What I'm watching this month...

It's Valentine's Day weekend, so you can be sure that DVD players everywhere were whirring away, playing every known romantic comedy under the sun, both yesterday and today. Whilst I do enjoy a lovey-dovey film from time to time,  I managed to convince my significant other into starting the first season of Bates Motel this weekend; a programme I had seen but they had not.

So cosy on the sofa, eating our heart-shaped Thornton's chocolates, we started the first episode. And if a dark, twisted drama with strong Mama's boy undertones doesn't say 'I love you', then I don't know what does.

Before I Go To Sleep review: A well-executed thriller... but not one you'll want to relive again and again

When a best-selling book gets turned into a movie adaptation, as it hits the big screen, viewers are usually split into two camps. Those who have read it and want to see a book they enjoyed created, within the medium of cinema, and those who haven't read it at all and are simply looking for a few hours of immersive entertainment of a film they like the look of. 

But as odd as it may sound, I fell into both categories when I went to see Before I Go To Sleep. You see, I was about half way through the book when I went, which put me in an unusual position of knowing some of the story but not all of it, and I am undoubtedly glad of that fact having now seen the film.

Non-Stop review: Same Neeson... just different action movie

Everything about this movie screams typical cheesy thriller. The short, relatively ambiguous title, an intensely squinting man pointing a gun on the poster and of course, Liam. But whilst it's set up is more than predictable, it's plot certainly isn't, in this "whodunnit" popcorn movie that will keep you guessing until the last 20 minutes (pun completely intended).