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Svetlonoc (2022)
Chilling horror
An eerie, folk horror-adjacent drama drenched in the bleak, eternally grey atmosphere of the Slovakian wilderness, Nightsiren begins as a young woman, Sarlota (Natalia Germani) reluctantly returns to the tiny, remote village where she spent her early years. A brief prologue hints at Sarlota's tortured past, and a traumatic incident that caused her to run away, only to be beckoned home by a mysterious letter to inherit her late mother's assets. Sarlota's return is met with air of quiet (and unquiet) violence from the surrounding townsfolk, in part because many of the villagers suspect her mother of having been a witch, and harbor the same unjustified suspicions about her daughter. Answers are in short supply, such as to why Sarlota's mother's house was burned down, or the circumstances surrounding the mysterious death of her younger sister, who fell into a ravine when they were children. Only Mira (Eva Mores), a free-spirited and iconoclastic young woman, seems willing to help Sarlota's case, and the two quickly form an intense, almost spiritual bond.
Monolith (2022)
conspiracy theory Mind bending
Stories are at the centre of Monolith (written by Lucy Campbell). "I want to tell you a story," are the words that open the film, spoken by an unseen Jarad Symes (voiced by Damon Herriman) who then launches into a paranoid yarn full of improbable events and wild interpretative leaps, all centred upon family - and his introductory words will recur, spoken by the Interviewer herself at the beginning of a public apology video that she records near the start of the film, and spoken by her again at the film's end. Indeed the Interviewer collects other people's stories and edits them together for Beyond Believable, the "clickbait podcast made for bored lonely ball bags with IQ levels below a lobotomised monkey" on which she has now been reduced to working since her departure from the more prestigious Evening Journal.
Loop Track (2023)
Mind blowing
As the film opens with an atmospheric, chilling soundtrack and cinematography that suggests this could be 2023's answer to Coming Home in the Dark, we watch Sainsbury's Ian make a long drive, while studiously ignoring a succession of missed calls.
As he arrives at the car park of the Eyre Forest Loop Track, the size of his pack suggests he's there for more than just a day walk.
However, just 10 minutes in to a potential nine-hour hike to Kiwi Hut, he's already puffed and sporting a nasty looking blister on the back of his right heel. Even worse, his solitude is shattered by a loud couple more interested in selfies than silently contemplating the local flora and fauna.
Big Daddy (1999)
Great feel good movie
This movie is directed by Dennis Dugan (Problem Child) and stars Adam Sandler (Happy Gilmore), Joey Adams (Chasing Amy), Jon Stewart (The Daily Show), Joshua Mostel (Billy Madison), Leslie Mann (Knocked Up), Rob Schneider (Deuce Bigalow) and Allen Covert (Grandma's Boy).
This a great feel good movie. Adam delivers as usual. Great when watching with family over the holidays. It's one of those movies you feel good and have a different out look on life than things generally workout in the end. It reminds me of my college days and sports and I tend to wonder had we given one of the water boys a chance to play maybe they could have been great.
Tsotsi (2005)
Great movie
Great movie with intensive story line filled with famous actors from South Africa. Story line followers a young black man who ends up with the wrong crowd and falls into a life of crime. The story is centred around ethics and trying to survive poverty by turning to a life of crime. The main character struggles to balance his morals and ethics through out the plot of the movie. The movie shows you the inequalities that are in South Africa between the poor, middle class and rich. The story line gives you an eye opener into the life's of the poor class stricken with poverty. It also creates a sense of a moral dilemma for the viewer who might ending up wishing the bad guy does not get caught.