The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 3h"This is an unrelenting tsunami of run, hide, chase, fight set-pieces almost from the get-go, through exquisitely dressed physical sets, pausing only for poo monologues..." boxd.it/gDTuhP 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"Why couldn't we have the batshit crazy version of this type of slasher that its really stupid ending offered, instead of the stale one we got?" boxd.it/gCHkPJ 010
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 04/10/2026"... I'd actually argue that there's elements to this that bring it close to being the best of the entire run." boxd.it/gCGMrt 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"... My interest in revisiting it lay in whether it could be enjoyed today as intended - as a 'message movie' for youngsters - without applying historical context. As dangerous a move as that may well be." boxd.it/gBOOAp 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS is up there as one of the most incompetent and aggravating blockbusters of the last 20 years." boxd.it/gBOabz 010
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"... The missive was evidently to take the 'brand' and form a more successful marriage between its 'requirements' and a more mainstream blockbuster - and it very much achieves its objective." boxd.it/gBNWfR 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"... What it did in a very subtle way is tap into a component part of one of humanity's worst traits..." boxd.it/gBKoKb 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 03/10/2026"... There's laser gun shoot-outs and space dog fights and yet it's all so utterly inert up there on the screen, flatly helmed by legendary editor / studio 'scab' Stuart Baird..." boxd.it/gBsAON 010
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I'll be honest, if I woke up one day and found out that my dad was the singer of the theme song from RUNNING SCARED it would be the happiest day of my life! www.avclub.com/michael-mcdo...avclub.com58-year-old adopted man finds out Michael McDonald is his biological father58-year-old adopted man finds out Michael McDonald is his biological father 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"I think more decade+ investigations into brazenly guilty killers of low gumption but high chutzpah should come with their own one-man-band documentary film crews embedded." boxd.it/gAw7HH 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 02/10/2026"... It knows exactly what it is - Sexbot FATAL ATTRACTION - and knowingly plays that angle with the sort of dick-splattering robo-vagina style silliness you'd hope something like this has." boxd.it/gAvYvd 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 01/10/2026"... Her groundbreaking approach to making television raises a question: without her interventions, would that change have come about?" I'm alive today because of Esther Rantzen. RIP. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...theguardian.comFrom Childline to changing TV for ever: Esther Rantzen’s revolutionary lifeBe it her pioneering approach to consumer injustice or her extraordinary tackling of systemic social issues, the broadcaster was at the forefront of what television could be 030
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Ben Affleck has delivered – straight off the bat – a stone-cold modern classic, I shit you not." boxd.it/gzakNb 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"I knew - I fuckin knew - that FIRST CONTACT was going to be the bloody anomaly, not the new standard." boxd.it/gza7p1 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"... This thing was tight and ambitious, moved like a bullet and was the first of these (bar the sixth one) that never felt like two episodes of television stitched together." boxd.it/gyjFSZ 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"It's not just about the majesty of this film nor just about how its high potency still holds to this day. Though both of those are important." boxd.it/gybZOn 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"... It's a highly enjoyable, immensely entertaining action horror. Certainly one of the most entertaining of this year." boxd.it/gybElz 001
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My Wife: "Seriously, how far are you planning on taking this commitment to your alleged 'Old Childhood Favourites'?" Me: "All the way, baby. All the way." 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"... It's not as bad as that first STAR TREK film but it's a clunky one that seems to clatter pieces of story together whilst shouting something or other about a mystical space 'purgatory'..." boxd.it/gxijox 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Nicholas Meyer's return to this franchise I hold a sniffing indifference towards results in the most fun entry in the series for this first-timer." boxd.it/gw9DdH 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"There's certainly an irony that - to this STAR TREK newbie at least - one of the alleged weakest entries in the series (it apparently nearly tanked the franchise) turned out to be one of the most enjoyable for me so for." boxd.it/gvWuJt 121
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"... If so and if this year, then why not other years? Certainly ones that did leave a greater impact trail..." boxd.it/gvSfod 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Swerve this but DO seek out the Sharlto Copley movie. That's an absolute beaut' of a flick." boxd.it/gvRzMH 010
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"What this has going for it, especially compared to the last one, is an awareness of sorts that this is embarrassing and rubbish so it leans into the stupid and the craziness..." boxd.it/gv7oNx 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"The best thing about this is that, by today's comic book movie standards, at least it's short." boxd.it/gv7gNp 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"I'll still never get over the idiocy of Sony dropping the ball in failing to sync that underrated Jake Gyllenhaal sci-fi horror, LIFE, as a prequel / lead-into this because that ~totally~ works." boxd.it/gv797V 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"I found myself sat with a reluctant smirk at the complete ridiculousness on display." boxd.it/gv6YVZ 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"... All involved have drastically unlikeable the core defendant / subject comes across here and how little we eventually align ourselves to her cause." boxd.it/gv6l0Z 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"This doesn't add anything to what the utterly wonderful REMEMBERING GENE WILDER delivered first." boxd.it/guL1hp 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 26/09/2026"At this point in my first run of this series I'm genuinely quite incredulous that this was ever one of the most successful and reliable film franchises." boxd.it/guKzH5 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 25/09/2026One of the worst things I've ever seen. Though 'seen' is perhaps an exaggeration as I simply couldn't endure it. I never even got to the halfway mark. boxd.it/gtT9s3boxd.itA ½ review of The Runner (2026)There's got to be two Kevin Macdonalds, surely? Like a Kevin Macdonald and a Kevin McDonald both registered with the DGA but one is responsible for ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER and TOUCHING THE VOID, STATE OF... 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"... Unlike that really quite terrible first effort this actually has the look and feel of a 'proper' movie and even remembers to throw a couple of things in that could constitute 'set-pieces'." boxd.it/gti0fv 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Some describe this as the worst of the original movies and God do I hope that's true or I'm in for a rough ride. Because this was one of the most dull films I've ever seen." boxd.it/gt8vqf 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"Really it's just an efficient, brutal, genuinely terrifying, insanely uncomfortable and highly enjoyable slice of spider-horror!" boxd.it/gsVE0J 010
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"I've got this theory that Jim Jarmusch is a LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN fan and this is his homage to it..." boxd.it/gsVycz 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"... So arrives SUPER TROOPERS 3 which has the quality feel both visually and comedically of one of those 80s TV show spin-offs of a successful studio comedy blockbuster." boxd.it/gsV9hz 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"As a weary professional investigator myself watching bad investigations take a public hammering is one of the only things left to send a blood flow to my nethers, so I ate this up regardless." boxd.it/gsaBvl 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Easily one of the worst documentaries I've seen; a complete, inept ability to deliver on the subject at hand." boxd.it/grngPL 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"This thing is even more empty than the first film. It carries an arrogant air to it as if finally showing up is enough and we all should just be grateful it has." boxd.it/gpEnPf 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"It's an empty shell of a flick, wearing its messaging like crayon scrawled on your dining room wall by a toddler. There's genuinely not a likeable character in the whole thing." boxd.it/gpz8Rb 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Hypocritical hindsight asunder, this has actually grown into one of my favourite blockbusters of the 1990s." boxd.it/gpoKj5 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"The problem with boxing movies of this ilk is that when they're this 'simply fine' you come away regretting not just watching THE SET-UP or ROCKY again instead." boxd.it/goA3I7 100
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"My eldest has bent my ear consistently for a year to watch this and..." boxd.it/gowCWF 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"I'm a Woo acolyte and will never not take what I can get." boxd.it/govDHf 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 19/09/2026"The chasm between the tension something like this could've exuded given its log-line and the tension levels it manages to muster is disappointingly vast." boxd.it/gokr7Hboxd.itA ★★★ review of Facing El Chapo (2026)The chasm between the tension something like this could've exuded given its log-line and the tension levels it manages to muster is disappointingly vast. And that's a shame because this is a solid eno... 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"At every point your brain tells you this is shit your eyes remind you've just seen something pretty fun." boxd.it/gnkpOb 000
The L1P @thel1p.bsky.social · 18/09/2026"If the script for THE USUAL SUSPECTS is McQuarrie’s RESERVOIR DOGS, then WAY OF THE GUN is definitely worthy of being lauded as his PULP FICTION." boxd.it/gnk9NL 000
