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So Netflix has been capable of giving us stuff like this? This whole time?
I've been an Elizabeth Olsen fan since Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen VHS tapes, and that fandom escalated with Martha Marcy May Marlene, and escalated again with Scarlet Witch, and we never looked back. Everyone is great in this, but I ride for the Olsens.
This feels incredibly intimate and vulnerable with the uber small cast and almost everything happening in one apartment. The characters all feel real. My only complaint is there are a lot of phone calls where we hear one side, and the pauses are too short for the other person to have said anything. Carrie Coon is delivering Wes Anderson dialogue, pauses for a second a half, and then replies as if that was enough time for the other person to spit out a question. It's minor, but it happened maybe five times.
Sour is a 5 star album, and this has 5 star performances. The stuff between the performances is just stuff; there's not enough time spent on it to get that deep into it.
How is James McAvoy so scary with the same face that was also Mr. Tumnus?! I guess he wasn't jacked as Mr. Tumnus though.
After seeing this trailer a hundred times, I figured I had seen most of the film. It still managed to be suspenseful, very tense, and had quite a few surprises. James McAvoy and Mackenzie Davis are both captivating and so expressive. The third act really clinched it for me, with realistic-enough choices, a few well-placed jump scares, and a satisfying ending. I haven't seen the original, so no comparisons there.
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Major Jessica Day / Zoey Deschanel energy from Emilia Clark here. Also major "adapted from a romance novel" vibes.
It is definitely not like any other romance movie I've seen before, with the whole assisted suicide plot and all.
It's a pretty good watch if you don't think critically about it, and if you don't mind two Ed Sheeran songs (I like Ed, but it's weird that there are two). At its core, it's still a romance novel though, and it leans into the cheesiness and tropes. The guy literally lives in a castle.
Keeping up with Shudder's promise to release new <I>V/H/S</I> films, this year's <I>V/H/S/Beyond</i>, the seventh film in the series, strikes a different chord. While there wasn't a year attached to this like the three previous films, it still fuckin' delivered.
<I>V/H/S/Beyond</i> is something that needs to be experienced (visually, as in watching the film), not read about. From a skydiving trip gone terribly wrong, a Bollywood video shoot that exposes the true face of stardom, and a doggy day care that is anything but (as well as two other segments), <I>Beyond</i> is sure to continue to reel in fans both old and new to this always-creative franchise.
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CGI doesn’t hold up in a few cases, but the film is still a fun watch!
Great, fun action film.
Better than the premise would have you believe.
Some great acting from Haley and Lopez, and even though Thomerson isn’t ‘Jack Deth’, (though he kinda is) he does a fine job of keeping his tongue firmly planted in cheek but not phoning it in.
Surprised to see this is Richard Linklater. Pretty fun watch with enough surprises to balance out the predictable rom-com stuff.
Will Ferrell and Harper Steele, who had both worked together at Saturday Night Live, come together to discuss Harper's transition and the obstacles she has faced to feel accepted in the world.
Harper is known to travel often across the country, stopping in bars and towns along the way. However, during those times, she was traveling as her former self, and is now taking to the road with Ferrell to see if others will welcome her as she now is. Along the way, they meet with family members as well as with some familiar faces. They also visit some very, very small towns where the results may surprise you. Brush politics and beliefs aside, and go into this film with an open mind, ready to laugh and sympathize with someone (part of a large group of people) who are struggling just to be accepted into a society that shuns them based on looks, not as the human being(s) they are.
This is not your average buddy road trip movie. It's a movie with purpose and soul, but more about discovering and sharing one's true self. Also, it highlights the incredibly funny friendship between the two, this time with Ferrell stepping away from the spotlight to allow Harper to tell her story, so don't expect Ferrell to be his big screen self, although he does crack tons of funny jokes to lighten the mood (and it works).
Overall, it's very touching, and you will most likely shed many tears as you hear about how all of this has affected her life.
Shout out to my 14 year old son who gave it 4.5 stars and said it's like Paul Blart Mall Cop in an airport.
Feels a little gorier than the first in terms of intense deaths. Funny sometimes but maybe unintentionally. I kind of dig it though.
For a film that received very little marketing, Blumhouse's <I>Afraid</i> is a smart thriller about our obsession (and ramifications) with technology and, now more recently, artificial intelligence (AI). It's safe to say that some things in the film pertaining to AI are harmless, such as reading bedtime stories to children or providing directions, but the Internet is not a safe zone for anyone regardless of age or sex. We're so comfortable with giving up our digital rights to social media websites and phone companies that we don't think twice about the detrimental effects of them.
In regards to the marketing for the film, which I enjoyed, it came across as another AI is bad and wants to destroy mankind. That is if you ever saw the previews for it. There's a whole other side to the story not shown in the previews, one that's darker and more sinister. For that, I recommend <I>Afraid</i>
<B>Final thoughts:</b>
Alexa who? Amazon needs to be influenced by AIA. (On a serious note, if AI becomes capable of what the film portrays, we are screwed).
