Equilibrium (Kurt Wimmer, 2002)

Cast: Christian Bale, Emily Watson, Taye Diggs, Angus Macfayden, Sean Bean, Sean Pertwee

Summary: In a Fascist future where all forms of feeling are illegal, a man in charge of enforcing the law rises to overthrow the system.

Genre: Sci-Fi, Action

Watched: April 20th, 2016

Just a short one here.

My parents have been begging me to watch this film for years now, and after finding it on Netflix (I know, I'm obsessed) I finally decided to watch it.

In all honesty I wasn't that keen on it at first; for me it takes a long time before it really gets going, but instead of giving up and watching something else I decided to stick with it and I was pleasantly surprised.

I think Christian Bale does an excellent job in this film; but personally little Robbie Preston was my favourite, for me he was part of the reason I loved the film. There was tons of action in the last few scenes which it more then made of up for the slowness of the rest of the film.

Rating: 8/10

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Naomi | Love Taza - Visiting The Renwick Gallery
Laura | Buy Now Blog Later - Tag: My Husband Explains the Purpose of Make-Up

Mary | Happily Grey - Juxtaposed
Linda | Linda Rydéns - Pity Party

Katy | Little Winter - Things You May Not Know About Me
Victoria | In The Frow - 10 Things I Am Grateful For

Film | In The Cinema - May #2

May 18

X-Men Apocalypse - With the emergence of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

May 20

A Hologram for the King - A failed American businessman looks to recoup his losses by traveling to Saudi Arabia and selling his idea to a wealthy monarch.

The Silent Storm - An enigmatic outsider living on a remote Scottish island finds herself caught between her minister husband and the delinquent who is sent to live with them.

The Daughter - The story follows a man who returns home to discover a long-buried family secret, and whose attempts to put things right threaten the lives of those he left home years before.

Departure -An otherwise nuclear family unravels in the South of France.

The Call Up - A group of online gamers are invited to try a state-of-the-art virtual reality video game but things take a turn for the sinister when these masters of the shoot 'em up discover they will literally be fighting for their lives.


May 27

Alice Through The Looking Glass - Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.


Money Monster - In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty are put in an explosive situation when an irate investor takes over their studio.

The Trust - A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.

Love & Friendship - Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally.

The Do Over - Two down-on-their-luck guys decide to fake their own deaths and start over with new identities, only to find the people they're pretending to be are in even deeper trouble.

Top Cat Begins - Top Cat has arrived to charm his way into your hearts. Ever wonder how this scheming feline got his start?


May 30

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows - The Turtles return to save the city from a dangerous threat.

Warcraft - The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another.

Other Films Watched in April 2016

Coherance (James Ward Byrkit, 2013) - Good

Oblivion (Jospeh Kosinki, 2013) - Very Good

Madea's Family Reunion (Tyler Perry, 2006) - Very Good

Diary of A Mad Black Woman (Darren Grant, 2005) - Very Good

The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (Guy Ritchie, 2015) - Very Good

Why Did I Get Married (Tyler Perry, 2007) - Very Good

Think Like A Man (Tim Story, 2012) - Very Good

Clouds of Sils Maria (Olivier Assayas, 2015) - Very Good

My Beautiful Broken Brain (Sophie Robinson & Lotje Sodderland, 2014)

Cast: Lotje Sodderland

Summary: My Beautiful Broken Brain is 34 year old Lotje Sodderland's personal voyage into the complexity, fragility and wonder of her own brain following a life changing hemorrhagic stroke.

Genre: Documentary, Biography

Watched: April 17th, 2016

I don't watch a lot of documentaries as they're not really my thing, but when I read about this one I thought that it sounded very interesting so I decided to give it a go.

This documentary was just amazing!! It was incredibly hard to watch at times, seeing such a bright, young woman (at only 34) breakdown as she struggles with simple things like listing words that begins with an S absolutely broke my heart and within a few minutes I was crying with her.

Watching someone who at one point in their life was clearly a very articulate person stumble over words, unable to say certain words or phrases is absolutely terrifying. It definitely makes you stop and think, I know I did because I've never thought of a stroke as being something that strips you of your ability to speak, read and write so dramatically and for years afterwards.

This isn't entirely a documentary about recovering, it's about finding yourself, not the person you used to be but the person you are now.
Once again this documentary was absolutely fantastic, although it would have been phenomenal without the added David Lynch feel.

*Read this incredible article written by Lotje herself (with the help of Siri as she still struggles to read and write): 'I felt as if I had become fear itself': life after a stroke at 34


Rating: 8/10
One Final Word: Fantastic

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Film | In The Cinema - May

May 1

Hamlet - Prince Hamlet is summoned home to Denmark to attend his father's funeral, he is shocked to find his mother Gertrude has already remarried Hamlet's Uncle Claudius.


May 5

Robinson Crusoe - On a tiny exotic island, Tuesday, an outgoing parrot lives with his quirky animal friends in paradise. After a violent storm, Tuesday and his friends wake up to find a strange creature on the beach: Robinson Crusoe.


May 6

Neighbours 2: Sorority Rising - After a sorority moves in next door, which is even more debaucherous than the fraternity before it, Mac and Kelly have to ask for help from their former enemy, Teddy.

I Saw The Light - The story of the country-western singer Hank Williams, who in his brief life created one of the greatest bodies of work in American music. The film chronicles his rise to fame and its tragic effect on his health and personal life.

Florence Foster Jenkins - The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice.

Knight of Cups - A writer indulging in all that Los Angeles and Las Vegas has to offer undertakes a search for love and self via a series of adventures with six different women.

These Final Hours - A self-obsessed young man makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth, but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father. Their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemption.


May 13

The Angry Birds Movie - Find out why the birds are so angry. When an island populated by happy, flightless birds is visited by mysterious green piggies, it's up to three unlikely outcasts - Red, Chuck and Bomb - to figure out what the pigs are up to.

Everybidy Wants Some!! - A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.

The Darkness - A family returns from a Grand Canyon vacation with a supernatural presence in tow.

Our Kind of Traitor - A couple find themselves lured into a Russian oligarch's plans to defect are soon positioned between the Russian Mafia and the British Secret Service, neither of whom they can trust.

Green Room - After witnessing a murder, a punk rock band is forced into a vicious fight for survival against a group of maniacal skinheads.

Cabin Fever - A group of five friends are terrorized at their getaway cabin.

Kill Command - Set in a near future, technology-reliant society that pits man against killing machines.