Hereditary

What can I say with out spoilers.

If you love a traditional horror see this. See it now, do not go alone, you’ll need a support group for after.

Toni Collette is fucking fantastic! Yes I dropped an f bomb and yes it was deserved.

I actually saw this on Friday (it’s now Monday) I needed the time to process.

Big thing for me, it’s the first time in quite some time I’ve watched a trailer and major plot lines haven’t been given away. Which I think really helped, I was expecting a supernatural Hollywood movie.

There are elements of that, but it’s so much more.

On Chesil Beach

A story of a young couple who marry in haste, with little knowledge of the world, love, or sex.

The story follows flash backs between their early relationship, and the lead up to consummating of the marriage. This is somewhat hard to follow, the viewer is not always sure where we are in the time line, or who’s perspective we are looking at. I started to get bored.

We finally get to them ‘doing the dead’. It doesn’t go well, it’s been built up in their heads so much it doesn’t actually happen.

She becomes frightened, and disgusted at the whole thing and runs away along Chesil Beach. While there a conversation ensues that changes the course of their lives.

We then jump into the future first to 1975, and then 2007. This part takes about 10 minutes, and the movie ends.

It raised some interesting conversations between my self and my husband afterwards. (The Mr chose this film) We both took different things away from it.

Over all it was an interesting premise, and story but it just could have been so much more.

I was disappointed. Perhaps the whole point.

It is a book by Ian McEwan, I haven’t read it but perhaps try that first.

Laura Purcell: The Silent companions

A gothic horror set between the mid 1300’s and mid 1600’s, following the traumas of the newly widowed Elsie.

Marrying above her station Elsie finds herself the mistress of an old run down country estate.

The dilapidated estate is feared by the people in the village. Can Elsie and her Companion Sarah find the secrets of the house before it’s to late, or is Elsie truly mad?

Well written and a nice read on a train to Edinburgh.

Karen Rose; The Edge of Darkness

I read this on the recommendation of a work colleague. She lent it to me, and it sounded interesting.

This is actually the 4th instalment of a series. Although that’s not very clear from the cover.

It follows the story Adam Kimble a detective and recovering alcoholic as he tries to solve who tried to kill his estranged girlfriend Meredith Fallon.

The story spins line over line of a web until you’re not quite sure who to trust.

Although I did enjoy this book, it’s repetitive in places, the ending seemed rushed, and to easy.

Would make a good holiday read.

Rampage

After suffering a disappointment this morning I decided, rather than wallow in self pity, to get my self out of the house and went to see Rampage.

What can I say, it didn’t disappoint in my expectations of an over the top action movie made for what the cinema intended; entertainment. (Exactly what I needed at the time).

Dwayne Johnson has developed a reputation, and back catalogue, of exciting movies that are simply there to entertain. A safe place where you might guess what’s about to happen, but it’s always a little better, I little sillier, a little funnier, or a little bit more thrilling than the imagination.

This movie is loosely based on the video game of the same name, first released in 1986 on the Atari, with later versions on PlayStation, GameCube, and even Wii platforms.

It features an all star cast made up of The walking dead’s favourite villain Jeffrey Dean Morgan (doing a blinding job of being an asshat who’s not actually an asshat at all). Joe Manganiello, ironically getting in to a show down with a rather angry wolf, Naomi Harris (28 days later), and Malin Ackerman playing a believable bitch.

Think San Andreas, Pacific Rim (the first one) and Jurassic Park make a movie baby, this is the love child.

Totally stupid science, but completely entertaining, and fun.