In new mystery/thriller Run, Sarah Paulson is a mother whose home-schooled daughter has started to suspect that she’s harbouring a dark secret.
Written/directed by Aneesh Chaganty; additional key cast includes Kiera Allen, Pat Healy and Erik Athavale.
This looks like one of those ‘mother loses baby, so mother steals another mother’s baby’ stories. Whatever it is, I’m in to see Paulson flex her strong acting muscles.
Bradley Sawatzky, Onalee Ames, Clark Webster, Conan Hodgkinson and Carter Heintz also star.
Directed by Jill Culton and Todd Wilderman, Abominable is a new animated adventure starring Chloe Bennet, Sarah Paulson and Albert Tsai.
After teenager Yi encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, she and her mischievous friends embark on an epic quest to get him to his natural home. Not an easy task when a wealthy man and a zoologist want the exact opposite.
I’m getting King Kong and ever so slightly, The Never Ending Story (1984)vibes from this trailer. What I like most about this, besides the idea of a yeti with magical capabilities, is the violin music that starts at 0:20.
Fingers crossed there’ll be plenty more to love upon release.
Knowing my history with Netflix movies and how I’ve found the vast majority to be quite disappointing, I wasn’t sure how I’d feel after Bird Box. To my surprise, I actually enjoyed director Susan Bier’s post apocalyptic sci-fi thriller more than I expected to.
Intrigued by the story of how a woman and two children were going to escape the mysterious force that compels all who see it to kill themselves right away, I couldn’t wait to see how the characters would survive. Especially since they have to be blindfolded when outside.
As soon as the opening scene in Bird Box started to play, I had a good feeling because of how the scene immediately held my undivided attention. Even though en route to the final scenes of Bird Box, there were some very engaging, ‘edge of your seat,’ suspenseful moments, my favourite part of Bird Box is without a doubt the last thirty minutes. For it is the scenes when the key characters are truly most vulnerable, and endless near-disasters are happening one after the other.
Similar to 2017’s A Quiet Place, Bird Box will likely have you thinking about parenthood and the gargantuan undertaking that it truly is. I enjoyed leading actor Sandra Bullock’s performance, plus the moments in the story that moved, thrilled and surprised me.
As for the parts of Bird Box I wish weren’t quite so, those would include approximately thirty minutes into the film when, instead of being fully engaged, I found myself distracted by the fact that I hadn’t seen the ‘monster’ yet and I really wanted to. Secondly, I think there were too many characters ‘in the house;’ one or two of whom proved quite annoying. There were also others that seemed like props who were just there to play their relatively small parts just to move the story along and sometimes provide a fast thrilling moment.
Thirdly, I understand the reason for the ‘flashback and back to present day’ editing choice. However, it hurt the flow of the story and subsequently had me wondering how different it could all have been if everything had played out in regular order.
Overall, I say give Bird Box a chance because it has some great moments, and for me personally, it’s an improvement on the last few Netflix movies I saw, and some I tried to watch but had to abandon.
In new sci-fi/thriller Bird Box, after a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, only one thing is certain: if you see it, you take your own life. And so begins the journey of a woman and two children who make their way through a dystopian setting along a river while blindfolded.
Directed by Susanne Bier; key cast includes Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Rosa Salazar and Trevante Rhodes.
Let’s start with ‘Hello, great trailer!
Right away, I like that this reminds me a little of A Quiet Place (2017). May it please be equally thrilling, if not more so.
I also rather like the combination of Bullock and Paulson in one movie.
Lil Rel howery, Jacki Weaver, Machine Gun Kelly, Parminder Nagra, John Malkovich and David Dastmalchian also star.
Directed by Steven Spielberg and inspired by true events, The Post tells the story of the cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents, and pushed the country’s first female newspaper publisher (Meryl Streep) and a hard-driving editor (Tom Hanks) to begin a journalistic battle against the government.
I didn’t realise I missed Streep so much until I saw her turn around in this trailer. I’m of course going to be watching because of her and Hanks. There’s also my curiosity about all the sexist nonsense that will be directed at her character, Kay Graham.
Sarah Paulson, Carrie Coon, Bradley Whitford, Bob Odenkirk, Matthew Rhys, Zach Woods and David Cross also star.
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