I remembered something else interesting about Elle this morning. As I mentioned, the lead character is the head of a games studio. Weirdly though, in the film, they're not developing a fictional game; they were working on the new Styx game which releases today. It's an odd thing to do because (a) the game they're working on has no real impact on the narrative so could've easily just been made something generic for the sake of the film and (b) the film's narrative does not speak well of a few of the developer characters so it's not like it paints the real life studio in a positive light. Also, y'know, violent and twisted rape revenge story: not exactly your usual fluffy cross-promotion type of thing. I do really wonder why the real life Cyanide Studio went for this deal at all.

I’ve watched Jumanji.

It’s utter trash. Jack Black was so bad I’d almost feel sorry for him if he wasn’t being paid millions. Kevin Hart is a Poundland Chris Rock who should have been forced back to his backcatelog of straight-to-DVD movies. The Rock is serviceable. Karen Gillan is utterly beguiling but doesn’t have any good lines. The camera loves her behind. So do I.

2 out of 10, for each of Karen Gillan’s bum cheeks.

It's only the third Jack Black film I've seen where he doesn't annoy the piss out of me.

Go on then, what are the other two?

Say 'The Holiday' and I'll murder you

That is a great film, isn't it?

When you work out the key I'm actually surprisingly simple and transparent.

Maybe it's the Tenacious D stuff.

Is the key Laudanum?

Film review! Swiss Army man:

I have no idea what the shit that was all about. Radcliffe brilliant.

https://youtu.be/gwHA7d1OkAY

I watched Jigsaw. It’s terrible.

If you must watch a Saw film just watch 1 & 2 and pretend they decided to end it there.

It's the same writer/director as In Bruges and The Guard

Well not quite - they are two brothers Martin, (In Bruges) and John (The Guard) McDonagh.

Dunkirk - a lot better than I'd thought it would be, even if in some scenes the lack of scale made it seem a little like a budget made for TV effort.

This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

This is a film that really needed to be seen on IMAX.

Ooh, yeah. I knew there were two brothers both writer/director. Martin made this one.

Unless they showed a different film, that's not going to help the lack of boats or people on the screen.

Watching The Guard on a recommendation led me to In Bruges which I had never seen before. That was an awesome week.

Thankfully the large epic shots which show up this flaw are pretty rare. I just remember the tension and claustrophobia of all the sequences in tight sinking boats and the agonies of the men, which is where the film really shows its brilliance.

Seven Psychopaths next.

Great, great film. Underrated.

I disagree - there were a lot of shots on the beach after the first 15 minutes where it looked empty, and almost every shot at sea had maybe 3 to 6 boats in view, even when panning back in the direction they'd come from (where there should have been a relatively decent number of boats in view) or actually at the beach. The only point this was remedied was right near the end.

There was nothing at all in the film to give the sense of the scale of 300,000 men being rescued.