This was a remotely interesting film which sort of revolved around English gangsters.

In essence however it was more of an attempt at The Sixth Sense meets an Ingmar Bergman film, neither of which it pulled off very well. I won’t spoil it for you other than to say that its pretty much clear what is going on with this film in about the first half hour and the rest of the film time just builds to a “surprise” most viewers will have already worked out in detail already.

Ray Winstone is what drew me to this film, although he had very little screen time. In a lot of ways this is more so a romance film with interspersed nasty violence from Ray in flashbacks.

If I’m being fair the stand-out feature of this film was the brilliant matching of actors to Ray Winstone’s appearance; a young version and his son to an Italian wife – they almost look related.

Chloë Grace Moretz very cutely playing Carrie, then of course turning into a pig’s blood covered nightmare.

You may remember my review of the original Carrie film a few weeks ago, nothing much to report here!

Essentially just a remake of the original film with a slightly cuter actress playing Carrie White (although they tidied up the initial shower sequence, sorry no full frontal nudity this time guys).

The only thing I would say was essentially different was that the actors and actresses playing teenagers actually looked like teenagers this time: the original had people like John Travolta and William Katt pushing thirty playing youngsters! Julianne Moore caught the part of Carrie’s deranged mothers beautifully.

A very delightful and quirky British film that manages to combine a great sense of humor and some quite interesting time travel in one package.

A lot of the time travel episodes revolve around fixing awkward boy-girl mistakes and this is what gives the film its ultimate charm. In one sequence the central character Tim for example uses his powers to go back three times and repeat his sexual performance with the new girlfriend to get it “just right”.

In fact in the pursuit of love and happiness with his new found squeeze he often repeats every little encounter until he gets it just right.

After Bill Nighy’s arch evil performance as a vampire in the Underworld series of films, it took a little while to adjust to him as the caring father; but he delivers a brilliant performance that ultimately makes the film what it is,