traffic can be horrific up there, it gets terribly snarled up.

I watched The Girl With All The Gifts last night and really, really enjoyed it. It's ostensibly a post-apocalyptic zombie film but it's done with a slant I doubt you'll have seen before ...

... unless you’ve played The Last of Us.

I’ve considered the ending and I’ve decided it was garbage. I did write some words about it on here a fair while back I think. Essentially I thought it was brilliant until the last 20-odd minutes when it got very shit very fast. Still, as you say, very good (until then).

Also, having bothered to search back on your previous posts, you never actually bothered to explain what you didn't like about the ending even at the time so it's genuinely impossible to comment meaningfully.

'Killer App' was added to Netflix today. I managed 8 minutes before turning it off.

I don't even have any idea what that's about so I'm completely out on a limb but I'm guessing that they started with the title and just went from there.

A young hacker creates an "antisocial" networking app that matches enemies instead of friends. When her enemies start turning up dead, she must uncover who or what is behind it before it's too late

I've not seen the movie of The Girl With All The Gifts, but the book was okay.

I remember thinking there was no way in hell I wouldn't have shot the girl right at the start, though.

There’s a sequel out now, I think, or at least due very soon.

the writer has done a lot of cool stuff over the years...a load of Marvel comics and suchlike

What Do You Get For Christmas For The Girl Who Had All The Gifts Last Year

*applause GIF*

How can you fuck up Poirot's facial hair so badly?

The Orient Express was / is in St Pancras today.

Close. Venice.

But that's not the proper one, according to Seat61.

Absolutely loved Thor: Ragnarok. Hilarious.

If I become an eccentric millionaire, I'll definitely organise BeexTrain on the Venice one just so we can play Mafia on the Orient Express.

Actually Amazon also has Your Name (which is hands down the best film I've seen this year) on Blu-Ray on 7 November. So, pick them up, init.

I got one hour in and gave up. Holy shit it's a bad film. What happened, Luc? What happened?

I also enjoyed Thor: Ragnarok. Culturally a different experience-first time I've been asked to stand to 'respect the national flag' which was then pictured on screen (actually, all citizens were asked to stand, so maybe they'd have let me off). And no great prohibition on taking phone calls, though the takers were quiet and quick. Perhaps less worried about because the film is in English with no subtitles, so some people are there for the action. A simple line like Odin's 'oh shit' got a decent laugh. Princely price of £1.97 for your 3d ticket. £2.86 including crisps and pepsi. Decent audience, but presumably low ticket prices prevent places like Myanmar contributing much to a film's gross take, even if they pull people in.

It can be. Not always, mind-can just be similar only annoying (an interval in Iceland, during which teens jump from seat to seat). Concerts sound more likely to have a cultural thing.

And Chuck Norris made a Chuck Norris joke.

Ha! So I watched Baby Driver last night, in which Kevin Spacey plays a major role, and he basically portrays a bullying, intimidating, thoroughly unpleasant crime lord type who forces a young man with issues to do things he really doesn't want to for a couple of hours, and is quite happy to threaten to put the young man's girlfriend in a wheelchair by chopping her legs off, or something, if the young man doesn't do what he wants to.

If we try to disassociate that side of things from the proceedings (which quite frankly I was unable to do, and I found myself wondering who on the set he'd try to shag, as well as how much playing the role was actually an artistic stretch for him), it's not a bad film but nothing special either.

The action sequences are great and the car chases are good, but I don't think it was all as clever as it thought it was, and tonally it was a bit of a mess as well, the story wasn't up to much and whilst I get pretty much everyone apart from Baby and his girl is supposed to be a slimeball who deserves to get killed, I didn't find myself massively rooting for them either - well apart from his foster dad dude who unlike Baby hadn't turned to a life of crime.

I didn't think the soundtrack was that amazing either, there was some good stuff on it, but they couldn't find room for Jethro Tull track, eh? Bank heist with an improvised flute solo, now that'd be something.

Absolutely defines what a 7/10 film is for me. But that might be Kevin Spacey's fault, I don't know, he's in it so much it's hard to be sure.

As such, 700/1000.