Also the bratty but kinda cool kid was also made into a girl, I liked him more in the comic also but I don’t hate that decision as it brought an interesting new element to her character. It was really cool on the big screen but I feel like if they just kept it more similar to the source material it could have been one of my favourite mcu films. Please read the comic. It was a decent film but there was kind of too much going on. It’s the second longest mcu film to date and it still couldn’t explain everything properly without having the ending feel squashed in. They had to explain every character and the eternals in general, all while introducing and explaining the celestials who are kinda hard to understand fully, and the deviants. There was way too much going on with the human like deviant who didn’t really do too much, he kinda felt like just an obstacle for them to give the film a little more conflict while they shoved exposition down our throats.  I liked kit Harrington, it took me till the final shot of him to remember he was John snow. I liked the after credits a lot with a certain character showing up. And I liked Kamala kaji- the Bollywood guy. Like I said it was cool, it introduced interesting characters and lots of crazy stuff into the mcu and I’m excited to see how they expand on it. But as a film it wasn’t as good as some of the rest of the mcu.  As I’m writing this I get a notification saying its dropped down to the 40s on rotten tomatoes.. 7.4/10

My Hero Academia: World Heroes' Mission 2021

So I saw this at the cinema. Nowhere nearby was showing it so it was an hour an a half on a bus with a suicidal driver, scariest bus ride of my life. Was it worth it? I guess so….. I can’t even decide if it was better than the other two, it was kinda just exactly what you would except from a mha film, a cool villain, some cool new characters, some cool fights from the side characters and one crazy fight at the end where Deku pushes past his limits. Pretty much the same as the other two. It wasn’t as insane (yet stupid) as the last one and it wasn’t as grounded and solid as the first one. It had some crazy fight scenes from Deku using black whip and toderoki and bakugo just doing their thing. None of the other character really did anything at all, they were in the film but really weren’t as important, which I’m actually happy about, I think mha is best when it isn’t focusing on minetta and the pink girl.  The main reason this film was actually quite good though was the side character who’s name I’ve forgotten. The guy with the pink bird. The villains were probably way weaker than they were in the last two films but the side character was this films strong point. The character had an interesting backstory that tied really nicely into the overall plot, he had some really cool moments especially at the end. He was funny and likeable yet still kinda cool, and him and dekus friendship was my favourite part of the film. Them saying goodbye to each other at the end was a really nice moment, and his character development was really good.  Each mha film has been around the same level now for different reasons. I will continue to watch them all at the cinema as long as they keep realising them even if I have to repeat that bus ride from hell where I was like 10% sure I was gonna die. Nice film, nothing too amazing but I had a nice time.  7.8/10

Kuroko's Basketball the Movie: Last Game 2017

½

Kuruko no basketball is an anime series … about basketball. It follows 2 high school first years, kagami and kuroko who get into their high school basketball team. Kagami is from America and is very good at basketball and kuroko, well at first he doesn’t seem very good, but his team later discovers that he is the phantom 6th man in the generation of miracles. The generation of miracles are kurokos team mates from middle school, and they were all so good they never lost. Each person on the team has a skill (so it’s basically a basketball anime with superpowers), one guy can shoot from anywhere on the court and it always goes in, one can copy other peoples abilities even if he just saw it, one is incredibly strong and tall, you get the idea….. kuruko is one of the members of this team, his ability is passing, he uses his lack of presence on the court and his passing ability to become one of the best players in Japan.  This film is set after the end of the series (that I just finished) and it wasn’t that good of a film I guess, it was really simple, the whole film was basically just one match against characters that you don’t really care about that much, but it was really cool. The films about an American streetball team who destroy a Japanese team and call all Japanese basket ball players monkeys who can’t play basketball. To prove them wrong, for the first time since middle school the generation of miracles come together to play them in a rematch. Each of the generation of miracles all went to different teams in high school and play against each other throughout the series, an another addition to the team is kurokos partner, kagami. The reason I kind of lived this film was coz I got to see kagami play with the generation of miracles and because each of the characters have some really cool moments. I loved it. It wasn’t a good film, followed the same formula as the series and isn’t as good as some of the matches in the series, but seeing all the characters come together was like kuroko no baskets avengers end game, I loved it. Personally I think this film is an even better ending to the series than the actual ending to the series. It’s not actually based on the manga it’s based on a sequel story. But I thought it was a perfect ending to the anime.  I don’t have much else to say about it, it was kinda basic but really cool, that’s about it. Also kuroko no basket it on Netflix and it now has an English version so I recommend anyone who likes basketball to watch the first couple episodes at least. Ever since I picked it up again and made it to season 2 I’ve been playing basketball every day.  7.2/10

Last Night in Soho 2021

So I work in a cinema now and I got to see this for free. Probably gonna review every new film as soon as they come out from now on.  First off Matt Smith was great. One of the reasons I wanted to see this so much at the cinema was coz of Matt Smith. Because of my childhood and nostalgia, he’s like one of my favourite actors and yet the only thing I’ve ever actually seen him in is doctor who. Pretty happy he’s in more stuff recently and not just the crown. Anyway yeah he was great in this as expected, nothing exceptional, he’s just Matt Smith.  Edgar Wright is my favourite director of all time, which is the other reason I had to see this at the cinema. This isn’t the same as my favourite Edgar Wright films, it’s probably more similar to baby driver, i know the guy is like a horror fanatic or something, so this was fun to watch. Some of the dialogue was weird, I can actually give examples coz it kinda annoyed me and I remember  “Where you from”  “Cornwall(?)”  “I’m sorry?” “ you never heard of Cornwall?”  “Oh I heard you… I’m just sorry”  I actually heard this line before when I was doing screen checks at work (everyone laughed)and it annoyed me because I’ve definitely heard that before in another film or show and that girl is really annoying. She was annoying for the whole film though and she was supposed to be so I guess this just made me hate her more.  ——- I googled it and remember where this is from, she fucking copied it from friends. Chandler’s dad says it while performing his gay burlesque show in Vegas. It’s the exact same joke.  Another one was when the guy said in a really cringe way “I can help you stay awake” and then he said “what am I saying?”. This probably means nothing to anyone in writing but his acting and the lines were really unnatural and weird. He was likeable but his acting wasn’t that great the whole way through the film to be honest. The main girl was ok but I watched old and I can’t unsee her in that role so she will forever be a child in a older girls body who is incredibly annoying to me.  The final scene was amazing, made it all worth it. Incredibly cool and intense, exactly what I wanted from an Edgar Wright horror movie. I don’t watch horror films too often. This is the first one I’ve ever watched at the cinema, and my second 18 film I’ve seen at the cinema.  In all, Last Night in Soho was fun, cool Edgar Wright shots, the reflections were cool, but it wasn’t as unforgettable as his other films.  7.8/10

The Room 2003

“Oh hi mark”  I’ve actually never watched this film from start to finish. Me and my dad watched it but we skipped to all the funny parts. But a friend from school came round today and we put it on and watched the whole thing. To be honest I’ve seen worse films, it’s partly because it was really (unintentionally) funny, but I wasn’t that bored, I was entertained the whole time and I’d probably even watch it again. If you don’t know what the room is, it’s a film that’s famous for being hilariously terrible, and it’s really fun to watch. It even has a film called the disaster artist starring James Franco, which is just a film about them making this film. I really want to go to one of the screenings where they throw spoons and and meet Tommy Wiseau. There’s not much else I can say about this film, I can’t critique anything because everyone knows why it’s a bad film it’s painfully obvious, but if you ever feel like having a laugh at some terrible film making, stick the room on. I recommended you watch it with a friend though as it makes it a lot funnier.  2.1/10

Django Unchained 2012

½

There really isn’t much to say about this one, it’s just a Tarantino film, which is a good thing. He’s not my favourite director, but the man is a genius. Weirdly this felt like inglorious bastards but with slave owners instead of nazis.  The acting was incredible, really just amazing, Leonardo decaprio never disappoints, I genuinely think he’s one of the best actors ever, no other actors can make me think I should become an actor after seeing their preference. He just makes it look so fun and so cool. I’m not gonna become an actor as I don’t have the confidence for it, but I will definitely act in a few of my own films in the future (like Tarantino did in this film) partly because decaprio inspired me, but mostly because it’s too hard to find good actors that will work for free.  Jamie Foxx is also really good. The final scene (spoilers but it’s a Tarantino film so you can probably guess what happens) was so fun to watch, a big part of that was how cool his acting was, a lot of it was because of how satisfying it was to watch all the characters they’ve been making you hate for the last hour die.  Quinten Tarantinos directing style was super cool as always but also exactly the same as his other films. This film was fun to watch, it didn’t amaze me, I don’t think it was a great film that I’m gonna be recommending to all my friends, but it was definitely a good, really solid film. Definitely better than inglorious bastards.  8.6/10

Bakuman 2015

½

Even if you aren’t really into anime much you have still probably heard of death note right? Bakuman is written by the two who did death note, it’s about the process of making manga and it’s about two kids who follow their dreams of becoming mangakas creating series after series, it’s about motivation, chasing your dream and friendship, and it’s probably my favourite manga ever made. If you’ve never read it this review is probably gonna make no sense.  This film did a good job adapting it, I’ve never watched the anime, straight to the live action but it was really cool to see some of the characters I love (I love like every character in that series) brought to life in a live action. I think one of the most interesting parts of the film was getting to see some of the process of creating manga in real life, it’s very different seeing drawings of people drawing, and actually seeing the drawings in real life, I really enjoyed that aspect of this film. There’s also a lot I didn’t like about it, for example, why did they cut all of the female characters? The one girl they left in, Azuki, wasn’t even done that well as her and Mashiro’s story don’t actually get an ending. But also, where was Iwase? Where was Miss Aoki, (really important character who has a really nice ending in the manga) she was one of the members of team fukada, they can include hiramaru and not her?  And the most important character that wasn’t included, Kaya. She’s Takagi’s wife in the series and the three of them are kinda a team from the very start to the very end, it’s really annoying that they left her out. Her absence also made Takagi kind of boring. Bakuman is great because of the two main characters, but this film seemed to focus more on Mashiro’s story and takagi seemed kinda boring and looked nothing like he did in the manga (no where near as cool).  Other than that, it did a good job at adapting a good chunk of the series into one film. It was cool to watch and I think other than takagi it did a good job of casting some of the characters. I wouldn’t necessarily recommend this to anyone, I would definitely recommend the manga, but I kinda just watched this coz I was curious, it was ok. 6.9/10

Silenced 2011

This was a good film, it was directed by the man who brought us the show that no one (including me) will shut up about at the moment, squid game. The films about an art teacher that goes to work at a new school for deaf children and discovers the kids there are being sexually and physically abused. I have never been so disgusted watching a film, the abuse scenes are graphic and horrible and it was based on a true story which is sickening. I did some research / googled it and this film actually made a difference. “Two months after Silenced came out in cinemas, Gwangju City officially closed the school in November 2011.” “Silenced (2011) caused an uproar among the Korean public and eventually put pressure on politicians. In October 2011, the South Korean parliament passed the Dogani Bill which eliminated the statute of limitations for sex crimes against children under 13 and disabled women. Additionally, the bill increased the maximum penalty to life in prison.“  I think it’s amazing that a film can make such a good difference in the world. The acting from the main guy (the guy who gave people the cards in Squid Game) was really good. His character was great as well, you really felt for him, it must have been difficult doing the right thing, though I’m sure most decent people would do the same thing, the fact he stuck with it even though it affected his life and his daughter was really admirable.  The child acting was really good too, it must have been really weird filming such horrifying scenes and I’m not sure how that would have worked as everyone on set especially all the actors must have felt uncomfortable, but they did a good job acting in some really emotional scenes.  The film was hard to watch and incredibly sad, but it was definitely well made. I like the directors  (can’t say or spell his name yet) filmmaking style and I’ll definitely watch more of his films. I would recommend this to anyone who loved squid game, but I think maybe watch a different one if you aren’t into films that are this difficult to watch.  8.5/10

Divergent 2014

½

I feel weird about rating this film this high, but it really isn’t that bad. I used to love it back in 2014 when it first came out and I used to rewatch it all the time with my mum. But back then I was 13 and hadn’t watched that many films. I’ve read the book too and I remember it as being better than the film. I also read a spin off from fours perspective and after watching this I kinda wanna re read it.  The film was a little annoying. Mostly because of the protagonist tris, she’s supposed to be portrayed as this badass, intelligent woman but she came off as kinda stupid and weak. For instance I kinda feel like if she had just done what her mum told her to do and covered her instead of trying to be cool and saying “I got dis”, her mum would *spoiler* still be alive. Her character really irritated me but she also does have some cool moments and her romance with Thor was done pretty well.  This kinda felt like an action film made for 20-40 year old women. But I kinda like it. It’s weird how the main characters super power is having more than one personality trait, but the concept of them being split into factions was really cool, just the divergent stuff was kinda dumb.  Theo James was good, miles teller was good and Ansel Elgort was good. Liked this a little coz of nostalgia, it never annoyed me this much as a kid but I still think it’s an alright movie.  6.7/10

Free Guy 2021

½

Chris evans’ one line in this was the best part of the whole film. They promoted the shit out of this film and it kind of made me really wanna watch it. The trailer wasn’t good but it’s got pokimane in it. Someone does the floss in this film. Also ninja is in it.  Ryan Reynolds is always the same, which isn’t a terrible thing because that means he’s always good. This film had an interesting concept and I feel like it could have been an ok film. But it was just a stupid, cringy and annoying film that I didn’t expect to be this bad. I like some of the youtubers in this, but every time they popped up it made me cringe. If only they got Charles white (critikal) the best actor of our generation to be in it. When I say the films stupid I don’t mean a little dumb, it’s annoying stupid. It made no sense at times and it really pissed me off.  Taika watiti? Taki wititi? The Thor Ragnarok director who played hitler once, was alright. Joe Kerry was also kind of ok. Obviously Ryan Reynolds was good and the guy from the Eric Andre show was also ok. No other notable performances, the main girl was kind of annoying. Kept saying stuff like “so toxic” or “he’s a troll” or “you’re such a noob”, makes it sound like the film was written by a bunch of old people who’ve never played a game in their life but they interviewed their 9 year old son asking what words are cool.  It had a nice ending though I’ll give it that. I like the love letter thing. And guy and buddy at the end. Even dude was kinda funny there too.  I don’t recommend this film. Maybe if you want a meh film to watch with your family, it has its moments and was sometimes a little cool. But it was mostly just a shit film.  2.6/10

Love & Other Drugs 2010

½

Viagra the movie.  About a guy that sleeps with a lot of women but then falls in love with one of them, they break up and then he wins her back, the end. There’s probably 100 films that have done the same kinda thing, but this one is special because it stars Jake Gyllenhaal and that instantly makes it better than the rest.  Another interesting aspect of this film is the girl has Parkinson’s, and also it’s got Jake Gyllenhaal in it…..    it’s about a girl who falls in love but has a disease that is stopping her from being with the guy. Pretty interesting.  I watched this film because of the clip that was all over Instagram where Jake keeps calling that girl Lisa… also because Jake Gyllenhaal is in it.  Also David from friends is in it, I dunno the actor's name but he was Phoebe's boyfriend that went to Minsk. That was pretty cool. Olaf from frozen is also in it and he plays a character that masturbates over his brother…. So that was a little weird.  I feel like the film has too many montages, the doctor stuff and viagra stuff was interesting and the romance was ok. But other than that it’s a pretty average Rom com that has Jake Gyllenhaal in it.  6.8/10

Love, Simon 2018

3rd watch of this film, it’s a pretty emotional film with some good acting. Hannah baker is in it who I don’t like very much, Wally west is in it which is cool. Also the geeky guy who looks really familiar but I’m not sure what from. Maybe something Disney? (I googled it and I still have no clue, he’s in Veronica Mars, before I fall and a bunch of animated shit but he seems really familiar and it’s really annoying me)  Anyway it was an nice film to watch, I really don’t have too much to say about it, it was just nice. I think normally I’d expect a high school film like this to be really annoying but it kinda wasn’t, the social media and email stuff was kinda realistic and it had some likeable characters…. I guess…. Even Hannah was kinda likeable ish…. But it doesn’t mean I wanna start seeing her in everything (I think she’s supposed to play Morgan stark in the mcu).  Yeah it’s kinda just an easy film to watch, it’s not amazing but it’s definitely not bad, it’s enjoyable to watch every time.  I am starting to realise though a lot of films have the exact same structure, like I said in my last review.  main character tells lie, receives benefits from lie, lie is discovered, everyone hates him, character redeems him self and is forgiven, film ends. And it’s normally a high school film. It makes it kinda annoying and predictable. I don’t have to much to say but I’ve reviewed the last 21 films I’ve watched so yeah, sorry I made you read this.  ( and a lot more before that but I didn’t review almost famous as it was too good for me to find the words)  7.8/10 Someone recommend me some good coming of age, modern high school romance films? Like perks of being a wallflower, the first time, me earl and the dying girl. Anything like that really.

Easy A 2010

So I’m moving into my new place for uni in like 1 day. Haven’t started packing yet. This is me procrastinating. Easy A. Lisa Kudrow is in it, I’m a big friends fan and I don’t think I’ve seen her in any films before, even though she played an annoying character I love Lisa Kudrow so I was happy when I saw her pop up. Penn Badgley? I think that’s his name? The guy from gossip girl (Dan Humphrey) and the star of one of my favourite tv shows “You”. Emma stone is pretty good, she was kinda funny sometimes. I didn’t really like the whole 4th wall/ web cast narration to it and I thought certain parts were a little …..tacky. But it was an alright film and I enjoyed watching it. The story to the film was actually kind of entertaining, it was about how rumours can spread and how they can affect people, slightly over exaggerated though. And it’s the third film I’ve watched in a row that’s has the same kinda structure. main character tells lie, receives benefits from lie, lie is discovered, everyone hates them, character redeems them self and is forgiven, film ends. I would have to change lie discovered to lie backfires but I’m finding it interesting to see how similar lots of these films are. It feels like I’m learning a little and not just procrastinating.  Lots of the characters were very unlikable and it wasn’t always as funny as it thought it was, but the film was ok.  6.2/10

Dear Evan Hansen 2021

½

So from when I watched the trailer I knew this was going to be a bad film, it’s not because Ben Platt was unconvincing as a school kid, I mean he didn’t look like one but who really cares, films do that all the time and he’s an amazing singer yet really awkward (which is a good thing in this role). This film was just really cringy, the songs were good but it all felt weird and unnatural. I found the story interesting which is why I watched the film, also because the director Steven Chbosky directed one of my favourite films, the perks of being a wallflower. I liked the idea of the whole film being about the main character being too awkward to tell the truth. That’s the kinda scenario I feel like I would get myself into, but the lie was pretty messed up and it ended up being kinda hard to route for him when he became a little bit of a dick. I relate to the awkwardness but the character ended up becoming pretty unlikeable, probably because whenever he says something nice he sings it and I kinda stopped paying attention whenever he started singing. Also like most films where the main character tells a big lie, it ended up being pretty predictable, main character tells lie, receives benefits from lie, lie is discovered, everyone hates him, character redeems him self and is forgiven, film ends. I did like connors character however, I know he was dead for basically the whole film but I feel like his character developed and was still important anyway, which was interesting as it was done in a kinda subtle way without using flashbacks and stuff like how they would in a show like 13 reasons why. It was also kind of weird how evans best friend was a nice guy but also kind of a dick as he didn’t want them to be real friends. If he wasn’t played by nik dodani, who is a super likeable guy in the show atypical, I probably would have hated him.  The story in this film is very real, kinda dark and interesting, talking about real problems real issues….. then the characters all sing about those issues and I feel like it takes away from the realism and cheapens the message. I know it’s based on a musical and I’m sure the musical is good, but maybe they should have kept the music for the musical and tried to create a serious film with a serious message about people who are struggling and how they are not alone. Instead of making high school musical if all the kids were anxious and depressed.  2.9/10

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 2021

This film has THE BEST choreography in not just the mcu, but in the entirety of marvels films.  So instead of a new Nova film, or something with the xmen or fantastic 4. We got a film for a character no ones ever heard of… Shang chi. I’ve heard bad things about the original source material and I had no idea who he was, so when this was announced at San Diego comic con I really couldn’t care less about him considering the madness they announced with the Tv shows and multiverse stuff, but after hearing some of the reviews and seeing the trailer, I ended up being really excited for this. I was supposed to see it yesterday but I had to go to my prom, so yeah I was really excited and it didn’t disappoint, the fight scenes look incredible, it’s like a Bruce lee film in the mcu, insane! The characters were ok, Shang chi himself was pretty cool and that was it, he had a kind of interesting backstory I guess. His best friend, I think her name was Katy, she was supposed to be his funny sidekick I guess, she really annoyed me even in the trailer and she was still annoying in this film…. But she was also kind of funny I guess (Not the funniest character though but I can’t tell you who the funniest character is as it’s a spoiler, he’s been in the mcu before and I want you to be surprised if you haven’t watched it yet). His father was probably the most interesting character, I’m just gonna skim past his sister coz I really didn’t care about her at all (though from the after credits it looks like she’s gonna be pretty important for the future of the mcu), his dad was a villain and a hero, a good dad and a bad dad, seemed kind of evil and was somewhat likeable. I feel like they could have explained it a little better, but I felt like he was the most 3 dimensional character in this whole film and the actor did a good job. He was in the right yet was the villain, I don’t wanna give any spoilers but I liked him and I feel like he’s a good dad, but he’s also the character they are trying to stop and I felt like this was done in a really interesting way.  The first half of this film was kind of predictable, I wouldn’t have minded to much but my friend kept tapping me on the shoulder and saying these predictions out loud, only to then tap me again like 10 minutes later to say “I told you”. It all seemed kinda simple, the bus scene was insanely good but other than the fighting and Wong and abomination showing up for like 10 seconds (yeah I had my hopes up for that scene so it may be best to lower yours) the story just felt kind of average. But then the second half comes and it brings us a pretty cool, more of a mythical theme to the film which gave us an awesome ending.  The final fight was so cool, all the fighting looked cool, but the final fight was an epic conclusion. The giant …. Is this a spoiler idk …. Creature…. That should be fine ….. the giant creature looked amazing and the fighting with all the rings was also really fun. Like a sci fi Bruce lee fight. Genuinely just a fun film, I feel like it’s going to be kind of forgettable, but this was the best origin film we’ve had in the mcu for a long time and Shang chi is a nice addition to the universe, really cool character and I’m pretty excited to see what happens next ( watch the mid credits coz wow)  There’s also after credits after the mid credits and they aren’t as good but still worth a watch if you care at all about his sister.  To sum it up a slightly above if not dead on average mcu film which is saved by its incredible fight sequences that were more satisfying to watch then any other fight we’ve seen in the mcu so far. Worth a watch.  7.9/10

Spider-Man: Far From Home 2019

So it’s a couple of days later and I still haven’t gotten over how crazy the no way home trailer was, so I rewatched this.  As a Spider-Man film, I think homecoming was better, Peter and Ned were better in that film and it has iron man in it, but this film has certain characters that bring it up to the same level. Jake Gyllenhaal “can do no wrong” he plays a delusional psychopath who is weirdly likeable scarily well, he was perfect as mysterio, when I heard mysterio was going to be in this film I couldn’t have imagined him being done so well. The twist was obvious since mysterio is a villain but still amazing, the after credits are without a doubt the best after credits throughout the entire mcu, giving us JK Simmons AND giving us such a massive cliffhanger, I remember walking out the cinema in shock. Another great part about this film was zendaya as MJ. Watching the last film made the intro when suddenly Peter tells us he likes MJ seem kind of forced, since she was more of a minor character in the last film, but her and peters relationship was so cute and perfect for Tom Holland’s portrayal of Spider-Man.  I have never been this excited and can’t wait for the next one, I’m planning on doing an mcu binge soon but right now all I care about is Spider-Man. This was a great film, I like that the final battle was in London since that’s where I live. Also the VFX for the illusions was probably some of the best vfx we have had so far in the mcu, really good.  I love this one.  8.5/10

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 2006

Really funny film, Sacha Baron Cohen is such a good actor, the way this film was made and the character of borat himself is so hilarious and hard to believe. If you don’t know what borat is, it’s Sacha Baron Cohen playing a man from Kazakhstan who is visiting America making a documentary. Most of the actors in this film didn’t know it was all fake and we are getting their genuine reactions to the craziness that comes from borat. It’s such a smart and well done concept and I love how they were able to film it in such a unique way and still make an interesting yet weird and funny story. This is my second watch of the film and I will most likely watch it again, me and my friend spent £50 on kfc (and now it’s slowly killing me btw but oh well) and he asked me what the funniest film I know was, I told him either borat or in Bruges, we went with borat and we were laughing so loud we probably pissed off the neighbour a little.  Really funny film  7.7/10

Avengers: Infinity War 2018

½

So I stayed up to 2:30 am because there was a rumour that’s when the Spider-Man no way home trailer would drop. It did and it was amazing, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it all day so I decided to watch this as it’s the only film other than end game that got me as excited as I am now.  So this is my second favourite mcu film after Thor ragnarok. And it’s starts with taking a giant shit on Thor’s ending. This film is amazing, I think I’m just a sucker for crossover films and the guardians meeting the avengers and doctor strange was just a dream come true. The characters had all been introduced with their own films which were also really good, and this is what we finally get. Them meeting. It couldn’t have gone better. This film was funny, it was sad, it was cool and it was pretty dark. Thanos is a great villain who has some really interesting motivations because he’s kind of right and wrong at the same time. His character was set up so well and he won, which watching for the first time at the cinema was an experience. Seeing all the characters get snapped was so obvious yet unexpected since stuff like that doesn’t happen in films, the good guys lost. The deaths are all so dark and so well done, it’s all amazing. Tom Holland as Spider-Man is amazing as always. Chadwick Boseman's part also makes you very sad on a rewatch after his unfortunate passing, but he is great again as always.  The guardians and Thor are also really funny, Thor’s character changed drastically after his previous film which made him fit in really well with the guardians who were always like that. Some amazing fights some great acting, really just a great film, for someone who’s seen every mcu film at the cinema since avengers in 2012, watching this just felt so rewarding and like I said just a dream come true.  Now that’s it’s done I’m gonna go back to rewatching the Spider-Man no way home trailer on repeat.  8.6/10

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 2007

Watched this at midnight w my brothers in the garden using a projector and a curtain for the screen.  I never really liked watching this film, I think mostly because I hate umbridge so much. But also, I love umbridge so much. The casting again is perfect, I’ve never hated a character as much as I’ve hated umbridge which just goes to show how much of an amazing job Imelda Staunton did in the role.  This was David Yates first Harry Potter film and he went on to direct the rest of the series including the fantastic beasts. It’s not amazing, in fact it’s probably one of the worst in the series and again the book is way better. But it does have a few good parts, I really enjoyed watching Dumbledores army, one of the reasons I like the films so much is because of all the actors. Also it was a nice follow up from the last film after he who must not be named returned and Cedric (spoiler and also watch Harry Potter wyd?) died. Acting was really good. This was also probably Michael gambons worst film in the series, but his fight with Voldemort was pretty cool at the end. The films also a bit too dark I guess, well prisoner of Azkaban was dark this feels more ….. dull. It has a few good montages I guess. But yeah overall one of the worst. 8.2/10

Superbad 2007

Recently I’ve been rewatching a couple of my favourite comedies with friends and it just makes them so much funnier. This was so fun to watch, I really do think it’s one of the best teen comedies ever made. I’ve watched a ton of films trying to copy the same simple format and none of them have ever reached this level.  So many funny lines “You look like Aladdin” “Prepare to be fucked by the long dick of the law” “Have you ever looked into his eyes? It was like the first time I heard the Beatles.” The main plot between Jonah hill and Michael Cera is great, kinda simple but entertaining. I’m about to leave for uni so it was cool watching it with my friend right before I go. If it was just them two it would be funny and entertaining but still just an ok film. But all the mclovin stuff is what makes it one of my favourite comedies.  Acting was all really good, Michael cera stars in my favourite film of all time, Scott pilgrim, and Jonah hill is kind in most stuff. Directed my favourite skateboarding film and was pretty good in the wolf of wallstreet. I like them both and this was one of their best films. Seth rogan and bill hader were also really funny with ….. Christopher mint- peze?  Definitely would recommend, my friend said he tried watching it before but got bored, I made him sit through it all this time and he said it’s the funniest film he’s ever watched. So if you want a good comedy that will probably make you laugh out loud or at least exhail through your nostrils, give this one a go.  8.5/10

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 2005

“HARRY YOU LITTLE SHIT! DID YOU PUT YOUR FUCKING NAME IN THAT GOBLET OF FIRE!!!!!!” says Dumbledore calmly.  Annoying how one of the best books in the series turned out to be one of the worst films. I loved this film as a kid, it was my favourite film of the series, but I hadn’t read the book back then. Where’s ludo bagman? Where’s winky? Where’s Pigwidgeon? Where’s (best character of the whole series) dobby? Where’s S.P.E.W? And where are the Dursleys?  If you love the films like me and you’ve never read the books. Please read the goblet of fire! Even if you skip the first 3 books, read this it’s amazing. I can’t believe I’ve gone most of my life being a massive Harry Potter fan but only ever having read the first 2 books. Seriously read them.  Setting the book aside for a second. The tri wizard tournament is an incredibly entertaining plot and the graveyard scene is my favourite scene in the whole series. Sure it could have been better but it’s still a harry potter film so it’s still amazing. Robert Patterson and David Tennant in Harry Potter! I was a big doctor who fan when I first got into Harry Potter so David Tennant being in it always blew my mind, he’s not in it much as he’s drinking a poly juice potion but he has a great scene at the end. Mad eye was another great casting.  I know I said I’d stop talking bout the book but Hagrids best storyline is gone, Hermione vs Rita Skeeter (that may have been in the next one), the riddles, the World Cup, also ludo bagman, I know I said him already but he’s not some minor character he’s massive and they just left him out. I’m pretty sure Newell didn’t read the book right? That’s what my friends said but I could be wrong.  Ron is a bit of a git at the start and later on with Hermione but he makes up for it by being the funniest character, him and Harry trying to get dates was really funny. Rupert Grint is amazing.  Emma Watson is Emma Watson. Perfect, as always. The films saving grace. The reason why I’ve always stood by the fact it’s still a good film. The Dark Lord’s return. My favourite scene in the whole series. One of the best and hardest hitting deaths in the series because it’s the first one and it’s a student. Voldemort is amazing and so is him and Harry’s rivalry. Another PERFECT casting and probably his best performance throughout the films. He was scary, weird looking yet amazing looking, creepy and incredibly intimidating. I own his wand as it’s the best looking wand in the series and I dressed up as him as a kid twice (one IN SCHOOL for world book day and once at my dads 30th birthday, both times my best friend at the time dressed up as Harry Potter). The scene truly is amazing. And when Harry returns and there’s the happy music that stops when people find out what’s happened. Fucking incredible and so sad. I don’t think this is the best film anymore (I actually used to think it was the second best behind DH p2) but this scene and the acting makes me still love it no matter what anyone says. Book is way better tho  8.4/10

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 2004

Harry Potter was a pretty great hangover cure, I didn’t log chamber of secrets because for half of it I was curled up in a ball with my eyes closed, but by the end of this one I was fine.  Alfonso cuaron kinda fucked the series with this one. Sure it’s a great film, well made, probably includes the best cinematography throughout the whole series. But as a kid I never liked it, I found it boring and too dark. It’s very different to the masterpieces that are philosophers stone and chamber of secrets, and as my friend who only watched films for the soundtracks kept telling me (and has been telling me since I met him) it doesn’t use John Williams original scores from the first films, which though I usually don’t give a shit about soundtracks and even though the soundtrack in this is still amazing, it kind of takes away from the way the series was set up. It went from a vibrant and beautiful world to a dark and scary one and though I can appreciate how incredibly well made it is now it’s always made it my least favourite.  Great film just like all of them, the time travel stuff, though it makes no sense, is entertaining, buckbeak was cool and the casting as always was incredible. Gary oldman as sirius is sooo good and so is David Thewlis as Remus Lupin. Opening scene with aunt Marge is pretty cool and Michael Gambon was pretty good as Dumbledore, he’s more calm and similar to Richard Harris, where in later films I didn’t like him as much.  Great film, not my favourite of the franchise but if it wasn’t good i wouldn’t have watched it near to 100 times.  8.5/10

It's Such a Beautiful Day 2012

½

This is the second time I’ve watched this film. I recommended it to a friend and the more I watched the more scared I was that he would hate it. It’s a very risky recommendation. If you’re going to watch this film, I recommend you find complete silence, you turn the lights off and you pay attention to every word said. This film is sad. It feels very real. If the idea of death freaks you out a lot I recommend this film. If you are feeling really depressed or even just a little sad I recommend this film. This isn’t the kinda thing you stick on with the family in the middle of the day, it’s very depressing, it’s an experience to watch, it’s….. about a stick man. Don’t let the animation put you off, it looks amazing. A few minutes into watching this at the same time as my friend I got the text “R u trolling me with the film 💀💀” I got scared and tried to explain to him it’s one of the best films ever made (maybe a little exaggeration) but he didn’t answer for a while and 40 minutes later he said  “This is rlly good man ” “Iss rlly sad tho” “Like this is kinda how I feel about existence uno” “Iss making me ask myself a lot of questions”  I think that sums up pretty well the effect this film has on you.  “I guess it’s just really real uno”  I love the editing, I love its simplicities, I love its repetitiveness and I love the ending. My only fault with it is it gets the tiniest bit boring at times.  It’s a beautiful film with so many deep and powerful lines that are really relatable and depressing. Maybe don’t read this if you haven’t seen the film but the line that hit me hardest was:  “He'd been terrified of dying his entire life, and as much as he tried not to think about it, death was always in the back of his head, around every corner, and hovering on each horizon. Hed brushed shoulders with death on a few occasions, but in his care free youth it had all seemed like an abstract impossible thing to ever happen to him, but with each passing decade he began to gauge the time he probably had left, and by his forties he had come to know just one thing: you will only get older. The next thing you know, you’re looking back instead of forwards, and now, at the climax of all those years of worry, sleepless nights and denials, bill finally finds himself staring his death in the face surrounded by people he no longer recognises, and feel no closer attachment to than the thousands of relatives that came before. And as the sun continues to set, he finally comes to realise the dumb irony in how he'd been waiting for this moment his entire life. This stupid, awkward moment of death, that had invaded and distracted so many days with stress, and wasted time.” Fuck Don hertzfelt is a genius and I thank him for giving us this incredible and moving film.  Please watch this, but watch it the right way, I hope you like it and get something out of it.  My friend finally finished this a day later and I think what he said to me is a good note to end this on “Bro I can’t stop thinking about such a beautiful day” “It’s fucking me up man” “I keep comparing that movie to my life and I wanna die 💀” “It just makes me wanna give up 😂😂” “Why did u make me watch this film man” “I’m having a crisis” 8.6/10

The Wolf of Wall Street 2013

½

Obviously it’s not my first time watching this film. my favourite Martin Scorsese film, that man is a genius. My favourite Leonardo DiCaprio film, that man is also a genius. I truly love this film, it was however, a little hard to rewatch, very long, but really just brilliant. There’s some amazing lines and moments, “I’m not fucking leaving”,"Let Me Give You A Little Legal Advice: Shut The Fuck Up!", “I will not die sober”. Also some really amazing scenes, mostly involving drugs, like when they took the lemons, all of that was so well done, the boat crash with the plane exploding, the fourth wall breaks, all of it is just so good. Jonah hill was pretty good and it’s pretty cool that he got to work with his idol Martin Scorsese. Margot Robbie as always, is Margot Robbie, just one of the best actresses of our time.  The guy himself is a bit of a dick, he’s only likeable because of Leo, the real life Jordan Belfort is a little annoying, he wrote a book about all this and is very proud of it, I’m pretty sure he has a Wolf of Wall Street podcast, I find that a little weird considering how this ended (spoiler. with him screwing over all his friends and getting a happy ending). If you didn’t know the guy on the mic in the final scene introducing Jordan, is actually the real life Jordan.  One of my favourite films of all time and I’d recommend it to everyone who hasn’t seen it already, it’s on Netflix and worth the lengthy runtime. 8.7/10

The Suicide Squad 2021

½

On the surface this film is about a group of people who have been labelled “villains”, working together to save the world. But really, this film is about one man and one man alone, he isn’t strong, but yet he defies all odds and sacrifices his life to save his friends. His only power is his bravery, he is the driver of the van and the main character of this film. Milton.  If you haven’t seen this film yet ignore all that ^ James Gunn you are a genius, he should just be given all superhero films from now on, how did he manage to make a sequel for what is probably one of the top 5 worst dc films ever made, and have it be probably one of the top 5 best. This film is so fun and I’m so glad I saw it at the cinema, it’s very funny and very gorey, it has some great casting with some great actors and an amazing sound track. I just love James Gunn’s style and this was surprising just as good as guardians of the galaxy.  So I’ve seen 3 films at the cinema since they reopened, every single one of them I was late and missed an important part of the film. I was really exited to see Pete Davidson in this as I quite like him, as I walked into the cinema he was already on the screen. I heard him say one line and I don’t know what it was, but I never saw him again for the rest of the film and I’m really confused. I swear I remember seeing him in all the promotion, I didn’t even notice until I left the film and I was sitting in the car and suddenly I realised “hold up, where the hell was Pete Davidson”. Idk maybe someone can explain it to me coz I’m confused.  The acting was really good, Idris Elba, I can’t really remember what films he’s in but he was great in this, I loved the dynamic between him and John Cena’s character, peace maker, who by the way gave one of the best performances I’ve seen from him. At times this film was kind of simple, it doesn’t have a great villain just a really cool and big one, but it’s simplicity is what made me like it so much, it was just so fun. King shark was a great character, really funny. Harley Quinn great as always. Peter Capaldi great as the thinker though he didn’t really do too much. The villains were shit but who cares really, all that mattered was the giant one at the end and the fun chemistry between all the characters. Genuinely one of my favourite superhero films I’ve ever watched and I nearly didn’t see it at the cinema as I didn’t really care too much about it. I’m so glad I did.  8.6/10 So I’ve watched the intro now and turns out I was 12 minutes late, I kinda perfectly missed all of team one which is why I was confused, was a pretty great intro, I need to start aiming to make it to the cinema early.

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas 2018

I’ve known about this film (I thought it was a show) for a while because once you hear a title like “I want to eat your pancreas” it’s kind of hard to forget. Anyone wondering it’s not just some ironic title that they named it just to get peoples attention…. Well I guess it kind of still is but the film genuinely has something to do with a pancreas, and she actually tells the guy that she wants to eat his pancreas.  Ever since I watched your name and a silent voice, 2 of my favourite films, I've been looking for a film just like them, this is the closest one I've found to them so far and I liked it quite a bit. It’s a really nice looking film, I enjoyed the animation. I also quite like how it starts with the main girls funeral, though I hate comparing stuff to the shit show that is 13 reasons why, stuff like that when you know the characters going to die just turns every happy moment into a sad moment, and I find that quite interesting to watch.  I liked most of the characters overall, though they did do some weird and annoying stuff that made it slightly harder for me to like them. The main girl does some messed up stuff, if you’ve watched it I’m talking about the “prank” she played on him while they were at her house, kinda made me hate her a little, what the guy did in response the that “prank” was equally as fucked up. Also her best friend kinda hates him for no reason so that was a little weird and other than them there aren’t any good characters. There’s the gum guy, but I still don’t get what his deal was.  Really loved the ending. Another film that made me cry. Just coz we knew she was going to die really didn’t make it any less sad. Anyone who missed the after credits, go back and watch them they are amazing.  Nice film, good characters, heart warming story, great animation. Would recommend to any anime fans out there.  8.5/10 At the start of the film the guy is wearing an NDL T-shirt.

Barefoot Gen 1983

The fact that this is auto biographical is terrifying and so sad. This films about a family struggling during the war in Japan, the mother is pregnant and they are having to live off rations. The family have to go in the shelter often whenever a plane flys over, but they’ve never actually been bombed. They live in Hiroshima.  When the bomb hit I said “fuck” out loud like 10 times, I’ve never had a moment during a film that’s hit me that hard, I guess that’s mostly because it’s a true story and feels like an apocalyptic horror. To be honest I cry a lot during films, but it’s mostly stuff like your name when I kinda like that I’m crying, for this film it wasn’t fun crying it was genuinely sad, that kind of thing never gets me but this did. Given that we all know what happened in Hiroshima, there was this looming sense of doom through all the happy family parts at the start. It was terrifying. Hearing the dad talk about how much he hates the war and wished it would end. How he doesn’t care if he’s called a coward or a traitor if people heard him, in fact he would be proud to be called a coward or a traitor. And then days later something unimaginable happens and he gets something that he didn’t at all deserve.  The one thing I don’t like about this film is they kind of replaced a character as they happened to bump into someone who looks exactly the same and has the same personality, I thought that was kind of dumb as in animation it literally feels like they just decided to bring this character back after killing them off. That characters death was probably the saddest moment for me through the entire film given how they were introduced and how they died, replacing the character kind of took away from the death a little. The film is based on a manga by Keiji Nakazawa, I read in another manga called “Bakuman” that barefoot gen is the greatest manga of all time. The film has a few problems, it’s a bit dated, but the story is so real and so personal. The fact that nakazawa wrote about such tragic and sad moments in his life just makes this film feel so real. When the kid has to watch his family die, the fact that’s what the author actually went through is what makes it one of the saddest films I’ve ever watched. I definitely would recommend it to anyone who wants to watch a historical true story that’ll make them kinda hate how fucked up the world is after it’s over.  8.5/10

Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop 2020

½

I was really excited for this film as the trailer was really good. I watched it the second it came out and I’m the second person to review it on letterboxd. This is mostly because I thought it reminded me of a silent voice and I’m pretty sure it was directed by the director of the show “your lie in April” which is a great anime. Also the animations really nice, it’s very bright and colourful.  This films about a cringy social media star who I found incredibly annoying and a shy guy who writes haiku’s which I guess are kinda just one line poems. She is sensitive about her teeth and that’s kind of as deep as the film gets. It’s kind of boring and I didn’t like the characters. Kind of a nice film, I mostly just had my hopes up for no reason, I really hate films about social media so I don’t think this was for me but If you want a nice but forgettable summer anime film then it’s worth a watch.  4.8/10