Watched yesterday

From The Earth To The Moon: Can We Do This? - 4/5

The Hotel Inspector - 4/5

Big Brother: Day 37 - 3/5

Straightheads - 3/5

British revenge thriller starring Danny Dyer and, inexplicably, Gillian Anderson. She plays a city executive (or maybe a lawyer, it's never made clear) who, in a highly contrived bit of plot set-up, hires a security guy (Dyer) to install a surveillance system in her London flat then takes him to her boss's palatial country pile for a posh house-warming party. As you do. Not sure what's more unlikely, the fact that 39-year old Anderson's classy character would touch a 23-year old cheeky chappy cockney with a barge pole, or that 30-year-old Dyer could reasonably pass for 23.

Anyway, they go to the party, fuck and head off for home, only to get into a road accident. They're then attacked by three unknown assailants who beat Dyer to a bloody pulp (and who hasn't wished for that?) and rape Anderson. After more implausible plot contrivances the couple (which they have become, somehow) take brutal (and actually rather uncomfortable) revenge. While the whole thing is, objectively, ridiculous, I did still find it mindlessly watchable. It zips along in 80 minutes, is well photographed by Chris Seager (who did good work on White Noise) and has the balls to try something new with it's ragged ending that leaves all kinds of loose ends.

Anderson is clearly in a different class though and you do spend much of the film wanting to scream at her "GILLIAN, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU IN THIS?!", but I'm glad she is because she looks *stunning*.