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Fails to engage There are slow movies, and there are molasses-like movies, but a movie can still grip you, even if the story is slow. This is not that kind of movie. This is slow, and it fails to grip you. The tension is too thin, and too vague. The casting is good, and the direction is solid, but the movie does not take off.…

It's tense, it is bloody, it's not perfect This is not a bad movie by any stretch, but the lack of ways of telling how the story and the world progresses (since it is all dark, all the time) makes it feel inevitable, or rushed, interchangeably. It is an odd sensation for a narrative. The casting is good, and the direction solid, and it is certainly not a bad movie, but pacing-wise it feels... off somehow.…

Technically proficient, but soulless This movie did not have to be made, and while it makes narrative sense that the character would behave this way the rest of the movie is bordering on incoherent and contrived. This is like a bad RPG plot. The characters are unlikable, and you don't invest in them, which robs this of tension. The ending is weak as well. This is a pretty movie, it is well made and well shot, but it is not a fun watch at all.…

Old timey glory There is a lot one could say about a movie that is over 60 years old, to put it down compared to modern blockbusters, but as far as being a movie this is a good one. Its production value is high (despite some of the hokey animal props/costumes) and the acting is rock-solid. The music is repetitive, which goes with the circus theme, and there are hooks for subplots that never go explored, leaving you with a sense of a bigger world than just the runtime of the movie itself.…

There's a war, but it's never told who's the enemy. It's also never told when started war and why. All we know that team must deliver something somewhere. That's it. That's a whole story of this movie.…

Curry Barker has crafted something mostly special for an almost non-existent budget. The story is compelling, the acting is solid, and Obsession feels like a breath of fresh air in comparison to similar horror films. However, it’s disappointing that one shrill character trait nearly ruins the entire film. It’s because of this that Obsession will have to settle for being a well-made, well-written film dominated by one aggressively irritating character, which will hinder future rewatches much like Frank Darabont’s The Mist. https://bit.ly/1WishWillO…

With over forty albums released and more than 150 million copies of those sold across their half century of making music, Iron Maiden look like they are finally having to come to terms with their age and begin to wind down. This retrospective takes us back to the very beginning, playing from the back of their van to pubs in the English Midlands and thence onwards through ever-larger venues and, thanks to the omnipresence of the menacingly skeletal "Ed" on their album sleeves, to international stardom. Using a comprehensive collection of stadium and personal archive, this puts a lot of meat ont…

Hugh Jackman may take top billing here, but the real plaudits have to go to some animatronic sheep and to Nicholas Braun's hapless detective "Tim". He is completely out of his depth when a body is discovered in a field. He just assumes that "George" (Jackman) has had an heart attack - but the sheep, well thanks to the observations of the hitherto shunned winter lamb, they start to put two and two together and conclude something altogether more sinister is a-hoof. Those suspicions are only increased when his lawyer (Dame Emma Thompson) arrives for the will reading and declares that he had left …

At the risk of swimming against the tide, here - is this really a film at all? Certainly it's an exceptionally high-spec production of a concert from Billie Eilish, and it clearly demonstrates that she is charismatic, engaging and talented - but we have seen so many films of concerts that perhaps aren't in 3D, but that do, and have done, exactly the same as this for decades. Britain's largest indoor venue is packed to the rafters with adoring - even adulatory - fans from a myriad of backgrounds, sexualities, races, creeds and many of them believe that Eilish is their best friend; their inspira…

Surely Michael Shanks made enough money from "Stargate" to save him from having to do this kind of drivel? A group of archaeologists are searching the Grand Canyon for an hidden Aztec City guarded by a serpent of death that obviously ought to be left well alone. This doesn't really lack for imagination - but the budget and skill of the creative talent can do precious little justice to that. Shanks, fellow "Stargate" regular JR Bourne and Shannen Doherty think that they are back doing evening television fodder and the special effects and dialogue are really, really poor. Sorry, but even if you …