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Now, I know that this wasn't made in the 21st century, but I feel that Fallen Angels really captures the feeling of the present. Just replace the cigarettes with vapes and this could've been made in 2025.

Everyone's just lonely and disconnected in this film as they are in the real world. They all communicate via fax machines, telephone calls, and jukeboxes as opposed to social media. Either that or hand gestures. It's always night time, always dark. The camera is an extension of the present, too. It's either strangely disconnected or uncomfortably close.

It feels like such trivial things as love and family wouldn't exist in a world like Fallen Angels'. And yet, it somehow does. It's fleeting, and it ends sometimes, but it's still there, worming past the loneliness and pulling people together. Sometimes, there's a spark. Sometimes, the sun comes up.

A super gay film where all the men love Cars and they repeatedly ignore their wives to focus on their Cars and racing and nearly dying and such

Watched on Thursday June 5, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

Watched on Sunday June 1, 2025.

What a perfect film. How do you express what people are thinking, without saying it outright? This is how. Looks. Emotions, all over the face. Bodies moving past each other in the night. A glance or two. Movement in slow-motion, like being in a dream. The same bits of soundtrack repeating over and over, like a song stuck in your head, or a feeling you cannot shake. A love affair that isn't a love affair, which ends as soon as they it outright what it is. This is a story that trusts you to feel what's going on in your heart. It tells you, without telling you, everything.

Michael Cera takes his glasses off like the nerdy woman in a romcom and, suddenly, he's hot. Coincidence?

It's great that Ethan Hunt will kill any random criminal thug without a second thought but he's concerned about the lives and safety of French police officers. FRENCH police officers. In PARIS.

Anyways this is McQuarrie's best M:I film by a long shot. He really caught lightning in a bottle here, and it's really disappointing that he didn't come close to catching it again for Dead Reckoning or Final Reckoning.

This looks great, the writing is great apart from a few stray lines here and there, the plot is comprehensible, the action setpieces work well within the story. What happened??? I need to stop being mad about this because this film is too good waste any more time comparing it to what came after.

Beast mode

I miss when Ethan Hunt was just some really talented agent with a lot of friends instead of the only guy in the universe who can save the world or whatever

Everyone in this actually feels like characters!! And there's cool gadgets!! And there's a coherent plot!!!! If only the villains were memorable...

It's a short, punchy, bald-faced, disgusting little satire about advertising and capitalism and how cutthroat it all is. It's also a film where Richard E. Grant goes from a stressed, chain-smoking ad-man, to raving lunatic who screams at feminists and wears cardboard boxes on his head, to a mustached, horny, Land-Rover-driving, pinstriped-suit-wearing parasite with a sticker on his car that says 'I Heart Boils'. All thanks to him 'getting a head in advertising' (har har). It scared my mum.

Tom Cruise has lost the plot. I mean that in two ways. Firstly, Cruise is an utter man who will run, jump, fly and dive his way across the screen in ways that would kill a normal person, as long as it makes for a good shot. Of course, we knew that already.

Secondly -- and this is a more recent development -- Cruise and his writing team have zero clue how to glue his incredible setpieces into a narrative. They barely have enough skill to stitch together a good plot, even. This has been true since Dead Reckoning came out.

One of these things makes for a great cinema experience. You eagerly clutch at your handrests, gasping. Your heart pumps faster, and so on. It's tense. The other one, though, is enough to make you laugh at the screen in disbelief. Can you guess which is which?

To make a long story short -- something Cruise and his team couldn't do with The Final Reckoning, apparently -- this film has some of the best action setpieces I've ever seen on the big screen. It's as good as Fallout, which I saw in the cinema as well, and loved (I didn't see Dead Reckoning in theatres).

Unfortunately, the plot, the writing, and a large part of the acting was terrible. I've seen Marvel films (this year!!) that were less insufferable than this! I liked how dark and hopeless it felt. I thought the Fail Safe style nuclear shenanigans in the US Presidential Cabinet were cute. I liked the old-school dramatic lighting on people's faces that cropped up every so often. I even liked Cruise's God Complex, one-man-against-the-world thing. It's endearing!

I could have loved the plot. It could have been dark and tense and funny and edge-of-your-seat stuff, all the way through... except that McQuarrie and Co. can't write for shit! God knows how they managed to fuck up this bad. Are they entirely to blame, or did the aftershocks of COVID, the Writer's Strike, and the inevitable dark hand of Studio Interference play their part? Maybe. Probably.

I liked the film, though. It didn't feel half as lame and half-baked as its predecessor. It had its problems -- really fucking huge ones -- but I had a great time, and I left the cinema with a smile on my face and a lot of adrenaline. So, I'll say that I liked it.

This is probably Wes Anderson's most straightforward and accessible film since The Grand Budapest Hotel. It's funny and charming and impeccable, as usual. The fictional, war-torn, potential money pot of Phoenicia is a decent stand-in for the countries of the Middle East, even if it's a bit half-baked. There's not really much else to say. It's classic Wes Anderson, what more could you want?

It's dreamlike, in the best sense of the word; muddy, beautiful, surreal, fundamentally unsatisfying. Jean Cocteau twists and shapes the timeless story of Orpheus to his will. 'A legend is entitled to be beyond time and place.' That's what Cocteau says at the beginning, as an excuse -- or an explanation. Through him, Orpheus becomes a crabby dickhead who bumbles his way through some of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring sequences put to film looking like some confused dog. He is entirely at the whims of Death and her attendants. The legendary myth happens almost by accident. And when Orpheus eventually, finally, gets what he thinks he wants, he's whisked back to where he came from, completely oblivious to everything. It's the perfect cliche to cap off a frustrating but incredibly original film; it was all a dream.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 22, 2025.

Watched on Tuesday May 20, 2025.

Lame. A shitty send off to a good popstar's persona that just makes me like him less.

I love how this film portrays communication and how difficult it can be. We watch Travis go from a mute stranger with barely anything wandering the desert, to a long-lost brother with the talking skills of a child, to a father struggling to connect with his son, and then finally a husband reaching over a gulf to his ex-wife - not reconciliation per se, but explanation, and penance.

There's so many barriers for people to overcome. A language barrier with Travis and the Spanish-speaking maid. The barrier of understanding between Travis and his brother. The dozens of barriers between Travis and Hunter - the uphill road from school, the walkie-talkies, the film reel; Travis' tape recording to his son at the end. The glass barrier between Travis and Jane. The dozens of phone calls. The green phone in the booth at the end. The gigantic barriers of space and time, and memory. So many barriers, and yet everyone does their best to break them down and work through them, as best as they can.

Everyone in this has human struggles and human emotions, and human ugliness that is difficult to forgive and ignore. It's just so human, and it's wonderful.

Daniel Day-Lewis pulls some incredible Faces in this

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Watched on Thursday May 15, 2025.

Tom Cruise looks like my uncle in this

Watched on Wednesday May 14, 2025.

Josh Brolin spends most of this film with a strange oral fixation, probably because of his partner dying. In his last scene he eats Joaquin Phoenix's bush. Interesting 🤔

This could have been good. Scratch that, this could have been okay. It had all the pieces set for a perfectly fine Nicolas Cage flick with his usual crazies thrown in. Instead, they picked all the least interesting moves possible, and the whole thing ended up being a little bit dull. Was probably meant to be a random Aussie short film, with forty-five minutes less fluff, before some producer decided to shoehorn Cage in for some extra funding.

Steve Coogan plays an English dick head who learns to love again thanks to a school full of quirky characters with hearts of gold. Oh, and because of the penguin. He's in Argentina when this happens, by the way. During a coup. They do scary things like kidnap people. Somehow, this film manages to approach the subject of military dictatorship with no teeth. There's no sense of danger, or really any sense what's going on, beyond the fact that there's been a coup and some people are fighting it someplace somewhere. It all feels a little disconnected from the main story, about Steve Coogan ingratiating himself into the school. And the penguin. The penguin could not exist and the story would play out in almost exactly the same way. Why tell this true story if you just plan on making it boring?

Watched on Tuesday May 13, 2025.

Watched on Sunday May 11, 2025.

It's depressing that a film this flimsy, this weak, is the best thing Marvel Studios has put out in years.

Ben Affleck has a weird British sounding accent because of his autism, for some reason. He also has an army of autistic child hackers a phone call away. As you do. Jon Bernthal did what he does in every movie. The action was good. I haven't seen the first one.

THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE

I can't help but like this film 🤷‍♂️

This is so crazy awesome. It's a mess that's poorly stitched together, but even if you decide to ignore that, it still manages to be bad

Imagine if it was Bulgarian Psycho and it was set in Bulgaria instead of New York City in New York in the United States of America in North America which is in the Western Hemisphere which

For God's sake someone help me

Challenge the Fuck out of me

Go tigers

The last third of this is bleak stuff. And the two thirds before that, but the last third especially so.

Watched this in a little bar in Sicily, they really love David Lynch all over the world don't they

Watched on Wednesday April 23, 2025.

That fucking sucked

I Watched Bee Movie And I Didn't Even Get A Crummy T-Shirt

A fun little French Neo-Noir. Dirty, dingy, deliciously moody. It's understated in a way that makes the brief flashes of violence that bit more shocking. When Coluche kissed the girl that was wayyyyyyyy too young for him I thought: 'Ah! So French!' What more could you possibly need in a film?

Idk man. It's a well-made film with not much to say other than 'war is bad'. Any hints of criticism about the Iraq War seem almost incidental, or background to the main event. Everything, down to the characters, the sound design, the deliberately slow and painful pacing, is incidental. It could be set anywhere else at any other time, made by any other veteran. It's all just set dressing for the overarching message.

'War is bad.' That's all it's trying to say. It's an attempt at an objective look at war, done by launching you into the conflict, into the soldier's heads, with little-to-no context. You watch through their eyes as they sweat and wait, and then you observe as it all goes to hell, and things are looking bad, and blood and bullets start flying about.

Is it propaganda because there's barely any criticism? Is it subversive because half of the soldiers do nothing in the film but run around like headless chickens and get shot at? Does the fact that it's a movie make it nothing but fancy spectacle, for random people to gawk at, and nothing else? Is it 'good' because it's well-made, or does it need more intellectual meat on the bone?

God knows. All I know is that it kept my attention for the full 95 minutes, and I left the theatre with pretty much one phrase stuck in my head. 'War is bad'.

Thank you Ryan Coogler for writing good twins in your film 🙏

Watched on Tuesday April 15, 2025.

It says it all in the name, really. Hatred, boiling through the housing estates of Paris and its people, the police stations littered through the city, the galleries and the supermarkets, the clubs, the boxing rings, the playgrounds. It has lots of adrenaline and god-knows-what-else in people's systems. Lots of swearing. Lots of simmering looks between enemies and friends. It's shocking and it's violent, and it's about as blunt as a bullet to the face. But maybe that's what makes it so good.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

Watched on Saturday April 12, 2025.

1. Sinners
2. Hard Truths
3. The Phoenician Scheme
4. Black Bag
5. Mickey 17
6. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
7. The ant²
8. Warfare
9. The Monkey
10. Thunderbolts*

...plus 5 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. Mission: Impossible
2. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
3. Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol
4. Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation
5. Mission: Impossible III
6. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning
7. Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning
8. Mission: Impossible II

1. Oppenheimer
2. Poor Things
3. The Boy and the Heron
4. Asteroid City
5. Barbie
6. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
7. Beau Is Afraid
8. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
9. The Killer
10. The Iron Claw

...plus 13 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

All my faves :)

• Amadeus
• Carlito's Way
• Malcolm X
• La Haine
• The Favourite
• Mikey and Nicky
• Withnail & I
• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
• Barry Lyndon
• The Age of Innocence

...plus 38 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

1. La Chimera
2. The Beast
3. Sing Sing
4. Queer
5. Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
6. Challengers
7. Dune: Part Two
8. A Different Man
9. Chime
10. Maria

...plus 22 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

• Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
• Husbands
• The Last Picture Show
• Happiness
• La Dolce Vita
• Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
• Night on Earth
• Stalker
• Beau Travail
• In a Lonely Place

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

• Alien
• Alien: Covenant
• Aliens
• Prometheus
• Alien: Romulus
• Alien³

1. Malcolm X
2. Do the Right Thing
3. Mo' Better Blues
4. Bamboozled
5. Da 5 Bloods
6. 25th Hour
7. BlacKkKlansman
8. Crooklyn
9. Inside Man
10. She's Gotta Have It

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

1. Oppenheimer
2. Memento
3. Tenet
4. The Prestige
5. The Dark Knight
6. Interstellar
7. Inception
8. Dunkirk
9. Batman Begins
10. The Dark Knight Rises

• Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Mad Max: Fury Road
• Mad Max 2
• Mad Max
• Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

1. This Much I Know to Be True
2. Aftersun
3. Nope
4. Decision to Leave
5. The Northman
6. The Banshees of Inisherin
7. RRR
8. Everything Everywhere All at Once
9. TÁR
10. Babylon

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

1. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
3. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
4. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
5. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
6. The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

In order of how much I want to get them

1. Walker
2. The Long Goodbye
3. Eyes Wide Shut
4. Dog Day Afternoon
5. Serpico
6. The French Connection
7. The Insider
8. Carlito's Way
9. Drive My Car
10. Mo' Better Blues

...plus 6 more. View the full list on Letterboxd.

Movies picked by me and my friends

Patrick - Superman
Mars - Crimson Peak
George - Mishima
Ethan - Lilja 4-Ever
Me - Amadeus

1. Amadeus
2. Crimson Peak
3. Lilya 4-ever
4. Superman
5. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters