Promising Young Woman

Promising Young Woman

The Random Movie Journal 31/07/2021: Capped off a heck of a day in healthcare with a late night, home viewing of Promising Young Woman (2020). A deeply disturbing, predominantly cynical portrait of a troubled young woman whose life has been

Saint Maud

Saint Maud

The Random Movie Journal 27/06/2021: Spent the morning listening to the Mary Poppins (1964) and Mary Poppins Returns (2019) soundtracks for an article I’m working on. Spent the afternoon playing Sackboy on the PS5. Stayed up late after watching some

The Invisible Man

The Invisible Man

The Random Movie Journal 13/06/2021: Started to watch DC comic book adaptation Sweet Tooth on Netflix which, so far, has proved to be a big-hearted blast of post-apocalyptic, COVID inflected optimism. Followed this with some gaming, some reading, a spot

Fear and Desire

Fear and Desire

The Random Movie Journal 06/06/2021: Started my Sunday off with period flick The Dig (2021), a gentle Sussex set drama from director Simon Stone, about an archaeological dig in the build-up to the commencement of the second world war. Strong

Jojo Rabbit

Jojo Rabbit

The Random Movie Journal 30/05/2021 My son came looking for me to watch something with him after a day spent enjoying the sunshine, reading an Ian Rankin Rebus novel and laying about playing some video games. Plumped for Disney live

Underwater

Underwater

The Random Movie Journal 23/05/2021: Up for some b movie horror kills so I sat down to watch Wolves (2014) a teen-wolf horror flick about a popular high school football player called Cayden (Lucas Till) who develops wolf man tendencies

Fury

Fury

The Random Movie Journal 09/05/2021: Watched the first protracted episode of Disney Star Wars Clone Wars spin off The Bad Batch, which was an exciting, entertaining and extremely well animated first episode, set just after the ascension of The Galactic

The Witches

The Witches

The Random Movie Journal 02/05/2021: Kids afternoon movie. Roald Dahl’s, The Witches (2020). Roald Dahl remains the absolute benchmark when it comes to scary kids’ yarns laced with acid humour. The Witches, meanwhile, is one of his best books, originally

Creed 2

Creed II

The Random Movie Journal 24/04/2021: Final episode of The Falcon and The Winter Soldier brings Disney’s latest Marvel TV show to a rousing conclusion. A neatly organised, fun action show, that balances emotional family moments and themes of disenfranchisement and