total watched: 15
Best: Rushmore, The Watermelon Woman, Both Spiderverses, There Will be Blood (rewatch), Call Me Chihiro
Worst: didn’t see anything actually bad but thought the Divine documentary was flimsy
also: Barbie Movie this month lfg
Best at the cinema: Reality
Bests at home (both rewatches, obvs): Dune and One Fine Morning.
Perfect masterpieces.
Didn’t go to the cinema in June 
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38 newies seen.
Best: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse; Bones and All; I’m Your Man
Worst: The Roads Not Taken; Mia & Me: The Hero of Centopia
Best from previous years: Now Barrabas was a Robber… (1949), The Night Holds Terror (1955), Tight Spot (1955)
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Much improvement on my lazy May
Seen: 10 new, 2 Wes Anderson rewatches
Best: Broker, Spider-Verse
Worst: Sisu (still fun)
loved asteroid city. dizzyingly beautiful, funny and a good non-individualist set-up, like under milk wood
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I think the Luca Guadagnino film about the tennis challenger tour starring zendaya will be the most magnificent movie of all time
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We’ll see. I thought Bones and All was rubbish.
Recently watched:
And Soon The Darkness - British 70s countryside horror set in France. Michele Dotrice and Pamela Franklin cycle around rural France and then Dotrice goes missing…oooh Betty. Very predictable and formulaic but didn’t mind it. 5.5/10.
Thor: Love and Thunder - Nearly all done for laughs and Taika Waititi does it very well here. G n’R soundtracked throughout and a great mash up of November Rain with Natalie Portman doing Axl of sitting up out of bed in a worry here. Liked that small touch a lot.
A very well made cheesy action comedy. Jojo Rabbit remains a really shit film for me but this was very fun. 8/10.
Amsterdam - Based on a true life plot on overthrowing FDR and installing a General as a dictator. I didn’t know about this until checking it out after the film.
Margot Robbie, John David Washington and Christian Bale are a trio of friends who get pulled into this. Supporting roles from loads of familiar faces includes Taylor Swift, Robert De Niro and Chris Rock.
A bit overlong at a touch over two hours and unfortunately doesn’t use its time well. A tad boring. 4.5/10.
Dracula (1974) - The one with Jack Palance. I like Palance but this one was a bit dull. I like the hammy, over the top daft shit of the Hammer House versions. Being my age, Christopher Lee really was Dracula during the 60s and 70s, and I’ve seen a lot of the shit ones as he’s in them. This one is 3.5/10.
John Wick 4 - I had high hopes after the third one and that this one had Donnie Yen and Scott Adkins. Both Yen and Adkins underused, especially Adkins.
Didn’t have the funny bat shit crazy kills of the third one. I wanted it to be John Wick 3 part two but it seemed a slightly bit grander. Still very fun but perhaps the weakest in the series. 8/10.
Family Life - 70s Ken Loach film with Sandy Ratcliff (Sue Osman from Eastenders) in the main role as a young woman with mental health problems.
Interesting film watched in 2023 in how mental health was perceived and treated. Also, an Interesting documentary style feel of filming of this too. Trails off somewhat at the end but a decent film and I’m not a huge fan of Loach’s stuff overall. 6.5/10.
Run Rabbit Run - Sarah Snook is good here but I just didn’t enjoy this. Too many similarities between this and The Babadook, Hereditary and maybe Relic. Liked Relic hugely (the film with Emily Mortimer…not The Relic which was the monster one).
Just seemed like it’s all been done before. 3.5/10.
Watched Raiders of the Lost Ark on Friday (a delight, of course) and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull last night. Incredible how close Crystal Skull is to being a good film but ends up completely blah. Lots of big sets but then this terrible 2008 CGI sheen over loads of it. Very similar to the prequel trilogy but without those films peculiar charm. The fridge bit is fine actually but the vine swinging is atrocious.