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ClareR (6037 KP) rated Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) in Movies

Jun 23, 2019

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

2016 | Action, Comedy

9.0

(8 Ratings)

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I was channel surfing (or hopping?) and chanced upon this film, and I consider myself to be very fortunate that I did. It’s a gloriously quirky, funny film of a foster child running off (by accident, I think) with his foster father.

His foster mother dies suddenly, and he knows that he’ll be put back in to a system that doesn’t care for him, so he runs away into the New Zealand bush/ forests, where his foster father finds him. Social Services start a manhunt for them, under the pretext that they know what’s best for him. They haven’t been great with him in the past - he has earned himself a reputation of a troubled child. Something which his foster mother seems to have loved out of him. She is a lovely character. As is the gloriously grumpy Sam Neill.

No description I can write can give this film its true credit - you’ll just have to watch it for yourself. It’s fantastic.

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ClareR (6037 KP) Jun 23, 2019

You could you could probably get it in All4 online? Worth a try?

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Eilidh G Clark (177 KP) Jun 23, 2019

I'll have a look. Fab.

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Russ Troutt (291 KP) rated Mother! (2017) in Movies

Jul 17, 2019 (Updated Jul 18, 2019)

Mother! (2017)

2017 | Drama, Horror, Mystery

6.2

(47 Ratings)

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I was pretty excited about seeing Darren Aronofsky's newest film Mother!, but honestly ended up being a total let down for me. As with any Aronofsky movie, you know you're gonna get some pretty messed up stuff and Mother! definitely delivers on that front. It's one of those movies that I can't really review or talk about without giving away major spoilers. What more can I say, hmmm? The build up good, I was enjoying that part, for it had a Rosemary's Baby vibe going on. But once the final act, or testament I should say, plays out you're able to get an understanding of what this movie was supposed to symbolize. Maybe that was what killed it for me, is every character and every little thing is very symbolic and once realized you're like, "Oh! Okay". I get it, at least I think I do, but at the end of the day, or times, just not my kind of movie.

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ClareR (6037 KP) rated Bitter Orange in Books

Dec 21, 2018

Bitter Orange

Claire Fuller | 2018 | Fiction & Poetry, Mystery

9.0

(2 Ratings)

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A Fantastic Book!

Frances Jellico lies dying in a hospital bed in the present day. She has flash backs to 1969 when she was asked to go to a large, dilapidated country house to assess the gardens for its new owner. She leaves London just after her mother dies - a mother who she had taken care of on her own for a long time. Already there when she arrives are Cara and Peter. He is an antiques expert, and Cara is his wife.
There is such a lot going on in this book: Cara and Peter have a strained relationship, Cara is clearly unwell; the vicar in the local church is not happy in his work, and Frances seems completely incapable of understanding relationships - her upbringing seems to have been very sheltered.
This is such a good story. I enjoyed uncovering the layers and the last few chapters were stunning and completely unexpected.