Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025)

American dark comedy crime mystery film. It's about a young priest who comes under suspicion after the older priest he is sent to assist dies under seemingly impossible circumstances. This was very entertaining. Great cast (Daniel Craig, Josh O’Connor, Josh Brolin, Glenn Close, Cailee Spaeny, Andrew Scott, Mila Kunis, Jeremy Renner, Thomas Haden Church, Kerry Washington, Jeffrey Wright, James Faulkner and more). If you enjoyed the first two Knives Out movies you'll enjoy this one too. At least I did. And I wasn't even that big a fan of the first one when it came out. But now I want them to never stop making these movies. If something like The Fast and the Furious (2001) can spawn 10 sequels this can too. Overall I thought this was very good and I can very much recommend it.

I just wish I could've seen this at the cinema.

Little Man Tate (1991)

American coming-of-age drama film. It's about a child prodigy who struggles to self-actualize in social and psychological settings that largely fail to accommodate his intelligence. This was very well done. Good cast (Jodie Foster (who also directed this in her directorial debut), Dianne Wiest, David Hyde Pierce, Debi Mazar, Celia Weston, Bob Balaban and more). Overall I enjoyed this one so I can recommend it.

True Lies (1994) 👍🏻

Mr Inbetween (S01) 👍🏻

A Few Good Men (1992)

American legal drama thriller film. It's about the court-martial of two U.S. Marines charged with the murder of a fellow Marine and the tribulations of their lawyers as they prepare a case. This is a great movie. Great cast (Jack Nicholson, Tom Cruise, Demi Moore, Kevin Bacon, Kiefer Sutherland, Kevin Pollak, Cuba Gooding Jr., Christopher Guest and more) delivering some absolutely iconic performances. Overall I enjoyed this one a lot and can highly recommend it.

It's absolutely horrible that Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer Reiner have been murdered. That's not how I expected 2025 to end (and there's still two weeks left). RIP

Lifeforce (1985)

What a wild movie, some bizarre mix of sci-fi and more mystical horror about alien vampires turning humans into zombie-like creatures to vacuum their life force (hence the title) into their spaceship for, reasons. The weirdest part about this is that from the plot description one would expect some low budget thing but instead this is fairly high budget, and high effort, by the looks of it, it has Patrick Stewart in it, the special effects are legit good and there's a lot of explosions and really good sets. Like, how the fuck did this get greenlit?
I'd recommend it, never seen anything quite like it. The film does come with a bunch of warnings attached tho, from gore to full nudity, not a thing you want a child catching a glimpse of.

So... I'm kind of new to Amazon Prime and while I don't have a subscription yet in the recent Black Friday sale I stumbled across a movie with a really hilarious trailer... The Princess Bride. (Weird sidenote a week later when I was about to buy the movie they switched it to a different one that would have me instantly skip the movie 😅)

I know most of you are gonna say now: "Duh... Obviously! That movie is awesome. Get with the program!"... and while I've heard people obsessing about it on roughly a dozen different US sitcoms I was always a bit deterred by the title The Princess Bride.... I mean how much more effeminate can a title be? It might just as well be called The vagina monologues 2 😆

Well... I was proven wrong. This movie is AMAZING. It has Columbo. That kid from The Wonder Years. Adorable wordplay dialog. A dude called Mandy. Silly slapstik comedy in the style of Men in Tights or Space Balls... (An hilarious trailer with Morgan Freeman quality voice-over) Also one of the most memed scenes in the history of the Internet 😅

I can wholeheartedly recommend.

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The Sure Thing (1985)

American romantic comedy drama film. It's about the cross-country journey of two college students as they make their way from New England to Los Angeles over Christmas break, each in an effort to meet their ideal romantic match. Sure, this is not a top-tier Rob Reiner movie like the other stuff he made around that time but for what it is it's surprisingly still really good. John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga play very well off each other, the story is fun and very entertaining, overall I enjoyed this a lot. You know what, I might even put it up there amongst those other classics Rob Reiner directed during that time. So yeah, I can highly recommend it.

Predator on tv.
Before that new?.....i dont even know! I think the newest i was trying to watch was Sinners. Got about 45m into and just had to move on. definitely want to finish it though

North (1994)

American comedy-drama adventure film. It's about a young boy who's sick of being neglected by his parents, so he leaves home and travels the world in search of new parents. This is definitely a big dip after the quality of Rob Reiner's work before this one. It's entertaining enough but I feel like the book it's based on is probably better. Might read that some time if I can find it. What a stacked cast, though. Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Scarlett Johansson, Kathy Bates, Dan Aykroyd, Reba McEntire, Alan Arkin, Jon Lovitz, Jussie Smollett, John Ritter, Graham Greene, Abe Vigoda, Ben Stein and more. Overall (due to my lowered expectations because of stuff like "it has been referred to as one of the worst films ever made) I don't think it's quite as bad as I thought going in but I still can't really recommend it.