It isn't complicated enough to come across as contrived but everything the characters need, good or bad, happens as soon as it needs to. If they need a weapon, they find a weapon; if someone has to die, they get killed; if they run out of plot in the green room, suddenly they find a drug den.

The UK release was 2015 but America got it in 2016 which is why it's here.

I know, it's a really terrible situation. I was talking to the manager of my local Odeon while getting a coffee from the Costa that's in there and he was telling me that, when a new release comes out, they only make a profit if over 80% of the seats are filled for the weekend because then the percentage of people who…

Klute: 10/10
All The President's Men: 10/10
The Parallax View: 8/10

I didn't know there was a debate. I thought everyone knew he Crichton was garbage.

Repetitive, convenient, pointlessly gory and Patrick Stewart was terrible and miscast.

It's a good story point told in the most inelegant way possible. Even if it was altered slightly so it was something like "Save my mother" "Huh?" "My mother, Martha-" "Why did you say that name?" etc. it would have been much better. It's also the complete opposite of the backstory involving Iron Man's dad in Civil War…

I have yet to see a TV show from the supposed golden age that wasn't unreasonably padded, and that includes shows I really liked such as Mad Men and Spartacus. Having ten or twenty hours to tell a story would be fine if you didn't have to stop and make it into 42-60 minute bitesized chunks without knowing if you have…

This is 100% correct. Even when it isn't four times the price of a ticket, for what it is, it's insanely overpriced.

But all of that is within a clear framework. Bill Murray pretending he knows how to catch a ghost to impress Sigourney Weaver never turns into a riff session because the scene always has a clear limit on where it can go.

I've watched 409 this year so far. Let's go, champ!

While I can't recall a time in my life that movies have been worse, I only agree with him on this idea as it relates to comedies. Where they used to be tightly scripted in order to not waste film, digital allows filmmakers to rely entirely on improv and going with whatever take they like the best and this has a knock…

When talking about how bad Pitbull is, two different girl friends described him as a guy who talks the most about sex but gets laid the least.

It reminds me of a Chris Nolan movie: boring expository screenplay, dull but meticulous cinematography, cheesy and manipulative emotional elements but somehow validated by being considered serious science fiction. It also feels entirely second hand, with whole scenes and major shots taken from other sci-fi movies.

The stuff with Thomas Kretschmann is the most egregious I've seen. Introduced post-credits in order to be killed off in the next opening credits. All so some Redditors can brag about knowing who that guy is and where they know him from.

Do so. It's great.

Looking at my Letterboxd, my worst movies this year are:-

It does: https://twitter.com/thefilm…

Not everything is Trump.

When I studied history for A-Level, we were given a choice of three different subjects but told explicitly to pick the World War 2 modules because there's more academic material (read: past papers and coursework) to use.