Watched 'Escape From Alcatraz' last night, the 1979 Clint Eastwood film, it's on Netflix UK.

Not a bad flick at all, based on the true story of the only three men to ever successfully escape from Alcatraz (technically speaking it's never been proved if they drowned or survived, but they were certainly never found, dead or alive).

I enjoyed it, and it's a well regarded film, you won't go too far wrong in setting a couple of hours aside for it.

I watched Safety Not Guaranteed last night as well and really enjoyed it. I was expecting something pretty lightweight but once it settled down it was a lovely bittersweet character study.

I watched Safety Not Guaranteed last night as well and really enjoyed it. I was expecting something pretty lightweight but once it settled down it was a lovely bittersweet character study.

I keep meaning to watch it as I love Jake Johnson, and whimsy, and time travel.

Another instant hit from Fincher; the guy can do no wrong in my book

'The Game'? That was pretty bad, even with Michael Douglas and Sean Penn doing their best.

Chef

Really really good, surprisingly so. An honest, straightforward, well acted, well made great story, with no tricks or movie clichés.

We watched this as the weekend thought it was ok for a film that was more my wife's thing than mine.

I hated Chef. Utterly utterly despised it. So there are few recommendations better than that.

I watched Dredd again last night and I still think the star of the show was Lena Heady. Karl Urban does the absolute best he can with the role but I never really feel fully convinced by him. He's just not big and grufty enough if you ask me and perhaps I just know the actor too well. But then I'm not someone who has read much (well any) Judge Dredd but it's just the impression I get from the art of JD.

Lena's performance is wonderful I feel as she seems to own the character so well and be utterly different from previous roles she's played. A fine actress in my opinion.

See, I grew up reading 2000AD and think that Urban was fine. Dredd was always lacking in character and wasn't terribly big either, certainly no muscle man in a superhero vain, more wiry. I think the problem with the film was that the history of the character and the well known stories from the comics imbued a false level of expectation (for me, obviously), and the story was so slight, that there was no room for development of the characters at all. In those situations, the pantomime villainy of Headey is always going to stand out. Not to take anything away from Headey's performance, which as you say, was very good.

Edge of Tomorrow is definitely quite good.

Singham!

Amazing.

Any action movie with comedy sound effects, awesome fight scenes, several song and dance routines, and a hero who fights corruption and murder via the means of corruption and murder.

What's not to love?

Singham!

I felt it set a bad example to impressionable minds - ie Russ.

Yeh, Russ is going to book a flight to Budapest and open a massive hotel if we aren't careful

Singham!

Amazing.

Any action movie with comedy sound effects, awesome fight scenes, several song and dance routines, and a hero who fights corruption and murder via the means of corruption and murder.

What's not to love?

Singham!

I've now made you look silly.

Yawn... I'm a little fed up with superhero movies. It seems a little overkill to me.

Probably just that this the third Hunger Games alike I've seen this year

As long as the quality remains high, I say bring them on. Comic book films were largely terrible for so long, let's revel in this golden age!

Hence Singham.

There's a balance here though because they'll only remain profitable as long as the general public, and not just us geeks, are interested in paying to see them. If all the various rights holders start flooding the market with superhero films to get their piece of the pie then, even if the quality remains high, people will get bored with them so profits will drop and the entire genre will get canned. If Hollywood could be trusted to not attempt to milk the shit out of this and then drop the entire thing at the first sign of trouble it would be fine, but they totally can't.