Always Shine stars Mackenzie Davis, Lawrence Michael Levine and Caitlin FitzGerald. Directed by Sophia Takal, it’s a thriller with competition and jealousy between best friends at its heart.
Interesting subject matter, jealousy. It’s part of the human condition but as is the case with most things, it’s really what you do with it that matters most.
Based on this trailer, it looks like at least one of the characters lets the emotion take over, and so comes the darkness.
Logan is the new Wolverine movie coming in March 2017. The trailer is mighty and stars Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Boyd Holbrook and Sienna Novikov.
Directed by James Mangold, Logan is set in a time where the X-Men are no more (2024) and Logan (Wolverine) plus Professor Charles Xavier must find another way to save the world.
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This Logan trailer is like no other superhero movie trailer I’ve ever seen and I love it! It represents difference that I hadn’t been fully aware of needing. It’s also a beautifully paced and scored emotional journey.
Some of my thoughts as everything unfolded include, ‘Wow! This is dark, kind of depressingly so’. Then I was moved by how well constructed the trailer is, and I found myself even more taken-over with the joy of seeing Logan find reason to continue when he thought none existed. Poetry, I tell you!
Now I just really want to see Wolverine and the X-Men do their thing. I imagine you do too.
Richard E. Grant, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Stephen Merchant and Eriq La Salle also star.
Pet is the new psychological thriller where a man obsessed with his former love, holds her captive in a cage. Unfortunately for him, things don’t quite go according to plan.
Directed by Carles Torrens, Pet stars Dominic Monaghan, Ksenia Solo and Jennette McCurdy.
I haven’t watched Dominic Monaghan in a movie since his Lost days. Something about the look in his eyes in this trailer suggests that Pet may be a movie worth checking out. I’m just glad it’s not an all out horror, and far too scary for my… sensitivities.
Until The Siege Of Jadotville, I’d only seen Jamie Dornan in one movie; the hugely successful but not particularly well-regarded Fifty Shades Of Grey (2015). Since the latter film, I’ve been looking forward to finding out what else Dornan could do in front of the camera.
Directed by Richie Smyth and set in early 1960s Congo, The Siege Of Jadotville is based on the true story of Irish UN Commander Pat Quinlan and his leadership of 150 Irish soldiers against 3000 French and Belgian Mercenaries.
My enjoyment of this movie isn’t because I was blinded by the beautiful Irish accents, for, the entire cast delivered good performances and there’s a beautifully tense scene at a bar quite early on. There’s also the cinematography and how well Smyth and his team rose to the challenge of capturing military combat.
By the end of the movie, I was left inspired to fight my corner when necessary, happy to have found my favourite Jamie Dornan movie to date, and reminded to be careful of underestimating my opponents, even when the odds appear to be in my favour.
Watch The Siege Of Jadotville, which also stars Jason O’Mara, Mark Strong, Danny Sapani and Sam Keeley – to name just a few, because there is certainly more to enjoy than just the lovely Irish accents.
