Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realize they might not survive the night.
The kind of film where, afterwards, you think twice before switching the light on. Or turning round too quickly.
Or the dog next door coughs as you pass the window and it scares the living shit out of you…
★★★★
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.
Sadly I did not see this in 3D.
If you are looking for boobs and gore this delivers in spades and on that basis I can’t fault it. I don’t even think it is trying for any real tension. It’s just shore to shore bikinis and blood.
★★★
When Alita awakens with no memory of who she is in a future world she does not recognize, she is taken in by Ido, a compassionate doctor who realizes that somewhere in this abandoned cyborg shell is the heart and soul of a young woman with an extraordinary past.
I liked it a bit more on second watch. The visual effects are way better than I remember. I dunno if I just took against those big eyes.
I think another factor is that now I have seen Rotoscoped Rosa Salazar (in Undone) I can see her performance in Alita, and somehow that elevates it for me. Like you can see the Andy Serkis in Gollum (right?) You appreciate what the actor is doing under the CGI that bit more.
The script clangs a bit in places and I can, in no way buy Waltz and that massive hammer.
I kind of would have liked to see the second part now. Shame.
★★★½
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Starts out pretty darn unsettling but sorely needed some shocks in the finale. It sort of wanders into more familiar territory and it loses something.
★★★½
Jen's romantic getaway with her wealthy (married) boyfriend is disrupted when his friends arrive for an impromptu hunting trip. Tension mounts at the house until the situation culminates in an unexpected way.
There are films that you can describe as “dumb fun”. This has all the dumb and none of the fun. It looks pretty decent in places, which is something. But my strongest reaction was definitely concern for the upholstery.
★
“Oh, I need a non-breaking space in a JS regexp, how hard can that be?”
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The search function on the CQC website is absolutely terrible. I have no idea what is going on in the background.
This page (https://www.cqc.org.uk/search/site/press-releases) shows 4207 results. The most recent (at time of writing) shown is 7 April 2022. However, if you filter by Region to “South East” the most recent becomes 13 April 2022.
Wut?
Then, head back to the main list again and download the data using the link at the bottom. Gives me 4212 results. That’s five more than shown on the site.
If you do any sort of search it is so fuzzy the results are meaningless. I assume it then sorts by “best match” (but so fuzzy…) and you can’t then sort by anything else.
Just terrible.
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More fantastic SharePoint tips – super well written!
How to perform regular expressions (regex) in Power Automate for free without the use of external connectors or thid party actions.
This is absolutely top-notch work! Bravo, Sir!
The horror of having to review your whole training session so you can add timestamps to the video…
