Lol, title fail, but I finally got around to watching "Before Sunrise". I was taking a flight and loaded it onto my ipad. Then after takeoff, I realised I had the sequel, "Before Sunset". How lucky was I that the in flight entertainment had the one I wanted. Strange coincidence.

I now have the sequel to watch on the flight home. It's a night flight though, so I might try to sleep instead.

I enjoyed the movie but it wasn't the revelation I'd hoped it to be. I suppose that was inevitable after having it on my watchlist for years at this point. I enjoyed their banter and their evening but there were too many points where I felt they just continued the plot as planned but real people wouldn't have. Suspension of disbelief was what I'd hoped I wouldn't need.

Nomadland (2020)
"I'm not homeless. I'm just house-less."
A luminous psalm of resilience, reframing desolation not as punishment but eudaimonic poetry through Fern, a woman anchored by transience. Barren landscapes tenderly beckon against sterile parking lots; sunsets gild trailer windows and parched sand like sacramental gold. Here, in rootless soil, communal kindness blooms with startling generosity. An elegy etched in mundanity, transforming hardship into quietly effulgent transcendence.

Babylon (2022)
Kafkaesque spectacle rolling from chaotic bacchanal speciousness into biting bitterness, then abrupt, saccharine collapse. A relentless three hour Hollywood love letter but the celluloid fever dream never numbs, referential filmic brio accentuates its core passion and the soundtrack defies torpor. La La Land's darker, inconsistent, messier twin but still an ode to the silver screen and its excess.

The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Gallant (2025)
A panoramic wuxia epic thrusts us mid-saga, directly into a war between the Mongols and the Jin Dynasty while the main character hails from the Song Dynasty. Required heavy exposition occasionally hinders momentum and the brotherhood theme feels rote, yet Mongolian steppes and cultures rendered with breathtaking grandeur and surprising reverence dazzles and awes. A flawed but vibrant cultural tapestry of nomadic spirit. 

Lebanon (2009)
War's vitriolic truth funnelled through a tank's targeting eye; its initial claustrophobic focus curdles into sclerotic fatigue. In a welcome allegory, the turret basket pools with oil, urine, and shell casings like bodily fluids in a wounded soldier. As the Sho't tank grinds brokenly onwards, the film's power too stalls. Unflinchingly authentic but ultimately mired.

Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)
A fossilized facsimile of Jurassic Park's greatest hits, desultorily exhuming island form and nostalgic scenes without their primal soul. Human characters swarm like overabundant comp(y)sognathus carcasses; Xavier's egregious presence hemorrhages goodwill like a sauropod’s arterial spray. Exhausted Velociraptors still outpace their Mutadon replacements and the mutant dinosaur finale is pure abomination, all ugly teeth and cheap shock fills its cranium. Dinosaurs remain theropod-terrible joys, yet this taxonomic travesty lets human bloat titanosaur over Mesozoic spectacle. Franchise ossified in amber; life fails to find a way.

Automod and pinning failure made me miss this weekly thread initially.

I knew I should have watched 28 Years Later instead but I got outvoted. I'll try for this weekend.

28 Years Later 3.5/5: Man, they just decided to get weird with it huh? Look, there's one gigantic, swinging, singular thing to talk about in this movie which is a batshit crazy choice but overall I think this might be the best in the series. I'll have to see how they turn this into a 3 parter before I can commit to that opinion

Oh, Hi! 3/5: This was a mystery movie monday movie and I think this one is going to resonate with a lot of women. I would have liked the ending to be a little less ambiguous, which is how I'm choosing to interpret it because if I take it the way everyone else online did then the movie loses a star and a half

Prey (2022) 4.5/5: Dan Trachtenberg continues to put out the best Predator movies. It's probably not fair that I like this more than the original because it is so clearly a love letter to the original. Still the story works really well on a re-watch when you see the formula for the movie much more clearly. I had zero expectations for Predator: Badlands and Dan has quickly moved it up my must see list

American Sweatshop: Watched it recently at a film festival, not sure if it can be watched somewhere else yet. Overall i liked it, but wasn't blown away by it. Going into it i was expecting it to be a bit more like On Falling, which imo has a somwhat similar setting with both protagonists working terrible minimum wage jobs (in content management and a amazon warehouse respectively). But where On Falling was more quiet/bleak and documentary like, American Sweatshop leaned more into having a thriller angle. Also still weird seeing reddit as a social media site in a movie.

Little Forest: Recently watched the Korean version of Little Forest from 2018 to compare it to the Japanese one Little Forest: Summer/Autumn and Winter/Spring from 2014/15. It wasn't bad, but i have to say i vastly prefer the japanese one, which imo is amazing; Just the perfect mix of delicious food, nature, farming, cozy atmosphere and great character development. This one just didn't manage to create the same vibe.