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Devil's Workshop (2022)
Wow!
I wanted to like this! Some of the dialogue between the two leads was good, thought it would go somewhere quite interesting but it just didn't lead to its potential. The beginning, after the first 10 minutes when the two meet starts pretty good.
Two big questions: 1) who is the girl on the poster & 2) why show the other guy and what he's doing?
I don't think I've ever rated anything a two before. I only gave that because I thought the main characters could actually act, just couldn't do much with the material.
Also, that ending! Wow. The last 5 minutes was contradicting itself (mom like & final scene) and I thought it wasn't over until I saw credits, what a waste. An Decent ending could have pulled it up a couple points but nope.
SurrealEstate (2021)
Well this just pisses me off...
I just found this show, I'm watching it on Crave although it's a SyFy production.
I have really enjoyed the show so far (1 season). I say "enjoyed" because I went looking for when season 2 was coming and found out it's just been canceled. Typical for SyFy to cancel great shows with Canadian actors. I mean that, Tim Rozon, who is the lead here and quite good as that lead, was also Massimo on another great Canadian show SyFy grabbed and canceled, Lost Girl.
I've heard they're shopping for another platform to pick up the show and as much as I would love it as I want to see where the concept can go,l (it's very interesting) I'm not holding my breath.
What a shame!
Bit (2019)
Solid Vamp Movie
I'm surprised by the poor reviews. I love the lead actress, Laurel "Nicole Maine", she was solid as was the other lead Duke (cannot remember her actual name).
My favourite part was the flashback of Duke with Vlad, that was great. They could have done a whole movie just stretching that out.
I gave it a 7. The ending wasn't the greatest but wasn't the worst either.
Solid lower budget (although not obvious) film for vampire movie lovers!!
La influencia (2019)
Music for those wondering
Arnau Bataller signs the music. I've seen a lot of reviews of people trying to find the music, I've found the composer (above)
Pig Hag (2019)
Not the usual movie and hard to rate
Don't believe the other raters who say this movie is boring, it isn't, at all. In fact I was surprised when the hour and twenty odd minutes had passed. I'm also glad it did wear out it's welcome, it could have dragged on and that would have been wasteful.
Now for the story. Yes, Jodie is a sad, angry, jealous, very lonely and sometimes vulgar (leaving a number 2 for your friends to see) middle aged woman. She has the emotional quotient of a pre-teen and doesn't seem to understand how her actions and harsh tones is off putting. When people try to get close to her, friend her, like the cousin "Ashley", who was just trying to bond with her woman to woman, she just leaves.
With Dusten (the love interest from the GNR concert), she lashes out, insults and even commands him to drive in the first 5 minutes of meeting. When he's trying to just be nice and hang out she again lashes out in what I expect is her first response to push them away as everyone does to her in the end. Not sure why he didn't run from the offset? Once we get to the "romantic" scene, she almost rapes him.
The next morning as she's had some sort of intimacy with him, which may be the deepest conversation she's had with the opposite (non gay sex), she becomes a stage 5 clinger...first spooning, then chasing to the washroom offering no boundaries between them and the offer to help regardless of the personal invasion. She then texts, calls, calls, calls, leaves message....then after working up the nerve, confront and attack. Clearly the desperation is oozing out of every pore and he cannot get away fast enough.
Upon returning she explains From her perspective what happened with Dusten. She exaggerates not only how much he came on to her but the very private story of his wife (burning down the house), albeit she was stoned when listening or waiting to talk as she doesn't have the EQ to have a compassionate conversation. Then as she goes on, she believes she just needs to get out there in a big way. This part made me sad for her. To have no self esteem, I really felt for her. It also made me sad this Is a reality and we wonder why people in today's society have issues finding real connections.
Some people say Jodie stayed static throughout the movie; however, I disagree. I think in end she realizes that she's enough. She sees what positives she has, the people around her and the thing she wants to do, her small dream. Overall, I found this movie hard to rate. I thought the acting was done very well throughout the film. It was raw, unfiltered and a movie that makes you think and I believe will stay with me. It will not be a movie for everyone. I think if you prefer high morality in your movies, skip this, it will not be for you. If you are interested in human emotions, reasons people are the way they are, raw humanity and the society we are now evolving into, this movie will be for you.
I Still See You (2018)
Potential but misses the mark
This movie had great potential as the premise (Rems) was original, at least from what I've seen. However, I guessed from the beginning that "run" wasn't a game he was playing but a warning, that's not new. How many creepy ghosts warn people in ways that scare the bejesus out of them?
Bella seems to have taken a page out of Kristen Stewart's "Bella" as she seemed to have the same face for each emotion. Not sure if that's the direction she was given?!
There were a lot of questions left unanswered. The daughter living out her last moments at home and not where they transpired? Yet we watched another girl act out her death where it happened, to an audience no less.
The man who creates the accident is found by them, confesses everything to two teenagers and makes it their burden. No one in 10 years found this dude and asked him the serious questions about how this works. He didn't kill himself immediately after offing 1/2 the population? Of course not, he has to be found by two children and tell them a decade later??
The dad reading a newspaper 8 years old when he died 10 years prior (as a warning). This means the Rems are there, stuck in a limbo of sorts...Then she's supposed to let him go? Hell no, he can communicate, that means his conscience is still there!!! That's every person who has had someone passes question...where is their conscience. Energy doesn't die, it changes If so the conscience is there, they are there.
I didn't hate it. I thought it could go in a new direction. Maybe try again?
Hangman (2017)
Where to begin...
I see how people keep trying to compare this to Se7en, the only thing these movies have in common is that they're about serial killers.
This movie is no fun. It leaps to conclusions from the "evidence" it finds...take a body frozen in a frozen locker while the pig carcasses are not yet frozen, obviously, this person was wet prior to being put in there and you should look for more bodies in bodies of water, clearly?
Every woman in the cast, I mean EVERY DAM WOMAN, who has a line is just kidnapping bait. Having ran into these two and having breasts means you will be sought out by this serial killer and they will have to then leap to a conclusion of where you are.
One other huge issue I had was these people, 2 officers and a journalist (who can't speak of what she sees) are walking through crime scenes without gloves and they allow her to take photos using an iPhone. It's so absurd, the cop actually takes hair from a mirror and puts it into the evidence bag without photographic evidence. I think that was the only thing he collected. They never even asked for forensics after seeing blood across a bedroom but did after they saw the victims s&m equipment, seriously wtf?
You never know what time it is, one minute you're at 11pm (killing time) next you're at a table and they're 10 minutes to the next killing. Bodies just keep piling up...
The serial killer, when you find out his motives, you do feel a little sorry for him and figure out one of those cops are a total Asshat! seriously what person would just cast a child in that situation away especially after the journalists tearful speech on how much police care. The word, the one you're trying to spell out is cleverly Latin so you can't quite put your finger on it, and the reason for this word is weak, completely weak for a serial killer who was said to be 25-35 and a genius. Yeah...
This makes me sad. I really like crime movies, murder mysteries and I was hoping to like this, sadly it sucked. I gave it two stars because it wasn't a horrible premise. That is all.
A Family Thanksgiving (2010)
Wrong Title?
Funny, I was looking for this movie but the W network/hallmark had renamed it, "it's a balancing act"!
It's a cute for TV movie as expected!!
Bonding (2018)
Great Dark Comedy for Mature Audiences
I love the show and the humour behind the premise. It's nice to see the laughter and authentic reactions to some of the "needs" of others. Nice to see that humanity instead of straight seriousness throughout the acts. People be crazy and that's ok!
My only complaint is the length of each episode and the season, 7 episodes? Really? Seems Netflix executives were not sold on the premise here. If you're going to make each episode 15 minutes, please give us 10-12 episodes a season!!