🎥 Films
🎥 The Beekeeper, 2024 ★★
I watched it because it’s Jason .. sad that he keeps making the same movie .. even sadder is that I keep watching them.
🎥 Nobody 2, 2025 ★★
Not as good as Nobody - but then Nobody caught me out - where as Nobody 2 was - well ... Nobody 2. Colin Hanks looks so much like his Dad. Sharon Stone looked nothing like Sharon Stone - and yet was. The whole film was way better than any of Chevy's vacation movies - and the set up for the final action scene was lifted straight out of The A Team - and just as much fun.
🎥 Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, 2026 ★★
This is a film - not a show and so lacked .. a lot. It also requires the watching of the magnificent series that preceded it to really get it. So yes … enjoyed, but if you haven’t seen the shows … don’t bother and if you have, you will be disappointed.
.. and very glad I missed it in the Theaters.
The star rating might seem harsh - it seemed that way - even to me - but this is a good example of how a normalised rating system can help you - dear reader - get better clarity on the 'why'. To cut to the chase - I did enjoy it - any film that sits with 2 or more stars in here are worth watches - but at this level - a lot of caveats.
🎥 The Courier, 2020 ★★★
Yeah .. No.
BC did a really good job - including the transformation - but so slow …
And if you know me and historical dramas .. doubling down on the ‘yeah .. no’
🎥 Chief of Station, 2024 - ★★★
Just a rewatch and LettrBoxd dropped a new post to the feed. Opinion not changed. 🖇️Original Post
🎥 Jay Kelly, 2025 - ★★★
There's that expectations thing again. I started-with high hopes - but no - mainly driven-by the fact that I didn't care about any of them - oh and I still have a hard time taking Adam Sander seriously - and I guess I'm not a giant fan of George to begin with - so no idea where those high hopes came from.
That said - Jax gave it 41/2 stars 'm 'would have been more if it wasn’t such a poor ending'.
🎥 Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, 2016 - ★★★
Having just rewatched the first - would be churlish not to revisit the second. Same conclusion.
🎥 Kate & Leopold, 2001 - ★★★
I watched this 20 or more years ago - and was reminded of it whilst watching The Knight Before Christmas.
Yes - it is the same story - proving that the premise is not the problem.
🎥 The Knight Before Christmas, 2019 - ½
Not my choice. Not by choice. But watch I did. It is movies like this that will ensure that AI Slop will take over part of the entertainment industry. Dreadful.
🎥 The Lost Bus, 2025 - ★★
It has McConaughey in it - so how bad could it? Yeah. Probably his worst movie ever. Not helped by my opinion of 'fiction based on fact' dramas. But even then there are good ones. This is not one of them.
🎥 The Thursday Murder Club, 2025 - ★★★
I watched this when it first came out - with great anticipation - being a fan of the books and all - and ... sadly disappointed. Nice enough. If there was a follow up - would watch that - but definitely fell flat.
🎥 Wake Up Dead Man, 2025 - ★★★★
I am a minority .. I did not like the original Knives Out … at all. So heaven only knows why I watched the second - which I liked even less - so what possessed me to watch the third? No idea - but so glad that I did. Finally the franchise delivered.
🎥 I watched: 🔗 The Woman in Cabin 10 and was severely underwhelmed.
🎥 The Family Plan 2, 2025 - ★★★
I watched the first and wasn’t really expecting a second … and I am CERTAINLY not expecting a third. PLEASE.
If you have nothing better to do .. in our house it’s one of those that fits in the Venn diagram overlap of ‘what movie shall we watch’ twixt the two of us.
🎥 The Woman in Cabin 10, 2025 - ★★½
Remarkably average .. I had Guy worked out during his second scene. Keira needed to think more.
🎥 One Battle After Another, 2025 - ★★★★½
I didn’t know what to expect .. I knew of the movie, director and of course Sean, Leo and Benicio .. but hell fire … did not expect this. Absolutely marvellous. Remember when UK PM Starmer said that the Netflix show ‘Adolesence’ should be played in all schools so that every school kid gets to see it?
Yeah - every American should watch this.
Oh - and definitely
Leo wearing Arthur Dent’s dressing gown throughout was a lovely homage. That IS what it was - right?