Shazam! (2019)
Movie Watch
Billy Batson, a troubled 14-year-old orphan, is set up to move into a new foster home - his seventh...
Brandon Routh recommended Back to the Future (1985) in Movies (curated)
Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Broken and Screwed (BS, #1) in Books
Jan 12, 2021
I think it's safe to say that she is well and truly broken and screwed, poor girl. She lost her brother, her parents, her lover, her best friends.
I liked Jesse from the beginning even if he was a pain in the arse. I know he was dealing with his grief but God, do you have to be so mean to her. And poor Alex, the girl never gets a break.
I just hope it picks up a bit in the next one (which I'm off to buy right now from Amazon!) and that she can get herself unbroken--if that's a word--and sort out a relationship with Jesse because even after all the crap they put each other through, I still want them to get together! (Hopeless romantic I am)
David McK (3414 KP) rated Geostorm (2017) in Movies
Dec 23, 2020
'The Day After Tomorrow'?
Or even '2012'?
This is more of the same, this time with Gerard Butler taking the lead in a not-so-distant future of 2022 after a network of satellites is sent up into space in 2019 (I must have missed that - I'm reviewing in 2020) to control the weather.
Of course, things then start t go wrong with said satellites (mainly due to sabotage), leading ex-chief engineer Jake Lawson to be recruited by his politician brother (who had previously fired him) to go back up into space to see if he can put things right, in a race against time.
So, Gerard Butler vs The Weather. It's no contest.
(it's also almost completely a cheesy B movie, which can be unintentionally funny if you let it!)
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Evil Dead (2013) in Movies
Jun 28, 2019
Anways, Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.
If you take the first letter of each charcters names it spells out demon. Intresting fact.
This film is gory, gory and more gory. I like the oringal film better than this. But this remake is okay.
David McK (3414 KP) rated The Truman Show (1998) in Movies
Sep 6, 2019 (Updated Mar 14, 2021)
Peter Weir's incredibly prescient satire drama (released, as it was, even pre Big Brother), in which Jim Carrey shows he can actually act, by putting in - for me - what is probably his best performance as Truman Burbank, the unwitting and unknowing star of a 24/7 reality TV show that is now in its 30th year and that is viewed by millions around the globe.
In effect, a bit of an update on the old Descartes 'how do we know what is real?' question: as far as Truman is concerned, this *is* reality, until a series of accidents and events leads him to start to question everything and everyone in his life, leading to the emotional finale (does he ever meet the girl again? What comes next for the world's most recognizable man?).
The Fifth Wave
Book
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Puffin Rock - Season 2
TV Season Watch
PUFFIN ROCK is an Irish animated series from the team behind movies Secret of Kells and Song of the...
Children
Private Eye
TV Show
This is a detective series set in 1950's Hollywood. Jack Cleary is a (virtuous) cop and his virtue...