The Movie Addict

Today was National Cinema Day and like last year i took advantage of the bargain. This year its £1 more expensive but that's still pretty good compared to the normal price of a ticket. My options were more limited this year than in 2023. Most of the films I have already seen and there are a few kids films that would have been weird to see on my own.  To be honest, the trailer seemed quite interesting and there was another reason for wanting to see this and that is my parents went to see this earlier in the week and walked out so I wanted to see whether it was worth walking out of.  The set up of the film is that Frida (Naomi Ackie) is invited to an island owned by Slater King (Channing Tatum) who a tech billionaire who has been ‘cancelled’ and is trying to improve himself. As the film progresses strange things start to happen. GOOD POINTS Central Performances The performances from Channing Tatum and Naomi Ackie are really good. I thought that Ackie in particular was very good ...

The Crow is the 100th visit to the cinema since I started keeping track at the beginning of 2016 and the 29th film I have seen this year so a record breaking moment. This is a remake of the 1994 film of the same name which I watched for the first time a few days ago which was famous really for the death of its lead Brandon Lee. I suppose it was inevitable that they would try and give the film another chance. This time it’s Bill Skarsgård who plays Eric and FKA Twigs plays Shelley. The plot is that Eric and Shelley are killed by hired thugs (hired by Danny Huston’s Vincent) and he comes back from the dead to exact revenge on those responsible. GOOD POINTS CENTRAL PERFORMANCES Skarsgård and FKA were quite good individually and worked well together. Danny Huston is really good at playing a villain. He doesn't seem to be trying too hard to come across as such a scumbag but he somehow manages it. MOTIVATION OF THE CROW The motivation of the crow is good because they spent a good amount...

Alien Romulus is one of those films that seems to have attracted a mixed reaction which given how bad Covenant was is perhaps a win. The film is set 20 years after Alien with a line dropped that the company is still looking for Ripley. The Xenomorph from the first film that gets sucked out of the airlock ends up in a meteorite and they mine it for something to seemingly create a new breed of human. Meanwhile we meet Rain who along with her ‘brother’ Andy are trying to get off a planet with no daylight along with the Artful Dodger and his band of misfits who are trying to get stuff from a decommissioned space station but things quickly go wrong. THE GOOD The poster should tell you that the facehuggers are going to feature quite heavily and for the first part of the film they do in a way that they haven’t been before. They are an effective monster and keep the action going until the Xenomorphs appear.  I also thought that Cailee Spaeny was really good as Rain. She was this film's Rip...

Borderlands is a film that seems to be destined to make peoples worst top 10 and even a few top spots. I wasn't planning on seeing this at the cinema and instead waiting for it to arrive on streaming but because of the negative reviews it was getting I thought I would go and see if it was as bad as people were making out to be. For the record, I am not an expert on video games. I played the third one many years ago but I couldn't tell you anything about it in terms of how faithful it is to the games.  This was the first film that I have ever seen that was directed by Eli Roth. He isn't a director known for making tasteful movies. I have no intention of seeing the Hostel films or Green Inferno so I am interested in seeing the one Eli Roth film that I would want to sit through. There was one red flag before I saw the film, the screenplay is written by Roth and Joe Crombie which is a pseudonym after original writer Craig Mazin asked for his name to be taken off the screenplay ...

This is remarkably the first M. Night Shyamalan film I have ever seen at the cinema. It’s also one that I have been intrigued with since I saw the first trailer. Set up of the film is the Cooper (Josh Hartnett takes his daughter Riley (Ariel Donoghue) to a Lady Raven concert (Lady Raven played by M. Night’s daughter Saleka) but the concert is actually a trap for Cooper who is revealed (in the trailer) to be a serial killer. It’s fair to say that M. Night Shyamalan has had an up and down career but I do honestly think that he has turned a corner since After Earth and hoped this would be another step in the right direction. THE GOOD STUFF All the stuff in the arena is quite good. There is a sense of claustrophobia in such a huge building and that's not an easy thing to pull off. The question is how is Cooper going to get out and that is what the film should have been about. Josh Hartnett is very good as Cooper showing both sides of his personality with the nice father fireman side an...