Klute

Senior executive Tom Gruneman disappears unexpectedly and after six months the Police turn up nothing.

Unsatisfied with this, Tom's colleague Peter Cable (Charles Cioffi) pays their mutual friend and detective John Klute (Donald Sutherland) to investigate.

The only lead is some obscene letters written to a New York call girl Bree Daniels (Jane Fonda) that seem out of character. She gave little to the Police so Klute travels to NY and begins to follow her and record her phone calls to get leverage on her.

Silkwood

Karen Silkwood (Meryl Streep) is a worker at a nuclear enrichment plant in 1970s Oklahoma. She shares a run down remote house with her boyfriend Drew (Kurt Russell) and friend Dolly (Cher). The plant is the major local employer and wages are low so the trio live a pretty basic life even though they are constantly expected to do overtime.

When a co-worker gets contaminated she is irritated by how poorly treated they are with the incident being played down.

Later after her own contamination scare she gets involved with the local union branch and begins to note down all the lax safety practices.

No good will come of this.

The Rats: A Witcher Tale

A ragtag group of thieves get wind of a huge staged gladiatorial fight run by one of their old foes. While casing the location they encounter a terrible monster that is being used to guard the loot in an underground cell.

What they need to kill it and steal the prize money is a Witcher.

A house of dynamite

Without any meaningful buildup the US missile early warning systems, ever expanding and adapting since the early days of the cold war, suddenly detect a single incoming ICBM over the Pacific.

We see people of all levels of that war machine, from those in the radar stations to bomber pilots, White House and Pentagon staff and eventually the POTUS react and deliberate over a response.

CW: suicide

The eyes of Tammy Faye

This biopic of televangelist Tammy Faye Baker (Jessica Chastain) covers her life from childhood induction into evangelical church despite disapproval from her stern faced mother through courtship with her eventually infamous husband Jim (Andrew Garfield) and the pair's fall from grace.

The Thing (2011)

Dr. Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) who specialises in removing frozen specimens (mammoths etc) from permafrost is recruited by Dr. Sander Halvorson (Ulrich Thomsen) to travel urgently to the Antarctic. The Norwegian team there have something delicate they want to extract from the ice. There is an air of secrecy about the whole project.

No good will come of this.

CW: squishy body horror (quelle surprise)

V/H/S Halloween

The horror anthology is back with an obvious theme. Sadly it's got the usual problems lots of them suffer from. Most of the films are just too long and substitute the characters, who are usually gratingly irritating, running around shrieking for material. It's almost like they had a minimum running time brief and couldn't otherwise fill it.

The linking piece, "Diet Phantasma", is fun but a lot of the time I found myself looking at my phone in a "are we there yet" way. The surreal candy based piece "Fun Size" is the only one that's inventive. Partying twentysomethings breaking into the the wrong spooky location in "Ut Supra Sic Infra" is played most serious of the lot, to its benefit, and "Home Haunt" makes the most of the theme but "Coochie Coochie Coo" and "Kidprint" are tiresome as fuck and kind of offensive.

Is not the worst of the V/H/S anthologies but it's close to it 4/10.

Eenie Meanie

Edie (Samara Weaving) spent her teenage years in criminal circles acting as a driver in a series of heists until something went very wrong.

She's trying to get by now as a more responsible adult but struggling and when she gets some unexpected news goes to visit her feckless on/off boyfriend John (Karl Glusman) .

No good will come of this.

CW: sudden violence and plenty of swears