Girls - Season 5
TV Season
Lena Dunham returns for the highly anticipated fifth season of Girls, the award-winning hit comedy...
Girls - Season 2
TV Season
Following the urban adventures of a group of 20-something women, the series focuses on Hannah...
Catwoman (2004)
Movie Watch
Catwoman is the story of meek, mild-mannered artist Patience Philips, who works for Hedare Beauty, a...
Girls - Season 4
TV Season
Lena Dunham returns for the fourth season of Girls, the Emmy®- and Golden Globe-winning comedy...
The Fabulous Baker Boys: The Greatest Strikers Scotland Never Had
Book
With a total of more than 500 goals in careers that saw them turn out for the likes of Hibernian, St...
Victoria - Season 2
TV Season Watch
Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes joined by Dame Diana Rigg as shooting starts on second series of...
Cosmic Sounds by Zodiac
Album
• A classic 1967 Elektra edition, conceived by label head Jac Holzman, who claimed that the...
Charlie Cobra Reviews (1840 KP) rated Us (2019) in Movies
Jul 6, 2020
In 1986, on vacation with her parents in Santa Cruz, one night Adelaide Thomas (Madison Curry) wanders off while at the boardwalk on the beach. Only a young girl at the time she enters a scary looking funhouse where she gets lost in the hall of mirrors. Panicking, afraid and looking for the exit, she encounters a doppelganger of herself, leaving her traumatized and unable to speak when she is reunited with her parents. Now an adult, Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o) reluctantly heads with her family: husband Gabe Wilson (Winston Duke), daughter Zora Wilson (Shahadi Wright Joseph), and son Jason Wilson (Evan Alex) to their beach house in Santa Cruz. Adelaide is very apprehensive about the trip, remembering the traumatic incident from her youth, and becomes very discontent. Even during the day while meeting up with friends at the beach, she becomes very erratic for a moment when she cannot find her son who walked a way to use the restroom. She becomes increasingly concerned something bad is going to happen. Later that evening, back at the beach house, she confides in her husband the details of her childhood trauma, which he laughs off until four masked people storm the house forcing them to fight for their survival.
I cannot say how much I enjoyed this movie. It was an awesome horror movie. Jordan Peele knocked it out of the park with this film. It was masterfully done. I like how you can see a lot of the influences from other films yet it was still very original. This movie had me at the edge of my seat gripping the armrests of my chair with a lot of its scarier scenes. Yet it was still funny in a lot of parts. I thought the acting was great especially for so many actors playing duo roles, even the children. The cinematography was very good too with a lot of visuals that will stay with you and hidden meanings to things you will probably only notice or realize on your 2nd or 3rd viewing. I personally can't wait to watch it again. Another critic summed it up better than I ever could "originality in concept, physiological torment+twists, old-world suspense building, and one of the best scorings in modern Horror history"-(Cinema Lovers Club Gmail). I really loved the soundtrack and music in this movie. I give it a 9/10.
Grey's Anatomy - Season 1
TV Season Watch
The cleverly written series follows five first-year interns and their supervisors at Seattle Grace...
Victoria - Season 1
TV Season Watch
Victoria comes to the throne at a time of great economic turbulence and resurgent republicanism –...