Recently watched:
Disconnect - Follows several separate and tragic stories of people some of who then connect with the internet. Ensemble cast includes Jason Bateman, Andrea Riseborough, Hope Davis, Alexander SkarsgĆ„rd and Frank Grillo. Well acted and constructed but didnāt totally click with me as I hoped it would. But still pretty good with a good ending 7/10.
The Magnificent Ambersons - Orson Welles directs and narrates. A rich familyās fortune dwindles and anotherās rises but mainly a story of not being with the one you love. Joseph Cotten and Anne Baxter are always great. 7.5/10.
Lucky - Excellent horror film on Shudder. Brea Grant stars and wrote the screenplay and directed by Natasha Kermani an Iranian-American filmmaker who I havenāt heard of before this.
I wonāt give away the plot but itās an excellent allegorical film regarding the #MeToo movement. Itās a āhorrorā film if you want to categorise it into one simple word genre but itās so much more than that.
The Guardian and Heaven Of Horror both gave it 4/5. I just saw the scores before watching and didnāt read the actual reviews but read them immediately after watching the film. The one Karina Adelgaarde wrote on the Heaven Of Horror site was brilliantly written and I got even more out of the film after reading.
Not necessarily a horror in the traditional sense but definitely a brilliant film. 8.5/10.
Last Holiday - Queen Latifah works at the cookware section at a department store and finds out she has three weeks to live. She quits her job and heads to Czech Republic to blow all her savings on a final holiday and also meet her favourite chef, unfortunately played by Gerard Depardieu. The film easily could have been shit but Latifah is absolutely brilliant in this and plays a loveable character with charm thatās often hard to pull off. Excellent film. 8/10.
Shaolin Prince - Shaw Brothers. Good use of wires in this film. Makes up for the slapstick goofy kung fu scenes. Not one of their better ones for me. 6/10.
