[Spoiler Alert] Film reviews and ratings

Couple of films over the past couple of weeks

Sinners - A * version of From Dusk Til Dawn. Wont watch this again.
Weapons - Unbelievable bad. What is happening to modern horror. This guy is also giving me the fear about taking on the next Resident Evil film.
The Conjuring: Last Rites - Pretty decent. You know what you're getting with this franchise but i enjoyed it, even if there was nothing new.
Funhouse Massacre - An extremely fun and cheesy b-movie gorefest. Took a punt and it paid off.
Terrifier - Gore for the sake of gore, but it gets pass marks as its essentially a crowd-funded piece. Was alright.
The Ritual - Really enjoyed this. Supernatural, folk horror type of film.
Beast of War - Pretty bad shark movie despite apparent good reviews. The one plus point is the use of practical effects with the shark being a puppet as opposed to cgi.

 

Watched Beast of War the other night. Was bearable.

Watched Strange Darling again. Not many films I see these days that I go back to but thought this was great.

 

The Roses. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch & Olivia Coleman. Very good. Entertaining & hilarious from beginning to end ... never a dull moment. Exemplary acting and palpable chemistry from both leading actors (Cumberbatch & Coleman). 8.5/10. I would've given it 9 if not for the somewhat abrupt ending (which I get why they did and which still works).

 

The Commitments.

It's been on my backlog for so long.

Good little film and it is what it is. My favourite part about the film, and possibly the most underrated aspect of it, are the snapshots of Dublin life at that time. They really captured a moment in time there.

 

Go track down The War of the Roses, from the late 1980s, with Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. It is even better. Much darker and funnier, and considering those 3 had worked together a few times previously, especially Douglas and Turner going at each other so hard after all the adventure etc of Romancing the Stone and Jewel of the Nile, makes it so much more of a slap to the face. If you liked The Roses, which is basically a remake of that, definitely worth checking out the original.

 

Will do, mate. I actually only finished watching The Roses before dinner at around 1800 hrs earlier this evening (started watching it last night, but fell asleep). I then found out whilst eating my dinner that it is a remake of The War Of The Roses like you say.

 

Ballad Of A Small Player. Solid film. Colin Farrell, as per, is excellent ... the guy can act and seldom picks bad movies. Defo in his element here. Had never heard of Macau prior to watching this movie. I'm very intrigued by it as it has a high HDI of 0.934, as calculated by its government and has the 3rd highest life-expectency globally. Territory is extremely urbanised, holding the status of the most densely populated on Earth. 2/3 of the total land area is built on land reclaimed from the sea. And The gambling industry of Macau is seven times larger than that of l vegas. CIty has one of the highest GDPs per capita and gdp cppp in the world.

Edit: 8/10