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Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Timothy Spall and others in a black comedy about poison-pen letters in a small town just after WWI. It's very funny, *very* sweary - although not in an offensive way unless you have very sensitive ears by modern standards - but although there are darker elements, Spall's character in particular, the satire is a bit clumsy in places and it jars slightly. Colman is absolutely brilliant, Spall is as good as ever, but Buckley seems a little too modern for the time the film is supposed to be set in. There are a few other slightly out of context bits and overall it doesn't quite work as well as it probably could have done.
7/10
(Local cinema)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001wk90/full-time
Only 80 minutes, all spent following the increasingly desperate struggles of a single mother trying to hold down a full time job, having to commute into Paris during a transport worker's strike. Gripping in a rather uncomfortable, nervy way. Excellent performance from Laure Calamy - aka Noémie from 'Call My Agent'.
7.5/10
Two young girls go missing and are found three days later, physically largely unharmed but with no memory of what's happened to them. And then strange things start occurring...
The interesting idea here - at least potentially - is that there's no "The Exorcist" in the story. Instead a group of people, men and women from different faiths, come together to try to save the two children.
Unfortunately it doesn't work. The acting is fine, but there are far too many characters with far too little to do. There are no scares, no excitement and the whole thing falls utterly flat.
Mediocre action thriller featuring female assassin saving the kid whose dad she murdered.
A shitty Star Wars / Seven Samurai rip off.
Terrible dialogue, acting and direction. Avoid.
70's style with an almost documentary feel and a great performance by David Dastmalchian, this is my favourite horror of the year so far. Although it borrows from other classic films (Exorcist and Videodrome spring to mind) it really has it's own spin on things and escalates in a most entertaining (horrific) way. Highly recommended for the horror hounds here. I watched it at a friend's but I believe it's due on Shudder UK very soon.
The action scenes were good, the characters interesting but me and my friend both wished that there was a bit more about the circumstances that led to the war.
I'll wait till it's on iPlayer.
Rural France, 1882... a group of greedy landowners are cursed by gypsies and find themselves under attack by a mysterious creature... This reminded me of Brotherhood of the Wolf, minus nearly all of the scares and action. And in fact the Beast of Gevaudan is mentioned several times.
The film's set in a part of France where it's permanently grey and misty and most people have English or Irish names, which I found rather odd. Boyd Holbrook (from The Predator) is the hero and talks in a strange accent which isn't British, Irish or French but - to be fair - doesn't sound American either. The drab look - all natural light, flames or candlelight - is quite stylish and the film's bloodier than I was expecting, but the performances are all rather flat and wooden.
Chompy and the Girls (Amazon Prime)
Sam, a middle-aged man with a boring job and a failing marriage, gets a message from a 24-year-old woman named Jackson who claims to be his daughter. The two have an awkward meeting in the park and witness something very strange...
Amazon labelled this as a horror movie, which it most definitely isn't, although it does have elements which are very vaguely reminiscent of It Follows and Invasion of the Bodysnatchers. No idea why they labelled it 18+, unless it's for strong language and drug references. Essentially it's a rather amiable indie comedy about a father and daughter finding each other and bonding. I liked it very much.
No pressure of course