Do you think necessary to watch in a cinema or okay to watch at home? Like vastly different experience maybe or something
Generally speaking I don’t find watching anything necessary in a cinema. I only went to the cinema because it wasn’t available online anywhere.
I’m getting pulled up for being lazy, while pulling someone up for being lazy. Paging Alanis Morissette. 
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Sully
6/10
Inspirational true story but I didn’t like the directing or the story as presented.
So, I was bored after watching Mindhunter again on NF and ended up watching 2/3 of Gone Girl as it was being sold as a pyschological drama. What a spectacularly bad piece of crap it is. Ben Afleck is just turble. The actress is worse, and NPH who is wonderful in nearly everything is wooden and flaccid at the same time. I’ll never look at a bottle of champagne again without cringing.
Was the book this bad? Because, when the wife came home from being “kidnapped” and Ben started to follow her around again, I was about to create violence in my life towards inanimate objects where there had been none previously. And that’s the black dude who plays the black old lady, yeah? Just turble. All of them just turble.
A Haunting in Venice
8/10
Agatha Christie’s Poirot adaptation.
Quite fun suspense entertainment very high quality production.
The best of the 3.
Watched When Evil Lurks (Cuando acecha la maldad; 2023) last night on Shudder. This guy, Demián Rugna. No A24-like effort to elevate his takes on horror onto the Hollywood red carpet, instead Rugna makes movies that are straight-up, B-movie horror. I like that.
Rugna also directed Terrified (Aterrados; 2017), which I also liked. The second half of each movie is off the wall bonkers. Probably not for those like my wife, who gets nightmares.
Terrified is a haunted house story. Evil is a demonic possession story. Both are fresh and a lot of fun to watch for fans of horror.
Rewatched Neon Genesis Evangelion and End of Eva and yeah, it’s still fucking brilliant and crushing after watching the original series and an awesome fuck you to all the projecting of the fanboys onto Shinji. Great shit.
‘Sully’ may be based on a true story, but ‘Flight’ is similar and just deeper and better.
She Came To Me
6/10
Peter Dinklage, Ann Hathaway, Marisa Torme, Etc
What’s not to like about a male opera composer and a female tug boat captain meeting in a bar at 1100am and she takes him back to her tugboat for a romp. Turns into much more.
That’s only one arc of the movie but it’s different unique.
Murder on the Orient Express 2017
By Kenneth Branagh
7/10 wonderful
7/10 is wonderful?
The Girl on the Train, mystery, suspense, intense, dark, yikes alcoholism is trouble, and then suprise
6/10
Just saw Napoleon
Was not bad
For me, I didn’t enjoy it. Any overly serious adaptation of Poirot doesn’t hit the mark. Poirot himself can be serious. Finney knew it. Ustinov knew it. Randall knew it. And even though David Suchet created a very complex version, he was utterly marvellous. (ITV turned him into a growling monster by the final two series.) However, the stories themselves are fully of whimsy. The recent films did a better job with Death on the Nile, although the Dawn French subplot was naff. I’m inevitably going to watch A Haunting in Venice. I just hope beyond hope that it isn’t a serious film. Lots of silly moustaches and time period pastiches please.
Yeah the 1974 Murder on Orient Express and the 1978 Death on the Nile (the godawful Mia Farrow notwithstanding) are legit.
The new ones are not.
Now you are talking! David Niven. Bette Davis. George Kennedy. All hamming it up. Glorious.
Finally got around to seeing Oppenheimer and quite enjoyed it. For my money, it’s Nolan’s best since Memento. Cillian Murphy was outstanding as Oppenheimer…definitely Oscar material. Downey was also good as Strauss, and even Matt Damon was competent…probably the best possible performance that could be squeezed out of a mediocre actor like him.
Think I agree with this, although I still will contend that Inception despite it’s issues is really fun. Oh and I just realized I forgot Dunkirk is a Nolan film. So actually I disagree but like only slightly.