ph: Nino Muñoz
Saturday, July 14, 2018
Annihilation (2018)
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Visually brilliant sci-fi mystery with a bleak atmosphere and a complex ending, but a bit short on character development.
Friday, July 13, 2018
Insidious (2010)
A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.
Run-of-the-mill occult thriller may have some good production and a better cast, but is still as predictable and occasionally as most of the other ones.
Maltin**1/2: "Old-fashioned haunted-house thriller aimed at adults boasts effective scares and a dark, mysterious mood, but it plays as a belated knockoff of POLETRGEIST. Decent B melodrama..."
The Discovery (2017)
Two years after the afterlife is scientifically proven, a man attempts to help a young woman break away from her dark past.
An intriguing premise is muddled by a half-hearted treatment and a disappointing ending, and the central romance between Mara and Segel is simply mismatched.
First Lines: John le Carré - A Perfect Spy
In the small hours of a blustery October morning in a south Devon coastal town that seemed to have been deserted by its inhabitants, Magnus Pym got out of his elderly country taxi-cab and, having paid the driver and waited till he had left, struck out across the church square.
