Films I watched in January - March 2026

Wake Up Dead Man (2025) ★★★★★

I love this film. All the visuals were amazing and really stepped up in the moments of revelation, as well as in all the flash backs. The pacing was great and, as with all the Knives Out films, the time line reveals worked perfectly. Daniel Craig as Benoit Blanc was as fantastic as ever. I appreciate that, despite this film being completely entrenched in religious fanfare, Blanc is a staunch non-believer, completely set in his views that religion is, at it's core, a load of bullshit. Even when he has his final revelation and tells Jud to do what you were born to do; Be her priest, he is moved, but he is not swayed into believing. All the secondary characters were also great. They are all so ridiculously horrible, it completes the absolute campness of these films.

The Dark Knight Rises (2012) ★★★★☆

I had somehow never watched this trilogy and finally got round to watching the first two in September of last year. I will say, I liked the second one the most out of all of them, which I guess is in agreement with everyone else, just 14 years late. I got round to finishing the trilogy in March. I really enjoyed it, but this last one does drag on a bit. Also, the big reveal at the end about Talia Al Ghul was ruined for me because of Joey King and her bald head, being the child actor in the flash back scenes climbing out of The Pit. My assumption is that she wasn't a known little girl actor, so that made the child's identity more ambiguous and easily assumed by audiences to be Bane. That doesn't really work as well in 2026 when, the moment she popped up on screen, I said "That's Joey King. I know her."