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Babel - Drama, NowTV                                                                               Birdman - Drama, Fantasy, Netflix                                 Broken Vows - Drama, NowTV

Baby Driver - Action, Drama, NowTV                                                         Birth of the Dragon - Action, Drama, NowTV                 Bugsy - True Story,Gangster,NowTV

The Babysitter - Comedy, Horror, Netflix                                                    Black Butterfly - Thriller, NowTV                                    The Bucket List - Comedy, Netflix 

The Bad Batch - Action, Drama, Netflix                                                      Black Death - Horror, Thriller                                         Buddymoon - Comedy, Netflix 

Bad Company - Western, Netflix                                                                Black Rain - Action, NowTV                                           Bull Durham - Comedy, Netflix 

Bad Day For The Cut - Revenge Thriller, Netflix                                        The Black Room - Horror, Netflix                                   Bunraku - Fantasy, Action

Bad Match - Mystery, Drama, NowTV                                                        Black Snake Moan - Drama, Netflix                               Burn Burn Burn - Comedy, Netflix 

Bad Moms - Comedy, Netflix                                                                      Black Swan - Psychological Thriller, NowTV                The Burning Plain - Drama, Netflix 

Bad Samaritan - Drama, Thriller, NowTV                                                   Black Water - Action, Netflix                                         Burning Sands - Drama, Netflix 

Bad Santa 2 - Comedy, NowTV                                                                 Blackout - Mokumentary, Netflix                                    Bushwick - Action, Netflix 

Bad Teacher - Comedy, NowTV                                                                The Blind Side - True Story, Drama, Netflix                   BuyBust - Action, Netflix 

Bait - Action, Horror, Netflix                                                                        Blockers - Comedy, NowTV                                          The Bye Bye Man - Horror, Netflix 

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Western Anthology, Netflix                 Blood Diamond - Action, Drama, NowTV Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid - Western, NowTV

Barbarella - Sci-fi, Fantasy, NowTV                                                           Blood Money - Thriller, NowTV                                      Additions:

Barracuda - Thriller, Drama, NowTV                                                          Blow - Drama, True Story, Netflix                                  BlacKkKlansmen - True story, NowTV

The Basement - Horror, Netflix                                                                  Blowout - Conspiracy Thriller, Netflix                             Bullet - Action, Netflix 

Battle Drone - Action, Sci-fi, Netflix                                                            Blue Streak - Action, Comedy, NowTV                         The Bank Job - Crime, Heist, FromTV

Battle of the Sexes - True Story, NowTV                                                   Body of Lies - Action, Thriller, NowTV                          Byzantium - Horror, Drama, FromTV

Beast of Burden - Thriller, NowTV                                                             Bomb City - Drama, True Story, NowTV                       Backtrace - Action, NowTV

Baywatch - Comedy, Action, Netflix                                                           Bowfinger - Comedy, NowTV                            Bad Times at the El Royale - Thriller, NowTV

The Beast Within - Horror, Netflix                                                              Bokeh - Drama, Sci-fi, Netflix                                        Barb Wire - Comic book, NowTV

Beauty and the Beast (French) - Fantasy, NowTV                                    Book of Henry - Drama, Netflix                                     Being Frank - Drama, NowTV

Bee Movie - Animated, Comedy, NowTV                                                  Bottom of the World - Thriller, Netflix                       Billionaire Boys Club - True Story, NowTV

Beneath Us - Thriller, NowTV                                                                    Boys Don't Cry - Drama, True Story, NowTV                Book of Monsters - Horror, NowTV

The Believers - Thriller, Netflix                                                                  Boulevard - Drama, Netflix                                             Bumblebee - Action, NowTV

The Belko Experiment - Horror, Sci-fi, Netflix                                           The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - Drama, Netflix 

Benny and Joon - Comedy, Netflix                                                            Boyhood - Drama, Netflix 

Berlin Syndrome - Thriller, Drama, Netflix                                                 Boyz n the Hood - Drama, Netflix 

Better Watch Out - Thriller, Horror, Netflix                                                 Brad's Status - Drama, Netflix 

Between Worlds - Fantasy, Thriller, Netflix                                                Brain on Fire - True Story, Drama, Netflix 

Beyond Skyline - Sci-fi, Netflix                                                                  Braven - Action, Netflix 

Beyond Suspicion - Action, Thriller, NowTV                                             Brawl in Cell Block 99 - Action, Drama, Netflix 

The Beyond - Sci-fi, Netflix                                                                       Breach - Drama, True Story, Netflix 

Big Daddy - Comedy, Netflix                                                                    The Break Up - Comedy, Netflix 

Big Driver - Thriller, Drama                                                                       Breaking In - Thriller, NowTV

Billy Madison - Comedy, Netflix                                                                Breath - Drama, NowTV

Bird Box - Thriller, Sci-fi, Netflix                                                                Bright - Fantasy, Action, Netflix 

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Babel (2006)

Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rinko Kikuchi (and also Michael Pena in a bit part)

Directed by: Alejandro G. Inarritu (21 Grams, Birdman, The Revenant)

Platform: NowTV UK

IMDB: 7.5/10, RT: 69% Fresh

Synopsis: A movie told in 4 countries (America, Mexico, Morocco and Japan) linking 4 families starting with a tragic accident befalling Blanchetts character. The timeline is played with and you discover how all of these events connect with one another. English language with subtitles.

Verdict: It was an interesting drama and it’s nice to see something completely different with such great performances.

 

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Baby Driver (2017)

Ansel Elgort, Jon Bernthal, Jon Hamm, Jamie Foxx, Lily James

Directed by: Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Scott Pilgrim)

Platform: NowTV UK

IMDB: 7.6/10, RT: 93% Fresh

Synopsis: Elgort plays Baby who is a professional wheelman paying back a debt, when he meets James and falls in love after his last job he thinks he can break away but he is forced back into one last job.

Verdict: Highly entertaining crime caper, Wright always writes fun dialogue and doesn’t disappoint here. Recommended!

 

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The Babysitter (2017)

Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Robbie Amell, Hana Mae Lee and Bella Thorne

Directed by: McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation)

Platform: Netflix UK - a Netflix Original Movie

IMDB: 6.3/10, RT: 71% Fresh

Synopsis: Lewis plays the nerdy kid who is picked on, his parents go away for the weekend so baby sitter Weaving comes in to look after him, but what does the baby sitter getup to when the kid should be asleep?

Verdict: This was a fun throw back to cheesy 80s horror movies, it’s tongue in cheek, funny, doesn’t take itself too seriously, I thought it was fun in the same way as “Tucker and Dale vs Evil”. 

There is a mid-credits scene as well.

 

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The Bad Batch (2016)

Suki Waterhouse, Jason Momoa, Jayda Fink, Keanu Reeves and Jim Carrey

Directed by: Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night)

Platform: Netflix UK - a Netflix Original Movie 

IMDB: 5.3/10, RT: 47% Rotten

Synopsis: Set in America where undesirables are dumped into a fenced off section of the Texas desert (ala Escape from New York), Waterhouse is the newest inhabitant. She is quickly kidnapped by a community of cannibals and that’s where it all goes wrong.

Verdict: The first 20 minutes showed such promise especially with what happens to the lead character showed the film had real balls but it quickly descends into a tedious chore. I get the feeling it’s trying too hard to be a cult classic, no chance in my opinion.

 

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Bad Company (1972)

Jeff Bridges, Barry Brown, Jim Davis and David Huddleston

Directed by: Robert Benton (Kramer Vs Kramer, Billy Bathgate) also wrote the screenplay for Superman.

Platform: Netflix UK

IMDB: 7/10, RT: 91% Fresh

Synopsis: Brown is a god fearing Ohio boy whose older brother has already been killed in the civil war, his parents not wanting to lose another son give him money and tell him to leave town avoiding the draft. He meets up with a rag tag band of thieves led by Bridges and joins them as they head out west.

Verdict: Its a fun movie led by a great early performance of Bridges, the music is a little off putting as well as the Waltons type voiceover but it doesn’t detract too much.

 

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Bad Day for the Cut (2017)

Nigel O’Neill, Susan Lynch, Jozef Pawlowski and Stuart Graham

Directed by: Chris Baugh (episodes of Tin Star, Vera)

Platform: Netflix UK

IMDB: 6.4/10, RT: 92% Fresh

Synopsis: Set in Northern Ireland a middle aged farmer lives with and takes care of his mother, she is killed in apparent home invasion but after an attempt is made on his life as well, there appears to be more to this than a burglary gone wrong and he sets out to avenge his mother.

Verdict: A very good indie revenge drama. Recommended.

 

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Bad Match (2017)

Lili Simmons, Jack Cutmore-Scott, Noureen DeWulf

Directed by: David Chirchirillo (nothing of note)

Platform: NowTV UK

IMDB: 5.6/10, RT: 100% Fresh

Synopsis: An internet-dating playboy's life spirals out of control after meeting a woman online.

Verdict: Bunny boiler for the tinder generation with a twist. Yawn.

 

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Bad Moms (2016)

Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, Kristen Bell, Christina Applegate and Jade Pinkett-Smith

Directed by: Jon Lucas & Scott Moore

Platform: Netflix UK

IMDB: 6.2/10, RT: 58% Rotten

Synopsis: Kunis plays under pressure mum who works and does everything, she catches her husband in a compromising position and along with her 2 friends (Hahn & Bell) decide they are going to screw the rules and be bad moms!

Verdict: You know what, a lot funnier than I thought it would be.

 

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Bad Samaritan (2018)

David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon

Directed by: Dean Devlin (Geostorm) and writer of many big budget movies.

Platform: NowTV 

IMDB: 6.4/10, RT: 53% Rotten

Synopsis: Sheehan is a struggling photographer who works as a valet parking attendant at an upscale restaurant at night, with his buddy they target wealthy diners and rob their place while they eat. Tennant pulls up in his Maserati acting like a trust fund d-bag, they target him for an easy score but when Sheehan finds a beaten and bruised woman tied up in his office things get complicated.

Verdict: Enjoyable enough thriller, if predictable and with a dodgy original soundtrack but Tennant is at his evil best even with his dodgy American accent.

 

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Bad Santa 2 (2016)

Billy Bob Thornton, Kathy Bates, Tony Cox and Christina Hendricks 

Directed by: Mark Waters (Freaky Friday, Mean Girls, The Spiderwick Chronicles)

Platform: NowTV 

IMDB: 5.6/10, RT: 22% Rotten

Synopsis: Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve.

Verdict: I remember enjoying the first one, can’t believe it came out in 2003! Billy Bob is back and proves sequels don’t always work, I watched for 40 minutes before turning it off, crass, genuinely unfunny and just Bad.

 

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Bad Teacher (2011)

Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Justin Timberlake

Directed by: Jake Kasdan (Sex Tape, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle)

Platform: NowTV 

IMDB: 5.7/10, RT: 44% Rotten

Synopsis: A lazy, incompetent middle school teacher who hates her job, her students, and her co-workers is forced to return to teaching to make enough money for breast implants after her wealthy fiancé dumps her.

Verdict: This bored me to tears, especially when Timberlake showed up.

 

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Bait (2012)

Richard Brancatisano, Xavier Samuel, Sharni Vinson and Julian McMahon (must be desperate for a payday)

Directed by: Kimble Rendall (other B movies)

Platform: Netflix UK

IMDB: 5.2/10, RT: 47% Rotten

Synopsis: A freak tsunami floods a supermarket with great white sharks.

Verdict: Another Shark B-movie filled with bad Aussie acting and worse CGI. The trailer looks ok but the first 20 minutes the acting was atrocious.

 

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, Bill Heck, Zoe Kazan, Brendan Gleeson 

Directed by: The Coen Brothers

Platform: Netflix UK - a Netflix Original Movie

IMDB: 7.3/10, RT: 91% Fresh

Synopsis: Six tales of life and violence in the Old West, following a singing gunslinger, a bank robber, a traveling impresario, an elderly prospector, a wagon train, and a perverse pair of bounty hunters.

(The Ballad of Buster Scruggs) - excellent, my favourite 

(Near Algodones) - forgettable 

(Meal Ticket) - utter snoozefest

(All Gold Canyon) - very entertaining 

(The Girl Who Got Rattled) - Found this to be boring 

(The Mortal Remains) - Quite enjoyable 

 

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Barbarella (1968)

Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg

Directed by: Roger Vadim

Platform: NowTV 

IMDB: 5.9/10, RT: 73% Fresh

Synopsis: Barbarella, an astronaut from the 41st century, sets out to find and stop the evil scientist Durand Durand, whose Positronic Ray threatens to bring evil back into the galaxy.

Verdict: Is this considered a cult classic? I mean Jane Fonda was hot and I loved the intro but I couldn’t do more than 20 minutes of whatever the hell this was supposed to be!

 

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Barracuda (2017)

Sophie Reid, Allison Tolman, Luis Bordonada and JoBeth Williams

Directed by: Julia Halperin & Jason Cortlund

Platform: NowTV 

IMDB: 5.7/10, RT: 92% Fresh

Synopsis: Tolman plays the daughter of a deceased successful country musician, her life is together, job, fiancée, house until one day Reid shows up on her door claiming to be her half-sister from England. Their father who toured a lot met Reid’s mother in a pub in England, Tolman and the rest of the family are not sure what to make of her and suspicious of her motivations.

Verdict: Slow burn drama which I quite enjoyed, Reid plays a great character of which comes across as uncomfortable at times, never really knowing why she is here. There is a lot of original music with Reid performing a few songs herself.

 

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The Basement (2018)

Mischa Barton, Cayleb Long, Jackson Davis

Directed by: Brian M. Conley & Nathan Ives

Platform: Netflix UK

IMDB: 3.8/10

Synopsis: A seemingly innocent man is abducted by a notorious L.A. serial killer, who forces his victims to switch roles with him so that he can enact his own capture, torture and murder.

Verdict: Directors watched Split and thought, I’ll try that! Truly awful. I watched 10 minutes.

 

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Battle Drone (2018)

Dominique Swain, Michael Pare, Natassia Malthe

Directed by: Mitch Gould

Platform: Netflix UK

IMDB: 5.6/10

Synopsis: 6 mercenaries are hired by CIA to abduct an heir to a republic and take out an arms dealer in Moscow. They get a followup mission in Chernobyl. Treason awaits them.

Verdict: I guess this badly acted B movie actioner is what happens when a stuntman becomes writer/director.

 

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Battle of the Sexes (2017)

Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough 

Directed by: Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton (Little Miss Sunshine)

Platform: NowTV 

IMDB: 6.7/10, RT 86% Fresh

Synopsis: The true story of the 1973 tennis match between World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.

Verdict: Entertaining drama covering the real life tennis match between Billie Jean King and Bobby Riggs and the battle for equal pay, both leads are very good. Fun watch.

 

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Beast of Burden (2018)

Daniel Radcliffe, Grace Gummer, Pablo Schrieber

Directed by: Jesper Ganslandt (nothing of note)

Platform: NowTV 

IMDB: 3.6/10, RT: 25% Rotten

Synopsis: Sean Haggerty only has an hour to deliver his illegal cargo. An hour to reassure a drug cartel, a hitman, and the DEA that nothing is wrong. An hour to make sure his wife survives. And he must do it all from the cockpit of his Cessna.

Verdict: Tom Hardy made a drama which took place in his car on the phone to various people as he faces many issues in life it was called “Locke” and I thought it was very good, this film with Radcliffe attempts similar but in a cockpit of a Cessna but with more emphasis on Thriller, it starts off ok but quickly becomes as dull as dishwater.

 

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Baywatch (2017)

Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Alexandra Daddario, Priyanka Chopra

Directed by: Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses, Identity Thief)

Platform: Netflix UK

IMDB: 5.6/10, RT: 18% Rotten

Synopsis: Devoted lifeguard Mitch Buchannon butts heads with a brash new recruit, as they uncover a criminal plot that threatens the future of the bay.

Verdict: The Rock, biggest movie star on the planet, yet has made some right stinkers. Yawn!

 

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The Beast Within (1982)

Ronny Cox, Bibi Besch, Paul Clemens

Directed by: Philippe Mora (The Howling 2 & 3, Communion)

Platform: Netflix UK

IMDB: 5.5/10, RT: 11% Rotten

Synopsis: Married couple Cox and Besch breakdown at the side of the road, the dog goes running off into the forest and the wife follows, something kills the dog and knocks the wife unconscious, a beast than rapes her. Fast forward 17 years and their son is in hospital suffering from some unknown ailment, Cox starts to investigate what may have attacked his wife in the hope of saving his son.

Verdict: Boring horror with a decent transformation scene, the acting is DTV quality and the music runs from bad to terrible. 

Optimus Prime narrates the trailer.

 

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Beasts of No Nation (2015) - English language and English subtitles 

Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Nii Adom Quaye, Kurt Egyiawan and Idris Elba

Directed by: Cary Joji Fukunaga (Jane Eyre, True Detective, Maniac and Upcoming Bond 25)

Platform: Netflix UK - a Netflix Original Movie 

IMDB: 7.8/10, RT: 92% Fresh

Synopsis: Attah plays a young boy in an unnamed Western African country, he lives with his parents and older brother, he spends his days playing with his friends and hustling U.N. soldiers for food. With the country under military coup his father fears the worst and forces his wife and youngest to flee for the border leaving Attah with the men. A tragedy occurs forcing Attah to run into the bush where he is captured by the Commander (Elba) and forced tot join his rebel army.

Verdict: A fantastic and powerful film about child soldiers forced into war and told through their eyes, Attah is an incredible child actor who was also a newcomer, Elba puts in an award worthy performance as the commander. Recommended!

 

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Beauty and the Beast (La belle et la bete) (2016) - French language with English subtitles 

Lea Seydoux, Vincent Cassel, Andre Dussollier

Directed by: Christophe Gans (Brotherhood of the Wolf, Silent Hill)

Platform: NowTV

IMDB: 6.4/10, RT: 33% Rotten

Synopsis: An unexpected romance blooms after the the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has become indebted.

Verdict: Live action lavish production of the old French story, thankfully not a musical! It looks fantastic although some of the CGI looks a little hokey. It starts off well and held my interest but my problem with it is I was just bored halfway through and couldn’t be bothered to continue. Lea Seydoux though :cloud9:

 

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Bee Movie (2007)

Jerry Seinfeld, Renee Zellweger, Matthew Broderick 

Directed by: Simon J Smith (Penguins of Madagascar) & Steve Hickner (The Prince of Egypt, Book of Dragons)

Platform: NowTV

IMDB: 6.1/10, RT: 50% Rotten

Synopsis: Barry B. Benson, a bee just graduated from college, is disillusioned at his lone career choice: making honey. On a special trip outside the hive, Barry's life is saved by Vanessa, a florist in New York City. As their relationship blossoms, he discovers humans actually eat honey, and subsequently decides to sue them.

Verdict: Starts off fun enough but Seinfeld really doesn’t work for me here and I just got bored halfway through.

 

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Beneath Us (2019) - English & Spanish language with English subtitles 

Lynn Collins, Rigo Sanchez, Josue Aguirre

Directed by: Max Pachman (nothing of note)

Platform: NowTV 

IMDB: 6.7/10

Synopsis: Wealthy Collins hires 4 illegal workers to work on her summer house, they all thinks it’s an easy $500 each until they realise she’s not the full ticket.

Verdict: Slowburn thriller, when you reach the point of understanding what the real story is you’re beyond caring.

 

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