In 2023, I watched 12 new films in the cinema. I was on track for more, but then I broke my leg. A determination to watch Napoleon was on of the things that helped get me out of the house.

The very best film I saw last year was Blue, which I saw with ioplokon as part of the Horrorshow exhibition (Read more... )

As usual, this top 10 is just the new films this year (which does somewhat give away that I will be talking a lot about at least one not-new film in the expanded post with my reasonings ( Read more... )

The year it came out, I named "Blinded By The Light" my favourite film of the year. I stand by that ( Read more... )

Spoilers throughout, along with guest commentary from L (in purple).

This film does not hang together well.

If that's a problem for you; this is not the film for you ( Read more... )

You'll notice this top 10 is lacking one film. That's because I didn't see 10 new releases in 2022. The cinema had two things working against it in summer, excellent weather and the Commonwealth Games, and then the end of November/start of December when I would normally have caught up, I was taken out by the cold that knocked me sideways for 3 ( Read more... )

Normally I start with just a top x list before posting the explanations a week later because I'm running out of the door to home for Christmas. Due to everything, this is a list only for the time being because I am rushing back from Christmas ( Read more... )

I did warn you all that it would be a very occasional series. There are also spoilers for the book and for the way various films and adaptations vary from the book ( Read more... )

And now the last in this wave of X-Men-related posts - a ranking of the X-Men films ( Read more... )

Spoilers throughoutWith Dark Phoenix I find myself torn because I am not sure how much of my dislike of the film was it being bad, and how much of my dislike is how close it came to being better ( Read more... )

The case for the prosecution: The Three Musketeers edition of my "Sword Fighting Films" posts is about 5 paragraphs away from beig done, but the flaws of this film will make an appearance ( Read more... )