07/06/14 Zulu (2013)

Engaging South African crime film.

Orlando Bloom has finally gone through puberty and now makes a fairly convincing adult on screen. Amazing what those acty types can do when you point a camera at them.

Nothing to do with Michael Caine.

Just as well, he's mostly terrible.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2249221/
7/10

Perkin.

05/06/14 The Last Light (2014)

A small bunch of survivors hide out in some big building and there's monsters outside and the rest of the world's broken or something. Although it might all be pretend.

The boy from Terminator 2 now looks like a sweaty lady.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375443/

6/10

Perkin.

02/06/14 Top Dog (2014)

Blinkin' Fackin' avin' a larf intcha?
Footy, lager bish-bosh, my san!

Geezer likes sports and a punch up, goes up against a guy with a tougher firm than his and it all goes a bit Elton John.*

Starts OK, turns quite good, then some old shit about the I.R.A. pops up and it goes right to bollocks. Lorraine Stanley is excellent, deserves better than this. Directed by one of those Kray twins from the pop band.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2626460/
5/10

Perkin.

*'Wrong'. Not flamboyant pensioner with magic hair.

01/06/14 Drive Hard (2014)

Bloody hell. There's plenty of reviews of this, read them and focus on the negative parts. It's a very, very bad film.

It is much worse than that terrible poster would suggest.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2968804/

1/10

31/05/2014 Oculus (2013)

Oculus - because "Evil Mirror" sounds a bit silly. 

Starts off ok with a couple of spooky scenes but becomes a bit of a muddle of flashbacks and flashforwards/general mashing of timelines.  The Apple product placement is shocking and the ending feels a bit tacked on.

Shame as it's about time there was a decent "spooky house" flick.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2388715/?ref_=nv_sr_1

5.5/10

Podd

30/05/14 Little Fish (2005)

Impressed with Cate Blanchett in the otherwise tedious Coffee & Cigarettes I decided to watch this Australian film about crime/drugs. There are some good performances (and Cate Blanchett is convincing at swearing but then she is Australian) but it's ultimately quite dull and the end just leaves you thinking "well what was the point of that", both in terms of the crime and the film in general.

Turns out Sam Neill was born in Northern Ireland - I did not know that.

5/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0382810/

Podd

30/05/14 5150 Elms Way (2009)

French horror (although thriller horror rather than any gore/unpleasantness with scissors) about a guy nabbed and held captive by a rum family.  It's pretty good although the main guy acts a bit unrealistically at one point ( but that's all meant to show his descent into wibblyness) and there's also a discovery by somebody which stretches the realms of coincidence a bit too much.

6.5/10

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1331291/

Podd