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I just got out of Smile 2

I really enjoy the first movie, as someone who doesn't love the horror genre, it was a real surprise. I have to say I enjoyed this considerably even more than the first one.

I enjoyed Naomi Scott in Aladdin and Charie's Angel's, but this is easily the best performance I have seen from her. I think the horror genre is overlooked when it comes to award season, but alongside Demi Moore in The Substance, I think she should be nominated for an Oscar, she is amazing, I felt everything she was feeling and really felt sorry for her. One of the best female performances of the year. She is Smile 2. It's one of the best performances ever, by a lead in a horror movie, for me. I even believed her as a popstar!! Take not M. Night.

The opening prologue (which I won't ruin) is great and is worth the price of admission alone!! The opening could have actually been the plot of this movie, it was a really good premise, that I would have liked to have seen explored. I am not exaggerating when I say it's one of the best openings to a movie of the year.

It is gory at times and it does have my pet hate of jump scares, too!! There are a lot of them. But some of them are really well done, I did jump on more than one occasion, but the pay off at the end, is well worth it. It is messed up and is massive unsettling and I can't wait to see where they go with it.

If you have seen the first movie, this one has some familiar beats, as I'm sure the third movie (which this sets up, brilliantly) will have.

It's not perfect, as I find it hard to believe a pop star as successful and is managed as intensely by her mother, while spend that much time alone, after what has happened to her (no spoilers) I don't think a Miley Cyrus or Britney Spears, would be left alone, like this, and I really need to rewatch it just to get understand a few things!! But this is really nit picking!!

If there is any justice, this will be a huge hit. Other than The Substance, this is my favourite horror movie of the year.

I just got out of Joker: Folie à Deux

This isn't a disappointment. It's a bad movie, full stop.

Todd Phillips has massively dropped the ball. Everything that was great about the first movie, is missing here. The first movie was meant to be a stand alone movie. But when it made as much as it did. Money talked and it may have talked about making a deadline for the release date, as this is a mess.

I don't read or watch reviews before I watch a new movie. But I seen a headline that said Joker Folie à Deux feels like it was bad on purpose. And I get what they mean as it seems Phillips is angry at the fans for making the first movie so successful. He has deliberately gone out of his way to make a movie, they will not even like, let alone love.

As what we get is a boringly paced, badly edited, totally unfocused movie, that never gets going, lacks any clear direction (it's all over the place) with a script that needed at least another rewrite.

I love a good musical. But the musical sequences in this, stop the movie in it's tracks. They do not belong in this movie. Take them out and you have a better movie. I'd say it's 50/50 songs and dialogue.

I think a lot of people, especially people who loved the first movie, are going to hate this. As Phillips totally tears the character of Joker down in a lot of ways.

I will say it looks gorgeous with some sticking images and it does have some moments of genius and real standout moments. I think everyone will agree on what the stand out moment of the movie is.

Joaquin Phoenix again nails it. Lady GaGa was great too, very charismatic, in a very poorly written role (she doesn't even really become Harley Quinn. She is very unlikeable and downright cruel.

I think she has been the victim of some last minute editing, as the ad campaign make this seem like she is co-lead. That is not the case at all. It's a supporting role. A lot of her stuff has been cut from the finished movie. The title doesn't even make sense Folie à Deux translates to a shared delusion. That is not this movie. Arthur and Lee share very little.

Brendan Gleason is great too, but when isn't he??

They should have turned down the money and kept it at one movie.

I just got out of Francis Ford Copplola's Megalopolis: A Fable.

This is spoiler free. But outside of one thing, I couldn't even think of anything to spoil, if I tried.

WOW!! This is not good. Okay. I didn't actually hate it, and the first 45 mins/hour is kind of intriguing enough, to keep you interested and it certainly has scope. But it completely falls apart.

It does not explain things, it sets things up, just to abandon them, people who seem like key characters, are forgotten about, for long periods of time. It frustratingly jumps time periods on several occasions, with zero explanation and it's ending is not only non sensical, it is very unfulfilling and unsatisfactory.

Has this movie been lost in the editing?? It's very incoherent. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a 4 hour cut out there.

It all just felt like an exhausting, waste of time. I need to add, it felt a lot longer than it's 2hr 20 run time.

It looks great at times and the cast do a fine enough job, especially given they have some ridiculous dialogue. Adam Driver was Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito (Breaking Bad) is always reliable, Nathalie Emanuel (Game of Thrones) really stood out as a the leading lady. I need to say Aubrey Plaza is excellent here, as is Shia LaBeouf, who is amazing. Those three actors stole the movie for me. But what a waste of Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman, who are treated embarrassingly, but at least Voight was not a walk on like James Remer. I will say only only Plaza and LaBeouf seem to understand what movie they were in.

So overall it is official, I dislike more Francis Ford Copplola movies than I like. I only like Outsiders, Godfather 2 The Conversation and The Rainmaker. I think Bram Stoker's Dracula is okay.

I'm not sure why this has performed as poorly as it has (Did the trailer scandal or the FFC scandal turn people away). It's not the worst movie ever, it's not the worst movie this year, it's not the worst Francis Ford Copplola movie or even the worst Adam Driver movie. I think some people will like it, it just didn't work for me.

It says at the bottom of the poster EXPERIENCE IT IN IMAX. That should have been on The Substance posters, which was much more of an experience at the cinema.

I had the entire room to myself at the 13:30 showing. As I left, I was talking to a member of staff who said, there have been a few empty screenings.

I just got out of Speak No Evil.

Despite it requiring some leaps in logic and believability. (Mackenzie Davis and her husband are two of the stupidest characters, I have watched in a movie, in a long time. The make some insanely stupid decisions) I enjoyed it.

James McAvoy nails it he does a great job of making you feel very uneasy, and Mackenzie Davis is good, too. As is Aisling Franciosi But man, did the Dad (played well by Scott McNairy) irritate me!!

The first hour of the movie was the best, then it just becomes a bit routine, in the final act. I thought the movie was going to end a certain way, but it didn't. It was very generic.

I just got out of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice!! One of my most anticipated movies of the year

I really don't think this will appeal to mainstream audiences. I can imagine a lot of people not liking it. It's very quirky and niche. But at its core, it's got strong themes about men abusing women (physically, emotionally and mentally) and Jeffrey Jones (Not in it for obvious reasons) is the big elephant in the room.

Michael Keaton is still amazing, Winona Ryder; and Catherine O'Hara slip effortlessly back into their roles. Willem Defoe is game, Monica Bellicci is Tim Burton's latest Helena Bonham Carter/Eve Green, Danny DeVito has a comeo, as shown in one of the trailers. But outside of Keaton, the stand out is Jenna Ortega as Astrid. I was worried she might just be another version of her Wednesday character, but she isn't. She is great. She really works in this world and her storyline should have been the main story.

Convoluted is a nice way to describe the plot, which has waaaay too much going on. You could take out the Willem Defoe and Monica Bellicci storyline and the movie wouldnt miss a step.

It's very predictable. I knew a few very obvious twists. There is call backs to the original, and the non appearance of Adam and Barbara is explained. Poorly. But it's explained.

Beetlejuice is still a supporting character, like in the first, and isn't quite as politically incorrect as in the first one. But he has a bit more screentime this go around. No surprise Danny Elfman's score is great and the movie has great production values.

I'm surprised they are opening this at the beginning of September instead of Halloween.

All in all, a fun one time watch. I'll stick with the first movie.

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Denzel Washington's filmography, I come to The Magnificent Seven

I won't compare it to the original (which I love) as it wouldn't be fair. But man, was I disappointed in this. Denzel and director Antoine Fuqua have a good record of enjoyable movies (Training Day, The Equalizer) when they work together, but this is a total misfire.

It wastes a very talented cast, by giving them paper thin characters to play, in a story that is empty (like the rest of this movie) and ludicrous. Nobody (and I mean nobody) can survive three shots in the chest from a Winchester rifle and one in the gut from a revolver and still get up, light a cigarette, laugh, talk a bit and then light and throw a stick of dynamite. I thought I was watching a Hot Shot's parody of a western. Historically inaccurate and just stupid on all fronts.

It's competently shot, the actors do fine jobs and the action is well staged, but Haley Bennett's cleavage was this movies sole high point!! This could be Denzel's worst big screen movie.

The Magnificent Seven grossed $93 million at the domestic box office to become Denzel's 4th highest grossing movie of all time, and was the 56th highest grossing movie of 2014.

I just got out of AfrAid.

I'd never heard of this movie. Directed by Chris Weitz and starring a solid cast of John Cho, Katherine Waterstone, Lukita Maxwell and Keith Carredine.

It's a bit typical of the rogue AI storyline, AI is introduced into family home, movie does a good job of showing how AI makes life convenient for the family, then AI starts to become too real etc. It's totally predictable, but thanks to the cast, I enjoyed it.

This isn't really a horror, despite some out of place jump scares, that really didn't need to be there. The movie was at its best when it was dealing with technology that is out there, already. Like the deep fake, stuff. That was when it was most interesting.

I think there is a much longer version of this movie out there, as things are just glossed over and there is a huge plot point, that just is forgotten about. It is really short too. It started at 14:40 and I was out of the cinema by 15:55

There were 7 other people in my screening.

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Denzel Washington's filmography, I come to The Equalizer.

Here we go @Evanb I'm at the first of the trilogy

I grew up loving the Edward Woodward TV show, so this had a high bench mark.

Turns out I had actually seen the ending to this one, at some point over the years. I loved it. The action is well done, all the cast do a great job and it has a good soundtrack.

Denzel is great, in it Chloe Grace Moretz isn't in it as much as I thought, she would be, though. It was nice to see David Harbour and Bill Pullman in it, too.

The Equalizer grossed $101 million at the domestic box office to become Denzel's 4th highest grossing movie of all time, and was the 44th highest grossing movie of 2014.

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Denzel Washington's filmography, I come to 2 Guns

Man, what a disappointment this was. It wasn't bad, but after the last three, it's a step down. It's stupidly violent with some poor dialogue.

Denzel and Whalberg put in a good effort and they have a good rapport. Man is Paula Patton hot, But Bill Paxton is awfully miscast, as is James Marsden.

With the premise and the talent involved, this should have been a home run. Instead it was nothing more than a one time watch. The end shoot out was okay and at least it wasn't too long.

2 Guns grossed $75 million at the domestic box office and was the 55th highest grossing movie of 2013.

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Denzel Washington's filmography, I come to Flight.

Directed by Robert Zemekis, this is easily one of Denzel's best performances. He is amazing as the substance abusing Whip Whittaker and was deservedly Oscar nominated (losing to Daniel Day Lewis in Lincoln) This is not a movie about a plane crash, but more a study of a functioning alcoholic and drug user who befriends a heroin addict.

In order to get this movie made, both Denzel and Zemekis accepted a tenth of their usual salaries.

All the cast are great, Kelly Reilly, Bruce Greenwood, Don Cheadle and John Goodman (a joy) . I knew I recognised the naked lady in the hotel room with Denzel, it's Nadine Velazquez. She played Catalina in My Name Is Earl. I could have done without so much Piers Morgan, though.

The crash scene was intense and is very well shot.

It is a great movie with an excellent performance by Denzel, as a man who can not face up to the fact he is an alcoholic. A serious argument could be made, that Denzel should have won his third Oscar.

He saved lives the day of the crash. No doubt about it. He saved lives even under the influence of cocaine and alcohol. Nobody questions anything about him, until the crash. We would be surprised by how many people function whilst under the influence of drugs or alcohol. This is an important movie. Watch it.

Flight grossed $93 million at the domestic box office, to become Denzel's 6th highest grossing movie at the domestic box office and was the 49th highest grossing movie of 2012.

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Denzel Washington's filmography, I come to 2012's Safe House.

I'll be honest, I'd never even heard of this movie. I had no idea Denzel did a movie with a young Ryan Reynolds (I say young, but he is mid 30's) I think the first time I seen him was Blade: Trinity, so this is well after that and movies like Amityville Horror. The Proposal and Buried.

This was director Daniel Espinosa's first English-language film and he does a good job. I'm surprised he has not done more. Other than Morbius, I've not heard of any of his other work.

Both Denzel and Reynolds do more than good jobs, Vera Famiga and Brendan Gleeson offer solid support It was nice to see Robert Patrick and Liam Cunningham (Davis from Game of Thrones) pop up

The movie is well paced and is intense, with the exception of the screenplay clearly signposting who the movies main villain was within the first five minutes. (It tries to do a a bait and switch, but you don't buy it, or at least I didn't) and the dialogue being a bit obvious, sometimes you know what the actors are doing to say, before they do. I have no complaints. A good movie.

Safe House grossed $126 million at the domestic box office, to become Denzel's 2nd highest grossing movie at the domestic box office and was the 38th highest grossing movie of 2012.

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Denzel Washington's filmography, I come to his second movie of 2010, Unstoppable

Now that's more like it. I loved it. If you watch one Denzel movie with a train, directed by Tony Scott, make it this one.

Amazingly this was based on a true story and was the fifth time Denzel worked with Tony Scott.

Denzel, Chris Pine and Rosario Dawson (in her second Denzel movie) are all great, all the actors are, to be honest. I cannot fault anyone in the cast

It was a highly engaging movie from beginning to end, with only some minor nit picks. I even got emotional at the end.

After giving us Top Gun, Revenge, Beverly Hills Co 2, The Last Boy Scout, True Romance, Enemy of The State, Crimson Tide and Man on Fire, what a way for Tony Scott to bow out.

Unstoppable grossed $81 million at the domestic box office to become Denzel's 7th highest grossing movie at the domestic box office and was the 43rd highest grossing movie of 2010.

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Denzel Washington's filmography, I come to his first movie of 2010, The Book of Eli.

I was a bit disappointed in this one, as I know it is much loved. I'm not saying it was bad, but with its reputation, I expected more.

Denzel was fine and I really enjoyed the first part. Once it got to the town, it lost something, this is not Gary Oldman's finest hour and Mila Kunis really totally took me out of the movie, she looked too good, with perfect make up and aviator shades, where did she learn to drive and how the hell did she get out of that cave??

Nobody can accuse the end of being predictable, but it is a WTF?? Ending. Making you question what you have just watched.

The Book of Eli grossed $94 million at the domestic box office to become Denzel's 4th highest grossing movie at the domestic box office and was the 45th highest grossing movie of 2010.

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Denzel Washington's filmography, I come to The Taking of Pelham 123

What a disappointing way to follow up American Gangster. I have no idea why an actor of Denzel's calibre would appear in such nonsense. Following his post Pulp Fiction success in the late 90's, Travolta is hamming it up big time. He is an actor who is better when he is subtle (think Mad City) and I didn't find any passion in their performances, whilst the civilian hostages (vital in a movie like this) on the train are unmemorable and the action is way over the top. Tony Scott did Enemy of The State and The Last Boy Scout. So he can do it.

The Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw version is vastly superior. Some of the changes made from the original made it worse too. I didn't like the Travolta character being an ex con, instead of ex mercenary and Denzel being a Transit worker instead of a cop. It just didn't work.

The Taking of Pelham 123 grossed $65 million at the domestic box office (Behind the Hannah Montana movie and Paul Blart: Mall Cop) and was the 40th highest grossing movie of 2009.

Continuing my plan to watch every movie in Denzel Washington's filmography, I come to American Gangster

"My man" I enjoy this movie. But I do think they made Denzel's character too nice.

It's nice to see Norman Reedus (Daryl Dixon in The Walking Dead) pop up and I always love to see Ruby Dee (Ossie Davis wife) in anything. She was nominated for an Oscar here.

It's too long and could use some trimming. I mean I have love Carla Gugino, since I first seen her in the Bon Jovi video for Always, but the Roberts divorce subplot could have been cut, as just one example. Especially since it was just made up for the movie.

American Gangster grossed $130 million at the domestic box office to become Denzel's biggest box office hit and was the 19th highest grossing movie of 2007. His 5th best performing movie, behind The Pelican Brief, Crimson Tide, Philadelphia and Remember The Titans.

I just watched The Union on Netflix

It's very much in the vein of movies like Knight & Day, The Killers and Central Intelligence. Even an old classic like the Mel Gibson, Goldie Hawn movie, Bird On A Wire. So if you liked those movies. You may like this.

There is plenty of action, but not much else. It steals a lot from other movies and is pretty routine and cliche. You can see the twists coming a mile away, but there is some fun to be had.

Mark Whalberg and Halle Berry give it a game go, but they have no sexual chemistry. JK Simmons is always a fun actor to watch and there are some impressive set pieces.

All in all, I didn't hate it and it passed the two hours quickly. I'd say it is worth a one time watch.

I just watched Miller's Girl on Amazon Prime

I'm surprised this didn't get more attention due to its taboo storyline between a married teacher (Martin Freeman) and young student (Jenna Ortega). This is writer and director Jade Haley Bartlett's first film she has written or directed, but it is well acted and well directed.

It has a very small cast. Of only 11 actors. But it's doesn't need anymore Freeman and Ortega are the stars, but everyone is good. Bashir Salahuddin is good as Freeman's characters best friend. And Gideon Adlon Both stand out.

I'm surprised at all the negative reviews, I have read on here. They are probably from people more into watching Ortega in Netflix's Addams Family spin off, Wednesday

Recommwnsed. Defo worth at least a one time watch.

I just watched this on Netflix, and it was complete trash.

Ireland has never looked better and Neeson's performance was fine, but he has played this type of role that many times (a hitman who has retired or is trying to stay retired), he could do it in his sleep!! In fact sleepwalking through the movie is pretty much what he is doing. Too bad it didn't put me to sleep.

Nothing wrong with the story, but it is boringly executed and at times laughably ludicrous. There is not much action and it's a slog to sit through, especially when the antagonist, is on screen. I almost turned it off twice and it doesn't even have a long run time.

I can see a lot of Irish people being offended by it!! Especially the fake Irish accents. As an Irish man, I'm amazed Neeson agreed to be in this. He is above it. He should get a new agent.

In short, the best thing about the movie was the Irish countryside. I'd rather rewatch Taken 3 and I outright hated that ludicrous and tedious mess.

Okay, so I couldn't sleep last night and came across Pretty Woman on Disney+!! Because I'd discussed it earlier in the day, I thought I'd give it a go. I'm going to do this review in a pros and cons style.

I'll start with The Cons

1: The excuse for Edwards girlfriend not being at the big party, and the following week, is very weak. She says he gave her no notice. It's later revealed the following week is the result of a years worth of work. Someone detail orientated like Edward would have given her enough notice. Then again, there is no movie, if she is there, so 2: Kit isn't really a nice person, spending the rent money on drugs and acting like it's no big deal 3: How did Edward drive the car fine when leaving the party, but now he is struggling? He must have stopped at some point. It's L. A 4: She says Edward can't afford her for the full night, knowing he is staying in the Penthouse suite. Before only charging him $300.

She said she earns $100 an hour, but charges $300 for the entire night?? Gere was having breakfast when she got up, the next morning. She was there a minimum of 8 hours at least, so she was on $37.50 an hour 5: Edward says on the phone he enjoys the possibility of things going wrong, but earlier he stated he is rarely surprised, as he likes to plan everything.

6: Gere says he ordered everything on the menu. What he shows her, is Pancakes with strawberries, scrambled egg and bacon, some stale toast and some croissant's that are half eaten So this posh hotel is no more impressive than a McDonald's breakfast menu!!

7: Julia Roberts is not only a noisy eater she talks with her mouth full 8: Jason Alexander is actually right. He should have been at the meeting. But this successful business man who leaves nothing to chance, is taking the hooker he has known for 12 hrs max 9: Sleazy Gere hires Roberts as an employee, to attend functions with him and have sex with him!! Sleazy!! As he "doesn't have time for romantic complications" Was there even a contract??

10: $3,000 for 6 days?? Her hourly rate just keeps getting lower and lower. Assuming she has 8 hours sleep at her hourly rate of $100 per hr, she should be getting closer to $10,000. Over the course of say 12 hours Wealthy and sleazy Richard Gere has manipulated a poor prostitute into dropping her hourly wage from $100 per hr to $31.25. Yeah, he is a good guy 11: Julia Robert's who knew the way to Gere's hotel from her street corner has to ask Kitty where to buy nice clothes??

12: Okay those shop attendants are dicks, but why is Vivian shocked?? This isn't her first day in the world, I'm pretty sure as a prostitute she was told she was not welcome, somewhere, before 13: Boring property take over talk. Wall Street, this movie isn't 14: Richard Gere says he will order her food, then Robert's asks who ordered it, when it arrived 🙄 15: Richard Gere is just so gross, paying the shop attendants to be nice to Roberts gives off serious 'Look how great, your Daddy is Princess' vibes 16: Roberts spends an "Offensive amount of money", but only leaves the store with one new outfit and six bags (one I'm assuming had the outfit she was wearing, when she went into the store) 17: I hate the Roy Orbison song Pretty Woman. When I used to go to this one pub, every weekend. A guy I didn't care for, sang it poorly, every Fri, Sat and Sunday!! I hate the movie for reminding me of him. Petty, I know 🤣🤣 18: Gere saying "You look like a lady" is so sleazy!! She always looked like a lady!! Just maybe not one up to his standards or definition of 'a lady' creep!! Someone tell me when he is a charming romantic man??

19: Gere tells sleazy Jason Alexander, who I'm sure he knows is a creepy scumbag, Roberts is a prostitute 20: Gere shouts "Vivian, I'm talking to you!! Get back here" before adding "You are my employee" 21: He just happened to have $3,000 cash on him, to throw on the bed. He is paying her in full, before the six days are up, her hourly rate went back up to $50 an hour. Still half of what she was earning at the start of the movie.

22: Edward is possessive and toxic as f, when he tried to excuse his actions. But he says he didn't like her talking to another man with a smile, and Robert's is okay with it.

23: I hate to say it, but sleazy Jason Alexander is again, not wrong 24: Roberts smiles when Gere says "When you're not fidgeting you look very beautiful" so many things wrong with that comment!! I guess ladies in Gere's world don't fidget and are just perfect 25: He says she is very tall, she was probably taller in her boots at the beginning 26: The opera scene is such crap!!

27: Why is there a shot of the World Trade Centre in a movie set in California?

28: Roberts explains she doesn't want a relationship where he sets her up in a condo and just pops through town, leaving her some money to last until his next visit 29: Roberts acting is horrible when she was talking about being a little girl, on the balcony 30: Sleazy Gere punching sleazier Jason Alexander, doesn't make Gere any less sleazier 31: How does Robert's know what Gere did was good?? What evidence is she basing this on?? All she knows is Alexander told her Gere blew the billion dollar deal!!

32: Pretty sure Gere didn't invent the concept of wanting more!! Didn't he see Oliver?? Or even his own country's history of what the white man did to the indigenous tribes??

33: Roberts knew that one car honking was different than every other car honking in L. A🤣🤣 she could hear the opera music at that point 34: So what has changed, since she said she didn't want a relationship where he sets her up in a condo and just pops through town, leaving her some money to last until his next visit. Gere is still going back to New York. Why do people think this is a happy, romantic ending??

Pro's

1: Julia Robert's is hot in the blonde wig and boots 2: Okay Julia Roberts is cute, singing in the bath 3: Roberts spitting the chewing gum out was funny 4: Her going back to the shop is satisfying, and there is no denying it's still quotable to this day 5: Hector Elizondo is always good on screen (except in Beverly Hills Cop 3) 6: His part is only small, but I love Ralph Bellamy in anything 7: It does have a decent soundtrack with classics like It Must Have Been Love by Roxette and King of Wishful Thinking by Go West

So to summerise Pretty Woman. A sleazy, rich business man, in L. A for a week of business meetings, manipulates a nice prostitute (we know she is nice as she doesn't do drugs, like her flatmate) who is struggling to get by, into lowering her hourly rate from $100 per hr to $31.25 per hr for 6 days. He buys her some nice clothes and a hot dog, from a vendor, but constantly demeans her and is pretty toxic throughout. The week ends, when she refused his offer to extend the arrangement. She goes back to her apartment looking to start a better life, away from prostitution (she has some nice clothes now). The sleazy rich man turns up and they kiss on the fire escape. No promise of what is in the future. Probably the arrangement she rejected earlier.

Awful.

I just got out of Deadpool and Wolverine

For me, Marvel has been hit and miss since Avengers Endgame, whilst I liked Guardians of The Galaxy 3 and did not hate Thor Love & Thunder, like some. It has not really delivered since 2021's Spiderman: No Way Home.

I thought Deadpool and Wolverine would be good. I didn't expect it to be this good. It is hilarious (it's pretty much a straight up comedy) and is very R Rated, with a lot of fun action sequences. The Like A Prayer action sequence is a joy to behold. The movie not only gave me everything I wanted, but everything I didn't know I wanted. Think of it as a Buddy cop movie set in the MCU that is surprisingly emotional at times.

Ryan Reynolds always knocks it out of the park as Deadpool, his non stop talking, should get annoying, but it never does, at least for me. When you see how good Hugh Jackman is here, you will want him to stick around in the MCU. I can't see any other actor, stepping into his shoes, so soon after this. If Logan was "goodbye", this was "I'm back".

The cameos are not what you expect at all,but are amazing. Some of them are not even cameos, but actually service the story. They are very satisfying. There is a lot of spot on industry commentary from Reynolds, too. I think comic book readers/fans will get more out of it, as some of the jokes (especially during a montage) went over my head, but got big reactions in my screening.

There is almost nothing to complain about (outside of my pet hate in Marvel movies, I'm really looking for something to complain about). Though I'm sure, some will find reasons to.

There is a nice, touching BTS playing during the end credits, before an end credit scene.

For me, Deadpool & Wolverine has dragged the MCU back on track. This reminded me of the early days of the MCU. My second favourite movie of the year. If this doesn't pull audiences out of superhero fatigue, nothing will. This should have huge rewatchability, so I'm expecting huge repeat business. This is the most fun you will have at the cinema, this year. See it soon, before some of it is ruined for you.

I just watched 2021's Ice Road on Netflix

Liam Neeson routine dtv action flicks tend to bore me. But the premise sounded okay, it had Lawrence Fishburn supporting and was written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh, the man behind my favourite Punisher movie (the one with Thomas Jane, John Travolta and Roy Scheider) and he had a hand in Die Hard With A Vengence (written by) and Armageddon (screenplay/story) so I decided to give it a go.

It is not perfect, and I probably would have enjoyed it more, if I watched it in the winter , instead of summer, but overall, I enjoyed it!!

It was obvious who the bad guy was, but Liam Neeson plays the type of loyal, stand up guy, you would follow into such a situation.

Although there is some ropey CGI explosions, it is intense, sad and touching, well acted and just the right length. Certainly more than worth a watch.

I just got out of Twisters.

Unfortunately, I just couldn't get that into it. It was just too cliche and too predictable. It's paper thin characters and generic script, are spread too thin over it's long run time (it feels really long) and there was no stand out imagery like in the first movie. I thought something cool might happen with some wind turbines, but no.

This is billed as a sequel, but I only spotted one call back (You could watch this, without seeing the 1996 movie), and it's just another morden day reboot, that is nothing we have not seen before.

Although a bit too CGI, the tornado's looked great, but after a while, I just stopped noticing, as it never felt real. I zoned out during the relentless technobabble (they talk A LOT) and the dull and cringey (pretty much one sided) love triangle, was a just a waste of screen time.

In the original movie Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt were costars and for their tornado team to work, it needed both of them. That's not the case here. It's all about the girl.

Daisy Edgar Jones was fine (giving off mid 80's Cynthia Gibb vibes). She is certainly easy on the eye; but her character was not particularly likeable, but everyone is drawn to her and everyone talked About how great she is, her character shouldn't be the lead (a character even calls her "the real story") or she needed to be better written, as she is just a generic female lead.

Glen Powell is on top form, and he has that movie star charisma. He reminds me of the 80's early 90's Kevin Costner. Anthony Ramos does what he can with his thankless role, sadly David Corenswet (the new Superman) doesn't stand out, as one would hope and I always like to see Katy O'Brian in a movie (She was amazing in Love Lies Bleeding, one of my favourite movies of the year) but it's only a small role.

It's not a bad movie, it's certainly more than watchable and has some interesting fun moments, but I checked my watch a few times, to see how long was left.

Sadly, this was not the summer blockbuster I was hoping for. More disappointingly, unlike the 1996 movie, it's just not a lot of fun. Watch the 1996 movie instead.

I just got out of A Quiet Place: Day One

It wasn't what I was expecting, based on the trailers, I was looking forward to seeing the carnage of Day One and everyone figuring out, silence is golden and that they need to be quiet. I didn't like that almost everyone learned to be quiet, off screen. So it was nothing we have not seen before. Characters trying to get from A to B (the point B, being stupid), whilst trying to be quiet.

Keeping it spoiler free, the movie starts off with a huge reveal (not in the ad camping) regarding a main character, that robs the movie of something.

Lupita Nyongo (brilliant, how does she not get more work?) and Stranger Things, Joseph Quinn (giving young Robert Downey Jr vibes) are both great and have good chemistry!! They share some nice, tender, human scenes (thought the script never makes it clear, why their characters connect so quickly and deeply) in what is a pretty sad and depressing movie. Not what was advertised, at all.

The CGI looks good and there are a few genuine jump scares.

This really doesn't seem like a franchise movie, it's much smaller in scale and scope (despite taking place in New York City, on the first day of an alien invasion) than the first two movies and that is a compliment, as it adds to the intimate and claustrophobic atmosphere, but from the trailers, his looked to be the biggest of them all.

I will say, that cat was way too quiet. It constantly took me out of the movie, how quiet it was being.

It sounds like I hated the movie, I didn't. It is a well made movie, with some fun action sequences that made me want to eat a margarita pizza. I just didn't love it, as much as I'd hoped and I think it's a missed opportunity.

I just watched Hit Man on Netflix

Plot In A Paragraph: A professor moonlighting as a fake hit man for his city police department, descends into dangerous territory when he finds himself attracted to a woman who enlists his services.

This one caught me totally by surprise, I had read awful things about it, but I really enjoyed it.

It's dark (especially the ending) and will not be to everyone's taste, I can see why people have problems with it, but I had a lot of fun with it.

Glenn Powell who also has a screenwriter and producer credit on this movie, easily carries it and the female lead, Adria Arjona is gorgeous and they have some good chemistry. All the cast do well, to be fair.

Richard Linklater's direction is spot on, it's not close to perfect, but I liked it.

Amazingly it's based on a real person. You see images of him over the end credits.

I just watched the Netflix movie A Family Affair

Plot In A Paragraph: Zara (Joey King) an assistant to a self absorbed, egotistical movie star (Zac Efron) is alarmed when her boss starts a relationship with her widowed mother (Nicole Kidman).

This started off promising with the Wham! Song I'm Your Man playing over the opening credits. I enjoy silly rom/com's and movies that poke fun at an actor's ego (Like Michael J Fox in The Hard Way or Burt Reynolds in A Bunch Of Amateurs), so I thought it could be a fun movie. And then it got down to it. I predicted every second of this movie (They get together, overcome some obstacles, things go well, there is a misunderstanding and fall out, then cue the happy ending) not that it's hard with a rom/com lol

Joey King was a pleasant surprise and Kathy Bates is always a joy, but Zac Efron and Nicole Kidman really lacked any sort of sexual chemistry. The love scenes are uncomfortable to watch as they both look so awkward.

Like most Netflix movies, the movie does not make much sense, the characters are not believeable, the dialogue is awful, the direction is uninspired but Die Hard meets Miracle on 34th Street meets Speed sounds like something Netflix would make and I would watch, the day it dropped.

Efron, Kidman, King and Bates's talent is wasted here.

I watched it, so you don't have to.