lukas has reviewed 4 films tagged ‘blu-ray’ during 2024.

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

2015

★★★★ Rewatched

Quite easily the best of the franchise (so far?). Barely any fat, moves at such a lively and frantic pace that the runtime flies by. Ball’s higher budget and larger cast clearly did only wonders to his confidence as a film-maker, as the action sequences in particular are beautifully helmed. So much love for this sequel, kinda wish more of these types of movies were made nowadays.

Logan

2017

★★★★½ Rewatched

Find another superhero movie that explores grief and hope with this much meditation, pure grit and ion that bleeds through the screen. I have no doubt in my mind that this will be a classic a hundred years from now, and then some - near flawless comic book film making.

Jack the Giant Slayer

2013

★★★½ Rewatched

Childhood banger! Quite formulaic all the way through, but it’s undeniably a fun time with a good sense of pace, adventure and blockbuster cheese. Pretty gnarly at times too, an R version of this would go crazy.

Heat

1995

★★★★★ Liked Rewatched

Maybe the style gets a little too melodramatic at times, but the rest of Heat is just so unbelievably mesmerising that it’s so hard for me to care. More than just your regular heist film - a visceral and epic odyssey of loneliness, the vital choices that we have the power to make in our lives, and regret, juxtaposing with the cold and bitter exterior of LA, and the broken characters that inhabit it. I could easily get lost in this world for another 3 hours, movies simply do not get better than this.