Sinister [Blu-ray]

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A film that you think is going in one direction - a malpractice suit against a doctor - but then throws in some foreseen curves and becomes almost a different film, with quite surprising twists and turns. A clever thriller.

Leaving aside what are obvious no-no's - as a psychotherapist, the gaffes in the script are painful but leeway for artistic licence must be given since - this is a very good story. Jude Law is excellent. Pretty boy-turned mans, his acting conveys the subtly and intelligence of his part which could not have been conveyed without it being inherent to the actor. The actress Rooney Mara is chilling, Catherine Zeta-Jones is good (looks a bit like a gargoyle in what appears as an attempt to lessen her good looks for the sake of gravitas - didn't work and was a little distracting) and Channing Tatum was also very good. I have to say there was one section in the film where I had become sufficiently bored to be on the brink of turning it off, but I persevered and for the sake of the at the end - I was glad. It was a great ending, both from the plot's twists and from the sense of satisfaction. would watch it again.

With twisty bits that surprised. A little bit far fetched plot-wise but the intrigue kept going to the very end. English subtitles available.

So many films nowadays deliver movies with unoriginal content, that just have a lot of deaths, screams and bumps. This one has a great plot that draws the viewer in, with facts being given every so often.Ethan Hawke plays a burnt-out true crime writer. He moves his family into a home where mass killings took place earlier. However, he fails to tell his wife and children this vital fact. When he looks in the attic he finds a projector, plus home movies that had been left there before. What he sees unnerves him.Sinister is quite a slow burner of a film. It does take time for certain things to happen, but there are a few grisly incidents early on, noises and shocks. The effective camerawork heightens the tension throughout.The movie is very atmospheric. A great one to watch in the middle of the night on your own with the lights off.I can see this possibly having a sequel or even a prequel, in the way Paranormal Activity did. I hope they don't do this, as the movie is fine on it's own. The viewer is better left to figure out what will happen next.

Side Effects (2013) - Directed by Steven SoderberghSoderbergh's stuff is always worth a watch, the emphasis on detail, character study, great dialogue and ultra-realism which, whilst undoubtedly laudable, sometimes means our Hollywood-primed expectations fail to be met. Contagion (2010) was a perfect example of this, a worldwide pandemic caused by a bird flu like virus is killing A list celebrities, realism trumping escapism throughout the film, which was critically acclaimed, and something - you know the running, jumping and explosions - is lost.In Side Effects Jude Law plays a conflicted English man, not an uncommon casting decision for him. He's a psychiatrist who's on duty one night when a road traffic victim comes through his A&E department. She admits to driving her car straight at a wall and he becomes her head doctor as he tries to help her through a debilitating depression. Meanwhile, the woman's husband, a former trader who's served time for insider dealing, is struggling to build his life now he's on the outside again. There are several scenes where we see him and her struggling to cope with her depressive illness. Around twenty-five minutes in when you're settling in still trying to find the narrative centre of this tale, it twists and takes a direction that's quite unexpected. Rooney Mara's character, Emily, the depressed wife, takes things to a whole new level on the tower block of mental illness by getting in a fugue state and stabbing her husband in the back with a kitchen knife.Tatum Channing, who we might have confidently expected to stay the narrative course he is such a rising star in Hollywood, collapses to the linoleum and breathes no more. This murder embroils Jude Law's character in a scandal around the medication he'd prescribed her for her mental illness as it begins to emerge that there may have been some unpleasant side effects hushed up during its trials.This psychological what-the-hell-is-really-going-on-arama is eminently watchable, Jude Law is always great to watch and a plastic lipped Catherine Zeta Jones makes a surprising intervention as the lesbian lover of Rooney Mara's character in the final two-thirds of the story. Again our expectations are surprised when what we thought might be a genuine medical drama, along the lines of Coma from the 1980s, about the dangers of untested drugs rushed to market, turns out to be something else entirely. I won't say what as it will spoil the denouement for you. Needless to say, what we originally thought was going on, Jude Law trying to help a depressed woman rebuild her life, is simply the distraction technique for the true intrigue here. I did manage to unpick most of the plot by the mid-point but my rapid guesses were only seventy percent right, which in escapologist terms would mean I'd have only wriggled out of the arms and torso of the straight jacket before the rope snapped and I was plunged head-first into the tank of starving piranha, a wonderful image but not quite good enough in my own personal race to decrypt the plots of the film's I watch.The twists and turns are well delivered, the story treats its audience with a respectful intelligence, it was just a bit slow to get going and there were no explosions at all.*** Three stars.

A word of warning don't watch this late at night and on your own other wise your nerves will be torn to shreds .Many modern horror films have relied on blood and guts with very little story and usually unknown bad actors who go round screaming and going upstairs or in cellars when common sense says don't ,not so Sinister the acting is superb Ethan Hawke is on screen most of the time and holds the film together and you do not get bored as you follow him unravelling the movie clips he finds, that's all I will say about the story needless to say it has moments of sheer terrorIf you have surround sound be prepared for sounds coming from every speaker and don't hold any hot drinks as when you jump and I say ''When not If ''you could quite easily scold your self .To sum up a rare genuinely scary film with excellent acting from all taking part not to be missed and at around three pounds why should you