The Usual Suspects meets Memento except you don't see it coming and it has good comic relief.
Drinking coffee and watching movies. My goal is 12 words or less. Sometimes it takes more.
Showing posts with label drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drama. Show all posts
06 August 2020
Shimmer Lake
Labels:
cops,
dead spouse,
drama,
dramedy,
good and evil,
justice,
moral ambiguity,
movie reviews
24 March 2014
sleep no more
Adult haunted house as a teaser for a fabulous restaurant.
Sleep No More is an interactive play going on in NYC. They've converted a few warehouses into a giant 6 story set with a flapper era/speakeasy theme, two bars and a restaurant. The set decoration and costumes are fabulous, the music is disturbing and haunting, and it is loosely based on Macbeth.
I was caught up in exploring the sets. I should have followed the actors for I missed the ending of the show. The sets were amazingly well-appointed and each room was creepier than the next. There was a "safe" room, the Speakeasy itself, where one could sit and listen to a fantastic band and singer while drinking cocktails and taking off the mask they made you wear in the stage area.
After the play, the hostess managed to squeeze me into a table at the restaurant. The food is amazing and worth it. I suggest reservations be made as they are packed when the play ends.
Sleep No More is an interactive play going on in NYC. They've converted a few warehouses into a giant 6 story set with a flapper era/speakeasy theme, two bars and a restaurant. The set decoration and costumes are fabulous, the music is disturbing and haunting, and it is loosely based on Macbeth.
I was caught up in exploring the sets. I should have followed the actors for I missed the ending of the show. The sets were amazingly well-appointed and each room was creepier than the next. There was a "safe" room, the Speakeasy itself, where one could sit and listen to a fantastic band and singer while drinking cocktails and taking off the mask they made you wear in the stage area.
After the play, the hostess managed to squeeze me into a table at the restaurant. The food is amazing and worth it. I suggest reservations be made as they are packed when the play ends.
Labels:
based on a book/story,
costume porn,
creepy,
drama,
horror,
period pieces,
plays,
scenery porn
08 February 2014
Breaking Bad - the entire series
Moral grey zone. Explore how your exposure changes your way of thinking about things. Adapt or die.
Labels:
drama,
drugs,
fall from grace,
gritty,
movie reviews,
SCIENCE,
series review,
social commentary,
violence
18 August 2013
Byzantium
Secret vampire society, no girls allowed.
Retelling, can walk in daylight, no sparkles, everyone out to get them, etc.
Lovely costumes during the back story bits, bleak scenery of winter in the English seaside, love, loss, greed, redemption. I thought the ending a little too pat, as though they had an alternate but those crazy Americans in the test audience wanted a happy finish. Saoirse Ronin was amazing as usual. And I could watch Gemma Arterton in anything.
Retelling, can walk in daylight, no sparkles, everyone out to get them, etc.
Lovely costumes during the back story bits, bleak scenery of winter in the English seaside, love, loss, greed, redemption. I thought the ending a little too pat, as though they had an alternate but those crazy Americans in the test audience wanted a happy finish. Saoirse Ronin was amazing as usual. And I could watch Gemma Arterton in anything.
Labels:
costume porn,
drama,
horror,
movie reviews,
redemption,
sex,
social commentary,
vampires,
violence
21 March 2013
Hodejegerne (Headhunters)
Little movie from Norway about motivations and miscommunications...
It's convoluted and fun and you won't mind the subtitles.
.....
Labels:
cops,
drama,
fall from grace,
gritty,
movie reviews,
quirky,
redemption,
social commentary,
violence
12 March 2013
Half Light
Demi going crazy in Maine.
Or
Be paranoid because they are always after your money.
Or
Be paranoid because they are always after your money.
Labels:
drama,
horror,
made for TV,
movie reviews,
suspense
26 July 2012
Cafe
JLH vehicle. The usual lack of chemistry. Disjointed at best.
19 July 2012
Another Earth
What if you could have a do over?
Labels:
drama,
fall from grace,
film,
movie reviews,
movies,
redemption,
social commentary
12 July 2012
Limitless
Wish I had some...
or
Dangers of addiction.
or
What if there was a drug that let you use the other 90% of your potential?
or
Dangers of addiction.
or
What if there was a drug that let you use the other 90% of your potential?
Drive
The smallest act of kindness never goes unpunished.
Labels:
action,
drama,
film,
movie reviews,
movies,
redemption,
seedy underworld,
social commentary,
vehicles,
violence
Chronicle
Shifting character tropes in a surprisingly good genre film...
or
Superman, Spiderman, and Batman meet in a field...
or
Professor Xavier didn't find these guys in time to give them purpose.
or
Superman, Spiderman, and Batman meet in a field...
or
Professor Xavier didn't find these guys in time to give them purpose.
Labels:
action,
drama,
film,
movie reviews,
movies,
social commentary,
superheroes,
violence
09 July 2012
20 February 2012
Hanna
If Kick-Ass had been reality based.
Labels:
action,
drama,
film,
gritty,
movie reviews,
movies,
stuff my husband makes me watch,
suspense,
violence
Drive
How the transporter was born
Labels:
drama,
film,
gritty,
movie reviews,
movies,
stuff my husband makes me watch,
suspense,
violence
22 August 2011
The Book of Eli
The Book of Eli
The Road meets Denzel
Labels:
action,
drama,
film,
movie reviews,
movies,
post-apocolypse,
social commentary
Inception
Inception
Thirteenth Floor + Existenz meets the Prestige
Labels:
action,
drama,
film,
movie reviews,
movies,
social commentary,
spy stuff
Moon
Moon
When corporations go bad.
Labels:
drama,
film,
movie reviews,
movies,
social commentary
28 May 2011
The Walking Dead
Labels:
action,
drama,
horror,
made for TV,
movie reviews,
zombies
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