What movies have you seen recently?

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Color Out Of Space.

Based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft of the same name, a meteor glowing with an indescribable color lands one night on an isolated farm, where the plants, animals, and even the family undergo a monstrous transformation. Great movie about humans facing the existential threat of cosmic horror. Nicholas Cage wonderfully overacts in the starring role.

Terminator: Dark Fate

To Have and Have Not

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Birds of Prey (also mentioned earlier in the thread).

Honestly nowhere near as bad as I though it was going to be, although admittedly that was coming off the back of Suicide Squad. Actually pretty watchable. If you didn't know going in that Black Canary had a superpower, that part would be kind of weird, and there were plenty of cliches thrown around (and plenty more made fun of or subverted, so it wasn't either po-faced or trying to be too HEY HEY SUPER WACKY). Plus it kind of got semi-awkwardly bent around bits of DC canon that really didn't need to be included at all and had nothing to do with the story other than to provide background wallpaper. And the 'encoded in the diamond's atomic structure' bit had me rolling my eyes. Just say it was microscopically etched onto it; it's not like anyone needed to go on a quest to find an atomic structure decoder at any point.

But, y'know, overall... when it comes to action movies, I've seen a lot worse. Robbie really did pull off a character which blended both the psychotic, damaged Harley with the educated psychologist Dr Quinzel - not a split personality per se, but knowledge that Harley was able to pull on as comfortably as picking up a giant hammer.

Speaking of qualifications, this version of Harley isn't made out as a waif-fu master or dependent on gimmicks when it comes to close-quarters combat. Her preferred style might be acrobatic, but she's definitely presented as having some solid physical muscle in her own right and an affinity for shotguns. She's not just a ditz with a mental break; she knows what she's doing when it comes to handing out pain. I'm damn sure that her scene of casually storming the police station single-handed is a deliberate homage to the original Terminator movie, for instance.

The Call Of The Wild (2020 Version)

The Drop - A Brooklyn-based crime drama with Tom Hardy, James Gandolfini, and that chick from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, Noomi Rapace. Pretty good, hard-hitting movie; not so much the mobster story, but the acting.

Home Alone.

Invisible Man - very good

Rambo II , 4/6 (Berkoff makes more of a presence than III villain)

Rambo III , 4/6

Sons of Norway buys a car 4/6 (no color , the horror ......anyway its about a 60s Oslo hood and the wives are not too happy in this car obsession phase)

Not on the level of the first but okay time killers imo

Batman Returns
I love it.