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Awix (3310 KP) rated The Vast of Night (2019) in Movies

Jun 6, 2020  
The Vast of Night (2019)
The Vast of Night (2019)
2019 | Mystery, Sci-Fi
8
7.0 (2 Ratings)
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High-concept, low-budget SF movie. It's the night of the year's first basketball game somewhere in Texas, and most people are watching. But small-town DJ Everett and switchboard operator Fay aren't, and they start to get strange reports of mysterious radio signals and peculiar lights. The same phrase recurs again and again: there's something in the sky...

Framed as a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits pastiche, and while the subject matter is certainly similar, much of the style is not: long takes, either static or mobile, rattling dialogue, a sort of self-consciousness about form which is only to be expected in a directorial debut. Interesting subtext about the aliens' agenda and the people prepared to speak up about their experiences (generally speaking, it's people from the lowest strata of society). Genuinely tense and even a bit eerie in places: Rod Serling would never have written something so oblique, but I think he would have appreciated its quality regardless.
  
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ClareR (6253 KP) rated The Rest of our Lives in Books

Jun 6, 2026  
The Rest of our Lives
The Rest of our Lives
Benjamin Markovits | 2025 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry
8
8.0 (1 Ratings)
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The Rest of Our Lives would appear to be another book that not too many other people enjoyed, but I did. It’s a book where big things don’t really happen and someone (in this case, Tom Layward) is pondering on his life.

Tom has dropped his youngest child at college for her first semester, and then keeps on driving. So, it’s a road trip of sorts. He visits people from his past, not really knowing what he wants from them or from himself. Tom is at a crossroads in his life: should he leave his wife as he promised himself 12 years ago when she had an affair? What’s he going to do about his job? And should he see a doctor about his health concerns?

It’s a meandering tale up to the point where he’s in hospital, and then the story would seem to have more purpose. I liked it, but then I’m one of those people who finds the minutiae of people’s lives quite interesting!