So I Married An Axe Murderer (1993)

For this comedy thriller to work, it really needed to draw parallels between its main character's fears that his new wife is a serial killer with his fears in general about commitment - some depth like that - but story depth takes a back seat in this Mike Myers vanity project - he distracts with fourth-wall-breaking nods to the camera, cameos by all his comedian friends and an elaborate but wholly unnecessary side role as his main character's father, clearly approaching the movie as an extension of his SNL and Wayne's World work, rendering SIMAAM an inane, overlong skit with the story hacked into little unsatisfactory pieces.

★☆☆☆☆

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Annabelle: Creation (2017)

If you think the remote farmhouse of an emotionally-stunted man - father of a dead 11-year-old and husband of a bedridden Phantom-of-the-Opera-mask-wearing victim of paranormal trauma - is a poor choice for a new home for orphan girls (one of whom has leg braces and needs a motor chair to climb the stairs), then this horror - the origin story of a possessed doll but also confusingly about an evil spirit that can possess anything it likes - is probably not for you.

★★★☆☆

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Holding The Man (2015)

This Australian movie tells the story of Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo whose love develops from their first meeting as students at Melbourne's Xavier College and endures through a lifetime of social intolerance, periods of separation, other lovers and ill health, and it is just unfortunate that the movie, based on Tim Conigrave's touching 1994 memoir, feels at times like a highlight reel of issues faced by gay men.

★★★☆☆

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