Awix (3310 KP) rated Into the Night in TV
May 31, 2020
It's done with a slightly broad brush and occasionally becomes a little contrived, but there are great performances from the ensemble cast and it soon becomes genuinely gripping and tense, though not without the odd moment of black humour ('I'm going to die in Scotland... with Belgians!' despairs one character in the first episode). Not sure what they're going to do if it gets a second series, but this is a fine piece of entertainment. (Right-thinking people will surely watch the original version, with subtitles if necessary: the English dubbing is not great.)
The First Fall (When Winter Comes #1)
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The sky is bleeding. The storm has come. A crimson rift washes over the isolated Alaskan town of...
Lady Silver (Warlock Chronicles #1)
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A Cataclysm eons ago forced humans and warlocks across the galaxy in a centuries-long diaspora....
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Z.O.N.A Project X
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Z.O.N.A Project X - first person shooter based in a post-apocalyptic world. Action of the game...
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First came the storms. Then came the Fever. And the Wall. After a string of devastating hurricanes...
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The Misadventures of Two Reluctant Zombie Hunters: Hospitals are Hell
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Follow our not so reluctant Zombie Hunters on an irreverent and satirical romp through the Zombie...
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A New Dawn (Star Wars)
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Ever since the Jedi were marked for death and forced to flee Coruscant, Kanan Jarrus has devoted...
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David McK (3496 KP) rated Waterworld (1995) in Movies
Jun 21, 2022
Then he had the one-two misfore of this (at one point, the most expensive flop ever made, I believe) and 'The Postman'.
Both are set in a post-apocalyptic future: here, one where the world has flooded 'due to the melting of the ice shelves' (don't even), with 'dry land' now virtually a myth and where gangs of bikers roam the outlands on custom-built vehicles in search of fuel ...
Sorry, sorry, that's Mad Max.
But you can definitely see the similarities: swap the bikers for jet ski's, replace the loner character played by Mel Gibson for one played by with Kevin Costner and you're virtually there!
Add a bit of Dennis Hopper to completely ham it up, a soupcon of mystery around The Mariner and his mutation, and a search for the mysterious Dryland and there you have it ...
Not as bad as it's made out to be, but nor is it brilliant by any stretch of the imagination
David McK (3496 KP) rated Bird Box (2018) in Movies
Aug 23, 2020 (Updated Jan 17, 2023)
Starring Sandra Bullock, this was sold on the (strong) imagery of a blindfolded woman leading two equally blindfolded children through a river journey - the film, later, makes it clear that this is because a mysterious entity has decimated the population, driving whoever sees it (we don't) mad and causing them to commit suicide.
The film is actually told in both the 'now' of the journey and '5 year previously' (when this first started happening), with Sandra Bullock's character of Malorie heavily pregnant and trapped in a house with other survivors - we know, of course (they're not in the 'now'!) that they're all going to be bumped off one by one, but the suspense is in the how and when.
The ending also, apparently, is a lot less dark that the book on which it is based, and I still have little idea why the film is even called Bird Box!