The Year of Living Dangerously

But to my reading of history, Sukarno was the patriot, and Suharto was a CIA puppet.

Stuck in a hotel room while away on work so I went to watch Abigail last night at a local cinema. I knew nothing about it other than it's 'horror'. The set up is that a young girl from a rich family is kidnapped by a gang and is going to be held for ransom. I had little idea where this was going and won't give the plot away but trouble is when became obvious then it all becomes very uninteresting. Still it kept me out of my hotel room for a few hours and did at least provide some trashy horror type entertainment along the way. 5/10

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Avatar - The Last Airbender   I know the original has a sort of cult status but I haven't seen it, so I came into this new series cold. 4 elemental power controlled by 'benders'. Of course we need some malice and the fire benders are the baddies; but they are kept in check by the Avatar (who can bend all 4 elements). This new Avatar turns out to be a kid and it's his adventures we follow here. The story is good, so too are the action and effects. The script and acting are really poor though (maybe it's supposed to be like this). Everything looks clean and cartoonish (again maybe they where trying to do it like this) but I don't find it appealing at all. I'll stick with it as I rarely give up on a show no matter how poor.

The Old Oak (Ken Loach) - 6/10

Dune 2 - Just seen it - a brilliant movie, though I did prefer Part 1 a little more.

The Iron Claw

Poignant & painful athletic drama on the pro wrestling Von Erich brothers who continually suffered family tragedy despite reaching the heights of their craft.   Though a high-skill sport, professional wrestling is usually seen as 'not real' or just silly but here is given its due by lifelong fan writer/director Sean Durkin with a script full of heart and cast to back it up, making Iron Claw the best macho-man flick since Magic Mike.





Edited by Atavachron - April 06 2024 at 01:59

Argylle - I had very, very low expectations of this movie due to the scathing reviews. Maybe it's me then as I really liked it (my wife did too). Okay, maybe it was 20 minutes too long but it was funny and action packed. You sort of know what to expect with Matthew Vaughn (Stardust, Layer Cake, Kick Ass, Kingsman etc.) and to me this didn't disappoint. 8/10

Gentle and Giant wrote: Code 8 - A neat, low budget scifi from 2019. I only came across this as part 2 is released later this year. It was made on a small budget (2 million) which was crowd funded, but they really managed to squeeze every last drop of the cash to produce a decent movie. I'm really looking forward to part 2. 8/10

Silver Linings Playbook

Edited by Moonshake - February 09 2024 at 17:51