Stellar vocal performance from the actress portraying Whitney Houston but ultimately sanitised for a 12 rating. Too many details are glossed over to achieve the family friendly rating. Drug use and abuse by Bobby brown are only hinted at when this ultimately should have been the main part of the story. Instead we get a generic story about an amazing singer which doesn't dig into the reasons behind the drug abuse nor her relationships or indeed her psyche in enough detail. I personally found the whole film a little but dull with little to recommend other than he song performances . As some have commented this feels like only a small step up from a tv movie.
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Dreamland
(I) (2023– )
Meh
6 May 2023
I have no understanding why some critics said this show was good. Ok lily allen is in it. She's not an actor but is ok in this. It reminds me of Benidorm. Nothing really happens and it's not really funny and there is also not really much drama. It's massively overrated D it's a "sky original" . How many of those have been good? Promising young woman was good but really their output has been poor so it's not really a surprise to see content like this .lily Allen used to be famous for being.a drugged pop star and flashing her boobs. It doesn't appear there is much too much to her. Marry a stranger things actor ....
Smile
(V) (2022)
Pretty decent
26 April 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Got paramount plus free after being a sky subscriber. Gave this a try and being a horror lover I thought this was pretty decent. Don't want to give any spoilers but it's a fairly decent chiller involving a psychiatrist and possibly a curse. Lots of good special effects and some nasty gore. Lead actress was very good (not sure ive seen her in anything before) Some of the best jump scares I've seen in a while and I don't normally get spooked by them this certainly had one which freaked me out a bit (the sister by the car) . Sadly a bit of a week ending and maybe a bit overlong but certainly worth a watch to any horror lover.
Headgame
(2018)
Terrible
7 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
This was absolutely pathetic. Low budget, poor acting, dire script, useless directing. That's a waste of an hour and a half of my life. It's a very very poor attempted rip off of saw. What was the vaping all about? Filmed in slo mo to make the characters look cool? Well that didn't work! The opening 10 mins of boring fake nightclub set dancing when there are clearly far too few extras to fill the screen. Continuity errors and basic physics. A machete chops through a baseball bat? But then a few minutes later the bat is whole again and then later in half? Who wrote this absolute turd if a movie. Please don't like me and watch this movie. Watch something better.
Curfew
(2019)
Could have been good
10 April 2019
Started well with an interesting premise. The start was quite good and led me to believe it would be a light hearted action romp with "zombies" but the later episodes focussed on needless and quite boring flashbacks. Not great
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