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The trouble with re-evaluation the prequels is that we've become so used to expecting them to be crap that any positive is amplified.
With the talent involved, and the toys they had to play with, some nice design and decent action sequences is the absolute least that should have been achieved.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

I really enjoyed this. The stand out scene for me was when Brad visits the commune. I was on the edge of my seat.
To be honest, I'm not sure the film is that successful in a completely stand alone sense. It only really works if you know a bit about the Tate murders and Hollywood of that era.
If you weren't aware of any of that I'm not sure what you'd make of any of the Margot Robbie scenes - and the ending only really works if you know what really happened.

A real experience to sit and watch though.

It was a shame about Spider-Man 3. Apparently the studio were dead set on including Venom, which Raimi was against.
They should have allowed Raimi to finish his trilogy his way and then brought in a new director for a Venom focused trilogy, giving the whole black costume thing a bit of room to breathe.

Darkman.

I hadn't seen this since renting it on VHS in the early 90s.
A really enjoyable, fun, comic book style film. It's much better than I remembered. It's a pretty simple tale of revenge with some horror elements and humour. Liam Neason in full on crazy mode is great fun - he should do more stuff like this.

I've just finished watching this.
I've decided I like Alex Garland as a writer but not as a director.
I thought the story was really good but the execution was just excruciating. I'm not a fan of the 'low energy' acting style, I have a pet hate for ambient soundtracks and I prefer characters to actually have some... Character.
I honestly think I'd have had a better time reading the script.

Excalibur

I hadn't seen this in years.
It doesn't feel as epic as it did when I was 10 and it all looks a bit cheap.
There's still lots to like about it though. Merlin in particular is great.
I reckon this would really benefit from a remaster as the dvd version I watched was very spotty and the sound was all over the place.

Great review of a pretty obscure game.
I have similar feelings to you about this one. It's an enjoyable game, well worth a play, but there are so many other great shooters on the MD that it struggles to compete.
I have to say I really like the graphics though. The colourful blockiness just looks great to me - and there's some nice parallax scrolling going on too. Most importantly the enemy bullets are easy to see.

I really enjoyed that.

Ugh. How depressing.
Still it makes me feel better about spending money on old Megadrive and NES games.

The RPG style level system completely ruined AC Odyssey for me.
You could hit a baddie in the face with a spear and it wouldn't even hurt them if they were a few levels higher than you. Absolute bollocks.

So I can wipe my arse on a squirrel when the toilet paper runs out?

Softer than Andrex but might tickle a bit 😂😂😂

and it'll probably go for your nuts.

I quite liked Robocop 2 but I really liked the Marvel Comics adaptation. Some nice artwork and a really entertaining condensed version of the story.

Godzilla: King of the Monsters.

Absolute shit.

I've been on a bit of a NES kick recently. It's a great platform for action games - they're often quite quirky and are still fun as hell to play today.

Metal Storm - this has been re released by Retro Bit (it never had a PAL release originally). It's an incredible action platform game which requires some problem solving/logocal thinking. It's made by Irem (of R-Type fame) and is an absolute gem.

Blue Shadow - Great, fast paced, ninja fun.

Shadow Warrior - More great fast paced ninja fun!

Isolated Warrior - Great shooty isometric fun.

Power Blade - Platformy boomerang fun with a vest wearing Arnie lookalike. 

The villain was called...Vajayzzle?