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On a school camping trip, fifth graders experiment with a dangerous new hallucinogen and die in a...
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Broome Enigma
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On a working holiday in Australia's cosmopolitan Outback town of Broome in 1986, Jodie, a young book...
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High Tide (Olympic Cove #5)
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A human, a mer, and a satyr walk into a cove... When Scott Siddell learns that he’s not quite...
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The Honeymoon Homicides (Sydney Riley #10)
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Despite an unforeseen disaster ruining her carefully planned wedding reception, hotelier Sydney...
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Impact Winter Season 3
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Hailed for its “masterful storytelling” by Fandom, the groundbreaking Audible Original series...

Murder by Moonlight
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Meet Freddie Archer! Inspired by one of the first real-life columnists at The New Yorker, Freddie...

Lovestruck Choose Your Romance
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Lovestruck is your portal to the greatest interactive romance stories! Your happily ever after may...

Gareth von Kallenbach (980 KP) rated The Boy Next Door (2015) in Movies
Aug 6, 2019
The latest offering from Hollywood has Jennifer Lopez as Claire, a woman who is newly divorced and falls for her new neighbor played by Ryan Guzman.
At first the relationship is exciting for Claire but things take a turn for the worse and Claire soon learns that her new neighbor is not what he first appeared to be and is a very dangerous and manipulative individual.
You would think with a premise such as this and a decent cast that this would at least be a passable thriller but instead it is about as lifeless and formulaic a film as they come.
The film was completely predictable aside form one brief moment at the end of the film that was mildly unexpected, but other than that I found myself whispering to my husband throughout the movie what was going to happen next, and it did.
Supporting actors John Corbett, playing Lopez’ (estranged) husband, and Ian Nelson as their teenage son, did a passable job given the material they were working with but deserved much better.
Ryan Guzman who plays 19-year-old neighbor Noah, manages to play the creepy psycho part pretty well, but the material was as I said previously; so very predictable.
I wish I could offer more than 1 star out of 5, but I can’t for the film which is a shame as the audience and the cast deserved so much more with this premise.

Constructing Ecoterrorism: Capitalism, Speciesism and Animal Rights
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Animal rights is an important social justice movement, and the animal rights movement presents...

Vehicle Dynamics, Stability, and Control
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Anyone who has experience with a car, bicycle, motorcycle, or train knows that the dynamic behavior...