SINNERS
is the best movie I’ve seen in years.
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It’s such a great film, looking forward to purchasing it in 4K.
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Just watched K-Pop Demon Hunters on a bit of a whim as I’d seen a singer doing some covers on Instagram, and I loved it. Now I’m not massively into the genre, I like a few bits and pieces but don’t really know much about it, nor am I generally a big fan of musicals. But this was fantastic all round.
The animation’s super stylish, top notch. Fun and interesting characters that win you over really fast. The songs are also so catchy and, as you would expect from a musical, reflect the feelings and themes perfectly, with some clever lyricism. The actual story is nothing ground-breaking, pretty standard stuff plot-wise, but it’s executed really well and has a nice moral that pretty much everyone can relate to. Recommend!
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Happy Gilmore 2. Didn’t expect much but it still has a lot of funny jokes and the cast was stacked.
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The Naked Gun (2025)
One of the all-time classic comdies has returned…and is good! Not quite as good as the original but definitely a worthy sequel that could be the start of a new series. 
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Weapons (2025)
Masterpiece. You start out thinking that this intriguing mystery is going to be spoilt by how distractingly lovely Julia Garner is in every film she’s in, and by the end you are whooping with joy as you realise you’ve been watching an 18+ rated Roald Dahl story.
Best thing I’ve seen this year by miles.
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I’m seeing it tomorrow I look forward to it.
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If you liked Ricardo Montalban, you MUST watch Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Me and dad saw the new Fantastic Four movie. Loved it.
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As a huge fan of the originals, I went in not sure what to expect but I loved it. Had the same silly jokes and cheap laughs but throughly enjoyed it.
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Earlier this week I went to see two films playing at a theatre.
High and Low by Akira Kurosawa
This is a thrilling mystery movie, where a businessman, right after pulling off a risky, expensive investment to buy out his company, has his son kidnapped! The ransom: 30 Million Yen.
It’s then a race against time (and money) to track down the mystery kidnapper and figure out how Gondo is going to both pay the ransom without ruining his own life…
It’s a great thriller with a deep twisting mystery throughout as the kidnapper manipulates the man, and the police slowly track down and figure out where he could be.
Plus a couple of nice funny moments, I like how anti-capitalist Detective Bos’n is and his gruff demeanor compared to the others.
Personally I thought the ending needed more. Was kind of anticlimactic to have the motive be revealed as simple jealousy (“You looked so warm in the winter up on your hilltop mansion, while I was freezing.”)
Edit: oops sorry for not spoiler tagging this earlier
Apparently it’s getting a remake by Spike Lee in the upcoming Highest to Lowest which is interesting…
I also saw Boys go to Jupiter.
This incredibly surreal and fun coming-of-age animated movie. It’s about this kid in the far-off-future, I think(?) who is trying to escape Florida and raise 5000$ on this delivery app.
It’s got some qeird characters, some very striking animation with some overhead isometric shots like a video game, some “bad” animation in that characters typically slide or move around a bit stiff, but it’s all adds to the charm of it.
It also has a bit of a musical quality to it with some music interstitials between some scenes, I thought it was cool.
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Just got back from seeing The Bad Guys 2.
It was a GREAT movie. Lots lots lots of fun, madcap action. It’s all really punchy and well-choreographed.
The scene at the wrestling arena where the whold Crowd chases after the Bad Guys, basically a tsunami of people, was insane and wonderfully done, had me giggling in my seat.
(Also I was the only one at my showing this afternoon, sweet!)
Hoping they make a third one (they just might given some plot stuff) and gosh honestly I wanna go watch it again!
I will have the adorably big and soft Pigtail on my mind a lot this coming week I’m certain… aww… 
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Thursday Murder Club.
Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirran, and Ben Kingsley are in an old folks community and have a Thursday club where they go over cold cases. It’s a really good film with both laughter and sadness in it.
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The Long Walk (2025)
The first movie I’ve ever enjoyed where the protagonist was 47.
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Also saw the Long Walk a few days ago. Was a really enjoyable thriller. Didn’t know much about it going in other than some big “walking game” to the death.
Felt like a 70’s pre-cursor to the Hunger Games (though I looked it up, and it seems that author was more inspired by Battle Royale than TLW)
Also felt… kinda relevant to today at times? There’s a line by Mark Hamill’s character early on where he passionately says “We must restore what makes this country great!!” Despite this inhumane game of death for 49 teenagers/young adults. And it gave me very… you know, vibes… 
Lots of interesting twists and surprises throughout the film, like, man, of course they’d have to walk uphill at some point, while maintaining 3MPH after a full day of walking already, not to mention how they rarely shied away from seeing the volunteers getting shot, gorily, up close. Just chilling.
Would definitely watch this again sometime, also if only to get a subtitled version at home. I found some of their southern american accents to be quite thick, or characters generally being out of breath, making it hard to hear full sentences at times.
Last night i saw the phenomenon KPop Demon Hunters, and, wow… It’s so fun. It’s so funny. It had me head-bopping throughout the film.
God… I get it.
Crazy that after The Emoji Movie 
, Sony Pictures Animation has been putting out nothing but banger after banger…!
I hope this makes an impact like Spider-Verse and we see more companies try to make animated-musical type movies. That’s something cool.
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Pfft. Kids these days are soft. It’s 4mph in the novel.
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The Core (2003)
I saw this last when it was released. I remember enjoying it. Saw it again today.
It’s scientifically illiterate/dumb, contains some silly ass scenarios (like space shuttle flying a few miles off course and thus taking it into the center of LA) and well, all of that stuff. But really, the part of the movie that made me roll my eyes the most was the hacking DJ Qualls’s character does, and honestly, it’s not even necessary for the story.
But it does show reverence for scientists and experts, something I think is needed today. And it has some heart and a sense of humor about the silliness of it all. The actors do quite well as well. They have fun with it. Aaron Eckhart comes off as very likeable, and Stanley Tucci’s douchebag scientist is fun to watch as well. Love Delroy Lindo. Hillary Swank’s character is a bit meh in this, but she plays the dull “straight-man” to the rest of the characters, so I guess it makes sense.
It’s not saying a lot, but when compared to movies like 2012 and Moonfall this is great. I’d say it’s a fun, charming ride if you go in with the right mindset.
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Happy Gilmore 2. Sadly it was not funny at all. Fun and nostalgic but no real laughs.
Not worth your time )=
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Speaking of silly/dumb movies, but one I enjoyed, was Ballerina: From the world of John Wick. (Dumb title too lmao)
But it was FUN!! I was honestly laughing so much in the fight scenes given how crazy they can get.
I don’t think it took me this long to realize it, but this movie in the JW series really goes out of its way to make fight scenes over the top, introducing new weapons and fight tactics every damn scene, all playing it straight with the Rule of Cool driving the whole movie. Not much of the world makes much sense, nor the sheer amount of “secret” assassins walking around, but hey, its all cool and fun so don’t worry about it!
Because of course it would, this is John Wick!
The second movie ended infamously with John getting a bounty put on his head, and as he’s walking through Central Park, various people around him begin picking up their phones or getting texts. And you start to think… is like Half the global population part of this “secret” assassin society?!
This movie stars Ana De Armas as Eve, a new assassin-in-training for the Roma Ruska, the russian ballerina school who also teaches girls how to kill. She gets set on a path of vengeance and even crosses paths with a few key JW mainstays in the film.
The action in this movie, is, as best I can describe it, as a Slapstick movie with High Budget Action.
(And whereas Wick is clean, calculated, takes at most 3 shots to kill someone, Eve would rather unload the whole clip into you…)
Take a scene midway in a cafe: Eve comes in and gets into a fight with a server. Customers go rushing out in the chaos.
Eve has to avoid getting cut with a knife, while also getting to a gun.
In a scuffle, the knife gets knocked away, the gun gets knocked to the floor, and a pile of plates gets knocked over too.
So now both women have to sift through a bunch of plates on the floor to find the gun. And while they’re at it, why not ALSO smack the other person with the plates while you’re looking through it! Just… so silly! Of course!
OHH. And after that fight is all done, the customers from earlier come back into the store, armed with guns, because THEY are also secret assassins! AGH! 
The movie does everything you’d expect from a John Wick movie and more.
There’s the “oh no someone is hiding in the no-kill hotel but someone might still kill anyway”
There’s a fight scene of a Flamethrower Vs Flamethrower.
There’s even a callback to the usual “Sexy Gun Vending” scenes in each film, where the vendor describes each gun like a rare piece of meat or animal hunting tool – but this time, they get interrupted!
It also feels like the Stunt Team just wanted to pull all the stops for whatever the hell they wanted to experiment combat-wise! There’s a scene where Eve has to take out a bunch of people, with just hand grenades. It’s as bold and bloody as you’d expect. Damn.
Fun movie! Not a “good movie” cinema wise, but very fun. Just enjoy the cool factor.
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Weapons.
Disturbing. Truly disturbing. But one of the best on-screen instances of a truly heinous villain getting an extremely satisfying comeuppance. You can tell Stephen King didn’t write it.
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Bullet Train. An absolutely hilarious, exciting good time with an awesome cast. It was like Deadpool meets The Fast and The Furious in how delightfully over-the-top it was. And it was chock-full of assassins, all of whom, let’s be honest, 47 would consider a bunch of unprofessional, unserious, sloppy, incompetent amateurs who wouldn’t be worth the price of the tickets they bought to be on the damned train. But part of the charm is how utterly… idiotic, all these otherwise professional (but still amateurish and sloppy) killers get when thrown together in the confined space of the train. And Michael Shannon does a top-tier role here, with the most magnificent hair.
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