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'In the Heart of the Sea'

Period piece, based on the true story which also inspired the writing of 'Moby Dick'

Great film in my opinion, kept me interested throughout with a satisfying end.

8.5/10

Hereditary(2018)

A superb horror effort from writer/director Ari Aster that revolves around a family grieving after the loss of their grandmother and sliding into true darkness when it is discovered that the children of the family have DNA that is possesed by demons.A truely effective slow burner that terrifies whilst riifing on bereavement,mental health issues and family dysfunction.Brilliantly acted by Toni Collette,Gabriel Byrne,Alex Wolff and Milly Shapiro.

9/10

Alita: Battle Angel - 7.5/10 much better than i expected.

Hellraiser - 8/10 one of the best horror movies ever.

Hereditary 8/10 - very good horror that takes its time building up to a very scary climax.


Recommended.

The Sundowners(1960)

A lovingly filmed saga from Fred Zinnemann that follows a pioneering family trying to survive in the Australian bush.Well acted from an all star Anglo-American cast that includes Robert Mitchum,Deborah Kerr,Peter Ustinov and Glynis Johns.

7/10

Dogman(2018)

From Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone,once again returning to the mean streets this time following a gentle doh groomer who becomes embroiled in a world of violence.Shockingly brutal at times with a brilliant central turn from Marcello Fonte.

8/10

The Matrix

Boy of trivia the first film used to have a blue tint and sequels a green tint to the picture but with the blu ray The Matrix was given a green tint to match the sequels but changed back to a blue tint for the 4K transfer, the blu ray steel book bellow.

'Streamline Express' (1935) - 7/10

Low-budget comedy thriller set on the maiden journey of a high-speed New York to California train. Quite humourous and witty and enjoyable despite its budgetary constraints.

Avengers Infinity War

Ho Hum.
I'm not exactly the ideal target audience for this, but even so - if like me you haven't bought hook line and sinker into the Marvel Studios franchise it's a pretty indigestible watch and hard to buy into.

I get it's an impossible job to cram that many characters into a movie and explain all the nuances and back story to the uninitiated, but for a casual viewer like me who's only seen a couple of Iron Man films, the first Avenger film, a few Captain America ones and the odd Thor movie but not every single other Marvel film, it's frankly a bit a of a chore.

Some of the characters hardly seem to get a look in, I do wonder if this is partly to do with the sheer impossibility of including that many and giving them enough to do, and partly the availability of the actors concerned for what are frankly little more than bit parts for some of them.

But so much of these films are CGI now you probably don't actually need the actors visible at all, you only need their voices in honest truth, they might as well be cartoons as befitting their comic strip origins.

As a Scot, it was mildly amusing to see Vision getting battered about on the Royal Mile and destroying bits of St Giles Cathedral, but other than that it just seemed to be one big long series of set pieces trying to top each other, in search of an ending that does nothing more than try to set up a sequel.

Let me guess...nobody important is actually dead at all, and in the next film somebody's going to find a way to reverse time to resurrect them all : such a franchise is too lucrative to lose that many potential sequels / recurring characters after all ?