Films

mindhorn is wonderful. he's no matt berry but a close second.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIgSw_26Nko

Alien's well it was predictable and happened the way I thought it would. She wasn't a patch on Ripley that for sure. Wonder what the next one will be about although i dont think it would be that hard to guess.

So last Friday I bought cheap Monday half price ticket to see new Alien and totally forgot about it. Shit cakes. How? What? Was excited about it for last four months and after work just went home instead of cinema. Fuck. 8.50 well spent

Alien: Covent Garden - fancy space ships, great creatures and gopros...wait...gopros? really? did the production designers have a day off?
Enjoyable 5/7

A review of 'The Revenant' director Iñárritu's Cannes VR project

http://m.screendaily.com/5118051.article

Transformers revenge of the fallen, genuinely bad for braincells. Moronic dialogues, dumb army stuff.. ugh.

Too bad as the transformers are great, and the source material (yes I had transformers when young) has great potential.

Michael bay eh?

Just watched Lego Batman movie, not as good as the lego movie but a few funny bits.

Kajaki on iPlayer is exceptionally well made and believable. Tough viewing in many ways but well worth it.

Logan. Very much an adult X-Men film.

I like how it let's the original actors bow out nicely.

Definitely my favourite Wolverine film. I always had a dislike towards Prof X but found myself rooting for him this time.

We watched Get Out tonight, a total weird fest and great fun. Also one of those rare modern day films that knows when to pull the plug.

Watched this the other night and wasn't expecting much. I found it strangely compelling and then realised it's because they've stopped making them impossible superheros and let them be human i.e fucked up, knackered, bitter and frail.

Also, refreshing to watch an X-Men movie and actually see violence that isn't just implied. Big fuck-off claws through the head... ouch.

Brain damage - 1987

A brain parasite (a parable on drug addiction) escapes and latches on to a student...feed it brains and it'll give you pleasure. My summary does t do the plot justice, some proper gore, weirdness and bodyhorror...

Bit 80s in music, the effects on the parasite are dated, but the gore got me more than the latest Alien movie. Brrrr.

One of my favourites, from the director of basket case.

A broad allegory for a mans struggle with his sexuality in my reading of it.

https://youtu.be/q8yyiKJhGB8

71 - story of a foot soldier in Belfast in the 1971. Things go bad. Then worse.

Very enjoyable and sufficiently upsetting.

I guess you could read it like that too I'm some scenes :)

It reminded me vaguely of Society : Social observation via the medium of lotsa gore :)

Split.

shit

Very good thriller, captures the feel of the time well, Jack O'Connell is excellent.

Watched the Ipcress File last night, absolute belter. Love how dry it is at times.

Really enjoyed Manchester by the Sea - it managed to skirt round a lot of the Hollywood narrative tropes that any film about redemption and a troubled protagonist can fall into.

Logan was enjoyable, really not into the xmen franchise but thought it sustained interest well for a bit of light entertainment. Wasn't too naff. A good dose of ridiculous violence. Reminded me of Kickass, albeit with fewer laughs.

I wouldn't bother with any of the direct sequels to The Ipcress File, both Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain are poor.

Colossal is a lot of fun. A really great idea. Would be a good one to not know anything about before seeing.

The Guest is an underrated film from a couple of years back.

Got to the cinema too late for Lady Macbeth, so took a chance on Jawbone. Ray Winstone, Ian McShane and Johnny Harris in a kind of I Daniel Blake version of the classic boxers-last-fight movie. Loads of heart and a lovely soundtrack from Paul Weller.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7x5gHVDmYI

Yet I love them both, go figure...

Divines is good, the young French actors and actresses are really excellent. It does get pretty dark in places.

The new Brad Pitt movie War Machine was ok in a Michael Moorish way but dragged on and ran out if ideas pretty quickly.