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★★★★
The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m Siula Grande in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the Peruvian Andes in 1985.
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In 1993, the Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence Project receives a transmission detailing an alien DNA structure, along with instructions on how to splice it with human DNA. The result is Sil, a sensual but deadly creature who can change from a beautiful woman to an armour-plated killing machine in the blink of an eye.
I feel like this belongs in the 90s movie time capsule.
Could have been better. The end is pretty poor and just evokes Aliens on a much smaller budget. I like the central idea, though.
★★★
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, loose in NYC, kills young women and takes their scalps as trophies. Will he find the perfect woman in photographer Anna, and end his killing spree?
Well, that was deeply unsettling. Who sits down and decides to make a film like that?
★★★★
Blonde, bouncy Buffy is your typical high school cheerleader. But all that changes when a strange man informs her she's been chosen by fate to kill vampires.
People are pretty down on this and I’m not sure why. I think Kristy is a much better Buffy. And she did a lot of her own stunts.
★★
Two mutants, Rogue and Wolverine, come to a private academy for their kind whose resident superhero team, the X-Men, must oppose a terrorist organization with similar powers.
Watched it with the kids (8/11). They’re verdict? “Was good but I wouldn’t watch it again.”
★★★
Ten years after the death of millionaire Cyrus Norman, his will is to be read out to his six relatives, including Joyce Norman and Wally Campbell. Organized by Norman's lawyer, Crosby, the six meet at Norman's eerie New Orleans Gothic mansion. During the reading, the superstitious housekeeper declares that someone will be dead by midnight. Wally fears for Joyce when she is declared the sole inheritor, but all are alarmed when Crosby turns up dead.
Max and Annie's weekly game night gets kicked up a notch when Max's brother Brooks arranges a murder mystery party -- complete with fake thugs and federal agents. So when Brooks gets kidnapped, it's all supposed to be part of the game. As the competitors set out to solve the case, they start to learn that neither the game nor Brooks are what they seem to be. The friends soon find themselves in over their heads as each twist leads to another unexpected turn over the course of one chaotic night.
Bateman and McAdams make a cute couple, and I love Kyle Chandler, but I don’t really like this. There’s a few good laughs, though.
★★★
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
I always liked this film. I never really got why it was scorned. There are also some excellent moments of film making here, which could seem strangely earnest, given the genre, but that shouldn’t diminish them.
The overall plot you could dismiss as being “a bit daft” but it doesn’t even trouble my sense of disbelief. It’s a great tale too.
★★★★
A woman desperate to boost her social media score hits the jackpot when she's invited to a swanky wedding, but the trip doesn't go as planned.
When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.
That was something else. Obviously I’ve heard a lot about this film over years but not sure I’ve heard many praise the sound work, which is amazing.
★★★★