The Movie Addict

See How They Run is a murder mystery that centres around the long running Agatha Christie stage show The Mouse Trap. The plot sees Inspector Stoppard and Constable Stalker played by Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan try and find out who killed Leo Kopernick played by Adrien Brody whilst dealing with Stoppard’s personal turmoil.  The whole film follows the well trodden whodunnit format so the film has to work in other ways to make it a success and Tom George manages it. The film works primarily because of Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan. Rockwell is playing a down on his luck constable and it's a very good performance from Rockwell who can always be relied on to give a good performance. Ronan in particular is very funny. I have only really seen her play very serious straight roles so for her to do something like this and be good as well is not what I was expecting. The supporting cast are all very good and it's always nice as a brit to see familiar faces on the big screen. I thought...

I didn't see the first Orphan film until just before seeing this sequel even though I was aware of the twist, I still thought it worked quite well. Whether a film needs a sequel especially when 13 years have passed and horror has moved along a lot since then. Well this film proves that it can be achieved even if its slightly underwhelming. The film sees Isabelle Fuhrman return as Leena with Julia Stiles playing Tricia and Rossif Sutherland playing Allen. The twist of the first film is that Esther is older than she looks. The thing is that with this being a prequel it means that she has to be even young whilst having grown up in real life which means there are some creative uses to get around the fact that it's not Isabelle Fuhrman. There are some shots where it's clear that its a body double and not Fuhrman. There are other instances where they have used creative angles to help with the illusion but it's a mixed end result. The film does actually get good around the hou...

Being a fan of Jordan Peele meant I was going to see Nope but to try and explain what the film is about is quite tricky. The closest I can manage is that OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer) have a ranch when they discover that an alien spaceship or something is above them in the clouds. I have always been a fan of Kaluuya since I first saw him in an episode of Black Mirror and in Get Out he was amazing. In this there is a hint of just being miserable but given what is happening you can understand why OJ is not exactly a barrel of laughs. I did find Emerald annoying at first but by the second half of the film I thought she had developed into someone who helped to the success of the film instead of being a distraction. She has some smart ideas including letting a balloon rise so it can get the aliens' attention and using a wishing well’s flash to get the attention as well. Normally horror films make people come across as stupid but Peele writes better than that. ...