Rocketman

Never a great Elton fan as hated all the ott costumes and stuff. But knowing his backstory gives it a different perspective and some good songs in his earlier years

Just watched "Sideways" from 2004, it was OK, but nothing I'd consider giving a re-watch.

97% rating on rotten tomatoes, overrated if you ask me.

I went to see Spiderman far from home, not much of a Spiderman fan but this was a great film, well worth a watch

Joker 10/10 must see.
Once again a film that rotten tomatoes critic's pan, while the audience loved it, all because this comic book film was more grounded in reality so the violence (which there is far less than in other films) hit too close to home for the liberal woke bell ends.
I left the cinema knowing I liked it but not sure how much I liked it , this film stays with you for days as you try to anylize Joaquin Phoenix's brilliantly portrayed character and the more you do you start to realise this is a masterpiece and the strange thing is everybody seems to have a different take on this facinating character study.

Joker - bit of a strange one this; the first part of the film is almost a case study of mental illness, and how society neglects and further alienates sufferers - with shades of the loner/incel thing, which is very zeitgeisty in the US. It has small elements of the Batman mythos clumsily crow-barred in, but they don't detract from a tour-de-force performance by Joaquin Phoenix - who is painfully good; he's difficult to look at in many scenes.

The second part takes all that and turns it into a comic book supervillain origin story; it does it very well, but I'm not sure the two parts go together - it almost feels like the conclusion cheapens the beginning?

Anyhow - I watched it almost a week ago and I'm still thinking about it; and you can't say that about many comic book movies. 8/10

Star Wars - The Rise of Skywalker; at times the late addition of JJ Abrams to tidy this up is obvious and clunky - and at other times it's a brilliantly nostalgic trip down memory lane, with more call-backs and nods to super-fans that you can shake a stick at. It appears to have got those neckbeards very exercised for its leaps away from what is known as 'canon' - but as someone who ran out of the cinema in 1979 wanting to actually *be* Hans Solo, this was a satisfying and enjoyable conclusion to a story that I've been watching, with varying degrees of enjoyment, for 40 years; into which I recruited my infant son, and was able to watch the finale with him, now an adult.

You'll watch it any way, and you'll enjoy it if you allow yourself to. 7/10

1917
Everyone should see this, and how joker got more Oscar nominations than this, I have no idea.

1917. A proper war film.

Maybe the first proper British war film for years.

No glorifying war or happy endings.

Just war as it is ,brutal, sad, often pointless where lots of people die.

Jo jo rabbit.

Funny , poignant ,political , entertaining.

Loved it 9/10.

Trial of the Chicago 7. 8/10.

The Gentlemen. 8.5/10.