Posts for "movies"
What We Love: The Holiday
Posted on December 27, 2025There’s an endless discussion about what counts as a Christmas movie. Does it have to be about Christmas, like Home Alone? What about movies…
Wake Up Dead Man
Posted on December 21, 2025CW: Spoilers for the first two Knives Out films, mild spoiler for the latest. The first two Knives Out movies both rely on mid-story reveals…
Barbie
Posted on August 07, 2023I saw the Barbie movie on Saturday. It was creative and silly, and did a better job wrestling with the whole Barbie thing than I’d expected…
Life Updates
Posted on April 24, 2023Interesting things from the last few weeks: I saw Dungeons & Dragons: Honour Among Thieves. It’s well put-together, shows a tonne of obvious…
Stuff!
Posted on May 02, 2019I’ve done stuff lately, I swear. Totes! Totes! Movies Uh, I think I’ve watched one or two things… Captain Marvel It was OK. I have a hard…
Avengers 2: The Avengening
Posted on May 07, 2015Not as good as the first movie. The Marvel movies tend to be overstuffed, and this was no exception. I kinda wish they’d cut back on some of…
John Wick
Posted on May 07, 2015Sorry! I started writing this post in particular ages ago (OK, a month) but never got around to finishing it. Tonight I catch up. So. John…
Jupiter Ascending
Posted on February 12, 2015Right! I just watched this film tonight. It wasn’t good, but I enjoyed it. Thoughts: CG action sequences are incredibly boring. As cool as…
Ex Machina
Posted on February 12, 2015I went to see Ex Machina a few weeks ago with the meetup group. It’s about a dev for some Facebook/Google amalgamation called “Bluebook” who…
The Imitation Game
Posted on December 13, 2014Another movie, yarr. If I remember correctly, I described it afterwards as “well-made rubbish”. It just felt artificial. The framing device…