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The Killing of a Sacred Deer  (2017)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
2017 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
I honestly don't know whether or not I actually liked this movie. The score was god awful, and the 'tension' music came at weird, non-tense times. The sex was plum bizarre and the characters did a whole lot of nothing. The beginning sequence when it's around 2 minutes of a beating heart creeped me out, and made me feel slightly ill to my stomach. Barry Keoghan (AKA the guy from 71 and Dunkirk) did well, though his American accent sounded like a mix between Ryan Gosling and Benedict Cumberbatch doing American accents. Though, as whack as it was, it kind of fit with the awkwardness of the character.
  
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Erika (17788 KP) Apr 7, 2018

I definitely liked the fact it was different. The Lobster has been on my to-watch list since it was put on Prime.

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Andy K (10821 KP) Apr 7, 2018

I had to look up what the Sacred Deer thing meant. Now that I know I think it's very interesting.

The Hound of the Baskervilles
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Arthur Conan Doyle | 2015 | Fiction & Poetry
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8.1 (14 Ratings)
Book Rating
Perhaps the most famous of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries, in which the super-sleuth investigates the supposed Baskerville family curse of the hell-hound on the moors.

What else can I say? Originally serialised by Arthur Conan Doyle, there's been many attempts to adopt this for TV, film or stage over the years, right through from the classic Basil Rathbone 1939 classic (and which many - myself included - still envisage Holmes as) to the more modern BBC Benedict Cumberbatch TV series, one of which has an episode largely based on this story.

Mysterious deaths, ghostly hell-hounds, escaped convicts and the marshy moors all play a part in this ...
  
Mowgli (2018)
Mowgli (2018)
2018 | Adventure, Drama, Family
Just have to admire not only the technical craft on display, but the clear love for it by Serkis who has built a career involving some of the most iconic performances via motion capturing - here directing himself and an entire cast of elites through the same technology. I was looking forward to the darker answer to the similarly bland and daft Disney version but that one at least looked cute. This one - for whatever that means - is a full-bodied Netflix movie in all the worst ways: so inconsequential, so drab, so generic, home to tons of slimy CGI, and the voice acting is somehow as shallow as the 2016 one. That Benedict Cumberbatch tiger is supposed to look villainous but it looks hilariously silly.
  
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Erika (17788 KP) rated The Grinch (2018) in Movies

Nov 9, 2018 (Updated Nov 9, 2018)  
The Grinch (2018)
The Grinch (2018)
2018 | Animation, Family, Sci-Fi
The absolutely ATROCIOUS remix of 'You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch'. Worse than the Busta Rhymes version, which I didn't know was possible... (0 more)
As expected, there was nothing new to see here. The Grinch is one of my favorite Christmas stories, so I had to see this one.
This film reverted back to the original story, in contrast to the film in the early 2000s, where the commercialism was downplayed. There were some unnecessary plot points, and the Grinch was more mildly annoyed with Christmas. Benedict Cumberbatch was kind of perfect for the voice part and he was, by far, the most entertaining. I could have lived without the whole Cindy-Lou Who plot line, but I guess it had to be in there to stretch the story out to nearly 90 minutes. Again , another unnecessary remake, but I still enjoyed it.