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(Train to Busan presents) Peninsula: What a waste Recognisably a spiritual successor to the excellent Train to Busan, but gets lost in a larger-scale and super-bland post apocalypse. As someone who watches a lot of the good and bad of modern Asian cinema, I know they don't have the CG budgets or resources of Hollywood - but christ they really overshot with their ambitions here, and it just looks dreadful for long stretches with PS3-level effects. Stick with Train... - that's focused and thrilling where this is meandering and dull.

Goodbye, Dragon Inn - One of the absolute best films about cinema - as an experience, an artform, a physical space, a concept - there is. Perfection in utterly transfixing long takes. The new Blu-Ray is a pleasure to behold.

The Woman Who Ran - It's this year's Hong-Sang Soo joint, and predictably is a film that's both extremely straightforward and deceptively tricksy. I of course loved every second of it. One of the year's best, but that's par for the course at this stage with Hong's work rate.

Happiest Season - What a difference a cast makes. I swear if the casting had been slightly lower-tier this could well be a substantially worse film. But by over-casting nearly every role this seasonal rom-com is elevated into something more charming and winning than its shamelessly generic foundations suggest. Obviously the change of a familiar genre piece to a lesbian perspective adds some welcome freshness too (and the writing generally strikes the right balance of humour and schmaltz), but it's a cast working overtime that sells this as a perfectly tolerable watch. Slap that on the poster: 'perfectly tolerable'.

Air Force One - Never watched this before, but it was a mandatory destination in my ongoing tour of the 90s action movie canon. Not sure if I hallucinated the third act of this film, because it's completely bat**** insane to a frankly gobsmacking degree. For at least the first half of the film we're talking about a relatively taut, lean piece of 90s gubbins. But it goes so outrageously off the rails in almost every respect (from its increasingly ludicrous action to its unashamedly offensive geopolitics). Absolutely awful, but embarrassingly entertaining.

'FILMS ABOUT RUNAWAY TRAINS' DOUBLE BILL

Unstoppable - I've never been able to warm to Tony Scott's frentic visual style, but this is plenty enjoyable. I really like that the runaway train is not caused by terrorism or any such nonsense, but simply a dude ****ing up at work. Turns into a delightful story of workplace solidarity and working class ingenuity, while also being a gripping thriller about a train that's going fast.

Runaway Train - as the title helpfully suggests, this is indeed a film about a runaway train. It's also about Jon Voight and Eric Roberts battling to see who has the most bizarre accent possible. It's a draw in that regard. But as far as runaway trains go, this train is at least 150% more runaway than the Unstoppable one and going at quite frankly ludicrous speeds. The whole film has a deranged 80s pace and tone to it which you have to salute. In conclusion, I would rate this a 'runaway train' out of 'runaway train'.