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I just got out of Wicked For Good.

Wicked was one of my favourite movies of 2024, so I had high hopes, for this movie.

I have to say, I didn't love it as much as the first movie, but I did still enjoy it!! It's not as fun as the first movie, seems rushed and is a lot darker. This is a very sad movie. It made me feel a lot of emotions .

Of the cast, Cynthia Orivo is wonderful, whilst Glinda is the role of a lifetime for Arianna Grande (who could bag the Oscar she missed out on, last time) she is amazing, again. Marissa Bode is fantastic as Nessarose!! Just WOW!! Ethan Slater and Jonathan Bailey do okay in their roles as complicated men. Michelle Yeoh, is also okay and Jeff Goldblum is as great as he always is, as the scheming Wizard, but sadly, he isn't really given much to do, other than a great musical number.

Of the new songs, Wonderful led by Jeff Goldblum is a stand out, as is The Girl In The Bubble by Ariana Grande, but the stand out song is For Good, it is a beautiful song, but for the most part, I wasn't blown away, by them. Maybe they will grow on me, in time.

I was also kind of bored by the love triangle, this time around, as it's poorly handled and the movie sort of rushes to its end, once we hit the Wizard of Oz timeline. It could have done with being longer to flesh things out.

Overall I really liked it, I just wish it was longer and I took some tissues.

I just watched Maintenance Required on Amazon Prime.

I only watched this movie because of Katy O'Brian, and I was pleased to see she had a decent supporting role.

But it is not good, you can predict every step of this movie, it's full of ridiculous cliches, that are incredibly stale, it's an infuriating, box ticking movie that drove me up the wall. When people complain that there are no good romantic comedies anymore, it's movies like this, that are killing the genre. It didn't even have the decency to be 90 minutes.

The two leads have no chemistry and the male lead is very obnoxious, manipulative and smarmy. He is incredibly unlikeable. Yet we are supposed to root for him!!

Katy O'Brian was at least good!! So it wasn't a total waste of time.

I just got out of The Running Man.

As a fan of both the book and the 1987 Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, I was looking forward to this, despite the trailers not blowing me away.

I love Edgar Wright. From The Cornetto Trilogy to 2021's Last Night in Soho, he has never disappointed me, so when I heard he wanted to do a more faithful adaptation, I was in regardless.

There is a lot to enjoy here Glen Powell makes another strong case for his leading man, movie star, action hero credentials, it really is The Glen Powell Show. Josh Brolin (who probably filmed his scenes as Killian, in a couple of days) brings big movie star energy and possibly the whitest teeth I have ever seen in a movie. Colman Domingo is a lot of fun and would have probably stolen the movie, if he had a bit more screen time.

I always enjoy seeing Katy O'Brian on screen. I just wish someone would give her a decent sized role in a movie, as she is awesome in everything she does. But like Michael Cera, William H Macy and Lee Pace, she is hardly in the movie. We know nothing about her backstory, and we don't see much of her on the run.

There are a couple of things that drag this movie down. It's message heavy, the action sequences are nothing special, it's tone is inconsistent, it has some pacing issues (it starts off strong, then loses its way in the second act) I was really enjoying it, until after the 'Powell in a towel' scene, after which it started to slow down, we could have lost some of the this section, to expand on the other runners.

It also feels a lot longer than it actually is and the ending is anticlimactic. I'm surprised they went with it. They had a decent ending, right there, 5 minutes before the actual ending.