NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when, minutes after he arrives at her offices Christmas Party, the entire building is overtaken by a group of terrorists. With little help from the LAPD, wisecracking McClane sets out to single-handedly rescue the hostages and bring the bad guys down.
The quality of this movie shows with the scene in which they close Powell’s arc and nobody has to say a word.
★★★★★
When a group of 20-somethings gets stuck at a remote mansion during a hurricane, a party game gone very, very wrong ends with a dead body on the ground and fake friends at every turn as they try to find the killer among them.
You get to the dénouement and you’re, like, “Oh. Haha! That’s neat.”
And… well, that’s about it. “Lite” might be the word I’d choose.
★★★
I use Facebook only because a number of Groups I am part of insist on using it. Somehow, Facebook has decided that I like soccer and it just keeps surfacing the most banal crap about it. So depressing.
Huge list of things I could or should be doing with my time off work. Instead, today, I have been mosty cleaning up my gmail… Why?!
The Guardians of Arcadia reunite to battle the nefarious Arcane Order, who've reawakened the primordial Titans.
This was never going to be good but I didn’t expect it to be this bad.
If you like your typical Japanese anime, you might enjoy the interminable parade of “one last chances” and Deus ex machina on offer here but, otherwise, it’s incredibly tedious.
The film and the series are filled to the brim with great concepts that result in wonderful visuals but the story, if you can even called it that by the end, just wears thinner and thinner, to the point where it actually gives up… and starts over.
★★
The inquisitive Mr Wraxhall discovers that a long-dead Swedish nobleman does not lie easy in his tomb.
Still angry about this… #NHS
Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.
Unarguably the best film about fire fighters. I’m sure fire fighting has changed a great deal in thirty years but you still got to love them: you call, they come.
However, the “sex scene” might rival Top Gun’s in its unsexiness. Though I do like the shot of them riding the fire truck after. The soundtrack gets a bit cringe during the funeral too.
On the plus side, the effects are still amazing and everyone apart from Jennifer Jason Leigh is on at least decent form. Although Donald Sutherland is a bit hammy, and doesn’t scary me quite as much as he did when I was a kid, Ronald Bartel is still a terrifying character.
★★★★
I wrapped my Christmas gifts before 6pm on Christmas Eve. This is a personal record.
I like how people that have retired early to make the most of their health are “economically inactive” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-64083802
