Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (Kiah Roache-Turner, 2014)

Cast: Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Leon Burchill, Luke McKenzie, Yure Covich

Summary: A talented mechanic prepares to battle his way through hordes of flesh-eating monsters after his sister is kidnapped on the eve of a zombie apocalypse.

Genre: Horror, Comedy

Watched: October 29th, 2016

Just like Netflix, the Horror Channel has become a good friend to me during my 150 film challenge.

I saw the advert for this film a few days before it came on TV and I thought this looks interesting, I'll definitely give that a watch and it was absolutely brilliant!

It's an interesting take on the zombie genre, which we know has absolutely been done to death.
We are thrown straight into the story with absolutely no information as to where we are or any explanation as to what's happening.
The actors were very good. I had no idea who any of them were but they did an absolutely fantastic job. Benny (Leon Burchill) was definitely my favourite character, he provided some much needed comic relief from the second he came on screen.

The script was a little bit off at times, but this is definitely a film that doesn't take itself too seriously so it's easy to brush it off. Also I'm not normally big on cinematography but it definitely gets a thumbs up from me here.

Rating: 8/10
One Final Word: Very Good

Audrie & Daisy (Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk, 2016)

Starring: Daisy Coleman, Delaney Henderson, Paige Pankhurst, Audrie Pott

Summary: A look at the effects that online bullying has on the lives of teenagers and their community.

Genre: Documentary

Watched: November 29th, 2016

Not long after I saw A Girl Like Her I came across this documentary and after reading the description I decided to add it to my watchlist. However it actually took me a while to work up the courage to actually watch it and I am so glad that I finally did.

One of the cases discussed and for me the saddest is the case of Audrie Pott who was sexually assaulted after she had passed out drunk at a party.
With no memory of what happened Audrie later discovered that not only were there rumours about her at school but that naked pictures of her were also being sent to other students.
After suffering relentless abuse from a number of her peers, 8 days after the assault Audrie committed suicide.

The documentary also discusses the case of Daisy Coleman who after being raped by a classmate of her brother, was left on the grass outside her home where her mother and brother were sleeping in -5c weather.
Daisy then became a victim of online bullying from people within her small town when they found out what had happened.

Listening to the girls tell their stories is difficult enough but it gets ten times harder listening to their friends and families talk about what happened, especially in the case of Audrie Pott, whose mother describes the day of her daughters suicide and finding her body.
This documentary is definitely an eye opener towards the attitudes of small communities in America and how far they will go to "defend/protect" one of their rising stars and it's something I would have appreciated watching when I was in school.

Rating: 8/10
One Final Word: Great

The Accountant (Gavin O'Connor, 2016)

Cast: Ben Affleck, Anna Kendrick, J.k. Simmons, Jon Bernthal, Cynthia Addai-Robinson

Summary: 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.

Genre: Crime, Action

Watched: November 4th, 2016

I had absolutely no intention of watching this film when I first saw the trailer.
It looked incredibly boring, nothing that I would want to waste money on watching in the cinema. Then one of my closest friends asked if anyone wanted to go to the cinema and that she wanted to watch The Accountant.

I decided to go purely because I wanted to see my friend and I'm very happy to say I was absolutely, 100% wrong. This film is absolutely brilliant and I would 100% recommend going to see it.

I've only seen Ben Affleck in probably 3 films one being the awful Daredevil (2003), but I've never really thought much of his acting. I haven't seen Batman vs Superman, I'm not the biggest Batman fan although I have seen the Christian Bale ones, this one just didn't interest me at all.
I know he's also written and directed quite a few movies that people have raved about like Gone Baby Gone (2007), The Town (2010) and Argo (2012) (I haven't seen any of these either).


Affleck does an absolutely fantastic job and it definitely makes me want to watch more of his films. I also really enjoyed Anna Kendrick's performance, I've liked her ever since her small part in Twilight (2008). The cast as a whole is incredibly good.

I absolutely loved the story! I was able to guess one of the twists long before it was revealed, but the final twist definitely shocked me. For myself and probably most people that have seen it, it was definitely one we didn't see coming.
I did get a little confused at the very beginning trying to figure out which if the children was Christian and it found it a bit long in places, but no so much that I lost interest.

This film is 100% worth a watch, it's so good to watch a film that answers almost if not all questions that come up. The trailer absolutely does not do it any justice at all.

Rating: 10/10
One Final Word: EXCELLENT!

In the Cinema | January #2

January 19th

xXx: Return of Xander Cage - Xander Cage is left for dead after an incident, though he secretly returns to action for a new, tough assignment with his handler Augustus Gibbons.


January 20th

Jackie - Following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy fights through grief and trauma to regain her faith, console her children, and define her husband's historic legacy.

Split - After three girls are kidnapped by a man with 24 duel personalities they must find some of the different personalities that can help them while running away and staying alive from the others.


Lion - A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.


January 27th


Hacksaw Ridge - WWII American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.

Sing - A koala named Buster Moon has one final chance to restore his theater to its former glory by producing the world's greatest singing competition.


T2: Trainspotting - A continuation of the Trainspotting saga reuniting the original characters.

Christine - The story of Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career.


Denial - Acclaimed writer and historian Deborah E. Lipstadt must battle for historical truth to prove the Holocaust actually occurred when David Irving, a renowned denier, sues her for libel.

The White King - Djata is a care-free 12-year-old growing up in a brutal dictatorship shut off from the outside world. When the government imprisons his father, Peter, and Djata and his mother Hannah are labelled traitors.

Frozen (Adam Green, 2010)

Cast: Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers

Summary: Three skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.

Genre: Thriller

Watched: November 9th, 2016

Although the description sounded interesting when I first read it, it also sounded as though the film was going to be quite slow paced and a little boring.
It turns out that it definitely wasn't as slow as I thought it was going to be and I ended up really enjoying it.

I did struggle with the first few scenes. I found that I wasn't very interested in the 3 characters, who they were or what they were doing and it was only just before the trio are left stranded is when my interest began to grow. I think this was mainly because there are a couple of moments that clue you into what's going to happen to the trio.

For me the film really comes into its own when the trio are left stranded on the ski lift.
The trio at first think it's a joke until the lights of the resort are turned off, only then do the trio begin to panic as they know that the slopes will be closed for the next week.

Knowing that they won't survive the trio try to come up with a plan to save themselves.
I really enjoyed the performances from all 3 actors but the stand out for me is Emma Bell who plays Parker, although there are a few iffy moments overall she does a fantastic job.

There's a moment shortly after realising they've been left suspended on the ski-lift where Parker begins to panic and she reveals her worries about what will happen to her puppy if she dies on the lift and he thinks that she has abandoned him.

It probably seems kind of ridiculous to some people that she is more worried about her pet at home then she is about being stranded 50 feet above the ground with absolutely nobody around. I think it makes everything seems a little bit more real because you never know how you would react in a similar situation, and I think there are probably a few people who would end up having this thought in a similar situation.

This is definitely a film I would recommend and one that I would happily watch again.

Other Films Watched in December 2016

Assassins (Richard Donner, 1995) - Okay

Meteorites! (Chris Thompson, Chris Thomson, 1998) - Awful

Wishmaster (Robert Kurtzman, 1997) - Good

Wilderness (Michael J. Bassett, 2006) - Awful

Gallowwalkers (Andrew Goth, 2012) - Okay

Girl Missing (Joel Soisson, 2015) - Rubbish

Second Chances (Jean-Claude Lord, 2010) - Rubbish

Girls Against Boys (Austin Chick, 2012) - Okay

Night of the Living Dead (Tom Savini, 1990) - Okay

Battle of The Damned (Christopher Hatton, 2013) - Good

A Madea Christmas (Tyler Perry, 2013) - Good

Urge (Aaron Kaufman, 2016)

Cast: Justin Chatwin, Ashley Greene, Alexis Knapp, Bar Paly, Chris Geere, Pierce Brosnan, Danny , Masterson, Nick Thune

Summary: A weekend getaway takes a dangerous turn when a mysterious nightclub owner introduces a group of friends to a new designer drug. Stripped of their inhibitions, they start living out their wildest fantasies - but what starts out as a fun night of partying quickly turns deadly.

Genre: Thriller

Watched: November 20th, 2016

This was the second of November's films that had me thinking "um what?" long after the film had ended.

Neil (Danny Masterson), an arrogant millionaire takes his group of friends to his mansion on an executive island. Once settled in, the group decide to visit the club Volcano where things really started to get weird, well that's if you don't consider your friends seeing you have sex through a large window weird.

At Volcano they encounter the "Red Bastard", a man wearing some sort of red long johns with a bunch of balloons underneath. This would have been enough for me to get up and leave, but no they decide to stay and have a piece of what everyone else seems to be having.

"Urge", a glowing blue inhalant that strips you of your inhibitions. The only catch is that you can only do it once in your lifetime. I think from here on its pretty obvious that these are the type of people who play by their own rules, so of course they're going to do it more than once.

I have to say I wasn't expecting the descent into madness to be quite as graphic as it was, but then considering some of the earlier scenes I probably shouldn't have been so shocked.

I enjoyed the first few scenes but as the film goes on the story just gets stranger and stranger and there were times when I got completely lost and it felt as though I had missed something important, and there were often times where there was so much going on I struggled to remember who the main people were.
I also wasn't a fan of the ending.

It isn't the great but it was miles better than #Horror.

Rating: 5/10
One Final Word: Huh?

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#Horror (Tara Subkoff, 2015)

Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Timothy Hutton, Sadie Seelert, Haley Murphy, Bridget McGarry, Emma Adler, Mina Sundwall

Summary: Six preadolescent girls face a night of terror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Watched: November 20th, 2016

This was the first of the November films that had me absolutely baffled, from the word go I was completely lost and it was just awful.

The first thing that caught my attention was the strange casino like sound effects from a social media game the girls are playing. The sounds were never actually explained so at the time I wasn't aware that they were coming from a game, and they happened way too often.

The second thing that I didn't like was the acting. I've been a fan of Chloë Sevigny ever since seeing the show Hit & Miss and although the script doesn't do her any favours her performance is still okay.

It was really the girls' performance that made the film worse for me. It was absolutely awful and at times it was almost painful to watch, so much so that I considered giving up and watching something else on more than one occasion. I think they could have been so much better if the script hadn't be so incredibly poor.

We spend a ridiculous amount of time establishing that these girls are absolutely disgusting examples of human beings. Forget being spoilt, self-indulged, social media obsessed brats, these girls are so horribly mean to other that I actually wasn't sure if I wanted to keep watching.

I read a review somewhere that said: "They made attempts to create sympathetic characters, giving some of them ham-fisted back stories regarding suicide, or just having them be taunted for weight."

If this is actually the case and the director is actually trying to make me feel sympathy towards anyone of those girls it absolutely did not work.
We all know that there are many cases of bullying that have happened in similar ways where a group of friends bully each other or just one of their own; however nothing about these people feels at all genuine enough for me to feel sympathy for any of them. Even if they were genuine and these things had actually happened to them, I still don't think that I could feel anything but disgust for them.

Despite the poor acting/script, this app that the girls are using is definitely at the top of the list of things that I didn't understand in this film. Not only were the sound effects I mentioned earlier driving me crazy but the ridiculous graphics that pop up on screen what feels like every 2 seconds had me wishing that the film would just hurry up and end.

You would think that I wouldn't recommended this to anyone considering how much I disliked it but I really want people to watch it so that I can get their opinions about it! Let me know if you do or if you have seen it!

Rating: 2/10
One Final Word: Huh?

Film | In the Cinema | January

January 1st

Silence - In the seventeenth century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism.

Assassins Creed - When Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, he discovers he is a descendant of the secret Assassins society.

A Monster Calls - A boy seeks the help of a tree monster to cope with his single mom's terminal illness.


January 13th

Manchester By The Sea - An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.

La La Land - A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles.

Underworld: Bloodwars - Vampire death dealer, Selene fights to end the eternal war between the Lycan clan and the Vampire faction that betrayed her.

Live By Night - A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.

The Bye Bye Man - Three friends stumble upon the horrific origins of the Bye Bye Man, a mysterious figure they discover is the root cause of the evil behind man's most unspeakable acts.

150 Films | Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone! 2016 has ended and 2017 has now begun and that means that my 150 Films challenge is officially over!

If you're only just joining me, back in January I decided to set myself a goal to watch 150 films I've never seen before in one year (150 Films Challenge). I did one back in 2010 with 100 films just before in my last year of A Levels.
I actually wasn't planning to do another challenge so soon after my 150 Books, but after speaking to my sister I decided to give it a go.

I started off really well with 19 films in January mainly because of the few days I had off over the Christmas holidays, but the next few months were more of a struggle and numbers were a lot smaller with my quietest month being July with only 8 films watched.

I ramped it up a bit in September but especially in November when I watched one and a half films every day for 5 days after I realised I had 10 days to watch 14 films.

12 months, 365 days later I have managed to watch 151 films that I have never seen before.

I'm planning a round-up post shortly about some my favourite films from the challenge but before that stay tuned for my final monthly update: Other Films Watched in December!