Favorite films

Recent reviews

• 

  Lethal Weapon 1987

  ★★★★ Rewatched 24 Mar 2025

  Eric Clapton’s insipid Miami Vice score is this flick’s
  Achilles’ Heel - sub in Alan Silvestri and this would have been unassailable Five Star Eighties Dad Fare.

• 

  Iron Man 3 2013

  ★★½ Rewatched 24 Mar 2025

  There is very little charm in Tony Stark repeatedly threatening to murder his adversaries, Extremis powered or otherwise.

  He’s not fucken Martin Riggs.

  About as lame a “trilogy” closer as one could imagine.

Popular reviews

• 

  Captain America: Brave New World 2025

  ★★½ Watched 13 Feb 2025

  Stop me if you’ve heard this one:

  Octogenarian president with undisclosed medical condition’s fragile ego threatens to tear down the foundations of democracy itself!!

  Rendered instantly quaint by the unrelenting bullshit emanating from this reality’s 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

  By which I mean The Leader should do more ketamine.

  And so should the audience.

• 

  Mickey 17 2025

  ★★★½ Watched 12 Mar 2025

  Does this flick take place in the Starship Troopers universe?

  I choose to believe YES.

  Those brain bugs were the real heroes all along.

  Ruffalo’s sledgehammer Trump riff almost derailed this for me, but thankfully the sum of the remainder of Mickey 17’s parts are (mostly) unhinged enough to compensate.

  Lesser Bong, but still superior.