a murder mystery & not a horror… finally… breath emile breath. your back to normal & Mr Rockwell is here to help. Lets do this on a thursday night. Cinema on Thursday is good to try & find the fit guy who works there, thats why i go then.

First of all i have a question for cineworld. So i booked this film up a while ago for thursday & it was meant to be in screen 6, which is small & i picked my preferred chair & i was ready to go. So upon arriving at the cinema & opening my app it now tells me im in screen 1 & im to be allocated accordingly compared to where i booked initially. Now im sure all cinema nerds here have a favourite row & seat they prefer. Mines L13 in screen 1, but my preferred one in screen 6 is J10. So i got there & they said ahh J5 & i was like oh okay thats fine. It was a completely different view to what i expect & i was much closer to the screen than id like to be. I did look at row L to see if i could move, but there were people in there & by the time i had got to the cinema we were about to start trailers. So Cineworld, please dont change where you screen the film with an hours notice please, if have rebooked to have sat else where but couldnt. Very weird.

Also because i was late into the cinema i didnt get a real look at the people in there to see the age demographic for this.

Trailers, Oppenheim, The Woman King which we had twice one to tell us it was an advanced preview & the other as standard, Smile, Ticket to Paradise competition & Dont Worry Darling. A right old mix that was.

& then the film started… right im about to contradict everything ive ever said about film… bear with.

There are certain tropes i hate in film. Snowing in london, obvious foreshadowing, certain things happening, flashback at times, cockiness & over the topness & films thinking more of what they are. This film did all of the above, to an extent where it knew it was doing them all & you know what… IT BLOODY NAILED IT!!!! THATS HOW YOU DO IT PEOPLE!!!!! Dont just go half heartedly into it, embrace the fact that you at the end of Act one explain something really important later on. Kill someone off before the opening scroll yes (i mean its in the trailer thats not a spoiler). Let it snow stupidly. Just Own it & Embrace it & it will work & to do that once in a film, is good, but to hit them all out the park & not piss me off at the same time. I tip my cap.

However, this film was meant to be funny right? Well i thought it was hilarious & was laughing & giggling throughout it & smiling. However i recon there was 2 maybe 4 other people in my screening laughing (which when i walked in just as the trailers were starting was half full). So what did i get that they didnt. did they just not find it funny?

So as someone who loves film & despite trying not to can almost guess the end of Act 3 in most films, i was sitting there opening scene going ahhhhh i know who does this. Its easy to see. If you learn enough theatre & film tropes over the years its very much hiding in plain sight at the start. & i loved that. I did doubt myself in act 2 for all of 30second & i was like nah girl stay with your original guess. But i love that they did that, making the spot.

I adore Sam Rockwell you all know that by now, but if your part of the new family thats joined me recently, first of all hi, & second of all i love Sam Rockwell as an actor. He had me laughing & feeling sorry for him & on edge for most of the film. HEs always a pleasure to watch & love in any film, but in this oooooh. & his relationship with Saoirse Ronan (who again was amazing) was brilliant. I loved them together, they did work well separately but yes they were good.

However, & im guessing it was more of a joke for us Brits, Tim Key being in charge of the MET…HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAH Oh my god, partridge would lose his shit at that. HAHA. Theres a brilliant bit where they are all trying to say good bye to each other & they just keep using there formal titles & they forget whos already done that. I laughed a lot at that.

Tea & biscuits are so important to life anyhow, forget a 1950s murder mystery in london, of course they were important. They are a way of life, dont go taking them away from me.

I love when shes star struck as well. As someone who always thought theyd be cool in this situation & then was 2m away from one of my heroes & completely lost my cool, i understand that entirely.

Jumping to conclusions was brilliant. I love that too.

Act 3 was fantabulos & if you cant work it out from Act 1, im sorry. But that last shoot when its all over & what they do, i loved that as thats how the play would end too.

Ive never seen the mousetrap by the way, but i have seen the play that goes wrong which i adore, which has such a similar vibe to this.

The 50s style aesthetics & costumes were all done so well, it really was being put in that time capsule for 95mins & immersing yourself in all the fun & lush glamour there was back then.

So yea despite it having most things in that i hate films doing, it bloody nailed it. I laughed & i left smiling & even being like Thanks Sam at the end of it. Yea, i think you all need to give this ago & i want to know did you all work it out like i did & love how it played out eventually, because it just knocked it for 6 & went flying.

A really really good fun night at the cinema, which is what it should be really isnt it.