I liked Safe. As with all Statham's movies it rockets along taking no prisoners. It all works beautifully like a well oiled machine gun. Sure it is a tad (hugely) far fetched - watchable all the same. It could so easily have been Schamltzy - it wasn't. In Brief - To be killed hero meets escaped to be captured (or killed) Chinese kid who join forces to beat the Chinese & Russian Mafias together with the cops on the take at the NYPD - hackneyed :) Definitely recommended. 
For some reason I thought I wouldn't like Lockout - wrong. Liked it a lot. Main character is a wisecracking Bruce Willis type. It is set in 2079 to allow for some sci-fi stuff, this didn't mean it was full of high tech gadgetry - I am truly grateful. Some neat comic book sequences though not too many. It is the usual story of the President's daughter visiting a high security prison in space then the psychotic prisoners take control followed by the reluctant wrongly convicted hero being sent to rescue her - as I say, the usual. Apart from one or two moments of the gazing into each other's eyes variety it moves along beautifully. Definitely recommended. 
Stranger than Fiction is excellent. It comes under the heading of Rom Com. Very very likeable and watchable. Well acted. Funny and charming with some neat twists and turns. A must watch especially on a boring Sunday afternoon!
5150 rue des Ormes (5150 Elm Street) is a horror movie. Psychotic killer holds a young guy captive BUT there is so much more in what is best described as an intelligent thriller rather than a horror. It has to be said there are some grim scenes. I had to read the French sub titles as I really couldn't grasp the French Canadian accent ...... if you like an out of the ordinary story and don't have a horror of horror movies then it is definitely worth watching.
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