My pitch for a new social media platform:
Our app will allow children of any age (but we’ll put 13 in the T&Cs), to engage in completely unmoderated chat with total strangers of all ages from all over the world! They’ll be able to freely exchanged photos, videos and any kind of file without restriction!
Can you imagine pitching that and getting investment? The current situation with kids and social media is ludicrous.
The rules for “branded content” on Instagram are very clear but there is no way to report Posts that don’t meet the requirements. Funny that.
A team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.
I renounce my previous review. There is no cogent story here.
We’re invited to guess a lot of the motivations in this movie, especially regarding David, but any conclusions you might draw will only last a scene or two and then be completely upended.
Is this just a slowly unfolding plot, though? No, because, when you reach the conclusion and the character’s “actual” motivations are revealed, you’ll be able to track back and find them acting to the contrary.
Applying Occam’s razor, rather than conclude that this is an extremely complex and naunced story, with many philosophical meditations on existence, it’s baldly obvious this is just a bunch of preconceived set pieces/visuals/story beats, lifted straight off the studio pitch story boards, and pasted together with a “story” glue made of bullshit.
★
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
Great story, thanks to the novel, but not a great film. Although I did like the far-right replacing the islamists!
★★½
It has been ten years since The Battle of the Breach and the oceans are still, but restless. Vindicated by the victory at the Breach, the Jaeger program has evolved into the most powerful global defense force in human history. The PPDC now calls upon the best and brightest to rise up and become the next generation of heroes when the Kaiju threat returns.
Woke up 8am Sunday morning, my 12 yo son was 10 minutes into this. Sat on the sofa and watched it to the end with him. We has great time. Five star life experience from a three star movie.
★★★
Several things:
Firstly, how has this article been written without reference to Hot Fuzz?
Secondly, it’s not a bad idea. Especially considering:
If you’re 16 or 17 and accompanied by an adult, you can [already] drink beer, wine or cider with a meal.
Seems reasonable, right?
But, the major problem is that this does not remove the need for ID checks. Set the age at 16, you’ll get 13-14 year olds trying it on.
What we, in the UK, really need is culture shift where being falling down drunk is not tolerated and for landlords to abide by their license and stop serving such persons alchohol.
An exiled anxiety-ridden homebody must battle an alien who's found its way into her home.
After moving to a small town, Zach Cooper finds a silver lining when he meets next door neighbor Hannah, the daughter of bestselling Goosebumps series author R.L. Stine. When Zach unintentionally unleashes real monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it’s suddenly up to Stine, Zach and Hannah to get all of them back in the books where they belong.
Watched with my 9 y/o. Neither of us have read any of the books so I am sure there was some fan service that was wasted on us, but we both enjoyed it and I had a lot of good laughs. In terms of “scares” there was just the right amount of tension to make it fun.
9 y/o decided that Slappy was easily the scariest thing in it.
★★★
A troubled starlet is dogged by invasive paparazzi while dealing with the consequences of a hit-and-run incident.
Let’s be honest, the story is not even remotely close to what you’d expect from Black Mirror, is it?
But I liked it. It’s short and yet achieves as much as similar genre efforts, and more than some.
★★★
Wisecracking mercenary Deadpool battles the evil and powerful Cable and other bad guys to save a boy's life.
It’s not as funny as it ought to be. Josh Brolin is admirable playing the straight man without which I am not sure most of this would work.
★★★
