Obsession

I enjoyed many aspects of this film, including the fact that it doesn’t sugar coat or hard wave the actions of both male characters, particularly the OxyContin incel-in-training lead, but it’s one of those horror movies where people act so profoundly stupid that something doesn’t click for me.…

Hokum

Alan O’Wake

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

This gave me Deadpool and Wolverine vibes. The only good bit was the mid-credit scene, the rest was just passable.

Lee Cronin's The Mummy

There’s some good ideas here… but it feels more like a Blumhouse template demonic possession movie in a haunted house than anything ancient Egypt. Props for having Arabic dialogue and some Egyptian cast, but man… everything about this film felt slightly OFF. Like not the right actors, not the right…

Good Game, No Rematch: A Life Made of Video Games―A Comedian's Memoir of Gaming and Comedy, From Nintendo to The Tonight Show

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

I have no mouth but I must scroll

The Strangers: Chapter 1

What if the strangers again but worse

The Rip

I hope Netflix continues the trend of doing surprisingly good 90s throwback thrillers every January.

Companion

Chekov’s corkscrew

Avatar: Fire and Ash

This one just doesn’t have the sauce. It’s also almost identical to the previous apart from a new antagonist, hints at a dumb character turn from Quarritch, and a literal Jesus analogue that made me burst out laughing. But it still looks spectacular.

Hamnet

Paul and Jessie are unbelievable, it looks stunning and has a real emotional heart. On the Nature of Daylight playing throughout the ending scene took me out of it a bit.

Mountainhead

Ehhh I don’t know. It’s disturbing in an interesting way, but watching four horrible people chat tech jargon in a chalet is a weird one. It didn’t ring fully true for me either, but maybe I’m naive.

Marty Supreme

This review may contain spoilers. I get the criticisms. Timothy is amazing and his character is completely unlikeable. But I loved every minute of it.

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You

Uncut moms

The Fall Guy

This movie just annoyed me. I get what it was doing, it just wasn’t as clever as it thought it was. It’s not bad, it’s just not for me.

Fight or Flight

I loved how daft this was.

A House of Dynamite

Imagining any of this movie with Trump and his band of idiots in play and it becomes even more terrifying. I eat up this sort of thing - it’s one of the reasons I love The Sun of All Fears and its de-escalation bureaucracy - but it wears thin when being told thrice and I wish there was more meat.

Predator: Badlands

There’s going to be a certain type of grumpy old idiot who watched this movie and bemoans the lack of Rated-R violence, or the inclusion of levity, and talks about the Marvel-fication of cinema. To them I say: just go and watch Arnie slather himself in mud; this isn’t for you. I really enjoyed this…

Trap Line

Bugonia

Man, I adored everything about this - including the fact that a 8pm Thursday showing of a Yorgas Lanthimos movie in my hometown was pretty full and although more crowd-pleasing than some of his other movies, doesn’t coward out of the weirdness.

Black Phone 2

Poorly acted teenagers with mental troubles team up to fight a disfigured child-killing ghoul who haunts them in their dreams. But enough about A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: The Dream Warriors. (Sorry, David Chen, it takes more skill than I thought to pull of one of these…) Almost every creative…

A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Some baffling acting and some amazing practical special effects.

Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges #1)

Project Hail Mary

How They Broke Britain

The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard

One Piece, Vol. 2: Buggy the Clown

Convenience Store Woman

Yearbook

Ramble Book

The Firm