Ideal Home - 4/4

Steve Coogan and Paul Rudd play to lovers who are forced to cope with the sudden and unexpected arrival of their estranged grandson.
Without saying too much about this film it is just fucking fantastic, so watch it and I won't have to bother selling it to you. It really is just class.

Brendan Gleeson was great; it just didn't keep my attention.

I watched Infinity War last night. it was excellent as I expected though

The humour was pretty high in this one. Drax as usual gets some of the best laughs but overall they were spread out pretty fairly.
I enjoyed it a great deal, hopefully the next one is not one big retcon.

Do I need to watch all the series before this to "get it"?

You don't have to

You should probably see the last four or five but it's not going to change anything. The movie comes straight out into action as if you've missed out by sitting waiting between films.

You don't need to in order to "get it".... but certainly to "fully appreciate the scope".......

I'd recommend at least Avengers, Civil War, and Thor Ragnarok. Maybe a Guardians movie just so you know who those characters are.

Isn't it always great when you spend like fifteen to twenty minutes typing out a post about how awesome the whole thing was and then your stupid cunt Mac decides to disconnect from the internet and you lose every word?

I sure appreciate it.

Used to sometimes lose E-fed posts like that and it was the absolute worst...... especially if someone else would then continue off the post you wanted to continue off of, making your whole idea/post unusable so you can't even retype it......

Searching - Excellent.

RIFT (Icelandic thriller) - 8.5/10 (on Shudder)

A cousin to "A Dark Song" and "Don't Look Now". Mesmerizing cinematography. Not for everyone, narratively speaking. I'm going to spend some time debating the last twenty minutes in my head.

I am the Pretty Thing that Live in the House (2016) on Netflix - 2/5

A Hospice nurse in her late 20's moves in with an elderly novelist nearing the end of her days. They live alone in a nice home, that is haunted with the ghost of someone who used to live there. The premise is as simple as it gets and so is the movie. It's quite scary at times if you are afraid of the dark, I started the movie late at night and turned it off when it gave me the spooks early on. However when I picked the film back up and made it to the finish line I was left feeling like "oh that was cute". Not a legendary horror film by any stretch but interesting. There are only about 5 actors in the movie and I'm not sure that I liked any of them. But the film did give me the spooks due to the camera work holding certain shots long enough to make you feel creeped out so I give it 2/5.

The Babadook (2014) on Netflix - 3/5

I've been recommended this movie for a few years now and Slik pushed it on me to try so I gave it my attention. The film is about about an Australian family, mother and son who have lost the father in a car accident. The child is as most children would be being raised in the wake of a tragedy like that, totally off the walls insane. The mother does her best to cope with her son's behavior problems until the entrance of a certain book changes everything. The Babadook is a book that foretells a horror story of a monster who haunts you in the darkness, it has some cliche elements to it which actually make it even more terrifying. Everything turns on its head when the elements of the book seem to actually be happening to this family. I'm sure most of you have seen this film but the horror of the story is actually a metaphor for the grief in the loss of the father. The manifestation of the loss into a physical terrifying monster is pretty smart. I've read a lot of reviews on this over the years and I didn't enjoy it as much as most, simply because the lack of color in the film and the one set location was so dark and grey. Grey tends to bother me in a film. Though I do think that is appropriate when trying to envelope a story in grief.

A Dark Song (2016) on Netflix - 5/5

I've been on this horror kick after getting so into Castle Rock the past month. Slik recommended this amazing film to me and oh man I am so glad I watched it. The story is of a woman who wants to conduct a sort of long form seance/ritual with a guy who seems to know how to do this sort of thing. She harbors a deep tragedy and seeks to resolve her feelings through contacting the dead. The acting and cinematography are incredible. I applaud those who worked on this film, it's beautiful in its horror and drama. This belongs in the same category as a film like The Shining. Really fantastic. If you haven't seen this and want to see a really great psychological/ritualistic horror film please check it out.

Heathers - Weird

The Voices (Ryan Reynolds) - Total Mindfuck

The Greatest Showman: 8/10

Somehow I had no idea this was a musical and was just expecting a "period piece biography" film....... Enjoyed it for what it was, but do kind of wish it expanded on a lot of things instead of song montaging through a lot of bits......

You didn't know that it was a musical?

The biggest musical for years?

The Nun - 2/10

Just behind SlenderMan for the worst horror film of 2018 and easily the worst film in the The Conjuring franchise. It's plotted like a cheesy blockbuster, and it doesn't work, at all.

I saw a shit horror film the other day called The Orphanage. I think it was Spanish. Terrible. Just terrible.

No one told me.

I had heard one of the songs from it before, though. Just didn't know it.

I actually love that movie lol.

Ideal Home - Absolutely wonderful.

Don't say that; I have a ticket to see it tomorrow.

I thought it was disgraceful.

Blue Valentine - Heart wrenching

Solid performances by both, Williams and Gosling.

The Nun 6/10

All foreign language films suck. They all get 0/7

Moviepass #90 Peppermint 8/10 Jennifer Garner vs Mexican Tom Selleck was what the Death Wish remake should have been.

So they're trying to make Jennifer Garner into an action hero again eh?

A Dark Song - Beautiful.

I personally loved the Orphan. Was sad as shit tho.

Ps I'm also Mexican so maybe that's why...

It was too obviously emotionally manipulative for my tastes. I also find it hard to sympathise with terrible parenting.

Spoiler

Operation Finale - 2.5/5

Asylum (1972) on Prime - 3.5/5

Asylum is a Amicus Productions film which is a fantastic old production company of English horror films. As titled, set in an Asylum where a new doctor has been called to interview for a replacement of the current head doctor who has fallen... erm... ill. The new Doctor is tasked with going to the insane ward to meet 4 or 5 different patients to make an educated guess as to which one is the "sick doctor". An anthology film which is really fantastic and holds up with it's age.

The Conjuring 7/10

I have picked up two Coen Brothers films I hadn't seen yet.

"The Man Who Wasn't There" and "A Serious Man".
I confess to having seen a bit of "A Serious Man" before as a boozer but I remember very little.

I will resume my reviews after tonight's viewing, Gentlemen. I thank you for your patience in what has been a shit filled last four weeks.

Billy Bob Thornton is an all time great as both a writer and an actor and Michael Stuhlbarg is one of the most talented jobbing actors turned main cast'er I've seen since San Rockwell or Ben Foster.

I have "A Serious Man" in "my list" but never got around to watching it. Too much content out there. Do you rent these titles, Seanny?

I buy them for my collection.

I own over 3,000 DVD's as far as I know. I'm too scared to count them.