Top Five Flicks

May 23, 2025

I watched more than five movies in 2025, but five of them totally left an impression. Some are older, and some are newer, but they’re all good. So, here’s my top five movies of 2025 in no particular order:

Red Rocket
Time Trap
Time Cop
Total Recall
The Running Man

A lot of people would say Red Rocket was funny, but I found it to be more interesting and intriguing. Don’t get me wrong, it was humorous, but for me, it was too real; a borderline comedy/drama.

Time Trap was a movie I watched on YouTube one night while I was in bed. It totally blew my mind, and I ended up watching it like two more times the next day.

Time Cop left me speechless. I grew up watching Van Damme, and I had no idea Time Cop even existed. To me, Blood Sport was the movie that made him famous, but Time Cop, I think, was Van Damme’s best movie. Excellent plot and storyline.

I watched Total Recall starring Arnold Schwarzenegger a bunch of times over the years, and I actually still have it on VHS, but recently, it finally clicked. I said to myself, “Boy, this movie was really good!” Schwarzenegger, despite what his coworkers tell him, decides to have a memory implanted in his head of a two-week stay on the planet Mars (Lol). Things get really weird when the memory implant is rejected, and eventually, Douglas Quaid (Schwarzenegger) realizes he actually went to Mars.

The Running Man features Arnold Schwarzenegger, aka, Ben Richards, aka, The Butcher of Bakersfield. When Richards defies his military orders and chooses not to slaughter a crowd of unarmed men, woman, and children, he’s immediately apprehended. He is, however, given a second chance and an opportunity to repay his debt to society by participating on a popular game show called The Running Man.

Enjoy!

At the Movies

FLASHPOINT

Written By: George LaFountaine, Dennis Shryack, and Michael Butler

Produced By: William Tannen

Starring: Kris Kristofferson as Bobby Logan, Treat Williams as Ernie Wyatt

Flashpoint was a movie released in 1984, and I have to be honest, it was a masterpiece! Flashpoint brings together many different elements and would-be experiences from the life of border agents patrolling the southern border of the United States.

Logan and Wyatt are partners who work as border patrol agents. Logan is like the old veteran who is just tired of the politics and where the agency is headed. Wyatt is extremely smart, and he’s like the young cowboy type still believing in truth, justice, and the American way.

But Wyatt and Logan in their own ways, are both blind to how deep the corruption is within the agency, and Logan gets a first-hand lesson from a “fixer-agent” sent to Texas from Washington D.C. We’re talking about corruption at the highest levels; allowing illegal immigrants and drugs to enter the country just so the agency can continue receiving federal dollars for work.

With everything going on that’s work-related, Logan stumbles upon a jeep buried under the sand in a Texas desert, and a completely different aspect of this movie is unlocked that not only takes over the imagination of the viewing audience, but the storyline as well.

I give Flashpoint 5 out of 5 clapboards; 🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬.

Movie Review

I’ve shared some good movies with you, and you can’t deny that. Here’s another, it’s an oldie but a goodie.

The Land That Time Forgot:

Directed by Kevin Connor, and written by Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn; Starring Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, and Keith Barron.

This movie was released towards the end of November in 1974 in the U.S. and the U.K, and sold almost 2 million movie tickets in France.

There’s two things I loved about this movies besides for Susan Penhaligon and Susan Penhaligon’s lips, and that was the surprise element and the fantasy. When the movie begins it appears to be a situation of conflict during WWI as a submarine surfaces from the deep.

A small group floating along in the dense fog sees the sub rise, and they happen to be the only survivors from a ship the submarine sunk. Realizing this could be their last chance of survival, the small group decided to take it over and attempt to steer it into the hands of local authorities.

Fast forward a bit:

The ocean water is tested and the men on the submarine are shocked to see it’s mixture of fresh water (they’re in the south Atlantic I believe). When they look to see where the source is they notice a small opening to what appears to be a cave. They descend the depths once again and steer the sub through the small opening and when the come out on the other side, they find themselves a million years in the past.

A group of modern military men suddenly find themselves in the presence of Neanderthals and dinosaurs!

🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬

I gave this movie a 5 Clapboard Rating. It was enjoyable to watch, there was never a dull moment, and the blend between reality and fantasy was enough to drive the imagination.