"Don't Look Now" (1973) - 1/10
Wife picked this up on recent Blu-ray release, supposed to be a cult classic but frankly boring as hell. High point the sex scene where it's reputed Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie did it for real on set, but you can't really tell. Picture quality awful, really grainy, no restoration done for the disc at all.
One for the charity shop bag.
Jacob's Ladder. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099871/
First time I've seen the whole of this, loved it. Great film, with some very effective photography.
It’s in my top 5 films of all time and because of that I can’t bring myself to watch the recent remake.
A Most Violent Year (2015) 8/10
As a massive fan of gangster films, I was expecting given the title, a violent thriller. This film is not your traditional organised crime thriller, nevertheless, it drew me in!
The cast were excellent, Jessica Chastain stole the show as the moll, Oscar Isaac looks and plays the part brilliantly and to be honest; the cast overall were excellent. If you like slow burners - worth a watch.
It chapter 2. I knew Kermode hated it as did Peter Bradshaw in the guardian but man it was really poor. You don't care about any of them. Pennywise doesn't seem very menacing and the laughs are in odd places which take you out of the horror build up.
Pity as the first one was better. 2/10