Teenage girls love horror films.
A date with the daughter, she brings a friend, give them a choice: A one man show playing at the Pumphouse (Star Wars, Charles Ross) or a movie. After the last "One Man Show" the daughter chooses movie...
Not surprising. My movie pick, in keeping with the Halloween and horror theme, is "Ouiji: Origin of Evil". Her friend is agreed, she wants to see this. They text their mothers, get permission to be up a bit late, we kill time at the mall...
Movie. OK. Not a masterpiece by a long shot. But for the girls, it was a screamfest, and as they are howling and hiding their eyes I can't restrain my mirth, the movie, it has a few moments, for sure, but for both of them (I thought one was experienced in the genre, she claimed to be, she wasn't...) it was the fuel of nightmares..."Don't Breathe" was the better movie, by far, but this has them terrified, and I suggest that for Halloween I pop by with my Ouiji board...
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I knew him from "The Weekly Wipe", turns out he's a bit of a polymath. His new series - less a series than a group of shorts dealing with the technical dystopia we're finding ourselves in, interesting, thoughtful, very well written, although a little more visceral than I'd care for (and, in true English sense, going that little bit further, pushing the envelope) - not precisely my cup of tea, but very good.
Links: Wiki on Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror Trailer
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Not bad, for a big-budget Hollywood take on something that could have been low budget genius, not bad... Strength of writing and script. And while the surprise ending is no surprise, the movie has it's moments, Emmet, baiting the conspiracy-addled host (how can you not? I've been there, I know), John Goodman's ever-patient demeanor, his lifetime of ridicule, his generosity abused, the passing of time with Cards-Against-Humanity, a sort of crazy Santa-Clause, it's not bad, good for Hollywood, no spoilers here, but I would rather have found something at CIFF. Mainstream US cinema, it's gone the same way as their politics, rarely will you find anything that worthwhile, look elsewhere and you might be pleasantly surprised...
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