Everest (2015) This film started off a bit slow but perked up the higher the climbers got up the mountain and when a vicious storm hits them in 1996 it was a brilliant watch based on a true story. 8.8/10.
Drop Pretty straight forward thriller, very similar to 'Nick of Time', except this unfolds during a date in a restaurant. Death of a Unicorn Could have just been a good mystery horror. But it had to try to be multi genre, & ends up being, well, meh.
Havoc Watched it (actually couldn't finish it) because it starred Tom Hardy, Timothy Olyphant (Justified) and Forest Whitaker. For me, excessive stylised violent action, chases and fights masked whatever subtelty was meant to be the in the storyline and what threads of morality and personal tragedy was meant to drive it. Apparently Gareth Evans' directorial style has fans. 2.5/10
The Woman in the Yard. In my opinion this is one of the best made horror movies I've seen for years ,certainly the cleverest and most original.It basically plays with the issues and experiences of death and suicidal thoughts,but it manages to really intelligently dissect and compartmentalize these issues enough for the viewer to avoid being thrown into the despair the films main characters are enduring. I do love horror films that leave your imagination to run unshackled by special effects and weak dialogue ,it's comfortably one of my favourite horror films of this year. I mean I'm not saying this will appeal to all as this is a dark movie ,but there are enough moments were you can really sit back and applaud the writing and the intelligence behind that writing. I didn't expect much from the film and I was originally torn over whether I should watch it ,but I'm glad I did ,the pacing of the film is a bit slow at the start and it drags it's feet a bit ,but there's enough in those scenes to intrigue and pull you along on the journey. I was actually shocked to how engrossing a watch it became as Blumhouse films are not really that memorable. This one however ?
The Revenant (2016) Far too long and overrated i was losing the will to live for the last hour. 6.8/10.
Uncharted 6/10 apparently based on a popular game, and is on again next few days if not eg nitflex. plenty of farce and so much distrust I think they rather lost themselves when it was just unravel clues and work your way around then it worked fine, spoiler at the bottom so don't scroll down if you don't want any kinda info about the film beyond overview rather farcical when they find two ancient ships in more robust condition than most tanks, and not sure a helicopter could carry one just secured by less than convincing straps, plus they'd have fallen to bits the way they carried on and the constant backstabbing treachery was tedious and predictable, too little focus on important stuff although I'd love to know how the brother (Sam) knew the info he sent in a message to his brother when he turned up the heat - answers on a postcard to, HTF @ all possible Free Guy 7/10 gave this a bash, seemed like it would be Matrix meets Lego whatever meets a whole bundle of other films, but was quite enjoyable aside from some of the silliest action like taking on "Dude" at the end they could easily have written a better ending, stick an "NPC" in the game with Guy at the end, a Molotov Girl most annoying thing was probably Antwat Hovachelik, you don't want to like the baddie but he was just cringe and besides stealing some code must have done something right to write/create a shoot em up free city although most of the time "missions" seem to be rather tame - walk into a bank and the security guard drops his belt and holster, not sure if the characters appear in the lair where the clip is MG wants were NPCs and why does Guy as an NPC reset when he dies, surely reset is the default for players not NPCs?!?!? I think it was their answer to how to wipe his memory, although if he had the sunglasses at the time he may have become a player by default anyway the big heads up guys and gals is below On Legend at 9pm on Thursday............... Impostor - brilliant Sci Fi based on Philip K Dick short story, a scientist is accused of being a clone and also a bomb sent to kill some high official. He sets out to prove he is him, Spencer Olham. wow, did not know Mekhi Phifer (Divergent series) was in it, Tony Shalhoub is a legend, Vincent D'Onofrio the perfect foil to Sinise, great cast, awesome plot/story, if you have not seen it then watch it Thursday and you may well have watched it 20+ times before you die
The Damned. Horror. A group of fishermen/ women are stranded in the Arctic with low supplies. A curse is put on them when they see a sinking ship and do nothing. Not a bad one to watch on Netflix.
Threads It’s not got the biggest budget and it is fairly dated but I really enjoyed it. The first part was great, looking back at the time when I was a child, in the days before the internet and mobile phones. Once the bomb went off it quickly became a pretty dark film, and quite chilling, considering what’s going on in the world. It’s different and I’m glad I watched it. 4 / 5
Unforgiven (1992) A classic old style western with a great cast of Clint Eastwood,Morgan Freeman,Gene Hackman and Richard Harris. 9/10.
What I liked most about it was that it wasn't an 'old style Western'. It was one of the first to possibly show what the 'wild West' was really like with crap guns that misfired and couldn't hit a barn door when they did go off, and people who got shot actually looking like they were seriously wounded. The climax scene where Bill Munny kills Little Bill and several others couldn't be more different to the way Eastwood's man with no name would have done it in one of the spaghetti Westerns! Great film though!
The Ballad of Wallis Island Eccentric millionaire who lives on a quiet island invites former bandmates for a private concert. Very sweet & pleasant British film this, largely helped by a good performance by Tim Kay who plays the quirky millionaire, & equally aided by Carey Mulligan & Tom Basden who play the former bandmates.
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