The End of Oak Street: Dinosaurs on a Michigan Cul-de-Sac
My The End of Oak Street review: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, dinosaurs on a 1982 cul-de-sac, one shock death and a time jump nobody explains.
My The End of Oak Street review: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor, dinosaurs on a 1982 cul-de-sac, one shock death and a time jump nobody explains.
My Alpha review: Alia Bhatt, Anil Kapoor and a super soldier serum story that borrows from Captain America and Black Widow. I give it 7 out of 10.
My Mortal Kombat II review: gruesome fatalities straight out of the game, a much better sequel than the 2021 film, and the theme song where it belongs.
A fan’s rewatch of The Wrath of Khan, the 1982 Star Trek sequel with Khan as the best villain in the series and the death of Spock at the end.
A fan’s rewatch of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial: Elliott, Gertie, the backyard shed, the bike ride across the moon and the goodbye that still gets me.
A fan’s rewatch of Superman II: the Phantom Zone, Zod and his crew fighting Superman as equals over Metropolis, and Lex being Lex.
A fan’s rewatch of Excalibur: the sword in the stone, Merlin, the Round Table and the love triangle of Arthur, Guenevere and Lancelot.
A fan’s rewatch of Flash Gordon: Queen’s score, Ming the Merciless, Vultan’s hawkmen and one very daft tournament. Camp, loud and loved.
My Resident Evil 2026 review: not an action movie but a proper horror one, funny, scary and gross, with a new lead to root for. 4 out of 5.
A fan’s rewatch of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the 1979 film that put Kirk, Spock and McCoy on the big screen, from the refitted Enterprise to V’Ger.
A fan’s rewatch of Superman from 1978: Christopher Reeve’s Clark Kent, Pa Kent in Smallville, that flight with Lois and the night he turned the world back.
A fan’s rewatch of Star Wars: A New Hope, from Luke at the twin suns to Han’s return over the Death Star, and the genre it started for a generation.
A fan’s rewatch of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, from mashed potato mountains to the mothership, and why Roy Neary’s choice still gets me.
My honest Practical Magic 2 review: Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return, but the magic doesn’t quite land for me.
The last post in the Doomsday rewatch. A separate universe, a frightened Reed Richards and a child on the board all turn out to be exactly the point.
Rewatching Thunderbolts before Avengers Doomsday, where the team holding the Avengers name and the most powerful character in the MCU are both unsolved problems.
A rewatch of Practical Magic finds a thin story saved by Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman, and a properly fun family dynamic. An easy 4 out of 5.
Rewatching Captain America Brave New World ahead of Avengers Doomsday, where the adamantium subplot finally looks like deliberate setup rather than filler.
Rewatching Deadpool and Wolverine before Avengers Doomsday, where the Fox handover and one Comic-Con announcement turned out to matter far more than the plot.
Rewatching The Marvels before Avengers Doomsday. Marvel put its first real step toward the X-Men crossover at the end of its least-watched film.
Rewatching Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 before Avengers Doomsday, where staying out of the multiverse machinery turns out to be the reason it still works.