First Week Back At The Cinema

It's been over 14 months since I last done my monthly reviews and with Cineworld opening back up it's doors, I finally went back.

So here it is, all the movies I saw during my first week back at Cineworld ranked from worst to best:

#4: Frankie

This was my last screening of my first week back at my local Cineworld, and also my first Unlimited screening since Little Women at the Warrington Cineworld back in December 2019.

Going into this, I knew virtually nothing at all about this film apart from it starring Brendan Gleeson, Marisa Tomei and Isabella Huppert from 'Greta'.

*

This was ok. Overly drawn out. The 3rd act was probably the most enjoyable with the stunning exterior shots of the Portugal countryside and the score finally picking up.

I was expecting one of the actors/actresses to wow me, but I felt like none of them even tried. It was like they were forced to act while they were on their own private holiday.

I'd highly reccomend watching 'Still Alice', starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart or Disney+'s 2020 movie 'Clouds' for films dealing with disease and cancer. Those were FAR better comared to this apparent Cannes Film Festival contender.

2.5/10

#3: Tom & Jerry

I first heard about this film in late November last year, when the first trailer released, it looked sorta fun but I was only really enticed to watch it because it starred Chloe Grace Moretz.

*

This was mediocre at best. Chloe was probably the only entertaining part of the 95 minute runtime.

It was pretty cool that the titular characters(along with Spike) maintained their animated looks and looked completely cell-shaded at times.

If this does end up getting a sequel, I really hope it's miles better and entertaining than this.

3/10

#2: My New York Year/My Sallinger Year

I only first heard about this film when Cineworld announced their reopening earlier this month.

This was also my first empty screening since I saw Playing With Fire back in December 2019.

While an empty screening is definitely bad for the box office and cinemas in general, I rather like them as I can enjoy the film by myself without any talking and phone interruptions among many other anti-cinema etiquette rules being broken.

Perhaps the only thing that drew me to watch this, was that it was set in NYC, early '90s New York to be exact.

This was excellent, a little hard to follow at times, not gonna lie.

Brilliant performances by Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley.

It was quite clever that the director decided to hide or even block from the shot frame the actor's face who portrayed J.D Sallinger throughout every scene he was in due to the actual Mr. Sallinger no longer being around.

Beautiful exterior shots of New York.

I found this to be somewhat similar to Amazon Prime's 2020 film How To Build A Girl starring Beanie Feldstein.

It dragged quite a bit, but it was still enjoyable at the very least.

6/10

#1: Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway

This was my first screening in my local Cineworld since March 17th 2020.

This was originally scheduled for a March/April 2020 release but later got delayed twice due to the pandemic, finally landing on May 17th 2021.

My "hype" for the movie was immensely diminished when it was recently reported this year that Daisy Ridley had been replaced by Aimee Horne.

I haven't watched the original from 2018, but have seen a few clips and found it to be somewhat funny.

This, on the otherhand, was quite hilarious.

The CGI for the animals was great, Sony is usually outstanding when it comes to CG (The Amazing Spider-Man 2 being a notable example).

Loved the heist scenes during the 2nd act weirdly reminded me of a PG family-friendly version of Guy Richie's 'Snatch'.

All of the scenes I did laugh at were not featured in the trailers, probably because the trailers were shown multiple either on the internet or pre-March 2020 cinema screenings.

Aimee Horne either done a great job replicating Daisy's voice or Sony only had her complete a few lines Daisy wasn't in the recording booth for as the train sequence sounded exactly like the one from the first trailer.

This, overall, was a very funny film and slightly warranted the overdue theatrical release.

6.8/10