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I was wondering why this wasn't a bit darker and weirder, considering it was directed by Ben Wheatley -- and then skin balloon happened.

This review may contain spoilers.

Lots to love here! I love that the Doctor physically ages, I love that he has a whole other life that lasts centuries that we barely see, I love the sincere cheesiness of the reveal that the oldest question in the world is "Doctor Who?", and I love that the whole thing takes place over a single afternoon for Clara (watching a loved one age in rapid time is such a nightmare of mine, one of the reasons I found Old and Click to be such emotionally hard-hitting films). One of the best regeneration stories I've seen!

Some really cool stuff conceptually, but a little overstuffed and weirdly unfocused. Having two fan-favourite Doctors team up with a secret third Doctor to try and end the Time War should be more then enough material to fill an episode, so why do we keep cutting back to Queen Elizabeth and those horrible red creatures?? Nobody cares!

I absolutely love the idea behind John Hurt's War Doctor, but I was a little underwhelmed by the writing for him. They really built him up to be this grizzled, darker version of the character who was capable of doing such terrible things that the Doctor kept his existence a secret, but throughout the episode he was just kinda another quirky guy amongst a group of quirky guys.

Overall though I do think this was a really cool way to celebrate the show's 50th anniversary! Cute!

Can't believe I almost missed the Doctor Who/Eastenders crossover in my watch-through. It's very much classic Doctor Who, in that it's all a bit of fun until it ends with some sci-fi mumbo-jumbo that leaves me feeling confused and a little bit angry.

Obviously it needn't exist and obviously it's nowhere near as good as the cartoon, but hey! I think they did a good job!

Ohhhhhhhhh NOW I get it

Gotta be one of my favourite types of conversation (two straight[?] men just giving each other loads of compliments)

Young David Tennant is high-key giving Ross McCarney???!?!?!?!!?

Paul McGann's Doctor is such a drama queen (or, as the kids would say these days, a "messy bitch")

This was great actually!!

It's the best Doctor Who has ever looked (both the series and the character), with gorgeous sets, lighting, and a lovely Home Alone-sian score. McGann's Doctor is a wonderfully over-the-top drama queen who matches the relentless energy and pace of the story and editing. I even like the American setting, which serves to make the Doctor feel like even more of a fish out of water than usual. It's a real shame they didn't make more of these!

Ya gotta ire their commitment to making the Doctor a really unpleasant guy

Make Doctor Who boring again!

I've never followed Doctor Who -- like Game of Thrones and Star Wars, it's one of those shows where all of its biggest fans seem to hate it, which has never been very appealing to me. However, I do love the gimmick of regeneration so much (as both a sci-fi concept and as a source of showbiz news and speculation) so I'll usually watch the episodes where he regenerates.

All I can say is I can see why Doctor Who fans hate Doctor Who!

This movie roooooooooooooocks!!!!!

Justine went to bed before the movie finished, and asked us how it ended at breakfast the next morning. We tried our best to explain it, but it felt like we were describing a fever dream that we all collectively shared after ingesting some mysterious spores -- but like, a really well-plotted fever dream with set-ups and pay-offs and everything

Really incredible stuff -- like a live-action Simpsons Treehouse of Horror!

Thanks to Fiachra's prosthetics guy for recommending this one. We owe you some proper pie and mash from a proper pie and mash shop 👍

It's probably a sign that the bar is on the floor when I was impressed that this film "had themes"

Definitely in the same league as Gerwig's Little Women, in that everyone is talking in old-timey speak but they all feel so alive and sparkly that it never feels old-timey

bug sex baaaaaabyyyyyy

bug! sex! baby!

A curious little gem of a movie... Incredibly funny cast, but it's not really trying to be funny... The plot of a thriller, but it's not really trying to be thrilling... Gorgeous production design and gorgeous, lived-in performances all round. It's doing it's own thing, and I liked that thing!

Bro please come to my dad's welcome-home-from-prison party. We're going to absolutely blare lofi chill-hop beats to study/relax to at an unbelievablely high volume. It's going to be so good bro. My dad is going to give a speech about the shame he feels while my mother looks on in an expression that gives nothing away while also containing multitudes, plz bro

(I watched this as research for The Last Incel, the smash hit play coming to The Pleasance London, 14-31 May!!! I'm playing Einstain, a 30 year-old incel who is celebrating his ascension to Wizard status by watching his favourite movie, Drive (he likes it for the driving). When a virgin turns 30, he becomes a Wizard, you see. For more incel facts, grab a ticket and come on down to The Last Incel!)

Do you think this ever happened to one of the minions from Minions?

Can't help but feel that it under-delivered on some of its more tantalising promises, which feels crazy because some of the stuff in this movie is the coolest stuff I've ever seen

A classic Sunday afternoon Bond (kinda boring but in a pleasant way).

And now, my weekly segment:

The Curse of James's Schlong
Examining the fate of everyone Bond sleeps with (SPOILERS!)
Kimberley Jones: Little is known about Kimberley Jones (she's never even referred to by name in the film), except that she spends 5 days inside a boat disguised as an iceberg, eating beluga, drinking vodka, and shagging James. As far as we know, she lives on to this day.
May Day: Played by the incomparable Grace Jones, May Day is an iconic Bond Girl and a great villain – but the scene where they sleep together is extremely confusing, with neither of them seeming into it at all. This may be because, behind the scenes, Roger Moore did not enjoy working with Grace Jones, saying in interviews "My mother once said if you have nothing good to say about someone, then say nothing at all." This is a real shame, because Grace loved working with Roger, stating in her memoir that he was one of her favourite co-stars she ever worked with! Apparently Grace stayed in character throughout the shoot, which “creeped out” Roger, plus the loud music she played in her trailer would interrupt his afternoon naps (you gotta that he is an old, old man at this point, a fact that is hard to miss while watching the film). After May Day is betrayed by Evil Christopher Walken, she spoils his plan to blow up Silicon Valley by using his bomb to blow up herself instead.
Pola Ivanova: A KGB agent who has a history with James, the two put aside their Cold War Paranoia and enjoy some Hot Tub Procreation. Pola survives the events of the movie, and James is the first non-Soviet citizen to be awarded the Order of Lenin by the KGB.
Stacey Sutton: The most beautiful Bond Girl so far (in Sorcha's opinion), State Geologist Stacey Sutton will do anything to protect her Mom-and-Pop oil business from Evil Christopher Walken. She survives being kidnapped by a blimp and dangling off the Golden Gate Bridge, and when James is reported missing (presumed dead) at the end of the film, it's soon discovered that he's simply been enjoying a long hot shower with Stacey the whole time.

For those keeping score, James has now slept with 42 women, 10 of whom have died, giving sex with James Bond a 23.8% mortality rate.

Long-time followers of my weekly segment will no doubt be wondering how this film affects my fan theory that Andrea Anders and Octopussy (both played by Maud Adams) are actually the same character. Maud Adams reportedly plays a background extra in one of the city scenes here, which suggests to me that Octopussy is alive, well, and keeping a close eye on our James.

Next time– The Living Daylights!!

Perfect movie!!!! We love you Holy Cow!!!!!!

I hereby predict that it's going to be very trendy to get really into the conclave in a post-modern but also sincere way, and I fully plan on being a part of that trend. So far my vote is for Cardinal José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça (the youngest candidate at a spry 59), but I fear that his youth may work against him as ambitious cardinals will not want to wait 30 years for another crack at the vote!

All the people out there using generative AI... you literally look like Mickey with his brooms right now 🤦‍♂️

We thought the Easter Morning Movie should probably be something religious, so it was between this and The Last Temptation of Christ. No ragrets!

If there's anything the Lion King remakes have taught me it's that Scar did nothing wrong and the monarchy must be abolished

I was having a conversation at the pub the other night about how I've never really gotten into Bo Burnham, partly because I really resent the idea that in order for a piece of comedy to be seen as profound or elevated, it has to stop being funny at some point and just be “raw” and “emotional”. We were talking about the “Fringe 40 Minute Mark”, the moment in a Fringe comedy show when the comedian drops the jokes, turns the tables on the audience and makes us realise that maybe not everything is a laughing matter after all. Maybe, just maybe, some things are actually… deep?

Don't get me wrong, this can be done really well, and I've seen it done really well, and I think the comedians who do it REALLY really well are the ones who do it and don't stop being funny. More importantly though, I just really disagree with the notion that these “emotionally vulnerable” comedy shows are more praise-worthy, more important, or more artistic than a comedy show that is just 100% jokes all the way through (as if trying to be funny on stage isn't already one of the most emotionally vulnerable things you could possibly do!). Comedy is such a crazy hard skill, and if you can master it I think that's really cool and impressive, but these 100% joke shows are often seen as almost "disposable" entertainment.

With that in mind, it's interesting to watch something that is essentially 100% tragedy from beginning to end. Aside from a 60 second cameo from the always funny Lisa Gilroy, this thing is GRIM. It's just bad shit after more bad shit, a series of worst case scenarios that culminates in the worst possible case. It's an interesting concept that has something to say, but Christ is it bleeeeeeeak.

And because of that, to me it did feel a bit disposable. This bleak view of life is only one teeny tiny fraction of the human experience, and as such I don't think it's really going to stick with me. And yet, I think this will still be held up as a "better" piece of art than something that is really, really funny from beginning to end.

I'm not really sure what my point is here, and if I had one to begin with I think I've strayed from it… I guess I just find it interesting that art that makes us feel bad is more likely to receive critical praise than art that makes us feel good? And call me crazy, but I prefer to feel good!!

Is Paul Giamatti the best to ever do it?

Yes!

I think we should let Alfred Molina have another go of playing Poirot. Not because he was good at it (it's a real "go girl give us nothing" performance), but because he's so perfectly suited to Poirot on paper that I believe he could nail it if he tried a little harder. Either that, or give my boy Giamatti a crack (or any actor who's actually Belgian).

Good job Yuki!

Really fun! This could have been a whole TV show of its own, like a live action Da Boom Crew. Any other Da Boom Crew heads in the chat? Comment "This ain't no game no more baby, this is REAL!" if you fondly recall Da Boom Crew.

Lovely summer vibes ✨

This is why we go to the movies. Like what the hell was this? It was a movie is what it was. And on the big screen, no less!!

An interesting Rorschach test in that it can easily be viewed as both blatant copaganda and blatant anti-cop satire --- but we can all agree it's blatantly cool 😎

I was gonna write about how it irked me that when they were aping the look of an old Star Trek episode they chose to light the actors really amateurishly, when the original series of Star Trek is probably one of the most beautifully lit TV shows of all time... but typing all that out has made me feel like maybe I am the horrible Star Trek nerd that this episode is about........... Get in my computer work colleagues 😈😈😈😈

Sophie got that abundance mindset fr

Right before the movie started, I mentioned that there's no dialogue and Sorcha said that that sounded really boring. Then the movie started and she spent the whole runtime either looking like this 😍 or this 😱

Lately I've been reading all the Judge Dredd comics I can find at my local library, and in my opinion the character is at his most interesting when the writers drop any pretence that he's a hero (or even an antihero) and just depict him as the straight-up fascist that he is. This film does that for about ten minutes at the start (played for laughs) and then kinda gives up and becomes a Mad Max knockoff.

It looks amazing though! Very cool robot!

More like Mickey Seven Teens!*

*for context, when we arrived at the cinema there were seven teens standing on each other's shoulders, wearing the longest trenchcoat you've ever seen and trying to buy a ticket. The cashier was like "why are you doing this? It's a 15s movie, you're all old enough to go in," but the teens replied in one haunting unanimous voice "it's not about our aaaaaage, it's about the priiiiiiice of the tiiiiiiiickets," which seemed to have a hypnotic effect on the cashier and she sold them a ticket. They stayed on each other's shoulders for the whole movie, taking up only a single seat and ing the popcorn up and down like an elevator made of teenage arms. Someone shouted "down in front!" during the trailers but it was all in good fun, they weren't actually in anybody's way and we all got a good chuckle out of it. Just goes to show you, cinema etiquette isn't completely dead after all.

I think this is the funniest thing to have ever happened

Baz called it Romeo PLUS Juliet because it equals "a good time at the movies" 😎

This is kinda what it feels like to work at the Edinburgh Dungeons in your late 20s

Hahahaha yesssss spiiiiiiiiiite

I was genuinely worried about my street cred because I was low-key vibing with the first 25 minutes or so 🫣🫣🫣
but after a time-skip, Emilia Pérez reveals its true identity: a deeply stupid movie

The middle is where the meat is, but the absolutely beautiful beginning and end are where this movie earned its fifth star from me 🥲

I would've absolutely eaten this up as a child if it was on at 7am every Saturday

Cool mole!

Ah yeah D&D is just so fun isn't it. The power of imagination and camaraderie. What's better than this.

I'm watching every Doctor's first and last episode, plus any episodes where multiple Doctors cross over, and I guess I'm ranking whichever ones are on Letterboxd here.

1. Doctor Who: The End of Time
2. Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
3. Doctor Who
4. Doctor Who: Deep Breath
5. Doctor Who: The Night of the Doctor
6. Doctor Who: The Christmas Invasion
7. Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
8. Doctor Who: Time Crash
9. Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
10. Doctor Who: The Three Doctors

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Royal Tenenbaums
2. Rushmore
3. Moonrise Kingdom
4. Bottle Rocket
5. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
6. The Swan
7. Fantastic Mr. Fox
8. The Rat Catcher
9. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
10. The Grand Budapest Hotel

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Captain America: Civil War
2. Spider-Man: Homecoming
3. Guardians of the Galaxy
4. Avengers: Infinity War
5. Avengers: Endgame
6. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
7. WandaVision
8. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
9. Captain America: The Winter Soldier
10. Thor: Ragnarok

...plus 48 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

My ranking of everything I've seen with MUBI GO

1. Challengers
2. Holy Cow
3. Godzilla Minus One
4. Flow
5. A Different Man
6. Sing Sing
7. I'm Still Here
8. Smoking Causes Coughing
9. Beau Is Afraid
10. Love Lies Bleeding

...plus 46 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Sorcha May & me making our way through the Bonds (sometimes on a Tuesday)

1. The Man with the Golden Gun
2. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
3. Thunderball
4. From Russia with Love
5. The Spy Who Loved Me
6. Diamonds Are Forever
7. Goldfinger
8. A View to a Kill
9. You Only Live Twice
10. Octopussy

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Black Mirror: The National Anthem
2. Black Mirror: Eulogy
3. Black Mirror: USS Callister – Into Infinity
4. Black Mirror: Joan Is Awful
5. Black Mirror: USS Callister
6. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
7. Black Mirror: Beyond the Sea
8. Black Mirror: The Entire History of You
9. Black Mirror: Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too
10. Black Mirror: Common People

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I really like all these Poirots, but it does go without saying that the TV show gives us the best on-screen portrayal in David Suchet.

1. Murder on the Orient Express
2. Evil Under the Sun
3. Murder on the Orient Express
4. Death on the Nile
5. A Haunting in Venice
6. Death on the Nile
7. The ABC Murders
8. Murder on the Orient Express

1. Better Man
2. Dolemite Is My Name
3. Stan & Ollie
4. Elvis
5. Shadowlands
6. The Apprentice
7. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story
8. Ed Wood
9. Priscilla
10. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story

...plus 31 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I think I've got a few more to watch?

1. Rocky
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
3. Parasite
4. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
5. Titanic
6. Amadeus
7. Gladiator
8. Chicago
9. Everything Everywhere All at Once
10. Forrest Gump

...plus 12 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I've got Oscar Fever!

1. I'm Still Here
2. Conclave
3. Dune: Part Two
4. The Substance
5. Anora
6. A Complete Unknown
7. Nickel Boys
8. The Brutalist
9. Wicked
10. Emilia Pérez

1. Better Man
2. King Kong
3. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
4. Escape from the Planet of the Apes
5. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
6. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
7. Conquest of the Planet of the Apes
8. Godzilla vs. Kong
9. Beneath the Planet of the Apes
10. Planet of the Apes

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith
2. Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace
3. Star Wars: Visions – Screecher's Reach
4. Star Wars: The Last Jedi
5. Star Wars: The Force Awakens
6. Star Wars: Visions – The Twins
7. Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
8. Star Wars
9. Star Wars: Visions – Akakiri
10. Star Wars: Visions – The Duel

...plus 17 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. A Muppet Family Christmas
2. The Wrong Tros
3. Brooklyn
4. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
5. Mary Poppins
6. Gremlins
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas
8. A Very Murray Christmas
9. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
10. Did You Read About Erskine Fogarty?

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Pairs of movies that I think would work well as double features

• Ruben Brandt, Collector

  The Dixit Double Feature
  Pair with Cryptozoo

• Cryptozoo

  The Dixit Double Feature
  Pair with Ruben Brandt, Collector

• Ravenous

  Strength in Cannibalism
  Pair with Raw

• Raw

  Strength in Cannibalism
  Pair with Ravenous

• The Miseducation of Cameron Post

  Converting with the Girls
  Pair with But I'm a Cheerleader

• But I'm a Cheerleader

  Converting with the Girls
  Pair with The Miseducation of Cameron Post

• Sideways

  Sad Men Drinking
  Pair with Another Round

• Another Round

  Sad Men Drinking
  Pair with Sideways

• Bowfinger

  Don't Tell the Muse!
  Pair with Portrait of a Lady on Fire

• Portrait of a Lady on Fire

  Don't Tell the Muse!
  Pair with Bowfinger

...plus 102 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

It's not on Letterboxd, but Agatha Christie's Poirot: Hallowe'en Party is number 12, between Suitable Flesh and Se7en

1. Ghostwatch
2. Midnight Mass
3. Practical Magic
4. Communion
5. The Black Tower
6. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
7. The Substance
8. Shaun of the Dead
9. Alien: Covenant
10. Heretic

...plus 15 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2. Alien
3. Predator
4. Alien: Covenant
5. Alien Resurrection
6. Prey
7. Predator 2
8. Aliens
9. Alien³
10. Prometheus

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Possession
2. The Stepford Wives
3. Over the Garden Wall
4. Knives Out
5. The Lost Boys
6. Bram Stoker's Dracula
7. Hideous
8. Magic
9. X
10. Tome of the Unknown

...plus 10 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I have no interest in watching Maestro, you cannot make me do it.

1. The Holdovers
2. Anatomy of a Fall
3. Barbie
4. The Zone of Interest
5. Past Lives
6. Oppenheimer
7. Killers of the Flower Moon
8. American Fiction
9. Poor Things

2½ star movies that are on the good side of 2½ stars. They earned those stars, they just didn't earn any more!

• Do Revenge
• Death on the Nile
• Halloween
• I Used to Go Here
• Solo: A Star Wars Story
• Braveheart
• Lady and the Tramp
• The Tomorrow War
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
• Let It Snow

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. King Kong
3. Godzilla
4. Mothra
5. Godzilla Raids Again
6. Godzilla vs. Kong
7. Rodan
8. King Kong vs. Godzilla
9. King Kong vs. Godzilla
10. Godzilla

I couldn't think of a 10th that really fit in here!

1. Godzilla Minus One
2. TÁR
3. The People's Joker
4. Smoking Causes Coughing
5. Beau Is Afraid
6. Talk to Me
7. Theater Camp
8. Anatomy of a Fall
9. Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves

• Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
• Ghost World
• The Souvenir
• Call Me by Your Name
• Gremlins 2: The New Batch
• Spencer
• Tampopo
• Cruel Intentions 2
• Falling in Love
• Lemonade

...plus 16 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Bones
2. Talk to Me
3. Get Out
4. The Haunting of Hill House
5. The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
6. Coraline
7. The Haunting
8. Creep
9. Monolith
10. Green Vinyl

...plus 8 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Ravenous
2. It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
3. Raw
4. Candyman
5. American Psycho
6. The Love Witch
7. Werewolves Within
8. Muppets Haunted Mansion
9. Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
10. Halloween II

...plus 3 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I was inspired by Shaun Diston and Scott Aukerman's fantastic podcast, We've Got To Stop Talking TMNT On CBB, to watch all the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies.

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
• Surf Ninjas
• TMNT
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Batman vs Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Turtles Forever
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Coming Out of Their Shells Tour
• Half-Shell Heroes: Blast to the Past

...plus 4 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. The Quiet Girl
2. Red Rocket
3. Top Gun: Maverick
4. Strawberry Mansion
5. Triangle of Sadness
6. The Worst Person in the World
7. Avatar: The Way of Water
8. Funny Pages
9. Sonic the Hedgehog 2
10. Elvis

...plus 2 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

I'm enjoying WandaVision so much that I decided fuck it, I'm gonna rewatch all the MCU films in chronological order!
On the most part, I haven't rewatched any of these since I saw them in the cinema, so my previous reviews are ittedly based on very old memories. I also think I might have been unconsciously downplaying how much I enjoy them, which is very off brand for me! So I'm going to be very honest with myself this time around!
The whole thing is going to be very lame so please ignore!

• Captain America: The First Avenger

  Marvel Chronicles Episode I
  Captain America: The First Avenger
  
  - Short skinny Chris Evans is the most impressive special effect in any Marvel movie.
  - This film really wants me to enlist in the army!
  - When I first watched this, I found Bucky so unmemorable that when it was revealed a few films later that the Winter Soldier was actually Bucky all along, I was like "who's Bucky?"
  - Toby Jones is second only to Jim Broadbent in funny little British men who absolutely bring it in every role they play, no matter how small.
  - Seeing Agent Carter is reminding me how much I loved the Agent Carter TV show! In my opinion it was much more successful than this film in capturing a fun pulpy adventure vibe.
  - The scene where Steve Rogers proves he's worthy of being Captain America by jumping on top of what he thinks is a live grenade in a training drill is so stupid and dumb and bad in my opinion. 
  - All the foreshadowing to Hugo Weaving's head actually being an exposed red skull is very funny. I love it!
  - Even though it's all digital trickery, seeing Steve go into the machine skinny and come out huge feels like watching a really good magic trick. It's very well done!
  - The little swimming boy is a genuinely nice moment.
  - I really love it when a movie shows German people talking to each other in English with German accents.
  - A bit questionable that this film does so much to separate Hydra from Hitler and the Nazis. I think the idea was to make them look even more evil than the Nazis? But like... The Nazis were plenty evil. Saying that Hydra was worse feels weirdly reductive of all those atrocities Hitler did.
  - As a musical number, Star Spangled Man With A Plan is not particularly impressive, but as a sequence in a Marvel movie, it's a really special and fun stand-out moment. I would love more musical numbers in superhero movies!
  - Tommy Lee Jones is perfectly cast as tired Tommy Lee Jones.
  - Just realising on this watch that Bucky never stops being really jealous of Captain America, and that's kind of what gets him killed. Not a big thing but it's at least a bit more interesting than Bucky learning to be proud of his best friend and then tragically dying!
  - The "I'm not kissin' ya!" line is fun and in character but I can't help but imagine how much more fun it would be if it was followed by an "oh, alright!" and then Tommy Lee Jones and Captain America have a way hotter kiss right in front of Agent Carter. A missed opportunity!
  - It is wild how much Red Skull sounds like Werner Herzog. That can't have been an accident.
  - This film was grand but didn't make me feel anything, right up until the "raincheck" scene, and that's entirely down to Hayley Atwell's very good acting. 
  
  After watching this I am ittedly less excited to rewatch of all these! Maybe I won't! Who knows?!

  ⭐⭐⭐

• Marvel One-Shot: Agent Carter
• Captain Marvel

  Marvel Chronicles Episode II
  Captain Marvel
  
  - The tribute to Stan Lee in the Marvel logo is really lovely, but I can't help but feel it's a shame that it's permanently part of a movie about a character he had no part in creating. Carol Danvers co-creator Gene Colan didn't get a tribute when he ed away in 2011, and I doubt co-creator Roy Thomas is going to get one either.
  - Very cool very spooky opening shots.
  - It might be a big trope but I love the amnesia angle. It just automatically adds a fun element of mystery and it's just that bit more exciting than seeing the story play out in linear order.
  - Ben Mendelsohn is fantastic. Such a captivating performer who does sincere over-the-topness so well. I'm so delighted that he's showing up in everything these days.
  - Knowing that the Skrulls aren't actually the baddies is honestly making for a really rewarding rewatch!
  - Young Samuel L. Jackson is second only to small skinny Chris Evans as the most impressive special effect in any Marvel movie. 
  - I'm just ing that the first trailer for Captain Marvel included the shot where she punches the old lady, completely without the context that it was a shapeshifting alien. Such a rogue move!
  - Old lady train fight is great. Shapeshifting is fun!
  - I completely forgot that Nick Fury was a spy in Belfast. I'm very afraid to ask whose side he was on.
  - There's a shot right after Carol gets her memory back where she's walking towards some trees and the camera goes handheld, and for a split second, the film stops looking like a Marvel movie and like a very beautiful rustic drama. The fact that it stuck out to me makes me wish the movies had the freedom to be more creative on a very basic visual level.
  - I love Captain Marvel's suit but it makes me a little sad knowing she chose those colours in of the US Military.
  - It's surprising how effective the montage of Carol getting back up is, but it really is!
  - Captain Marvel getting overpowered t'fuck is so big and shiny and fun and joyful.
  - It'll always be funny to me that a recurring villain in the Marvel Universe is a guy named Ronan.
  - "I have nothing to prove to you" was legit quite powerful. I liked that!
  - Hearing Marvel characters say the word "Marvel" in a Marvel movie is weirdly jarring.
  - It feels mad to watch this right after Captain America, especially because they both end with post-credits teasers for MCU movies that I won't be getting to for a long while yet.
  
  This film had a lot of really good aspects to it, but at the end of the day it didn't really make me feel many feelings (until the final act at least). I don't think that's entirely the movie's fault though, I just rarely enjoy a movie half as much on the second watch. I generally avoid rewatching movies in general. What can I say! I love not knowing what happens next!
  
  Once again, rewatching 23 movies is starting to seem less and less like a fun concept. Uh oh!

• Iron Man
• Iron Man 2
• Hulk
• The Incredible Hulk
• Marvel One-Shot: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Thor's Hammer
• Thor
• Marvel One-Shot: The Consultant

...plus 32 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald
2. Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
3. Angel's Egg
4. Pokémon the Movie 2000
5. Your Name.
6. Supermarket Woman
7. The Red Spectacles
8. Funeral Parade of Roses
9. House
10. Shoplifters

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Angel's Egg
• Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
• Antiporno
• Sweet Bean
• Wet Woman in the Wind
• Tetsuo: The Iron Man
• House
• Night Is Short, Walk On Girl
• Oh Lucy!
• Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

...plus 21 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Some of these are listed as 2020 movies, but weren't released in Ireland until 2021.

• Drive My Car
• Shadow in the Cloud
• Venom: Let There Be Carnage
• Shiva Baby
• Old
• Together Together
• Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar
• Annette
• In the Heights
• Kajillionaire

...plus 1 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies that want you to know they are American.

• American Psycho
• American Beauty
• American Hustle
• American Pie
• American Sniper
• American Honey
• American Graffiti
• American Gangster
• American Animals
• American Ultra

...plus 23 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies that want you to know they are "bad".

• Bad Santa
• Bad Teacher
• Bad Moms
• Bad Trip
• Bad Education
• Bad Boys
• Bad Lieutenant
• Bad Genius
• Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa
• Bad Taste

...plus 60 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.