Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Uninvited (2009) in Movies
Oct 8, 2020
The Plot: After spending time in a psychiatric facility, young Anna (Emily Browning) finds significant changes in store at home. Her widowed father (David Strathairn) is now engaged to her mother's former nurse, Rachel (Elizabeth Banks). One night, the ghost of Anna's mother appears, screaming for revenge and accusing Rachel of murder. Anna and her sister, Alex (Arielle Kebbel), start to investigate, but they may be unprepared for the lethal battle of wills that ensues.
Both Emily Browning and Elizabeth Banks are excellent in this film.
A good horror film.
Sucker Punch (2011)
6.2
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Locked away, a young woman named Babydoll (Emily Browning) retreats to a fantasy world where she is...
A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
6.4
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When a massive fire kills their parents, three children are delivered to the custody of cousin and...
Ghost Ship (2002)
6.8
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In a remote region of Bering Sea, a boat salvage crew discovers the eerie remains of a grand...
American Gods - Season 2
TV Season
Ex-convict Shadow Moon roams a world he doesn't understand, left adrift by the recent, tragic death...
Gareth von Kallenbach (965 KP) rated Pompeii (2014) in Movies
Aug 6, 2019
Pompeii stars Kit Harington (Milo), Emily
Browning (Cassia), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Atticus), and Keifer Sutherland
(Corvus).
The soundtrack added a lot to the feeling of “rallying for the
good guys.”
The casting was well thought out & characters well
played, especially Cassia & Milo.
Sutherland made it easy to hate his
character Corvus, while Harington and Akinnuoye-Agbaje create a bond and
brotherhood that made me hold my breath in hopes that they survived their
trials.
The special effects were awesome and there was at least one time
that I even ducked in my chair from the falling debris!
While the premise
of this movie is well known, the plot gave it a smooth, easy to watch story that
kept me engaged the whole time.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been in a
movie theatre that had cheering at the end….even with such an unexpected ending,
but this one had people clapping all around me.
Thumbs up for this
one!
American Gods
8.0
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American Gods: TV Tie-in
9.0
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American Gods, the extraordinary, highly acclaimed epic novel from storytelling genius and...
Figuring
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Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the...
FilmIntuition (33 KP) rated All We Ever Wanted in Books
Jul 6, 2018
And while I feared the same would be true for Giffin's latest novel All We Ever Wanted, especially considering that the first chapter of the book – which divides the storyline into three alternating first person points-of-view – began from the perspective of the wealthy one percenter wife from Nashville's elite, Giffin quickly replaces first world problems with real world problems.
Shocked to her core upon discovering appalling decision made by her Princeton bound son, in trying to get to the bottom of what exactly happened and what on Earth he was thinking, Nina Browning is forced to take a good hard look at her life and marriage as well as her past when she found herself at the other end of a similar horrific situation.
Continuing the action from the perspective of the two main other parties involved including her son's younger classmate, Lyla and Lyla's protective single father Tom, Giffin deftly balances her richly compelling drama with timely issues of economic inequality, racism, and sexual harassment in the digital age.
Surprising her readers with a few well-earned twists, while despite the narrative roller-coaster, we're pretty sure we know precisely who's to blame, ultimately it's in Lyla and Nina's journey toward accepting and understanding the truth that made the book increasingly hard to stop reading, particularly in its second half.
An ideal property for HBO to look into adapting as part of its annual miniseries exploration of twenty-first century women in literature, All We Ever Wanted might have been my first Emily Giffin work but it's just the right one to make me want to pick up Something Borrowed again for good.
Note: I received an Advanced Reader’s Copy of this title from Bookish First in exchange for an honest opinion.