Showing posts with label drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drama. Show all posts

06 August 2020

Shimmer Lake

 The Usual Suspects meets Memento except you don't see it coming and it has good comic relief.

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.


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.













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.

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.






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12 March 2013

Half Light

Demi going crazy in Maine.


Or

Be paranoid because they are always after your money.

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?

Drive

The smallest act of kindness never goes unpunished.

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.