Cinema catch up

Couple of days off the celluloid but back with Watchmen, second time round, maybe should've waited for the Ultimate cut or something as it really didn't have the punch it had in the cinema. Rorshach was great though and guess I've come to terms about the lack of squid.

Bunny Lake Is Missing, a odd little picture by Preminger was more enjoyable though, a twisted little psychological thriller about a missing kid. Olivier plays the detective in charge of the case and as usual is excellent, there's a weird super-creepy cameo by Noel Coward and the two leads do pretty well, even during the bizarre end scenes. Noticed it's getting remade, typical.

The International, was as I expected, a fairly average action thriller, Owen and Watts were competent at least and the I guess the shootouts were ok. It did look nice though despite the director indulging in some sort of architectural fetishism.

Up next is Dead Birds - I was looking for some more period set horror after enjoying the schlocky yet good The Burrowers and found this nice little haunted house-ish tale about some Confederate soldiers turned bank robbers who come a cropper before they can share out the loot. Dunno why it's scoring so low on IMDB I liked it.

The List of Adrian Messenger was a revelation, a witty little mystery thriller from John Huston crammed with stars, though it's easy to miss a few of them. George C Scott is great and has one of the best British accents I've heard from a Yank.

And finally The Seven Ups, recommended by a friend this was a taut cop thriller starring Roy Scheider, not particulary original but well made and pretty entertaining. Something about it made me think it was based on a true story.