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1988

★★ Watched 10 Jun 2025

The pacing is pretty frustrating, and it can be quite obnoxious for extended periods, but I can still see why I liked this as a kid (cool magic, violence, monsters).

2025

★★½ Liked Watched 07 Jun 2025

It feels like this should be a streaming release, and I think they could have let some of the fight scenes breath a little because the frenetic cutting can make good choreography feel messy, but if you like The Karate Kid franchise and it's demented quest to shoehorn everything into one massive canon, then it's worth a look.

A few sloppy continuity moments, but it's a totally inoffensive kids movie that hits its formulaic beats fairly well and has some fun video game influences.

It would make a solid hungover on a Sunday watch.

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2024

★★★★★ Liked 1

Painfully raw, darkly funny and (often excruciatingly) relatable - Louise Weard has captured something vital and alive with Castration Movie and, in doing so, has crafted a movie that feels more like a reflection of hopeless alienation, digital vulnerability and the DIY trans experience than anything I've seen attempted before.

Hi8 photography creates a sense of crunchy, murky realism that (when coupled with some beautifully natural performances) sort of hypnotised me into forgetting that I was watching a movie (this…

2025

★ 2

Probably one of the more propagandistic efforts I've seen from Disney Marvel in a while (lots of US military hero bullshit in this one) but it also seems (at least on its surface) to be less actively insidious than Deadpool and Wolverine when it comes to Disney trying to appease the fascists.

It is also an absolute chop job, though, so maybe all the really evil stuff ended up on the cutting-room floor.

Also there's a shot of Tim Blake Nelson in this (literally just a medium wide) that looked so out of focus and weird that I couldn't stop thinking about it.

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