Pony Style Box - Dress up your horses
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Pony Style Box is an incredibly fun and creative app to dress-up and style your very own pony in...
Collie (Comprehensive Owner's Guide)
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One of the world's most recognizable purebred dogs, the Collie with his signature rough coat and...
LeftSideCut (3776 KP) rated Ma (2019) in Movies
May 14, 2020
Ma revolves around a group of teens inadvertently befriending a lonely older woman whilst trying to buy alcohol. The woman's sweet nature leads to her letting the teens and their friends use the basement of her house for police-free partying, and she becomes something a mother figure to them, nicknaming her 'Ma'. Things start to go a little awry when Ma becomes possessive, and a much more sinister plot unravels.
The film doesn't go full blown horror until the final act, meaning that the main chunk of runtime is a fairly slow burning thriller. It's paced pretty well for the most part, drip feeding details and hints that Ma is quite clearly unwell. It's also features flashbacks here and there, going some way to explain why she is the way she is. It's actually quite sad at times, and definitely plays the sympathy card on occasion. This wouldn't have worked nearly as well as it did without Octavia Spencer. She's the obvious highlight of the film and her friendly demeanor makes her character all the more unsettling.
The teenage characters are actually surprisingly likable as well. They're not particular fleshed out too much, and lack substance, but usually they're exclusively hateable in these kind of films.
Add in Juliette Lewis, Missy Pyles, and Luke Evans, and the cast is pretty solid.
I guess the main problem with Ma, is that's it's nothing special. It's painfully predictable at times - there's a lot of typical people-doing-obviously-dumb-shit-in-a-horror-film going on, and it's in your face enough to impact the overall movie.
It's still worth a watch though, even if it's just for Octavia Spencer.
BBC iPlayer Radio
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The official BBC iPlayer Radio app for listening to BBC Radio wherever you go. - Listen live to...
Fingo Furniture - Augmented Reality Interior App. Catalogue 3D
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Fingo is a mobile app with augmented reality that lets you to "try on" virtual furniture to your...
Learn and play French +
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This engaging game of skill is a mobile tutor for self-study of vocabulary and phonetics on the...
The Girl Who Chased the Moon
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In her latest enchanting novel, New York Times bestselling author Sarah Addison Allen invites you to...
Stipulations and Complications (The Sisters, Texas Mystery Series Book 3)
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Life comes with stipulations. If you want to fit into last year’s swimsuit, you can’t eat ice...
cozy mystery mystery Texas adult fiction series
Mark @ Carstairs Considers (2330 KP) rated Claws for Alarm in Books
Aug 17, 2021 (Updated Aug 17, 2021)
Jillian is a force, and the scenes she is in are very memorable. Once she dies, the mystery is good, although it seems like we get quite a few revelations at the end of the book. Everything makes sense, but it did make the ending feel rushed. As much as Jillian stands out, the rest of the cast are wonderful. Some of the suspects I hope pop back up again in the future, and the regulars are charming. I did find a handful of errors where a character finished their coffee twice in the same scene, or something like that. It was annoying but not too bad. I was more bothered by Maddie’s actions in one scene late in the book. She should not have done what she did. I’ve always loved Daybreak Island, and that didn’t change in this book. It’s a wonderful setting I’d love to visit in real life – between murders, of course. If you are looking to get away cheaply, this is the book to pick up.
I Never Gave My Consent
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In 2013, a series of high-profile court cases sent shockwaves through the West Midlands town of...