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10/100 Good God, this was torturous. Romanian village kills a man and his wife and buries them. The couple comes back and, while he messes with various people in the village, she does nothing but eat. Sounds like it'd be humorous ...but it's not. Excruciatingly slow, making no sense, with uninteresting and unlikeable characters, no humor, action or dramatic moments. There's obviously folks out there who can appreciate this film but as for me? I just don't get it. -- DrNostromo.com…

59/100 A fallen ordain minister, who now debunks miracles, goes to a small, secluded hamlet in Louisiana called Haven where the river appears to have turned to blood. This was a pretty entertaining "science vs religion" story centering around a creepy little girl. Is she an angel? the devil? or something else? The plagues were effectively presented as well as how you'd expect people in that culture to react. Not particularly scary but well worth a watch with an ending that, although not great, did the job just fine. -- DrNostromo…

In with a whimper and out with the trash A friend recently suggested to me that 2025 has seen a reduction of left wing politics in popular culture. I politely asked him if he had gone both deaf and blind. The Housemaid is a case in point. Paul Feig and Rebecca Sonnenshine have conspired to unleash yet another entertainment for the type of people who believe The Handmaid's Tale is a reasonable allegory for modern America. There are comically evil straight white males in the main storyline, the backstory of the first female heroine, in the flashbacks for the second female heroine and the d…

77/100 Lisbeth gets hired to steal a computer program from the NSA setting off a series of events that involves the US, Sweden, the creator of the software, his son, a journalist, and the Spiders that are connected to Lisbeth's past. Having seen the first film, and the Swedish, Tattoo, Fire, and Hornet, this one had a lot to live up to and they did nicely! Exceptionally well-crafted film and extremely smart with solid characters and realistic action. I'm amazed at how all 3 actresses have played Lisbeth well enough to easily accept the character as the same. Awesome! -- DrNostromo.com…

Weakest of the trilogy? I still have to rewatch PP3 to be completely sure but, compared to the first one, the delusions of grandeur of Pitch Perfect 2 weighs it down. The only memorable moment is the ending and even that doesn't compare to the ICCA Finals. It's less funny, it's bloated (I'll die on the hill that Amy and Bumper's side story was completely unnecessary and unmoving, specially considering how little we see of Jesse and Beca—who might as well have already broken up), the riff off is painful, we don't even actually get to see much of their work as a group gearing up to Worlds aside …

There are three stories here, all interlinked - but only at the start and only tangentially at that, that ask questions of humanity and loyalty amidst the sometimes quite brutal, lustful and occasionally humorous environments of a Mexico City inhabited by rich and poor alike. The opener follows the life of “Octavio” (Gael García Bernal) who lives with his mother, brother and his wife “Susana” (Vanessa Bauche) - for whom he has the hots! He hasn’t much money but that changes when his formidable dog proves to be more than a match for the local champion and so starts to earn his keep in a graphic…

When a fireball blazes through the sky then leaves a smouldering crater in the desert, local writer “Putnam” (Richard Carlson) decides that he and girlfriend “Ellen” (Barbara Rush) have to hop on their friend’s helicopter and explore the scene. Thing is, when he gets to the bottom of the rubble he could swear he saw something. Before he can get any corroboration, a rockfall buries the site and with the army as disbelieving of his subsequent assertions as every one else, it doesn’t look like anyone is going to be digging anything up. It’s when they are driving back into town and encounter the t…

Told by way of some theatrical style sketches, this quite engagingly depicts not only the life of the acclaimed philosopher but it also shines an entertaining light on just what “philosophy” actually might be. I say might be because what is clear between himself (latterly Karl Johnson), Bertrand Russell (Michael Gough) and John Maynard Keynes (John Quentin) is that nothing is definite. His thrust centres around the limitation of language as a means of expression, and though I’ll admit to most of the theories going six feet over my head, it’s presented in quite an intriguing fashion. Is it all …

Mike (Hugh Jackman a.k.a. “Huge”) ekes out a living doing the tribute act circuit in Milwaukee and that’s where he meets Claire (Kate Hudson). She is trying to support her family, he’s a recovering alcoholic and it’s safe to say that neither are really fulfilled - until, he hits on the idea of a team approach to the works of Neil Diamond. With such an extensive back catalogue including “Sweet Caroline” how could they fail? Well their first gig as “Lightning and Thunder” is for a group of leather-clad bikers and so “Soolaimon” (no, me neither) doesn’t prove the best way to start a gig so much a…

“Marty” (Timothée Chalamet) has dreams that he can dominate the sport of table tennis. Perhaps unsurprisingly, most folks he knows in New York think he’s a few bricks short of a full barrow. Anyway, after quite a fun altercation with a rival at work, he purloins seven hundred bucks then absconds to London for the world championships. That's where he meets not only his soon-to-be nemesis “Koto Endo” (Koto Kawaguchi) but also the glamorous actress “Kay” (Gwyneth Paltrow) who just happens to be rather unsatisfactorily married to millionaire ink-man “Rockwell” (Kevin O’Leary). From now on, “Marty”…