The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms
Book
Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious...
fantasy magic
Lighter Than My Shadow
Book
Like most kids, Katie was a picky eater. She’d sit at the table in silent protest, hide uneaten...
Graphic novel
Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse (2016)
Movie
A struggling comedy duo discovers that surviving the apocalypse is almost as difficult as surviving...
Caesar!: Seize Rome in 20 Minutes!
Tabletop Game
The Roman Republic is coming to an end, but not before a power struggle between Caesar and Pompey....
Free Jazz/Black Power
Philippe Carles, Jean-Louis Comolli and Gregory Pierrot
Book
For the first time in English, the classic volume that developed a radical new understanding of free...
Darren (1599 KP) rated Into The Forest (2016) in Movies
Sep 13, 2019
Performance wise, I feel one of the big problem here is that Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood are nearly ten years older than the characters they are playing, this does make it harder to see the teenage nativity needed in the role but sadly this takes away the strength in the performance needed.
Story – The story does focus on what could happen if the world stopped have power, this could also help show us how the world could fall apart and not cope like it once did. This also doesn’t just give us the undead being a threat which is important as it is mostly about the struggle of what is meant to be two teenage girls through this sudden change. I think the story is refreshing even if it is slightly slow.
Sci-Fi/Thriller – The power is go and now the end of the world that creates us the sci-fi side of the story well, we also deal with wondering just what will be thrown at the girls next for the thrilling side of things.
Settings – The film is set mostly in and around the home in the forest which gives us the isolation needed for a potential end of the world type of problems the girls must work through.
Final Thoughts – This is a good watch even if it is slightly slow in places, we do struggle to get the most out of the deeper side of things but we are kept interested in where things could go next.
Overall: Slow but strong thriller.
Darren (1599 KP) rated Hellions (2015) in Movies
Sep 13, 2019
Performance wise, I feel one of the big problem here is that Ellen Page and Evan Rachel Wood are nearly ten years older than the characters they are playing, this does make it harder to see the teenage nativity needed in the role but sadly this takes away the strength in the performance needed.
Story – The story does focus on what could happen if the world stopped have power, this could also help show us how the world could fall apart and not cope like it once did. This also doesn’t just give us the undead being a threat which is important as it is mostly about the struggle of what is meant to be two teenage girls through this sudden change. I think the story is refreshing even if it is slightly slow.
Sci-Fi/Thriller – The power is go and now the end of the world that creates us the sci-fi side of the story well, we also deal with wondering just what will be thrown at the girls next for the thrilling side of things.
Settings – The film is set mostly in and around the home in the forest which gives us the isolation needed for a potential end of the world type of problems the girls must work through.
Final Thoughts – This is a good watch even if it is slightly slow in places, we do struggle to get the most out of the deeper side of things but we are kept interested in where things could go next.
Overall: Slow but strong thriller.
Speak No Evil: A Novel
Book
On the surface, Niru leads a charmed life. Raised by two attentive parents in Washington, DC, he's a...
Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967
Book
Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension women's history in the United States: how a...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated The Corruptor (1998) in Movies
Jan 8, 2021 (Updated Jan 8, 2021)
The plot: Martial arts expert Detective Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) teams up with his colleague Danny Wallace (Mark Wahlberg) to keep several gangs in New York City's Chinatown from annihilating each other. They must contend not only with the increasingly power-hungry gangsters, but also with the temptation of bribery and corruption as the bad guys divide and conquer the police forces. In what's beginning to seem like a losing battle, Chen and Wallace struggle to establish law and prevent more bloodshed.
If you havent seen this film than go watch it. Cause its really good.