🍿 Watched Riff Raff (2025). ★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Riff Raff (2025). The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: Did Bill Murray and Ed Harris owe someone a favour so they agreed to be in this? Jennifer Coolidge was Jennifer Coolidge. Fairly ordinary as movies go. Watchable but don’t expect anything much, billed as both a comedy and crime it can’t decide which one it wants to be and is a bit all over the place.

🍿 Watched Paddington (2014) ★★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Paddington. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great with Great selected. The review reads: Is this still as good as it was when it was released a decade ago? Absolutely. Is Paddington still the best bear? Absolutely. Is this still the best of the now three Paddington movies? Absolutely.

🍿 Watched Conclave (2024) ★★★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Conclave (2024). The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Great! selected. The review reads: Thoroughly enjoyed this. If Ralph Fiennes doesn't get an Oscar it will be a sin. A dramatisation, it has glorious costumes as you'd expect and the feel of authenticity. The little twists, the politics in play, the ending. They all make for a brilliant movie.

🍿 Watched Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) ★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Star Trek: Section 31. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Avoid selected. The review reads: I wanted to like this so much and it contains all the elements needed to have a few films made in the vein of Guardians of the Galaxy but it was so disappointing. The amount of hype being pumped out by the PR machine in the lead up should have been a warning sign. Not the worst Star Trek movie but it’s right near the bottom of the rankings.

🍿 Watched Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) ★★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Good selected. The review reads: A great callback to Feathers McGraw but honestly, these should be Gromit & Wallace given he’s the one invariably saving the day! Like changing into your old comfortable clothes, after 16yrs since the last movie it was so good seeing this. Won’t be trusting any gnomes after this though.

🍿 Rewatched How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) ★★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Great! selected. The review reads: I love this movie and it gets a rewatch nearly every year as Christmas approaches. Jim Carrey's delivery and comic timing is key to the success of this movie. It holds up well and isn't dated. The lack of CGI is refreshing.

🍿 Rewatched Thor: Ragnarok (2017) ★★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Thor: Ragnarok. The show poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Avoid Okay Good Great! with Good selected. The review reads: Not my first viewing and it remains my favourite of the Thor movies. It doesn’t take itself seriously like too many of the marvel movies before it. The movie has some great humour and I’m here for anything that has Jeff Goldbloom, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston, Chris Hemsworth and Taika Waititi all bouncing jokes off each other.

🍿 All the President’s Men (1976). ★★★★

A rectangular image with a review of the movie All the Presidents Men (1976). The movie poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Great selected. The review reads: Haven’t watched this in years and it still holds up exceptionally well. The pacing is on point, and even knowing the history you’re still waiting to see if Woodward and Bernstein can build their story enough to get the backing of the editor and others up the line to publish. Redford and Hoffman are perfect casting and play great off each other.

🍿 Deadpool & Wolverine (2024). ★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Deadpool and Wolverine (2024). The movie poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: Being the third Deadpool movie you know exactly what you will get. If you went into it thinking you were going to get another overdone, lengthy Marvel movie which requires you to have seen six other movies and three tv shows to understand the plot then more fool you. Reviewers saying it’s a betrayal or some such nonsense of previous X-Men movies or the Logan character need to chill. It was always going to be dumb jokes delivered in the same goofy way Ryan Reynolds has in the last two movies. Perfectly evident from the previews what you were going to get. I think we can stop at three though. No need for a fourth Deadpool outing.

🍿 Wolfs (2024). ★★½

A rectangular image with a review of the movie Wolfs (2024). The movie poster is on the left and the review on the right side. Across the bottom is a rating of Poor Okay Good Great with Okay selected. The review reads: Clooney and Pitt just bouncing off each other is good entertainment. This isn't at the level the Oceans films were but I don't think it's as bad as a lot of people seem to think it is. There were some plot lines which seemed to go nowhere, the whole doctor knowing them both, and a major new high end hotel having cameras in the rooms is not credible. It would be out of business the minute one was discovered by a guest. It rolled along perfectly fine and wrapped up neatly but with an opening for a sequel. Standard stuff.