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Sunday 27 November 2016

Hush (Mike Flanagan, 2016)

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Cast: Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Samantha Sloyan, Michael Trucco

Summary: A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.

Genre: Thriller

Watched: May 21st, 2016


Like most films I've watched this year I found this gem on Netflix (it really has become my favourite things this year!), and after seeing the poster and reading the description I knew I had to see it.

There have been plenty of home invasion films like this, but this film is made a lot more scarier just by having a deaf protagonist.

I love how as soon as the film starts we're put into Maddie's (Kate Siegel) shoes with the films incredible sound design. As we watch Maggie cook dinner we can hear everything from the onions being sliced to eggs sizzling away in the pan, before zooming in on Maddie's face and the sound falling away.

I remember thinking around this point I wonder who the deaf character is because I could hear everything around me, which I know is a ridiculous thought to have. Just because I can hear what's happening around me, that doesn't meant that the person beside me isn't deaf.
Hush (2016) Still
I probably should have realised that Maddie was deaf when the sound fell away the closer we got to her face, but it was so subtle that I didn't realise it was missing until it came back in.

Even then I didn't realise that I still didn't realise Maddie was deaf, it was only until she began signing with her next door neighbour that I made the connection.

I thought this film was brilliant and I loved the story. I really enjoy films that get you talking and thinking about what you would do if you were in that situation and this is definitely one of them!


Rating: 9/10
One Final Word: Very Good

Thursday 24 November 2016

Monsters: Dark Continent (Tom Green, 2014)

Monsters Dark Continent (2014) poster

Cast: Johnny Harris, Sam Keely, Joe Dempsie, Jesse Nagy, Nicholas Pinnock

Summary: Ten years on from the events of Monsters, and the 'Infected Zones' have now spread worldwide. In the Middle East a new insurgency has begun. At the same time there has also been a proliferation of Monsters in that region. The Army decide to draft in more numbers to help deal with this insurgency.

Genre: Drama, Sci-fi

Watched: May 8th, 2016


I really enjoyed Gareth Edward's Monsters film, so as soon as I heard that they were making a sequel I added it to my list of films to watch.

I don't go to the cinema as often as I should, so I said to myself that I would wait for this film to be released on DVD before I would watch it. Instead I ended up adding it to my Netflix watchlist and then I avoided watching it because I had heard a number of bad reviews about it.

A lot of people were complaining about the lack of monsters and how the film is instead a war film disguised as a Sci-Fi film.
I 100% agree that this film feels very different in comparison to the first Monsters because it does focus much more on the war side of things then the monsters themselves.
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However I actually don't mind that the monsters don't play a bigger part in the sequel. With Monsters although they are a very important part of the story (and they do play a bigger part), they're not the focus which I think is also the case with Dark Continent.

The main thing both films have in common is that they deal very much with human connections and the connections we make with people in times of struggle and/or conflict.
I did think that it was a bit long winded but all in all I liked Dark Continent and I would happily watch it again.


Rating: Good
One Final Word: 7/10

Monday 21 November 2016

Blogger Picks | October #2

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Friday 18 November 2016

Altitude (Kaare Andrews, 2010)

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Cast: Jessica Lowndes, Julianna Guill, Ryan Donowho, Landon Liboiron, Jake Weary

Summary: After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.

Genre: Mystery, Horror, Sci-Fi

Watched: September 4th, 2016


I decided to watch this film purely because the description above sounded incredibly interesting, but it didn't turn out to be as good as it could have been.

Sara (Jessica Lowndes) has literally just received her pilot's license and she decides to fly her boyfriend, cousin, best friend and her boyfriend to a concert because the drive is bad.
During the flight Sara decides it would be fun to let her boyfriend Bruce (Landon Liboiron) (who looks like he's just about ready to pass out) fly the plane, and just so we're clear he doesn't have a license or any experience.

When Bruce panics and loses control after hitting some turbulence, Sara realises that an obstruction in the plane's tail is causing it to climb higher and higher and they soon lose radio contact.
Altitude (2010) Still Everyone blames Bruce for endangering their lives, but no one seems to be bothered by the fact that their pilot is obviously crazy. Not only did she hand over the controls to an inexperienced flyer for fun and did nothing to help him out when she could clearly see he was struggling, she spends half of her time looking over her shoulder or sitting in the back with her friends instead of flying the plane!!

To be fair they're actually all crazy. Two of the boys decide to have a fight mid-air over Sara's best friend, Mel (Julianna Guill) and then there's Cory (Ryan Donowho) who decides to go outside to manually remove the obstruction from the tail of the plane, with no safety gear, in the middle of a storm.

Then there was the supernatural force, which for me was probably the better part of the film. Most of the characters were so unlikeable and the script was so awful that every second they weren't on screen was just amazing.

Maybe that drive wouldn't have been so bad after all.


Rating: 2/10
One Final Word: Rubbish

Thursday 17 November 2016

Other Films Watched in October 2016

Lesbian Vampire Killers (Philip Claydon, 2009) - Okay

Storks (Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, 2016) - Excellent

Bullet To The Head (Walter Hill, 2012) - Rubbish

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (Steve Miner, 1998) - Okay

Piranha (Joe Dante, 1978) - Good

Sharknado (Thunder Levin, 2013) - So hilariously bad it's brilliant!

October Films 2016


Monday 14 November 2016

Film | In the Cinema - November #2

November 15th

What Happened to Monday - In a world where families are limited to one child due to overpopulation, a set of identical septuplets must avoid being put to a long sleep by the government and dangerous infighting while investigating the disappearance of one of their own.


November 18th

Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them - The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of witches and wizards seventy years before Harry Potter reads his book in school.
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Indignation - In 1951, Marcus, a working-class Jewish student from New Jersey, attends a small Ohio college, where he struggles with sexual repression and cultural disaffection, amid the ongoing Korean War.

Dog Eat Dog - A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.

Your Name - Two high school kids who've never met - city boy Taki and country girl Mitsuha - are united through their dreams.


November 23rd

Bad Santa 2 - Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve.


November 25th

Allied - In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.

Almost Christmas - A dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Thanksgiving since their mom died.

A United Kingdom - Prince Seretse Khama of Botswana causes an international stir when he marries a white woman from London in the late 1940s.

Mum's List - A dying mother's life lessons to the husband and sons she left behind. Based on the best-selling novel by St John (Singe) Greene.


November 30th

The Edge of Seventeen - High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.


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Thursday 10 November 2016

The Sand (Isaac Gabaeff, 2015)


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Cast: Brooke Butler, Cleo Barry, Cynthia Murell, Dean Geyer, Meagan Holder, Mitchell Musso

Summary: After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over twenty-somethings awake to a beating sun, and a seemingly carnivorous beach that devours anything with a heartbeat that touches the sand.
Genre: Sci-fi, Horror

Watched: September 6th, 2016


I was tempted to add comedy to the genre because this film is absolutely hilarious. This is definitely one of the best worst films I've seen this year, I could tell within the first 5 minutes that this wasn't going to be anything special.

The main thing for me that ruined the film was 100% the acting. It's incredibly difficult to watch a film when the acting is so bad, everything was super dramatic, way more then it needed to be so much so that I couldn’t take any of the characters seriously.

Probably the most painful scene in terms of the acting happens quite early on with Ronnie's (Cynthia Murell) incredibly over dramatic cries of "Baby" after her boyfriend is trapped by the sand.

There was also Gilbert (Cleo Berry), the stereotypical fat guy brought in for some comedic relief, but he actually doesn't have anything to offer whatsoever. Unlike the other characters who are at least given a little something to do, Gilbert is put to the side and stuck in a barrel for pretty much the whole movie.

Even though I didn't think the film was any good, the story to be honest isn't all that bad, it's actually quite an interesting idea that could have been done so much better. Not only was it ruined by the absolutely awful acting but it was also ruined by the whole relationship storyline that came up unnecessarily at random times.


Rating: 5/10
One Final Word: So rubbish it's brilliant!

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Monday 7 November 2016

Blogger Picks | October

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Friday 4 November 2016

Film | In the Cinema - November

November 1st

The Light Between Oceans - A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.


November 4th

Nocturnal Animals - An art gallery owner is haunted by her ex-husband's novel, a violent thriller she interprets as a veiled threat and a symbolic revenge tale.

The Accountant - As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.

A Street Cat Named Bob - Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.

Rupture - A single mom tries to break free from a mysterious organization that has abducted her.


November 6th

Beauty and the Beast - An unexpected romance blooms after the youngest daughter of a merchant who has fallen on hard times offers herself to the mysterious beast to which her father has become indebted.


November 10th

Arrival - A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications.


November 11th

Kevin Hart: What Now? - Comedian Kevin Hart performs in front of a crowd of 50,000 people at Philadelphia's outdoor venue, Lincoln Financial Field.

American Pastoral - In 1968, a hardworking man, who's been a staple in his quaint community for years, watches his seemingly perfect middle class life fall apart as his daughter's new radical political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

The Wailing - A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.
The Innocents - In 1945 Poland, a young French Red Cross doctor who is sent to assist the survivors of the German camps discovers several nuns in advanced states of pregnancy during a visit to a nearby convent.

A Hundred Streets - Three people, three extraordinary stories. All lived out within a hundred London streets.

True Memoirs of an International Assassin - After a publisher changes a writer's debut novel about a deadly assassin from fiction to nonfiction, the author finds himself thrust into the world of his lead character, and must take on the role of his character for his own survival.

Panic - A troubled journalist is drawn into London's underworld when his beautiful neighbour is kidnapped.


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Tuesday 1 November 2016

The Happening (M. Night Shyamalan, 2008)

The Happening (2008) Poster
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Zooey Deschanel, John Leguizamo, Ashlyn Sanchez

Summary: A science teacher, his wife, and a young girl struggle to survive a plague that causes those infected to commit suicide.

Genre: Sci-fi, Thriller


I really liked this film; my sister was the one who recommended it to me because she really liked it.

Personally I think this film is a bit like marmite, people either love it or hate it, although to be honest I've heard more about how people didn't like it.
I am definitely one of the (few?) people who absolutely loved it and not just because it stars one of my absolute favourites, Mark Wahlberg.

A good couple of years after I had first seen the film, I read an article on Games Rader called, Is it just me? or is The Happening a half-decent movie?.
I'm not entirely sure how I found this but I am so glad that I did, because this article is just brilliant and I completely agree with it. I definitely think that people who didn't like the film (or even if they did like it) should give this article a read, because i think it raises some valid points.
The Happening (2008) Still The first half of the film is actually pretty decent, it certainly is my favourite part of the movie. The opening for me is just brilliant, I love everything about it and I think it was a great way to set up the story.

Yes the film does turn into a bit of a mess towards the end and the acting is very weak in parts especially from Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel, but it really isn't as bad as a lot of people have made it out to be.


Rating: 6/10
One Final Word: Okay

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