What Films Have You Seen Recently?

[nicholasrope]

The Critic

Set in 1934, a Theatre Critic played by Ian McKellen is fired after he is arrested for being Gay so in order to get revenge on his former boss (Played by Mark Strong) he gets an Actress (Played by Gemnma Arterton) who he gives mean reviews to seduce him in order to ruin his life. It's a fascinating and well acted Film but it also felt like it's a BBC Special over a Bank Holiday or Seasonal Holiday.

[Demdike@Cult Labs]

28 Weeks Later (2007)

I was planning on getting rid of this today having found out that both it and the original 28 Days Later are long out of print on Blu-ray and going for silly money. Cex are offering twenty quid in credit or 14 in cash for the double disc version i have, but having decided to watch it one last time last night changed my mind and on my shelf it remains.

Of course there was the other issue too. There's a new film out next year 28 Years Later. Get rid of this disc now and just buy all three again in the inevitable box set. And then i realised it's from Fox or Disney as they are now called so there's every chance it won't ever get released again and it's just too darn good to get rid of with a genuinely gripping second half.

I was basically once again on the edge of my seat as Jeremy Renner's small party of humans tried to get out of London. Under attack from infected humans, military snipers and mass extermination by fire and gas, it's truly thrilling stuff and Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's film plays out on a far greater scale than Danny Boyle's first film, which incidentally, looks bloody awful on Blu-ray.