Tag: Drama

Movie Review: THE INVITATION

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About 20 minutes into The Invitation, I considered shutting it off and picking something else to watch – which would have been an error on my part.  By means of explanation, I’ll say that even up to that point, the movie wasn’t bad at all.  It opened well, with a nicely defining moment for the protagonist, Will (played by Prometheus’s Logan Marshall-Green), as he and his girlfriend drive through an LA canyon, responding to a dinner party invitation.  There’s a palpable layer of tension in this movie from the outset, and it never lets up.  Continue reading “Movie Review: THE INVITATION” →

Movie Review: HONEYMOON

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One of Honeymoon’s major elements had me thinking about it the same way I’ve thought about the superhero blockbusters of recent years, namely, Americans played by British actors.  Spider Man’s last two actors have been Brits, Dr. Strange, Superman, etc.  Is it that these actors are any better than people you could find in the US?  Or is it that they’re cheaper to hire?  In Honeymoon, the two lead roles of American newlyweds are played by Game of Thrones’ Rose Leslie, and Harry Treadaway, from Penny Dreadful. Continue reading “Movie Review: HONEYMOON” →

Movie Review: THE HOUSE ON PINE STREET

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I admit, I gave up watching Ben Wheatley’s A Field In England about half an hour in (I’ll return to it, though), but because I still wanted to watch a movie, I went with The House On Pine Street, a 2015 independent horror movie summarized as “a woman with an unwanted pregnancy moves into a haunted house”.  Seemed pretty decent from that brief logline.  And that’s pretty much how I would rate it. Continue reading “Movie Review: THE HOUSE ON PINE STREET” →

Movie Review: APPROACHING THE UNKNOWN

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Approaching the Unknown is the story of a one-way trip to Mars.  I watched the movie as one of many people on Earth who would consider a solo, never-to-return trip to the cosmos.  I don’t know what the appeal is of that.  Science?  Not for me.  Personally speaking, I live my life unencumbered by any notion of the supernatural, but I’m no scientist either.  Don’t get me wrong, the universe to me is a vast and wondrous place, but I don’t have the mind or discipline to exist from one day to the next carrying out one mundane experiment after another.  Yet the idea of sailing off into oblivion by myself appeals to me.  Continue reading “Movie Review: APPROACHING THE UNKNOWN” →

Movie Review: 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE

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Funny thing about this movie, or more precisely, how I reacted to the trailer.  “I’ll never pay to see a movie with John Goodman!” I said, and never went to see it theatrically because of that.  It isn’t that I hate Goodman, but for some reason he annoys me.  Like Morgan Freeman, seeing him on the big screen is not something I enjoy.  I can’t explain it, then again, I don’t have to.  Watching 10 Cloverfield Lane last night, I realized that I’d robbed myself of a very decent cinematic experience. Continue reading “Movie Review: 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE” →