Coyote vs Acme (2026)

Amazing. Everything you want from it.

Pirates of the Caribean: Curse of the black pearl

Going Rogue

The "Pirates of the Caribean: the curse of the black pearl" was a wonderful episode.

 

The Calculator (2014)

scifi, not very logical plot; no capital punishment but prisoners are sent to die in a swamp.

very explain-y at times, and strange slow-motion.

 

consequent visuals, all grey and steel ish. 

Technotise - Edit & I (2009)

Serbian cyberpunk film.

Girl gets chip to pass exam, then grows metal skeleton inside her.

Bit curious pacing, not very strong plot, but interesting nonetheless.

 

Strangely "smooth" animations, also minimalistic, almost like Beavis & Butthead for some reason.

Clearly influenced by Japanese anime, weird action sequences that almost felt like failed hommages.

 

Backrooms

Based on photos/videos (?) of liminal spaces on 4chan...?

Also a series?
 

Quite good although I'm not yet sure I know what to make of it. A man working in a furniture shop finds a "hidden" place through the wall. Which is like the shop but different. "What if you described a dog to someone who had never seen one, and then let them draw it?"

There's scary people there. Or is the man the scary one?

Places decay into abstract versions of themselves.

This is the mind, looking in on itself...? 

The Dark Knight (2008)

Forgot how good it was, both the score by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard (particularly the very insistent slow grating-string buildup) and the acting by Heath Ledger... amazing.

 

World War Z

Rewatch.  Really not that amazing.

Exit 8 (2025)

Based on the game. Good pacing considering how little there was they could work with. Framing from different points of view worked well.

Silent Hill (2006)

Enjoyable. Not super scary, but OK enough. Nice to see some play logic being used.

God of Cookery

crazy guy thinks he's the god of cookery.  Typical Asian humour.  The food does look amazing.

 

Thrash

film so silly it's enjoyable, about a big tornado (tsunami?) that brings sharks to a little town

The Making of Tron

https://theasc.com/articles/making-of-tron-1982 

 

 

it required a tremendous amount of current to provide thousands of footcandles of bounce light. At one point Logan was using 12,000 amps, and the City of Burbank called the studio to notify them that they would be shut down if they continued to draw so much current. Fortunately the studio was able to rearrange their load and work things out with the city so that Logan and his crew could resume shooting after about 45 minutes.

 

 "The depth of field was so critical we were talking about half an inch, and that gets a little weird trying to play an intimate scene with a C-stand up your back. We would usually have a camera assistant with a telescopic sight with a cross-hair, and he would tell me through hand signals whether the actor was drifting ahead or behind the mark, and I would then, through hand signals, try to help the actor regain his mark, all the while giving his Academy Award winning performance.”

 

 

 

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Good.  Proper story telling. 

Great visuals, even on a small screen from a plane.

Akira (4k, restored)

Screen on the Green, fucking amazing to see this.

The "intense" scenes where he becomes Akira were not nearly as long and slow-motion as I seem to remember them 

Superman (2025)

No it wasn't *too* bad.

I'm gonna give it 3 out of 5 stars simply because of the Lex Luthor speech, which actually made sense.

But the robots in the "antarctic cave" ... is he batman now???  Superman was always special, because he *was* superman, did not *become* it.

 

The Running Man (2025)

Remake.

Silly, but not too bad. Popcorn fun. 

Scream (1996)

still fun to watch, hasn't aged too badly

Final Destiny 2

Ok, but this was the fourth watched so...

Final Destiny 5

Ties the first 5 films perfectly up.