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The film's trailer got a lot of flack for some terrible CGI of a car crash (the latter one in the trailer below) Was it bad in the film, or did they just use an unrefined shot because it wasn't ready in time for the trailer?

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It's a bit of a pet peeve of mine to see people complain about things in hollywood/movie industry "these days" when what they complain about has been issues for decades. Things like complaints about all the sequels and remakes that, as you've highlighted, have been dominating box offices for...

I saw a preview screening a while back. It's now available on Amazon Prime. I mostly liked it, though had some issues. Not sure I remember them all now, but I did enjoy Richard E Grant in particular.

I did not know the answer and have just looked it up, and have no idea if these are the answers you're expecting... Domestic (using this page as a source) is 1998 for both - Titanic, Armageddon and Saving Private Ryan Worldwide (using this page as source) is 2001 for q1 (Harry Potter and the...

Channel 4, boxing day at 15:30.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Singbirds and Snakes This was long, and I'm not sure it earns it. This focuses on the early life of Coriolanus Snow - the 'evil' dictator character of the Hunger Games - a series that had focused on one of the tributes from the outlying system of a distopian...

Went to the unlimited screening of Godzilla Minus One this evening. I really enjoyed it. Unlike all the American Godzilla movies, this one told a story that made you care about the human characters. Bit of a stretch to give a particular resolution to part of the story but overall, a good kaiju...

I went to see the latest Eli Roth offerng Thanksgiving. It's a full length movie inspired by the fake trailer from the grindhouse double bill (Deathproof and Planet Terror). It isn't intended to be the movie the trailer was advertised, rather it was approached as a reboot of that movie, so it's...

I went to this evening's closing film for the Cinecity Festival, All of Us Strangers. Andrew Scott plays a writer who is writing a story about his dead parents, visit his old family home and runs into what transpires to be the ghost of his parents, so he starts visiting them to update them on...

I went to the lunchtime showing of The Marvels. I really enjoyed it, and would put it as the strongest non-spidey MCU movie since Endgame. But I have seen a few negative reviews (I've not really spent much time looking, but they seem the msot popular on letterboxd). But it's a superhero movie...

I popped to the cinema for a double bill on Wednesday. First up Bottoms. It tells the story of two unpopular high school "'ugly', untalented, lesbians" (the bottom of the social ladder, hence the title), who decide to start a fight club for girls at their school under the pretence of self...

Five Nights at Freddy's Based on the video game, a security guard has to deal with rampaging animatronics at a mostly abandoned themed pizzaria. I am not familiar with the game, only hearing about after watching the similar-themed Willy's Wonderland and The Banana Splits Movie from the last...

The cine-city fim festival has released its line up: https://www.cine-city.co.uk/whats-on/

Back from watching Saw X. Set sometime between Saw and Saw II, John Kramer goes to Mexico for experimental treatment on his brain cancer, only to discover it was a con. He decides to teach them a lesson in his own way. It felt like it was trying to address two of the criticisms of the sequels -...

A Haunting in Venice I feel like I enjoy the Branagh Poirot movies more than I should. There's nothing particularly special, new or fresh about them, but I just enjoy them. It does stick out how much Poirot has changed from the almost militant 'justice must be served' character he is in Orient...

A combination of a massive workload due to colleagues moving on/taking time off, and a bought of covid has led to me not getting to the cinema very much at all this month. Now things are easing off, I have had a couple of trips this week. On Monday I went to the the Duke of York's to see Pedro...

Theater Camp A mockumentary following the fortunes of a down on-its-luck summer camp for theatre nerds. I was looking forward to this, the trailer gave it a musical theatre version of drop dead gorgeous vibe, so as a fan of both it seemed right up my street. But for some reason, it didn't really...

Blue Beetle One of the films that sits somewhere between the previous DCEU/Snyderverse and the upcoming James Gunn DCU (I suspect it will depend on how popular it is). The films plays it safe is this respect. Names get mentioned in various fashions, but no guest appearances commiting to any...