Reviews

Aside from Band Of Brothers, which I rank on its own at the top as a limited series, Succession is the greatest TV show ever made. Every single episode is full of drama, incident and character moments. I cannot speak highly enough of this consistently incredible masterpiece of adult content.

The cast is perfect, led by a powerhouse piece of owning the screen by Brian Cox, all other actors are brilliantly staged and performed.

The writing is funny, cutting, deep, scathing, always true to the characters.

The staging is wonderful, the direction doesn't get in the way of the real star of the show, the writing.

Absolute gold.

The character of J Robert Oppenheimer wasn't only a bit of an SOB, but also very one dimensional and boring.

The first hour was at a breakneck pace but disconnected. The 2nd hour was better, but after the (frankly quite a let down) A-Bomb test, the last hour was interminable.

This movie has done something I thought impossible, it made me really dislike Florence Pugh and Emily Blunt. Quite an achievement.

Stunt casting everywhere.

The worst thing of all might be the music which was both awful AND deafening. The music competes with schizophrenic editing to bewilder and numb the viewer. Editing like JFK only works if your editor and director are at the top of their game and if there's a point to all the cuts.

I honestly could never envision putting myself through the torture of watching this movie again.

Between this and Dunkirk, oh my this Nolan fella is indeed fallible.

I Love Lucy, by way of Bewitched.

I'm sure this series will go places, but this first episode is an absolute slog to get through. Weird and boring.

And 8 minutes of credits?!

It's the first Marvel product I've wanted to switch off, I don't know how I stayed until the end.

Can we just have ONE show that doesn't have people imagining things, and holding conversations with imaginary people. Just tonight I've watched this episode, 13 Reasons and Goliath, and every one had people imagining seeing people, or having conversations with dead people. It drives me nuts. Anyway, Carole's mental state aside, a good episode.

Luckily for the makers of House Shark (I presume it was a middle school project for mentally challenged youths) they can't be sued for royally ripping off Jaws, as this...movie(?) is so blo*dy awful, it would be legitimatise this trash to say it was in any way a ripoff.

Between the foam shark, the fake beards, the actual human pretending to be a statue (I assume that was to save the cost of a real statue, bizarre), the 'underwater' scenes with just a green filter as the "actors" walk around pretending to be underwater, the authentic 'filmed with a nokia' look, it's just absolutely abysmal without the saving grace of being any fun at all.

And there's a very strange obsession with bums, peeing, and a revolting date resulting in a face full of public hair. Just, don't ask.

And did I mention it's almost 2 hours long!!

Incredible.

Not even worth watching out of curiosity. Such an amateurish piece of tripe it doesn't warrant even 69 minutes of your time. Move along.

Warm and life affirming, A Beautiful Day... really is as warm and comforting as Mr Rogers was. I have a couple of issues with choices made for the movie which hurt my overall enjoyment, but for the most part I enjoyed meeting Mr Rogers.

If Martin Scorcese and Quentin Tarantino had a Brazilian baby, this would be that baby. An incredible, powerful, stylish, authentic tour-de-force or filmmaking made all the more incredible by the budget and the perfect child actors. Of the top IMDb movies, this may be the least we'll known, possibly because it is 'foreign' or just because it doesn't have a name actor or big studio behind it, but make no mistake it earns its place in the upper echelons of all-time classics.

And to the people giving bad reviews because it is subtitled, learn to read and maybe you'll not miss out on amazing experiences like Citade De Deus.

City of God is a stone cold, pure taker of breath.

Well, there's about 2 minutes of sharks in this ecological documentary about human effects on the Pitcairn Islands. If you want to watch a shark programme, avoid this one.

And that award would be Most Overrated TV Show Of All Time.

Cheap looking, badly written, bargain basement acting (although Cavill is fine, if one-note), confusingly paced and edited. I honestly do not see what everyone else is seeing and rating so highly.

An absolute chore to complete.

First of all, the wonderful Emily Blunt is woefully bad in this. Her singing is poor, her accent is awful, her physical movements are silly, other characters attitudes to Mary Poppins is wrong. Betraying the original movie in so many ways, this sad facsimile of the classic left me sad and in need of something fun to watch. What a waste.

Easily one of the worst movies ever made, and certainly an indication of how Bruce Willis couldn't give a toss these days.

Confusing direction, awful writing, lazy acting, stupidity at every turn.

How's about that for p**ping all over the legacy of one of the finest action franchises in history.

The tag line says "be afraid of what you can't see" but after watching this pile of dumpster fire you'll wish this was one thing you hadn't seen.

Zoe Bell 'toplines' this abysmal schlock and is about as good as you'd expect from a movie with totally visible mic-packs, sfx from an iOS app, and the kind of acting, script and directing you can only appreciate if your mind is mush.

It's utterly terrible and does contain a few unintentional laughs, but seriously save yourself 83 minutes and do something, anything else instead.

Go watch Fateful Findings instead.

Kurt Russell is an amazing Santa and elevates every scene he's in, but he deserves a much better vehicle than this Lifestyle Channel level tosh.

10/10 for Elvis Santa, 2/10 for everything else.

And whose idea was it to give Winston from A New Girl a small role?! He should've been a BIG part of this!!!! The kid from The Babysitter is also good.

Avoid, unless you're desperate, or a KR fan.

M:I Fallout is a good film. I cannot argue against it being entertaining, thrilling at times, but it is generic and way too long.

It has a bike chase that isn't as good as the one in Rogue Nation, whose bad guy (Sean Harris) is utterly wasted in this), a HALO jump that is undermined by a dumb conclusion. It has nothing as calculated, clever, sexy, or as well put together as the opera scene from Rogue Nation.

Fallout is like Ghost Protocol, a series of stunt ideas strung together in lieu of a well written narrative.

Definitely worth watching, but don't expect the action classic many (most?) reviews proclaim.

In my honest opinion.

Seeing the amazing ratings (9.0/10 at time of watching, and 29th best tv show ever) I expected THOHH to be at least quite scary, but it's really not. It's more of the same shoddy shadows and jumps that seem to be de rigeur these days. It'll pass a few hours but I won't be hanging on for more.

Oceans 11 (and to a lesser extent it's sequels) were delivered with style, charm, humour, and not a little amount of sheer filmmaking class by Steven Soderburgh.

Oceans 8 has none of that. It's a passable 'caper' without humour, without anything approaching smarts, without believability and without charm.

Sandra Bullock can only move half her face these days and struggles to emote, Cate Blanchett does...nothing...

The rest of the group are characterless, the 'twists' towards the end are just silly, and the lack of surprises is lamentable.

It's not 'terrible', but it is in no way good.

Really makes you admire what Clooney et al managed to achieve.

I'm sure many will criticise the silliness of The Predator, or the incredulity, or the lack of anything approaching a real character, or the really abrupt and odd ending, or the occasionally awful special fx....and I agree with all of those comments.

But!! The Predator is never boring. It is sporadically funny too, and the cast is mostly appealing without offering much in the way of memorable traits or motivations. Sterling K Brown is a highlight as a pretty nasty piece of work, and there's a nice nod to Predator 2 in the casting of Jake Busey, playing the son of the character his father played in that 90's sequel.

Some of the other cast are completely wasted (who has Thomas Jane offended?!) as the movie careens from one loud shouty gun fight to the next. A fine writer Shane Black may be, but his decision making when directing action is certainly in question.

Would I recommend The Predator? Yes, with caveats. Get a big ol' Bucket of popcorn and don't expect too much and you might come away satisfied by this dark (literally, there isn't a daylight scene until the very final scene) brainless mess.

Why are most reviews 10's or 2's?! Every film has to be AMAZING or RUBBISH!!

Well, Peter Rabbit is no 10, but what I found it to be was a very funny romp, unfettered by heavy themes or silly subplots, but garnered with whimsy and fun!

I don't go into plot points in my reviews, because nobody cares about that, and you can just read the synopsis above. I like to just get straight to the point and say what I thought.

Peter Rabbit was great. There are some wonky accents, sure, but the cartoonish action and Oscar worthy special fx, seriously, make this a right romp from first to last.

Highly Recommended

In every way an achievement. A culmination of a decade of comic book splendour flawless in its execution. In every way a triumph.

If it takes 35 minutes for Cinema Wins to get through a movie it must be something special.

Infinity War is 2h29m of perfect pacing, wonderful action, funny interplay, jaw-dropping set-pieces, perfectly pitched character arcs, an amazing balance of the huge cast, acting that never puts a foot wrong....

Endlessly rewatchable, it could be said that Infinity War was under more pressure than any sequel ever to deliver, but that baton is now passed to 2019's Avengers film, as how do you follow something this....infinitely great.



Top 5 Ever Jaws Back To The Future The Shawshank Redemption Predator Die Hard

Terrible in every measurable way. Somebody gave this a 10/10?!!

The acting, script, direction, special effects, music, pacing, plot...all of it is beyond bad. This is real 'so bad it's...just very bad' filmmaking. Makes Sharknado look like Jurassic Park!!

If you want to see a good shark movie, watch Jaws, otherwise the sub-genre has nothing to offer but disappointment. The Shallows is a laughably stupid movie featuring the kind of dumb logic only people who have never studied sharks would apply. If your idea of a fun movie is bad editing, logic gaps you could drive a semi through, and CGI so bad you'd think they'd borrowed it from 1992, then give The Shallows a go. Otherwise, don't bother as The Shallows offers only silliness followed by incredulity.

I gave three out of ten for Blake Lively, who is acceptable in the starring role, and for the beach which is a nice thing to look at between shakes of the head.

Seriously. Go watch Jaws. It's awesome and it has a brilliant scene involving wine.

Why are you still here....?

I'm absolutely flabberghasted (yes, my ghast has been flabbered) to hear that this beauty was shelved for 3 years before release, as it's a flat- out fun flick!

Tucker and Dale are just two guys on vacation, until some seriously freaky sh*t starts happening! Turns out this isn't your average slasher pic, but actually a razor sharp send-up of that cliché-ridden craptastic schlock we've put up with in recent years.

Consistently funny, quotable, a cult-film-in-waiting.

Well worth a watch, it may just turn out to be the most fun you'll have on your couch this year...

I urge any fan of the Godfather, Lock, Stock... or Snatch to see this film as it eclipses at least 2 of the aforementioned.

Class standard acting,brilliant scripting and this from the man who will bring us X-MEN 3.

Great. And great locations too, canary wharf has ever beamed so bright! Daniel Craig is one to watch.

Michael Gambon has rarely been more sinister.

Take a chance. Buy British. I especially like the switch when MG seems to be a baddie, then a goodie, then a baddie again. then all is good...or is it?