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Barbie

Posted at August 07, 2023

I 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 at April 24, 2023

Interesting 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 at May 02, 2019

I’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 at May 07, 2015

Not 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 at May 07, 2015

Sorry! 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 at February 12, 2015

Right! 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 at February 12, 2015

I 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 at December 13, 2014

Another movie, yarr. If I remember correctly, I described it afterwards as “well-made rubbish”. It just felt artificial. The framing device…

Interstellar

Posted at December 13, 2014

I liked it. It felt like three movies smushed together. I don’t think it entirely worked — in particular, the emotional core of the movie is…

Lucy

Posted at August 31, 2014

Bad movie. Horrible science. Decent token action, but nowhere near enough. Basically, if we start using more than 10% of our brain (sigh) we…