🎥 Films
🎥 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?
🎥 The Gorge, 2025 - ★★½
What was I thinking? I knew it wasn’t my kind of movie. And still I watched and … yeah. No.
🎥 Fountain of Youth, 2025 - ★★★½
Guy Ritchie .. who’s going to say no. Good cast. Fun story .. in the class of National Treasure and all the rest.
🎥 Nonnas, 2025 - ★★★
It’s Vince Vaughan so of course I checked it out. Not his best, formulaic - think I’ve seen the story a few times before - but cute nonetheless.
🎥 The Wild Robot, 2024 - ★★★★
Home alone and had heard good things. Just lovely. Just wonderful. And yes, I cried.
🎥 The Wild Robot, 2024 - ★★★★
Home alone and had heard good things. Just lovely. Just wonderful. And yes, I cried.
🎥 Barbie, 2023 - ★★★★
Finally got around to it and … Marvelous .. and I’m not even a fan of ‘musicals’. So good that it needs to be rereleased.
🎥 The Laundromat, 2019 - ★★★★
Just a great one, that I saw in the theaters when it came out and logging it now .. 5 years later. Has it stood the test of time? No idea, have a watch and you decide.
🎥 Sicario, 2015 - ★★★★
Good cast, gritty and wrestles with that eternal question that the world still faces today … even more so … how do you fix the problem of really bad guys by being good guys that don’t break the law.
🎥 The Sum of All Fears, 2002 - ★★★
You don't often actually see a nuclear bomb go off in these kinds of movies - aren't they meant to be stopped with 2 seconds to go? It's a Reacher story with plenty of time during in to try to count how many different actors have played Jack over the years ... sorry not a big fan of Ben in these roles (no reason - he just always seems to fall short). They - for all of that - still 3 stars - I guess Tom is that good - and Morgan in the cast helps.
Don't not watch it - but don't go hunting for it either.
🎥 The Equalizer 3, 2023 - ★★★½
I know I’ve watched the first two at some point - but for the life of me - gonna have to revisit (maybe). Good story - and it’s Denzel … a solid action movie.