michael's movie reviews
2025
These are the movies I reviewed in 2025.
reviewed 2025.05.03
This turned out to be the kind of sci-fi/action flick you hope for: good enough to keep you watching, but largely free of over-the-top emotional indulgence or blockbuster CGI scenes that take you out of it...
reviewed 2025.04.27
This is a drama set on a Japanese bullet train (shinkansen) following the long route down from northern Japan to Tokyo. A bomb threat is placed just as the train gets up to speed, warning that the bombs are rigged to go off should the train go below 100 kph. To prove his seriousness, the bomber blows up a cargo train.By the time the crew is alerted and the clock is ticking, we have already met q..
reviewed 2025.03.30
This seminal movie has a problem: you cannot now watch it without thinking of many, many other titles that have come along since then plotting the same course...
reviewed 2025.03.23
This is a sci-fi flick set in the 1960's...
reviewed 2025.03.21
Yes, it's movie night with Netflix...
reviewed 2025.01.22
This is an action flick (it's in the name!) starring two former spies or assassins or whatever who are drawn back into the game after their quiet life as suburban parents is blown up online...
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
reviewed 2025.01.13
Much to my delight, we spotted this very late sequel to the 1993 movie Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers. It had some fun call-backs and of course pits the two nerds of these movies against the arch villain Feathers McGraw.We enjoyed the plot, the fun tone, and just about everything...
reviewed 2025.01.06
Netflix was promoting this sci-fi flick this weekend...