"Life" is an ace sci-if horror but Ryan Reynolds is very badly cast but the film succeeds in spite of Deadpool's presence.

There's really only a couple of scenes I disliked which could have been edited tighter to improve the film overall:



Nitpicks aside it's a really good film. I think most people will see the ending coming off a mile off but I still thought it was a bloody great end.

Get away from her, you bitch out of 10.

Made just £97 (about $125) in its UK opening weekend, with an average of 4 viewers per screen.

I dont believe you

Talking of which, the trailer for Colossal, the current Anne Hathaway film, also makes it look fucking terrible but it reviewed pretty well so I gave it a shot. At first the film falls in line with the terrible romcom that the trailer tries to sell you, but about half way through it becomes clear that it couldn't give a fuck for your stupid concept of 'genres' and blithely mixes romcom with sci-fi with thriller. It doesn't stick the landing entirely but the heel turn of one of the characters that underpins the last section is properly chilling, and makes it even more amusing that Legion's Dan Stevens didn't seem to get the memo about what type of film he was actually acting in. It's not hurt by the fact that the two leads turn in very good performances throughout, especially Hathaway who juggles the demands of the different genres incredibly well.

*cough*sci-fi is a setting not a genre*cough*

*cough*sci-fi is a setting not a genre*cough*

*cough*no one gives a fuck*cough*

Yeah it's not a genre, I just checked with the International Genre Certification Board's list of official genres.

Sci-Fi *can* be a setting. But mostly is isn't.

Blues Brothers is a musical.

I'd go the other way around. It can be a genre, but mostly it isn't. Most sci-fi films can be characterised as drama in space/future, horror in space/future, war in space/future etc, police buddy movie in space/future etc.

Craster and I were due to meet Dan Akroyd the other day, and we were going to ask him if it was a musical and we both agreed that we would take his answer as difinitive and put this to bed once and for all.

We forgot.

I'd say that it's a genre just because it tells you a bit about what to expect. e.g. nearly all scifi films have to spend a bit of time setting the scene, explaining the world. And you can expect that there's probably going to be quite a lot of special effects sequences. Some people love all that sort of thing and others hate it.

Does it even matter any more anyway? It's not like you're trying to find something in a video shop in 1995. Thanks to the modern miracle of computer databases where films usually sit in multiple genres you can search for a comedy and find comedies that are set in space as well.

Does anyone here possibly have a copy of The Nines? It's proving difficult to "purchase legally" - Ed.

Does anyone here possibly have a copy of The Nines? It's proving difficult to "purchase legally" - Ed.

I'm 99% sure I've got a copy at home. If you PM me an email I'll send a link or something later.

I've watched Alien: Covenant.

So I guess we're never getting a good Alien movie ever again then.

Trainspotting 2 is very good indeed. Weirdly, despite not being about the lives of a load of hopeless junkies this time around, I found it a bit bleaker than the first film. It has it's moments of humour for sure but they're like concentrated pockets whereas the first film has a sort of lightness all the way through.

Tits.

rush most of it out at the end while there's shouting going on

I'm 99% sure I've got a copy at home. If you PM me an email I'll send a link or something later.

I watched this last night and agree with the above, and felt that the film worked incredibly well as a result, in that it wasn't just trying to do a re-tread of the original, despite all the nods, winks, and indeed shot-for-shot recreations in many cases - this is a very different film although it is made of the same DNA.

It's got the lot really, everything you'd expect from a Trainspotting sequel but absolutely stands on its own merits. Funny, moving, profane, powerful, beautifully shot and masterfully directed with excellent use of music, and top-notch performances from the entire cast.

There are a couple of really tender scenes in there too, and a melancholy sense of lives wasted and gone wrong runs all the way through it, to great dramatic effect.

I very much enjoyed this and would say don't be put off by the somewhat mixed reviews, this is a splendid film.

914/1000