The Signal -

DR RATING 5/10

The Signal is an interesting one, sometimes I thought it was pure junk sci-fi and then I would think it was genius; it just doesn't quite commit to either one or the other. William Eubank had some big ideas but the majority of is lost plot and confusion. Brenton Thwaites as our lead as Nic who heads out on a road trip with his fellow MIT students and friends Haley (Olivia Cooke) and Jonah (Beau Knapp), they are drawn to a location but a computer genius they encountered on-line while back at MIT. Things change when everything blacks out and Nic awakens unable to walk and confronted by people in hazmat suits. The only face to face interaction is with Damon (Laurence Fishburne). This sci-fi thriller had bags of potential but it fell short with its plot. I can forgive the somewhat sketchy visual effects; I just feel pretty disappointed for a genre that I love.

Coherence - Ok So I may have watched this purely because of Nicholas Brendon

DR RATING 7/10

 No, we're not splitting up. We're just gonna go in two different groups. - Mike played by Nicholas Brendon

I always try to be objective with this writing-about-movies thing but my judgement may have been clouded by the fact this is Nicholas Brendon's biggest role in forever. I am a huge Buffy The Vampire Slayer fan, that show was my teenage years. Anyway, Coherence is great! With only $50,000 to produce the picture resulting in it being almost instantly released on-line. Which I'm glad of, as there was a slim to non chance of it being shown at a cinema over in the UK.  It's a simple format, shot with a group of people in one house, filmed over a five nights with mainly unscripted dialogue only way points that the actors needed to hit in terms of story line. It's cleaver and witty, dealing with parallel universes it's the right amount of Science-Fiction-come-Thriller. There's even a little Sliding Doors reference. It really is worth your time in whatever glow stick carrying universe you are in to watch.