(HORROR) The Resident - 2011 ***

Tough, no nonsense Hilary Swank stars as Juliet, a young woman who moves into what she believes is her perfect apartment after breaking up with her cheating boyfriend, but soon starts to believe that she is being stalked by somebody close by. At the same time, Max, the man she is renting the apartment from begins to make his feelings for her known, and the couple get closer. But there is something wrong, and when Juliet decides to start seeing her ex-boyfriend again, Max is not happy. Not happy at all.
I quite liked this, but found it dragged on a bit after the first hour or so. It was quite predictable and that might be what made my mind wander towards the end. Still a good watch though.

Last Passenger - 2013 ***

One of my pet peeves with films is having a good storyline that comes to the end with no resolution whatsoever. This is sort of what happened here. I'm not sure if the film was loosely based upon the awful accident at Moorgate Tube Station over 30 years ago but it certainly leans in that direction. Dougray Scott and his young son board the train for home late at night and are joined by various other 'normal' characters. Kara Tointon in particular appears and begins flirting with him in rather a desperate manner but that just seems to be her personality. She also takes a shine to his son.
They fall asleep and when they next wake, they find that there are only a small handful of people left on the train. After unsuccessfully trying to speak to the driver Scott realises something is very wrong when the train speeds by each of their stations without stopping and appears to be picking up speed.
It's a taut movie, and does have plenty of jumps and thrills, but I was SO disappointed by the ending that it's brought my rating right down.

Enough - 2002 *** 1/2

'Enough' is a variation on 'Sleeping with the Enemy.' Full of domestic and emotional abuse against one woman (Lopez), her husband will stop at nothing to alienate her from friends and family, and then harm her to stop her leaving him. She is spunky and has balls, but there are certain scenes (including learning martial arts) that don't quite fit with her personality.
I enjoyed it however.

(NOIR) Sleep, My Love - 1948 **** 1/2

Douglas Sirk, in my opinion is one of the best directors of the 40s/50s. I was also amazed to see that Mary Pickford had produced this which proves how much of a pioneer in all areas of film she was.
Colbert plays a woman named Alison, who wakes up disorientated on a speeding train with no idea of how she got there.
Her husband is panic-stricken on her return and does his best to comfort her. However, he is careful not to talk too much about the bizarre bullet wound in his arm, or his wife's sleepwalking attempts which sometimes lead her out onto the balcony to other people. He gets her to start seeing a psychiatrist but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Thankfully a nice young man named Bruce comes into her life, and notices that things seem to keep happening around Alison, and her husband seems just a bit too saccharine for his own good...
Gripping, exciting, tense and well shot. The pace was fast, but just right, so the story could be followed without too much difficulty.
Hazel Brooks gives a very sultry performance as Daphne - a cross between Jane Russell, Joan Bennett and Gene Tierney in the beautiful women stakes. 

(NOIR) Railroaded! - 1947 *** 1/2

'Railroaded' is a pretty good film noir. Mistaken identity is always a gripping topic for a film. A man is falsely accused of a robbery and his sister and a police detective who, despite believing at first that the man was guilty, decides to work with the sister to get the man off. It's tense and quite predictable, rather like your average noir and I enjoyed it.

Source Code - 2011 ****

Now I have to say that I was extremely surprised by this film and really enjoyed it. Gyllenhaal was actually pretty convincing and the storyline in my opinion was original and crisp.
After waking up in another man's body, Gyllenhaal is told that he is part of a mission to find the bomber of a train in Chicago. He has nothing to go on except that he returns each time to the same time and scene 8 minutes before the train explodes. It is up to him to find the bomber and save the people on there without having any idea what the person might look like or what their motives are.
Taut, tense and thrilling, this is worth watching, and yes, while the ending is a bit bizarre, the rest of this tightly knitted film is worth it.

(NOIR) Undercurrent - 1946 ****

'Undercurrent' is one of those films that grips you immediatly, lets you go and then grabs you again.
Some parts really had me on the edge of my seat and others had me snorting in laughter. Katherine Hepburn has a tendency to totally overract in some of her films and it was quite apparent in this as she manically ran around with wide eyes and clenched fists flinching everytime Robert Taylor said anything.
The story could rival 'Rebecca' in many ways, except this time, the focus of obsession is a missing/presumed dead brother, instead of a first wife. Geeky, plain Hepburn ,meets charming and handsome Taylor and they have a whirlwind romance ending in marriage. Before long however, Hepburn finds out that Taylor has a brother that she has never heard of. This sets the tone for a weird series of events that unravel as she tries to figure out the mystery surrounding a man that no one will talk about, that no one knows the whereabouts of, and that certain people believe has been murdered.. by her new husband.
Taylor is brilliant, and Mitchum puts in a very good appearance in the limited screen time he is given. Hepburn is good but tends to be a bit much after a while.