Movies

Aug 20, 2024 ∞

🍿 My third MIFF film was Grand Tour ★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Grand Tour (2024). The movie poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: Filmed in black and white, in 1917 Molly chases her fiancée Edward across Asia after he gets cold feet. A mix of current day and past, with a storytale narrator, Molly’s part of the story has more interest than Edward’s. While a visually appealing travelogue, the lack of dialogue and the mash of past and present just didn’t click with me.

Aug 16, 2024 ∞

🍿 My second MIFF film was Brief History of a Family (2024) ★★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Brief History of a Family (2024). The movie poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Good selected. The review reads: Lots of reviews have mentioned the similarity with Saltburn and Parasite and they weren’t wrong. The motives of Yan Shuo as the new friend ingratiating himself into the family aren’t entirely clear and build up to an unexpected ending. A great score underpins this commentary on the former one child policy.

Aug 16, 2024 ∞

🍿 My first Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) viewing was Viet and Nam (2024) ★★½

Gorgeously shot on 16mm film, a queer romance set in 2001 with two young miners exploring their secret relationship while Nam prepares to leave Vietnam for a better life. A parallel story of the search for the grave of Nam’s soldier father shows the continued impact of the war 25 years later. A slow burn with a non linear timeline, more about mood than plot.

Mar 17, 2024 ∞

🍿 Dune: Part Two - he’s not the messiah he’s just a very naughty boy ★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Dune: Part Two (2024). The movie poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: I think I'm a bit out of step with the general consensus on this one. It's visually spectacular and I'm glad I saw it on the big screen but it's longer than it needs to be and clearly setting up for a third movie. There was a meme doing the rounds on instagram that is the scene from Life of Brian where he tells his followers he's not the messiah. The meme subtitle was Dune Part Two spoilers without the context and it was spot on. I prefer the first movie over this second part.

Feb 26, 2024 ∞

🍿 Sunday night viewing was Wonka (2023) ★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie - Wonka. The left third contains the movie poster and the review is in other two-thirds. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: A bit of light entertainment on a Sunday night. Musical numbers so if that's not your thing then steer clear. You won't remember any of the songs, they're entertaining in the moment but nothing you'd play the soundtrack later to hear again. A good try at imagining the origin story for Willy Wonka but doesn't have the quirky weirdness of a Roald Dahl story that the earlier Willy Wonka movies captured.

Feb 25, 2024 ∞

🍿 Ate some popcorn and watched The Marvels (2023) ★★★½

A green rectangle with the poster for The Marvels movie on the left third and the review on the remaining two thirds. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Good selected. The review reads: At less than two hours this was a great pick for a Saturday night movie. There's enough explanation that you don't need to have seen the first movie, Ms Marvel or Wandavision, in terms of backstory for the three lead characters. The pace is good, the humour and chemistry between the leads is great and adds to the overall fun vibe of the movie.Not having to keep track of eight characters and 15 different storylines, eight of which are continuing from previous movies or tv shows, made for a refreshing change to some other marvel movies.

Feb 11, 2024 ∞

🍿 Watched Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) ★

A green card with a review of Aquaman the Lost Kingdom. The movie poster is on the left and the review on the right. The review says: Sometimes sequels should not be made, particularly when the first movie was fairly ordinary. This was one of those times. Two hours of my life I'll never get back.

Feb 10, 2024 ∞

🍿 Watched Tank Girl (1995) ★★☆

A green card with a review of the 1995 movie Tank Girl. The movie poster is on the left side and the review on the right. The review says: A post-apocalyptic sci-fi film I've been meaning to watch for ages given its cult status. For a 1995 adaptation of a comic book it was okay with parts akin to the comic book splash action page. The special effects are not the overdone CGI green screen we suffer through with the latest marvel movies. Plenty of corny explosions and the baddies shoot as poorly as stormtroopers in a Star Wars movie. The soundtrack by Courtney Love gets a little much in some parts but overall was pretty good.

Feb 5, 2024 ∞

The 150 best science fiction movies list from Rolling Stone 🍿

Rolling Stone recently published a list of the 150 best science fiction movies of our time. As with any list, it’s subjective and comes from the author’s point of view. There are some movies I wouldn’t have included and others I would have.

I’ve seen a lot of these movies but not all of them and some I haven’t seen in years. I’ve decided I will work my way through the list starting at 150, the 1995 Tank Girl, and eventually reach number 1, the 1968 2001: A Space Odyssey.

No idea how long it will take me and I might skip some that I didn’t enjoy the first time round but instead of doing the flick around trying to find something to watch I’ll have a starting point.

Feb 4, 2024 ∞

These are the voyages...

Movies

The 150 best science fiction movies list from Rolling Stone 🍿

Watched the 2023 Super Mario Bros Movie 🍿