Owen Hughes

Formerly of Failed Critics, Set The Tape, and various podcasts you never listened to.

Used to watch loads of movies. Now? Not so much.

Favorite films

  • Apocalypse Now
  • Day of the Dead
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Blade Runner

All
  • Captain America: Brave New World

    ★½

  • Attack on Titan: Chronicle

    ★★★

  • Thunderbolts*

    ★★½

  • Havoc

    ★★★½

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Captain America: Brave New World

2025

★½ Watched

Ugly to look at, appalling dialogue, dreadful score... Felt like one of the bad episodes of a sometimes-decent 90s TV series.

Attack on Titan: Chronicle

2020

★★★ Watched

I'm just glad I'd seen the whole series before watching this. It's a good recap, but a bad movie on its own. Almost impossible to follow without any prior knowledge, I'd imagine.

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First Blood

1982

★★★★ Liked 12

I kind of thought it would be a mindless action film where Sly goes around killing the bad guys in the jungle with his machine gun and that's about it. Like Predator, I guess, just without the Predator.

I was wrong. It's excellent. I found it very entertaining, and also quite sad. Sure, Rambo is this bad-ass, super elite soldier who can kill a man practically by looking at him, but I never realised there was a subtext quite so…

The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat

1896

★★★★ 2

Amazing. Thought the train was going to come right out of the screen at me. Loses points for not being in HD.