Smashbomb

Search

Search results

All (5000)

Content

Leanne Crabtree (480 KP) rated Broken and Screwed (BS, #1) in Books

Jan 12, 2021

Broken and Screwed (BS, #1)

Tijan | 2013 | Fiction & Poetry, History & Politics, Romance

10.0

(1 Ratings)

Book Rating

I feel oddly compelled to give this 5 stars.

I think it's safe to say that she is well and truly broken and screwed, poor girl. She lost her brother, her parents, her lover, her best friends.

I liked Jesse from the beginning even if he was a pain in the arse. I know he was dealing with his grief but God, do you have to be so mean to her. And poor Alex, the girl never gets a break.

I just hope it picks up a bit in the next one (which I'm off to buy right now from Amazon!) and that she can get herself unbroken--if that's a word--and sort out a relationship with Jesse because even after all the crap they put each other through, I still want them to get together! (Hopeless romantic I am)

Kudos

David McK (3372 KP) rated Geostorm (2017) in Movies

Dec 23, 2020

Geostorm (2017)

2017 | Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi

6.4

(29 Ratings)

Movie Rating

Do you remember the Film 'Armageddon'

'The Day After Tomorrow'?

Or even '2012'?

This is more of the same, this time with Gerard Butler taking the lead in a not-so-distant future of 2022 after a network of satellites is sent up into space in 2019 (I must have missed that - I'm reviewing in 2020) to control the weather.

Of course, things then start t go wrong with said satellites (mainly due to sabotage), leading ex-chief engineer Jake Lawson to be recruited by his politician brother (who had previously fired him) to go back up into space to see if he can put things right, in a race against time.

So, Gerard Butler vs The Weather. It's no contest.

(it's also almost completely a cheesy B movie, which can be unintentionally funny if you let it!)

Kudos

Matthew Krueger (10051 KP) rated Evil Dead (2013) in Movies

Jun 28, 2019

Evil Dead (2013)

2013 | Horror, Mystery

6.5

(21 Ratings)

Movie Rating

The book of the dead

Contains spoilers, click to show

This remake of the 1981 version is good, but not great. Their is no ash chatcter, expect in the post credit sence which was shoot at the last minute.

Anways, Mia, a drug addict, is determined to kick the habit. To that end, she asks her brother, David, his girlfriend, Natalie and their friends Olivia and Eric to accompany her to their family's remote forest cabin to help her through withdrawal. Eric finds a mysterious Book of the Dead at the cabin and reads aloud from it, awakening an ancient demon. All hell breaks loose when the malevolent entity possesses Mia.

If you take the first letter of each charcters names it spells out demon. Intresting fact.

This film is gory, gory and more gory. I like the oringal film better than this. But this remake is okay.

Kudos

David McK (3372 KP) rated The Truman Show (1998) in Movies

Sep 6, 2019 (Updated Mar 14, 2021)

The Truman Show (1998)

1998 | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi

8.0

(59 Ratings)

Movie Rating

On the Air. Unaware.

"On the Air. Unaware".

Peter Weir's incredibly prescient satire drama (released, as it was, even pre Big Brother), in which Jim Carrey shows he can actually act, by putting in - for me - what is probably his best performance as Truman Burbank, the unwitting and unknowing star of a 24/7 reality TV show that is now in its 30th year and that is viewed by millions around the globe.

In effect, a bit of an update on the old Descartes 'how do we know what is real?' question: as far as Truman is concerned, this *is* reality, until a series of accidents and events leads him to start to question everything and everyone in his life, leading to the emotional finale (does he ever meet the girl again? What comes next for the world's most recognizable man?).