Film Review: Circus of Books

Note: Film 26 of the 365 film challenge. This is a really fascinating and personal documentary, in which filmmaker Rachel Mason tells the story of her parents, Karen and Barry, who ran the adult bookstore that gives the film it's title. Through the AIDS epidemic, the Reagan's governments conservative crackdown and developments within their family, …

Film Review: A Secret Love

Note: This is film number 17 of my 365 Film Challenge. This documentary follows Pat Henschel and Terry Donahue, a lesbian couple who have been together since 1947, for much of the time keeping the true nature of their relationship hidden from their family. After over 65 years, they decide to marry and have to …

Film Review: Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made

Note: This is film #16 in my 365 Film Challenge. I saw a trailer for this movie ages ago, and it looked the kind of quirky, fun flick that I'd enjoy and so as soon as we got Disney+ this went on my watchlist, but as WoM wasn't feeling it, getting around to it got …

Film Review: Spenser Confidential

I saw the trailer for this movie on Netflix and decided to check it out because it looked fun and Mark Wahlberg is pretty reliable when it comes to action movies. Here he stars as ex-cop Spenser, who is sent to jail after assaulting his captain who he suspected of being involved in a conspiracy …

Film Review: Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker

WARNING! Here be spoilers! When I wrote about the last instalment of the Star Wars saga, The Last Jedi, I said it was a tough review to write about because I neither loved or hated the movie. The same is true here, with JJ Abrams' return to the series not being terrible but being pretty …

Movie Review: Zombieland: Double Tap

It's been ten years since Zombieland, so a sequel arriving now is pretty weird and long delayed. Having loved the first's zombie comedy I was excited to check back in the characters but would it work? It's a few years down the road and our heroes have arrived in Washington DC and take up residence …

Film Review: The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

Five years after The Lego Movie, we get a second adventure from the yellow brick men and women. In the film world five years have passed too, and the Lego world is greatly changed, having transformed into a dystopian wasteland. Everyone has had to toughen up, apart from Emmett, the cheerful, goofy construction worker voiced …

Film Review: Aquaman

It's weird that the DC movie that hit home for me the most is based around a character that I've never had a lot of time for. Perhaps it's the talking to fish thing, or the orange and green colour scheme, but Aquaman has always been the butt of plenty of jokes and is possibly …

Film Review: Mary Poppins Returns

The 1964 movie Mary Poppins is a much loved classic, the kind of film that most people will have seen at least once as a kid, and has been loved by successive generations. My parents saw it as kids, I watched it as a kid and I'm sure at some point my nieces and nephews …

Film Review: The Nutcracker and the Four Realms

I really tried with this film, but in the end, I just couldn't get onboard with the fantasy adventure it was trying to be. The problems I had with it were numerous, but mainly boiled down to the fact that the filmmakers spent so much time on the visuals that they neglected character, plot and …