Film Reviews by HM

Starts with a blast then becomes a pointless run around . The trend of thin women beating up large men continues and these men need to improve their aim! Very stupid film indeed, a new low for the exhausted super hero genre. Drunk? Eating popcorn? Cannot be bothered to think? Then this film is for you.

Predictable nonsense with a cast of unbelievable characters; no follow up please!

Robbie is a fine actress but so many of them need to do super hero films to keep in the public eye. She deserves better than this although she was involved in production I gather. Produce something else love!

A suspense film, not really horror as such. Lady is apparently haunted by her dead controlling husband, or is she? Well title gives it away. I found this gripping and intriguing. Plenty of edge of seat excitement as a twist or two are employed. Nothing of the misguided scientist about the story, more of a mad bad stalker. Good stuff and a welcome change from slash horror, altogether more intelligent.

Well a Jewish guy (writer and Adolf actor) sending up the Nazis is understandable but this has nothing new to say. Absurd and occasionally funny the cast clunk along with a young Jewish girl in hiding behaving irrationally given the circumstances which has the film veering between serious moments and the totally daft. Fat German blond woman character, bully boys in the Hitler Youth and other cliched characters abound etc. Scarlett Johansen points her boobs in the right direction and says her lines as usual. Weird I suppose with some entertainment value but not a shred of enlightenment for the audience. More Monty Python than bullseye satire.

16 year olds are to defend a bridge so German soldiers can escape the advancing Americans in last days of WWII. Not much use really as once Yanks get to the bridge nobody is going to cross it are they? First half of the film introduces the characters and domestic circumstances, then we move on to the war bits!

The Hitler Youth boys have a hard time doing their duty as relatives try to persuade them to abandon their posts and come home. Tensions grow between the boys as threat approaches. Eventually heroics abound as they fight the on-coming enemy. Reminiscent of Stalingrad the movie really as we are invited to side with them despite the usual Germans are the baddies depiction in most films. Entertaining and plenty of realistic action.

I don't suppose there will be many Germans are the heroes films but this is one of them. Worth a watch for entertainment value

Out of prison after a 10 year stretch our anti-hero finds his brother in a tangled web of debt putting their family pub in danger of going out of business. So, our boy takes on local hoodlums. An attempt is made to show him as a potential good family man having turned over a new leaf. Needless to say it all goes wrong. A well trodden plot path doesn't offer anything new, but it is a fairly entertaining film with a quick pace, slowing occasionally for 'family moments'.

Most rock/pop movies have lame scripts and drop the band into a commercial vehicle to let us gawp at the good looking twerps therein. This however is a creative masterpiece that is ground breaking in itself and if anything, enhances the ground breaking rock opera Tommy. Ken Russell was born to team up with a rock band.

The songs are a tower block above the weak La La Land and other unmemorable musicals of late, let alone their delivery (Let Cats be a lesson to you!). Each segment of the movie is a foretaste of music videos to come. Tommy is the first complete 'concept album' as Sgt Pepper was a couple of tracks that alluded to that 'concept' then was a collection of great songs.

The sound quality is worthy of a home cinema 5.1 outing so go for it. A unique slice of rock movie brilliance.

The terrible true story of a terrorist attack on a hotel in India. Characters are brought alive to the viewer but suffer slaughter and terror. Hard to watch as it feels like walking amongst the wounded and dead at the scene of a bombing. You can't stay aloof as a mere spectator, it feels as if you are there and may have sickened some viewers. The cold blooded terrorists demonstrate a total commitment to their religion and cause, taking instructions from a faceless and ruthless leader. All are targeted, men, women, children and the old. No mercy for us infidels.

I was riveted to the screen and felt as though I had been through an emotional wringer! Tough entertainment, but brilliantly done.

Unusual to cast a Downs Syndrome person in a movie but he is one of two central characters, so well done! A loner down and out small time thief needs to leave town to escape pursuing locals offended by his behaviour and collides with a Downs Syndrome boy who has escaped from an inappropriate institutional Incarceration. Queue comedy on the road theme. Along the way our thief meets girl and his perspective on life is given a chance to change, will he take it?

The boy has an ambition to meet a hero he watches on old videos. That will be journeys end or new beginnings? Watch and find out! An entertaining movie, heart warming and kind of informative about the syndrome and its victim.

SF horror. A family living on an Alpaca farm find a meteor on their fields. Odd things start to happen. Cage is his usual self at full blast. A creepy and at times sick horror movie. One for the shock fans. I certainly found it gripping even though I am not a horror genre fan.

The book need not concern viewers. The film holds up in its own right. An intelligent study of mixed messages, love confusion set against a period background of social rules that the story gently sends up. Performances are excellent and one stand out aspect is the costumery. Women will particularly enjoy the clothes, Emma herself is in a new outfit each scene and the effect is very attractive and pretty as is Anya Taylor-Joy in the title role. Also, watch out for Letty Thomas and Miranda Hart in fine supporting roles which in some ways are more demanding than the lead character.

Enjoyed this.

Well it kicks off with a monster rampage and doesn't let up. A daft threadbare plot with the usual Godzilla is out for the count; nope he is up and running again stuff. It hardly troubles the brain cells so it needs a home cinema sound system to do the action justice; bang crash, roar and squeal.

As with most blockbuster special effects based franchises, the charm wears off and the plots get dafter, so you are left with a visual spectacle serving up more of the same. Poor movie.

Themes we have become accustomed to from this Steven King story; starts off with kids being taken (IT) then a bunch of vampire like creatures (Salem's lot) and then the tenuous link to the Shining. A long film with not much to say really. Never becomes clear what the shining is or its power source, but baddies eyes light up now and again.

The heroine is all powerful one minute then needs protecting the next from someone she beat up earlier. The final showdown is a let down as it explains nothing and introduces characters I don't recall from the Shining. Where were they when Jack Nicholson needed them?

Some shock moments and violence towards children which is a cheap horror shot. All in all a bit disappointing, although reasonably entertaining.

The first movie (in this remake series) had the advantage of explaining what the Jumanji game is all about and so hooked the audience straight away. The way the story unfolded as a video game was interesting plus comedy and action. This follow up has the comedy and action but has to keep that up from minute one with some repetition of movie one, after all we know how the game works; players having three lives etc. Because of this it isn't as impactful. Having said that, it is funny and the action sequences are exciting, although the cliff hanging CGI stuff is straight from the land of S. Spielburg.

So, entertaining, funny with decent action and lovable characters. It won't disappoint.

Silly plot, just a chase film but chopped into a few parts. This franchise has gone the way of Star Wars; brainless action, daft story and contrived set pieces straight out of the cliché book. The popcorn will help you digest this 'one movie too many' in the series.

Comedy plot, but thrilling and a none stop chase movie. Good to look at, pointless swearing that didn't fit the characters, but good characters none the less. It is a thriller, bloodbath and a dash of humour, tongue in cheek kind of thing. Very entertaining and works across horror/thriller genres in Zombieland mode. Very entertaining, enjoyed it; great B movie stuff.