Based on Emma Donoghue’s inspiring novel, “Room” makes for a great drama. Brie Larson plays Joy, a young mother incarcerated in a small space with her young son, who has grown up with no concept of the outside world.
Ryan Reynolds plays an American truckdriver in Iraq, who is buried in a wooden box underground, with a cellphone and a lighter next to him. While calling he is trying to lead the army to his location. The entire movie is inside that wooden box and this alone makes “Buried” for an exciting and claustrophobic thriller. The film has a lot of tension until the end.
Being left for dead on Mars, Matt Damon plays a stranded Nasa scientist. Well, he doesn’t just sit around waiting for help. He uses his skills to survive, grow food and find a way to go home. One of Matt Damon’s best.
An Eli Roth directed horror flick, about a group of friends in a cabin and a flesh-eating virus among them. It’s a gory spectacle about teens making dumb, cruel and selfish decisions and a lesson in how not do deal with such a thing. Not a masterpiece, but definitely a solid horror film about isolation.
Astronaut Sam Bell, played by Sam Rockwell sees, after being solo in the lunar helium mining, a reunion with his home and family approaching. Finally. Despite halluciantions, it looks like he will get there without any problems. But then he gets into an accident and wakes up in sickbay. His on-board computer GERTY calms him down, but Sam knows something is wrong. It’s an ingenious screenplay and well directed by Duncan Jones, who made this his debut. It makes for a disturbing and disorienting viewing experience and Sam Rockwell is fantastic.
