Recently Watched Movies 2026

[HuskyHawk]

Hamnet. This is adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel. Nobody quite knows what happened to Shakespeare's son Hamnet or whether it inspired Hamlet (many think it did) so this is fiction based on some reasonable guesswork. In any event the movie starts slowly and drags a bit early on, but is very good, emotional and really well done. Jessie Buckley plays Agnes, Will's wife and Paul Mescal is Will. Jacobi Jupe is quite good as young Hamnet. It's largely a love story about Agnes and Will, but also paints a fairly realistic view of life in that time and place, with its man challenges, including losing children to disease and other things. Definitely worth a watch.

 

[superjohn]

I went into Sinners knowing nothing about it....

Good lord that was a jumbled mess of a movie. I thought the first 40 minutes were fairly entertaining when it looked like it was going to be a movie about black entrepreneurial criminal twins returning home to the South with stolen Chicago mob money and then bam it turned into a terrible From Dusk Till Dawn ripoff. It had none of it's charm, humor, memorable scenes and pretended to be deep art. Pure slop trying to masquerade as having deep cultural themes. From the music video halfway throught it going through the generations of black music. Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil. The whole Irish slave thing. The whole soul sucking culture vultures thing. Just a thematic mess where none of it connected.

Someone else said they thought Weapons was great, it was a disaster and I'm a big fan of the genre.

 

[ZooCougar]

I went into Sinners knowing nothing about it....

Good lord that was a jumbled mess of a movie. I thought the first 40 minutes were fairly entertaining when it looked like it was going to be a movie about black entrepreneurial criminal twins returning home to the South with stolen Chicago mob money and then bam it turned into a terrible From Dusk Till Dawn ripoff. It had none of it's charm, humor, memorable scenes and pretended to be deep art. Pure slop trying to masquerade as having deep cultural themes. From the music video halfway throught it going through the generations of black music. Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil. The whole Irish slave thing. The whole soul sucking culture vultures thing. Just a thematic mess where none of it connected.

Someone else said they thought Weapons was great, it was a disaster and I'm a big fan of the genre.

I loved Weapons.

I thought Sinners was BS. Is it a musical? Is it a Robert Rodriguez homage? I didn’t think it was remarkable at all.

 

[nelsonmuntz]

The Resistance Banker (Netflix - 2018) - Good WW2 movie and mostly true story about two Dutch bankers who became critically important in the Dutch resistance, especially in the last year of the war. Walraven van Hall and his brother Gijs, in their efforts to finance the Dutch Resistance, essentially pulled off one of the largest bank frauds in the history of the world.

My only slight criticism is there were quite a few movie tropes, but I can look past it.

Edit: the tropes bug me the next day. This is such an incredible true story, it deserved better than a good, not great movie.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Dust Bunny. Mads Mickelson and a very plastic Sigourney Weaver, plus a little girl Sophie Sloan who is excellent as Aurora. Aurora fears the monster under her bed. It looks like a dust bunny. Her parents tell her not to worry, but then stuff happens. She enlists the services of her intriguing neighbor Mickelson, to kill the monster. This is beautifully filmed in a location that sometimes looks like a fantasy city, but is supposed to be the U.S. it’s offbeat and weird and you aren’t sure what is really going on. We all enjoyed it.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Predator Badlands. Best Predator movie by a large margin. A Predator sets out to kill the most notorious creature known to his kind (Yautja) on a very dangerous planet. He’s a runt of his people. He runs into an android, played by an adorable Elle Fanning. They reluctantly team up to survive the planet and locate the creature. The rest is spoilers so can’t say more. This was fun, gave some insight into the Yaujta and was well done all around. A fun space action film.

 

[Bomber36]

Predator Badlands. Best Predator movie by a large margin. A Predator sets out to kill the most notorious creature known to his kind (Yautja) on a very dangerous planet. He’s a runt of his people. He runs into an android, played by an adorable Elle Fanning. They reluctantly team up to survive the planet and locate the creature. The rest is spoilers so can’t say more. This was fun, gave some insight into the Yaujta and was well done all around. A fun space action film.

Definitely an enjoyable watch.

 

[nwhoopfan]

I thought for sure somebody had reviewed "Bank of Dave," but I can't find it. On Netflix. Had it recommended to me several times, kept ignoring recommendations (not really sure why?), finally watched it. Very enjoyable. At least loosely based on real events. An all around great guy in a small town in England wants to open a small neighborhood bank for the betterment of the community. The banking industry was not okay with that. Against long odds he set out to make it happen. The actual star of the movie was a lawyer that aided Dave in his pursuit played by Joel Fry. I didn't even know his name, but he's very recognizable from smaller roles in "Yesterday" (the roadie) and "Cruella" (one of her sidekicks).
Also featured Phoebe Dynevor. I didn't watch Bridgerton, knew who she is, my goodness she's a lovely woman. Also briefly had the guys from Def Leppard playing themselves.

 

[Deepster]

On my current streak of watching movies I've missed along the way, I watched Fargo (1996) this weekend since I enjoyed No Country for Old Men so much. I gave it 3 out of 5 stars, maybe 3.5. It was goofier than it was dark in some points and the story was fine. Shot well, I thought the visual experience made you feel like you were really in a cold, windy wasteland, people trudging through thigh high snow, wearing lots of winter hats/gloves and still looking uncomfortably cold. A little too easy to murder people in broad daylight and not be caught easier.....but that's hollywood. You could say the same for a Pulp Fiction too.