The Invisible Man (1933)
7.7
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A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Ocean's 11 (1960)
7.5
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Danny Ocean gathers several of his World War II comrades to pull off a simultaneous heist at five...
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Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
6.0
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This sequel finds Chief Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) being summoned to the country of Lugash...
High Noon (1952)
8.0
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A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must...
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All Def Comedy
7.0
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Urban comedy has always found a home on HBO. In the mid-1990s, "Def Comedy Jam" helped launch the...
Stalag 17 (1953)
7.8
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One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the...
The Detection Collection
Colin Dexter, The Detection Club, Robert Goddard and Reginald Hill
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Ten years since it was first published, this volume of short stories by the cream of British crime...
Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) in Movies
Jul 9, 2019
The plot: the run from a bank robbery that left several police officers dead, Seth Gecko (George Clooney) and his paranoid, loose-cannon brother, Richard (Quentin Tarantino), hightail it to the Mexican border. Kidnapping preacher Jacob Fuller (Harvey Keitel) and his kids, the criminals sneak across the border in the family's RV and hole up in a topless bar. Unfortunately, the bar also happens to be home base for a gang of vampires, and the brothers and their hostages have to fight their way out.
A tv series was made back in 2014 and had 3 seasons.
From dusk till dawn- has horror, action and fantasy all mixed into one film. Overall its very underrated and more people should watch it.
Emma @ The Movies (1786 KP) rated Tone-Deaf (2019) in Movies
Feb 11, 2021
Olive's life has taken an unexpected turn and she decides that a trip out of the city is just what she needs. Peace and tranquillity awaits in the odd home she finds online, but the even odder owner and goings on aren't entirely what she'd hoped for.
I seem to be picking films recently that remind me of other films, and Killer Instinct (also known as Tone Deaf) reminds me heavily of The Intruder from 2019 starring Dennis Quaid... with the slight difference that The Intruder was kind of watchable.
For a film under 90 minutes it feels significantly longer with nothing much happening. The whole idea that Harvey (Robert Patrick) is hatching this plan is poorly set up and once underway I didn't fully understand what the motivation was behind his character. As well as Intruder vibes, I was getting heavy Home Alone vibes too... you'll see.
There felt like two distinct sides to the cast, "serious" and "comedy". But the serious weren't, and neither were the comedy. The way everything was laced together felt like a sloppy attempt to merge Happy Death Day with a serious thriller.
As a lead character, Olive (Amanda Crew), doesn't feel massively likeable, and there seemed like there wasn't really any way to bring that to life as she was. Unengaging characters are also something that's happening more to me in recent film choices, and here, as with others, I found myself getting pulled out of the events of the film because of it.
I had hoped that Robert Patrick would offer some respite, but Harvey is equally... blah. There's no real explanation about why he is the way he is and it's introduced in such a strange way that his motivations are almost entirely obscured by it.
Killer Instinct tries very hard to be relevant and be a commentary on generational divides, but it's done by breaking the fourth wall and talking to the camera in a way that wasn't at all palatable. Each time it happened I frowned and instantly felt disengaged from the film. Combine that with the oddly comedic mother storyline and you get a film with a constant identity crisis.
Originally posted on: https://emmaatthemovies.blogspot.com/2021/02/killer-instinct-movie-review.html