A bit paint-by-numbers but a good bit of fun
Movie Log 🍿: M3GAN, 2022 - ★★½
Movie Log 🍿: The Ballad of Wallis Island, 2025 - ★★★★½
Just a lovely story with relentless comic relief. Was an excellent watch.
Movie Log 🍿: 28 Days Later, 2002 - ★★★★½
Top stuff. Really well shot with the camcorders. Loved it
Movie Log 🍿: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, 2013 - ★★½
Pleasant. A little brand-heavy in places. There is no way there’s a Papa John’s in Iceland. Certainly tried very hard to be inspirational but I think maybe it falls a little flat. The Benjamin Button bit is outstanding though.
Movie Log 🍿: The Phoenician Scheme, 2025 - ★★★½
Made me laugh a few times with the catchphrases and some absurdity. Maybe a little convoluted for me, though. As ever with Wes’ films, set design is immaculate
Movie Log 🍿: Midsommar, 2019 - ★★★★½
Creepy throughout, found it be very gripping despite its runtime. Florence can’t do wrong, she’s brilliant in this.
Movie Log 🍿: Fly Me to the Moon, 2024 - ★★½
Some pretty expensive looking shots of rockets and a couple of laughs. A good film
Lovely walk through a forest of bluebells the other week
Movie Log 🍿: Final Destination Bloodlines, 2025 - ★★★★½
Just relentless silly deaths. Cheeks hurt from laughing when I left the cinema. The opening scene was immaculate. I would’ve liked the whole film in that setting but great fun regardless.
Movie Log 🍿: The Surfer, 2024 - ★★★
This movie had me wondering if I was losing my mind. Properly surreal and strange. I’m loving how much Nick Cage throws himself at roles like this
Movie Log 🍿: Sinners, 2025 - ★★★★½
What wasn’t this film?
Movie Log 🍿: Rebecca, 1940 - ★★★
Mrs Danvers is gonna haunt me
If you squint really, really hard.. Stockport can look marvellous.
I’ve been squirrelling away on a new theme for my blog that I’m really happy with. Way more minimal than my previous one, feels more appropriate for the sort of casual stuff I like to post.
Movie Log 🍿: Christine, 1983 - ★★★★
Can’t believe I’d not watched this until now. Everything comes together here to make a story about an evil car make sense. Some unbelievable practical effects work throughout, had me gobsmacked. Loved it!
A lovely photo of Hebden Bridge train station in the sun a few weeks ago. Was on a nice boozing session and have just rediscovered the photo whilst flicking through my camera roll.
Movie Log 🍿: Minority Report, 2002 - ★★★★
This is some good sci-fi. Full of all the touches of “the future” that seemed wild at release (watches with screens in them?!) as well as showing me the cars in I, Robot were ripped from this film. I want to call out the sound design too, because it …
Movie Log 🍿: Almost Famous, 2000 - ★★★★★
I was picked up and taken for a ride watching this movie. Immaculate. I am yet to see Frances McDormand in a role I am not blown away by, so so good.
Movie Log 🍿: Novocaine, 2025 - ★★★
Laughed a lot. This is a proper popcorn movie
There is something so deeply satisfying about this song. The sort of indie pop being released around 2008 seems to have this kind of twee lightness to it that I can’t get enough of. I found I Was A Cub Scout through iTunes free single of the …
Just merged an update to my micro.blog theme microwave that adds crosspost sources and some new social icons. Enjoy 😎
Moody bagel shop in Paris at night
How cool is this bag I got with a CD in a record store in Paris at the weekend? Not very often you see this kind of thing.
Movie Log 🍿: Restless, 2024 - ★★★★
Hilarious whilst balancing tension. Unique in its storytelling and I enjoyed the lot. Some comically bad punching but also a banging old Citroen ZX