Tag: movies
Superman (2025)
Oh no.
Not content to eff up Roald Dahl books, it seems Netflix’s approach to C.S. Lewis will be less than faithful too. Do I trust Greta Gerwig enough to still pay to see this? It was one of my favourite books. (Why does Jadis look like an alien go-go dancer?!)
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Fast Five
Last night we continued our immersion in the FFCU with the fifth movie, the appropriately named Fast Five. This one jumped genres again, with this one a classic Ocean’s Eleven style heist. It’s got a “putting the team back together” montage (including several fan favourites from the first four movies); loads of competency porn; stunning action sequences […]
Media Thread: Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
The Joy of Bad Movies.
not even a choice
Living the rest of your life in a natural paradise with your supremely intelligent, cute, and funny alien bestie who knits, loves you, and would die for you
the raygun documentary keeps waiting for the joke to introduce itself
about twenty minutes into Untold: Raygun — Breaking Badly, i posted that the documentary was teetering on the edge between documentary and mockumentary despite being 1000% earnest. this is still the most accurate review i can offer. the movie is…
Fast & Furious
Last night we continued our immersion into the FFCU with the fourth movie: Fast & Furious. Not only is it confusingly named, it also jumps back in time to before Tokyo Drift, the third movie! (The overall timeline continuity took us like a third of the movie to work out.) And finally we get some returning characters […]
a crime, a loss
You would think that a movie featuring Alicia Vikander, Eva Green, Charlotte "freakin' Reverend Mother Mohiam" Rampling, Charles Dance, and the cinematographer for Alex Garland would be a joy to behold but apparently Euphoria (2017) sucked. 🤷♀️
The Sixth Sense
5/5 Stars Just watched the 6th Sense for the first time. Yea I know, shocking. Such a good movie! What a twist at the end. Haley Joel Osment is such a great actor and of course Bruce Willis is amazing. I’m not usually into suspenseful movies. But this one was excellent. It makes me want
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Okay, somehow we managed to watch three movies from the Fast & Furious Cinematic Universe in less than a week. 😬 Last night was The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. I knew that it wasn’t going to have any characters in common with the first two, but I was still surprised by the opening. “Is […]
the movie you loved at 20 gets a vote forever
in 2009, (500) Days of Summer felt precision-engineered for being 20. revisiting it now means seeing both the movie and the person who first loved it.
My Trek Through Trek — The Undiscovered Country
The final act for the original cast!
tim curry commits fully to being sexy pollution
Tim Curry’s “Toxic Love” from FernGully remains an absurdly committed lesson in how destruction sells itself as appetite.
2 Fast 2 Furious
Me: Are we doing 2 Fast 2 Furious tonight? Rodd: Maybe it’s 2 soon?? We went straight into the second film in our Fast & Furious binge last night. We knew going in that Vin Diesel wasn’t in this one and that the only character that carries over is Paul Walker’s. And while I was […]
The Fast and the Furious
In happier news, last night I realised that Netflix AU has most of the Fast and Furious movies. I’ve never seen any of them, so I convinced the Snook that we need to watch them all. We watched the original The Fast and the Furious last night, and we both found it really entertaining! We had both […]
My Trek Through Trek — The Final Frontier
What just happened???
Media Thread: The League of Extraordinary Gentleman
The most "Fun-Bad" film I've seen in a minute.
I Don't Get It: Iron Lung (2026)
Iron Lung, as I (don't) understand it
My Brilliant Career
I started watching Netflix’s new “adaptation” of My Brilliant Career tonight, and sadly I only lasted like ten minutes. It’s not for me. Once I realised I was just muttering “This is some BULLSHIT!” over and over, I gave up. Look, it’s not my favourite book in the world, and I’m generally okay with modern takes […]
The Sting
A few weeks back I read a proposal for a type of “Couch-to-5K” but for reading books, for those of us whose attention spans have been wrecked by devices. (I’d link to it but it’s on Substack, and Substack sucks.) In addition to regular short reading sessions, the author suggested a challenge for the first […]
My Trek Through Trek — The Search for Spock
But wait, didn't he die??
🎬 Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026)
Watched Spider-Man: Brand New Day, 2026 - ★★★★
Curating Crime and Punishment: What 10 Images Reveal About American Justice
Filmmaker Lynn Novick sifted through thousands of historical images to create her upcoming documentary series on the American justice system.
The Cyber Harvest 0.01: Kristen Stewart Thinks Hollywood Is Stuck in ‘Capitalist Hell’
A analysis of The New York Times podcast, The Interview, with actress and director Kristen Stewart. Hosted by David Marchese. This item is featured in the The Cyber Harvest 0.01 series I started in my take of personal curriculum and media gardens. Check out my site for more on this.
The Cyber Harvest 0.01
The Cyber Harvest series is something I started as part of my take on personal curriculum and media gardens. It's a project born from my own approach to building a personal learning ecosystem, a mix of self‑directed study, aesthetic cultivation, and media organization.
What else I watched whilst recovering
I've already written about using my sick leave to catch up with Doctor Who, Red Dwarf and the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but I watched other things too. Here are some of them. The Princess Bride It may be, ahem, 'inconceivable' that I'd never watched this before, but I did indeed watch The Princess Bride in...
Masters of the Universe
Doomsday Trailer
Der Astronaut
The Italian Neorealist Film Movement: Cinema Born from Scarcity
How Italian Neorealism Happened with No Studios, No Actors, No Plot
outatime
Movies watched in my first 20 years The Longest Day (1963) ⭐️⭐️ Love Story (1970) ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The Last Jackass is Upon Us
I was expecting a few snarky takes of getting too old to do this sort of shit. Instead, we've been treated to appreciation and thanks to a cast of madmen and idiots who have taught us a great deal about ourselves.
very excited for werwulf
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1986 - lookout mountain
I don't remember the exact day the tape slid into our VCR, but I know the precise moment my brother Matthew and I realized it was perfect. For a lot of critics in August of 1986, The Transformers: The Movie was a jarring shock to the system. They complained about the lack of setup. They wanted exposition; they wanted an explanation. But Matthew and I? We didn't need any of that. We loved that it dropped us headfirst into the smoke and gears of a brewing cosmic war without holding our hands. With...
Letterboxd, the social film review site
Seeing as how I have had a lot of time on my own recently whilst recovering, I decided to sign up for Letterboxd. It's a site where you can log which films you have watched and when, review them, and see what your friends have watched and reviewed. Letterboxd has been around for some time,...
cradle to the grave robbers
The Last Winter (2006) / La bête (2023) / La chimera (2023)
🎬 Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Watched this with Max as he wanted to catch another movie. Last year we had seen [Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom](https://xavierroy.com/indiana-jones-and-the-temple-of-doom/) exactly a year back.