Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020)

I heard good things about this as a return, though I also hadn’t seen the first sequel until this year (spoiler: I didn’t like it). I figured I may as well work it into my “series project” for the year, so here I am. 25 years after the close of the last film, Bill S. […]

Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

This was one of the movies that set up my “rule of threes”, wherein second sequels and third movies for, in particular, 1980s series that came out in the 1990s were flattened and “commercialized” in a particular way that made them lacklustre when set against their predecessors. I mentioned this fifteen years ago when discussing […]

Blade: Trinity (2004)

I avoided Blade because I didn’t think it would fit with my conception of the character, as seen in Morbius, the Living Vampire and Nightstalkers once upon a time. Blade II belatedly intrigued me after some years when I learnt that Guillermo del Toro directed it. But Blade: Trinity? They were supposedly introducing the Nightstalkers […]

Batman Forever (1995)

I remember being incredibly excited about this movie at eleven years of age, watching all the behind-the-scenes features that aired on TV at the time. I also remember watching it and ending up feeling kind of bored: it seemed like all of the good stuff was in all the trailers and the featurettes, with just […]

The Bourne Ultimatum

After a work-busy week, I’m back to the series project and third iterations of the serieses I’ve been watching. I’d heard good things about this one, so I was pretty excited to sit down with it, given I’d been thoroughly pleased with both previous movies. During Jason Bourne’s (Matt Damon) flight from Kirill in The […]

Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey (1991)

There’s probably something weird about the fact that I’d never seen this one. I grew up with the first as a cultural touchstone of some sort, an animated series, and knew other kids who were into them. I heard about this one, much like I did many movies (and especially sequels), but never caught it […]

Beverly Hills Cop 2 (1987)

I swear I just read a review somewhere insisting that this one was better than the original because of Tony Scott’s action direction. For the life of me, I can’t remember where I read it or who wrote it. I was a little surprised to read it wherever it was though, based on my hazy […]

Blade II (2002)

This was actually the movie that slowly, insidiously, tipped me away from refusing to engage with the Blade movies for a variety of reasons. If it was directed by Guillermo del Toro, how could I so emphatically leave it off my list of del Toro movies to watch? Plus, didn’t some people say it was […]

Batman Returns (1992)

Half these movies that came out when I was a kid, I can’t figure out how recently I’ve seen them. At least, “seriously” seen them. I’m sure, at 8, I saw this in a theatre. I know I “watched” my special edition DVD copy. But on re-watching this? Pretty sure I wasn’t paying much attention… […]

The Bourne Supremacy (2004)

With this second month of my “number of the month means position in the franchise I should watch”, my options both narrow (I’m not going to watch something I haven’t watched my Blu-ray of the first film for) and open up (I’d already watched first movies of various series before last month). This is one […]