Time for a film

Gone is a movie I was not expecting much from when I sat down on a Saturday Afternoon to watch it, but it delivered with a suspenseful story that had me guessing the whole time what was going to happen. Starring Amanda Seyfried (best known from Mean Girls) as Jill, who is convinced a serial killer who kidnapped her two years ago has returned, as her sister goes missing out of the blue.
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We start off getting to know Jill and her sister Molly and it really sets up the story well. I felt the characters were easy to relate to and seemed very real. Once Jill gets home from her night shift at a diner and sees her sister isn’t home she panics, and becomes quickly convinced that the killer is back and has taken her sister. Read more

Warrior is probably the most underrated film of 2011, a film that captures emotions perfectly in it’s 140 minute run time. It not only moves you with captivating performances from the cast, but keeps you entertained with a mixed martial arts tournament and the lives of two brothers competing in it.
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Starring Tom Hardy as Tommy Conlon, the youngest son of a former alcoholic boxer Paddy Conlon (Nick Nolte), we first see him returning home to his Dad after years apart. Their relationship is a strained one and the opening scene where they meet for the first time in 14 years is filled with emotion, emotion that seems so real from both Hardy and Nolte. Their performances throughout are amazing, especially Nolte who was rightly awarded with a nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Read more

Drive is a slick, cool, retro movie starring Ryan Gosling as an unnamed stunt driver, who also doubles as a getaway driver at night. It is not an action movie in the typical sense, and it isn’t filled with dialogue but instead grips you with it’s progressive build up, visual greatness and an epic soundtrack. Some people will tell you it’s one of the best movies ever, others will tell you it was ‘stupid’. There isn’t that many in between.
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The opening scene is loved universally, whether they liked the movie or not. In an amazingly good looking Scorpion Jacket, we see the Driver talking on the phone. “There’s a hundred thousand streets in this city. If I drive for you, you give me a time and a place, I give you a five minute window. Anything happens in that five minutes, then I’m yours, no matter what. Anything happens a minute either side of that, and you’re on your own. Do you understand? Good. And you won’t be able to reach me on this phone again.” Cue build up music and the first scene begins.  Read more

My first movie review for the site takes a look at Chronicle, a movie about three high school mates who discover super human powers after a mysterious happening in the woods. They find their lives quickly changing as they come to terms with there new strengths and the side effects that come with them. It poses the question of what would happen to your life if you obtained super human strength?
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Directed by Josh Trank, the movie is usually shown from the vantage point of the camera of Andrew (Dan Dehaan) which he carries around for basically the entire film. Andrew is an outcast, bullied at school and not very social. Logically it makes sense that he starts to turn a little dark once he is aware of his new found strength.  Read more