Morbius (2022)

 

This vampire superhero hardly endears himself to viewers when, early on, he slaughters a roomful of people, but somehow we are still asked to sympathise with him and gun for him as he enters into a battle with a similar bat-bite-influenced villain in what is, dreary-start-to-dreary-finish, a lethargic entry into the Marvel universe with the only thing less charismatic than the lead character being Jared Leto, the lead actor himself, whose appeal as a Hollywood superstar completely eludes me.

★☆☆☆☆

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Weekend At Bernie's (1989)

This 80s comedy with a cult following will make you smirk a couple of times, especially when Bernie — the dead body Andrew McCarthy's shouty and annoying Larry and Jonathan Silverman's straight-man Richard drag around pretending it to be alive — is dragged behind a boat and banged against buoys or dragged across uneven ground, but these black slapstick moments, a single joke played over and over, hardly sustain the just-short-of two-hour runtime.

★★☆☆☆

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Capricorn One (1977)

Scripted in 1972 just three years after the moon landing, this slow burn, engrossing suspense takes a conspiracy theory levelled at that real-world event and applies it to a future faked Mars landing with the astronauts involved (James Brolin, Sam Waterston, and, ahem, OJ Simpson) realising themselves in grave danger given they have become keepers of an awfully big government secret while hidden out-of-public-view, supposedly on the red planet.

★★★★☆

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