You wait months for a secret screening & then you get back ones in the space of a week. Happy days. Yes i could go to the horror ones, but i like to know what im going to see when it comes to horror so im prepared for it. & thats next week anyhow & im still convinced its going to be Black Phone (who know i might cancel it if odeons clues are for something else).

Isnt it interesting how other films having secret cinema improve the viewership. Odeon & vue were not doing one tonight, so there was less people in there who genuinely were up for the surprise. Its say half full.

Trailers, The house maid, The smashing machine, the Daniel Day Lewis one & Die my love.

& then up came the BBFC ratings board… URCHIN!
That was our secret cinema.

When the name came up 10 people left & then people left throughout the film, & didnt come back. & if im honest i sat it out hoping it would have some decent resolution at the end of it or prove something. & then when it did end (quiet abruptly by the way) the guy sat next to me in now a cinema that maybe had 30 people left in it asked me, that was bat shit & weird right & i went yes. It just didnt work at all.

Now i often sit here & say unknown actors in indi stories make things more believable because you know they arent DiCaprio or Pugh, but some of the acting in this at one point by a couple of bit part people it just, it wasnt up to standard im sorry it wasnt. The lead was good & so was his social worker, but we just went through additional cast like it was nothing. It was like they could only afford some of them for like 2 days one set or they could only film in one place for 3 days. It all just felt disjointed.

The film does show how fragile the system is & how if you spiral out of control some of the things put in place to stop it dont actually help they just go oh you fucked up again okay back down the rabbit hole you go. I never actually felt sorry for anyone in this film even though the cycle full on went around & around it was just like urgh really.

I also, as much as he was the director, dont think Harris should have put him self in the film for the 4 scenes he was in. I think with the rest of the cast relatively unknown suddenly him popping up threw me a little.

There was a karaoke scene which genuinely was the highlight of the entire movie. That & the fireworks were its peak & it never got to that high again. Playing Atomic Kitten Whole Again was good but it wasnt even the Kerry version.

The ending i still dont get, why it was so abrupt, what was with the woman, why did it just go weird. The film also at one point had some hallucinating patterns & life thing that took you completely out of the film.

I have waited a bit to post this in hope someone whos watched it can tell me what i missed, but it seems uperty people & proper critics adore this & the rest of us are like what the hell was that.

Well i guess you cant win all of the secret cinema trips can you oooh well. Dont watch Urchin. ITs crap.