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I Am Mother (2019)
I Am Mother (2019)
2019 | Sci-Fi, Thriller
Humans have become extinct. All that's left behind are thousands of human embryos and a robot. This robot defrost an embryo and the only human left to exist is born. The robot raises the child as if its her own, and is known only as daughter which believe me gets annoying to hear mother says it practically every sentence.
Anyway fast forward a few years and daughter is a teenager and becoming very inquisitive about the outside world. This starts when a mouse gets into the facility, upon this mouse being destroyed by mother, daughter explores the facility one evening whilst mother is powered down and she hears a voice from outside shouting for help, it turns out to be another human, what!?! She let's her in and after an argument with mother for doing so, mother agrees to help the stranger but the woman - seing and experiencing the outside world refuses help, she doesn't trust mother at all. You see it turns out there are other droids identical to mother, but they are evil and tear people away from their families. It's little wonder she doesn't trust mother but is she right to be suspicious? You'll have to watch and see.
Now I'm not usually a Sci fi fan but this movie isn't actually all that bad, the fact that mother sounds more human than android you do feel like there's a real connection between mother and daughter, even right at the end.
Throughout the movie I kept feeling torn between trusting mother or the stranger, I did lean more towards the stranger but I did feel for mother too. It was a complete mind bender and messed with you right to the very end.
  
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins | 2014 | Young Adult (YA)
9
8.5 (277 Ratings)
Book Rating
The topic may not be original if we go all the way back through the history of YA books, but Suzanne Collins did a wonderful job of painting a universe in bleak and horrifying tones.

District 12 in Panem is the poorest of the poor, surviving on scraps, thin broths and scavenged wildlife while managing to mine coal for their government to give to richer districts.


There is another thing mined in District 12 (and the rest of Panem), one boy and one girl to participate in a grueling to-the-death deathmatch.


Our heroine, Katniss faces more challenges than she can fire a bow at as well as choices of whom to trust, whom to kill, and how to retain her soul.


I HIGHLY recommend this title, and the other two books in the series!
  
Good Me, Bad Me
Good Me, Bad Me
Ali Land | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry
10
8.0 (21 Ratings)
Book Rating
What a great book. I was already intrigued by the plot: told from the point of view of the teenage child of a female child serial killer? I am here for this!

I wasn't disappointed; the story itself kept me riveted from page to page, and I was sad when it was over (not sad at the story, sad that there was no more to read). Was the story disturbing? Absolutely. But it was also fascinating, and the ending was really quite satisfying.

This review is a little sparse, yes, but that's because I'm being very mindful of spoilers. Trust me, you'll want to enjoy this one all on your own.

Thanks to Ali Land and the folks at Flatiron Books for the complimentary ARC, and allowing me the opportunity to read and review this book!
  
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Mar 12, 2019  
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When you’ve been hurt and broken by love in the past, how do you learn to trust someone else again?
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When Ronan Carter returns home from his service in the National Guard, he is devastated to find that his loyal friend, Henry the mastiff, is missing. He embarks on a journey to find his beloved dog, but his life changes forever when the trail takes him to Ridgewood, Virginia. As he gets to know Ally Hunter, orphaned and searching for a new start to life, Ronan will learn that sometimes the path to redemption is paved in pawprints.
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Merissa (12914 KP) created a post

Mar 25, 2019  
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Car boosting is all Zahara knows. She’s built her reputation as The Ghost and enjoys the anonymity. No one knows who she is, what sex she is, or when she is going to strike. That’s the way she likes it.

Nikolai Federov is the boss of one of the largest car boosting gangs in the States. He has a team of bratva working for him, and he doesn’t trust anyone.

One mistake brings their two worlds together, and what happens when they do, is explosive.

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Alien (1979)
Alien (1979)
1979 | Horror, Sci-Fi
Ah Alien, you’ve turned me into a snivelling wreck on many occasions. The sole reason I began having night terrors, Alien found its way into my life in 2011 when I watched it for the very first time.

It’s my partner’s all-time favourite film and when that’s the case, you kind of have to watch it. Especially considering we have watched the entire Jurassic Park series upwards of 50 times – and don’t get him started on Desperate Housewives. Seriously, don’t.

There’s no denying Alien is an absolutely astonishing film and it is without a doubt one of the best horror films I have ever seen, but those face-huggers have been the cause of many sleepless nights in the Brannon household, trust me.

https://moviemetropolis.net/2017/07/08/films-that-influenced-me-adam-brannon-2/