Recently Watched Films

Bloody brilliant. 

I saw the remake a while back and really enjoyed it. This one is good too but a product of westerns of the time and aimed at a more family friendly audience (PG rated rather than 15 like the remake). Still I'm pleasantly surprised how much it holds up. 

A 'northern' western film. Not the most compelling thing I've ever watched. Not a keeper. 

Excellent performance by Rami Malek.

the only positive thing about the movie IMO. As a big Queen fan, I find more flaws than positive things to say I'm afraid. A disappointment overall (for me). 

I picked this one up a few months ago. I enjoyed it as well. 

Excellent cyberpunk action thriller. 

Decent revenge thriller from Jeremy Saulnier. A bit too standard compared to his following films Green Room and Hold the Dark, though through that it does lack the confusing plot points of the latter. 

For me this film actually got less and less compelling as it went on and the end felt rather anticlimactic. 

This was a good one. 

Psychological thriller that combines what might be a standard stalker plot with a secondary plot that the main character accidentally gets herself confirmed in a behavioural institution after signing some 'routine' forms after just going there to talk to a counsellor about her problems. She ends up locked in this place with her stalker and naturally no one believes her and the police won't do anything to get her out. It can get quite twisted at times and it's actually difficult in some instances to feel sympathy for the lead who doesn't always display good judgement and morals herself, especially in a scene shortly before the end but I can't really explain why I felt that way about her without spoiling a major part of the movie. I rate this one highly. 

An intriguing twist on the police procedural genre that manages to not descend into full-on horror.