Posts tonen met het label The Final Girls. Alle posts tonen
Posts tonen met het label The Final Girls. Alle posts tonen

vrijdag 10 september 2021

Netflix Friday - Volume 71

Some Netflix film tips for the weekend! And there is something for everyone, since I picked a movie for all the different genres.
 
Action: The Guns of Navarone (1961)
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2000 trapped British soldiers.
 
Drama: The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors, not knowing that the allied forces are planning to destroy it.
 
Comedy: Last Action Hero (1993)
With the help of a magic ticket, a young movie fan (Austin O’Brien) is transported into the fictional world of his favorite action movie character (Arnold Schwarzenegger).
 
Animation: Storks (2016)
Storks have moved on from delivering babies to packaged. But when an order for a baby appears, the best delivery stork must scramble to fix the error by delivering the baby.
 
Romance: Cold Mountain (2003)
In the warning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier (Jude Law) embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart (Nicole Kidman)
 
Horror: The Final Girls (2015)
A young woman (Taissa Farmiga) grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom’s most famous movie. Reunited the women must fight off the film’s maniacal killer.
 
Science Fiction: Spider-Man (2002)
When bitten by a genetically modified spider, a nerdy, shy, and awkward high school student (Tobey Maguire) gains spider-like abilities that he eventually must use to fight evil as a superhero after tragedy befalls his family.
 
Crime: Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
A rookie Yorkshire journalist (Andrew Garfield) sets out to solve the case of a child murderer)
 
Thriller: A Cure for Wellness (2016)
An ambitious young executive (Dane DeHaan) is sent to retrieve his company’s CEO from an idyllic but mysterious ‘wellness center’ at a remote location in the Swiss Alps, but soon suspects that the spa’s treatments are not what they seem.
 
Documentary: Untold: Malice at the Palace (2021)
A brawl broke out near the end of a game between the Indiana Pacers and the Detroit Pistons on November 19, 2004. Nearly 17 years later, we re-examine that night and all the consequences that came from it.
 
Family: Annie (1982)
A spunky young orphan (Aileen Quinn) is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.

zaterdag 3 november 2018

10s Movie Review - The Final Girls

Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Genre: Comedy/ Horror/ Thriller
Runtime: 88 minutes
Year: 2015
Starring: Taisa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Alexander Ludwig, Nina Dobrev, Adam Devine, Alia Shawkat

Description: A young woman (Taisa Farmiga) grieving the loss of her mother (Malin Akerman), a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.

Review: “The Final Girls” is a horror comedy that mocks slasher films, but not in the ridiculous way “Scary Movie” did. And it’s not as predictable as most slashers. The story movie within the movie isn’t original, but the story of this film is. And it’s very entertaining.
The term ‘final girl’ stands fort he girl that makes it to the end of a horror movie and manages to kill the person hunting her. Max is a teenage girl still mourning the dead of her mother Amanda, who was a 1980s actress who got her fame due to a bad slasher flick. Max and her friends go to a showing of Amanda’s most known film “Camp Blood”. When a fire breaks out in the theater, they are somehow sucked into the movie, having to live it themselves.
The killer, Billy, is a bad copy of Jason Voorhees. The premise is a bit like “Last Action Hero” and “Groundhog Day”. And it all somehow works, because it’s a super fun watch. With excellent leads Taisa Farmiga (Vera Farmiga’s younger sister) and Malin Akerman, it does even a bit better in the acting department then a lot of slasher films.
I really enjoyed this slasher, it’s really funny and it mocks the genre in a very original way. Without ever becoming over-the-top.

Rating: 3,5/ 5

zondag 30 augustus 2015

Movie Trailer Sunday (202)

Here are this weeks trailers.

Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Description: Three scouts, on the eve of their last camp-out, discover the true meaning of friendship when they attempt to save their town from a zombie outbreak.
Director: Christopher Landon
Starring: Halston Sage, Tye Sheridan, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Cloris Leachman, David Koechner, Sara Malakul Lane, Blake Anderson, Logan Miller
Comment: Never doubt a scout!

Spotlight
Description: The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core.
Director: Tom McCarthy
Starring: Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber, Stanley Tucci, John Slattery, Billy Crudup, Paul Guilfoyle
Comment: What a great cast!

Room
Description: A modern-day story about the boundless love between mother and child; young Jack knows nothing of the world except for the single room in which he was born and raised.
Director: Lenny Abrahamson
Starring: Brie Larson, Joan Allen, William H. Macy
Trailer: Trailer "Room"
Comment: Love knows no boundaries

The Final Girls
Description: A young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s, finds herself pulled into the world of her mom's most famous movie. Reunited, the women must fight off the film's maniacal killer.
Director: Todd Strauss-Schulson
Starring: Taissa Farmiga, Nina Dobrev, Alia Shawkat, Malin Akerman, Adam Devine, Thomas Middleditch, Alexander Ludwig
Comment: A feel good horror movie

Kill Your Friends
Description: An A&R man (Nicholas Hoult) working at the height of the Britpop music craze goes to extremes in order to find his next hit.
Director: Owen Harris
Starring: Nicholas Hoult, James Corden, Ed Skrein, Rosanna Arquette
Comment: A more controversial role for Nicholas Hoult.