The Movie Addict

Brahms: The Boy II is the most recent example of a film that shouldn’t really exist. The first one was a decent horror film that was trying to cash in on the popularity of the Annabelle films but managed to make something that was good enough on it own merits. What it wasn’t was asking for a sequel however money will dictate whether something will have a sequel or not. The set up of the film is that after a home invasion where Liza gets attacked and the son Jude becomes mute, they move to the country into the guest house next door to the house used in the first film. Jude finds the boy and as the film then becomes a battle to separate Brahms from Jude. Lets start with the positives. The performances are good. Katie Holmes does well as Liza. I haven’t actually seen her in a film since Batman Begins 15 years ago. I know she’s been in films since then but just not in one I have seen. I thought that once the story moved to the guest house, she got a bit better and stronger. Christopher Con...

Fantasy Island or Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island as the BBFC Certificate has it sees a group of irritating people arrive on an island where their fantasy comes true and after a while things go wrong. The rules are stated at the beginning which is that people are only allowed one fantasy and it must be seen to the end.  The problem isn’t that all the characters are extremely irritating even though they are. It took me five minutes to come to that conclusion and that I wanted them all to meet a grizzly death. The fact that three of them didn’t was a source of annoyance for me. The problem isnt that despite setting out the rules, the film decides to change the rules. Even though they were told that once a fantasy starts it can’t be stopped, Gwen gets to change her fantasy when it turns out to be too good. Another convenient change comes right at the end when Brax is told that the fantasy he went through was his brother’s and that he gets his fantasy which is to bring his brother back....