The Random Movie Journal 27/10/2022: Watched Black Adam (2022) at the cinema with the boy after what feels like an absolute age of seeing trailers of the movie on the internet and in cinemas. Basically, morally ambiguous God-like entity Teth
Images
The Random Movie Journal 06/09/2022: Paid a visit to Robert Altman’s unsettling and occasionally baffling psychological horror, Images from 1972. The film focuses on the trials and tribulations of children’s author Cathryn as her mental state becomes untethered in
Waking Life
The Random Movie Journal 05/08/2022: Looking for a light-weight action flick to view with the boy and happened upon Snake Eyes G.I. Joe (2022) on streaming. Ummed and ahhed over it for a few moments, though eventually decided to
Jurassic World Dominion
The Random Movie Journal 20/06/2022: So, earlier today I packed the family into the car, and we all hurried down to the cinema to watch the new Jurassic Park movie. “> Unfortunately, given how much I love Jurassic Park (1993)
Last Night in Soho
The Random Movie Journal 22/05/2022: Watched Edgar Wright’s straight-faced fear flick, Last Night in Soho (2021), a supernatural/psychological horror yarn about an emotionally fragile young woman who is studying fashion in the nation’s capital. Alienated by her self-obsessed roommate and
The Unbearable weight of Massive Talent
The Random Movie Journal 08/03/2022: After a few days not watching anything and reading and writing stuff, was forced to sit down and watch Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021). The film proved to be an utterly cynical update of
High Life
10/02/2022: Spent the week revisiting the Star Wars prequel trilogy with my son, which still irks me, nearly two decades on from the release of The Revenge of the Sith. My son found it to enjoyable, though not as enjoyable
Chappie
The Random Movie Journal 26/01/2022: Scream (2022) or Scream 5 to give it its more appropriate title, as it functions rather well as a follow up to 2011’s Scream 4, is a smart, vicious and entirely knowing slasher flick that
Werewolves Within
The Random Movie Journal 12/01/2022: Watched 14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible (2021), a properly inspiring documentary about former Nepalese Gurkha and special forces daredevil Nirmal Purja and his quest to become the first ever mountaineer to scale the world’s fourteen
The Green Knight
The Random Movie Journal 26/11/2021: Stormy, cold, windy and wild outside, so settled in under a blanket with a hot cup of coffee post work to watch tick tick BOOM! (2021) on streaming. Lin Manuel Miranda’s feature debut as director