SilentLuminary Reviews

  Genre: Comedy/ Romance Time: 1h 32mins  Director:  Will Gluck Quick Summary:  When Olive lies to her best friend about losing her virginity to one of the college boys, a girl overhears their conversation. Soon, her story spreads across the entire school like wildfire. Whenever I watch a film with Emma Stone in it I am always delightfully reminded of how much of a glorious weirdo she is. Always charming and so much fun to watch, I adored her in this because of how funny she was. I do wonder if they actually gave her any lines and just let her do improv. She killed it in this and I can't actually imagine anyone else doing this role as well as she did.  As for the humour, it's so funny and not in your typical Rom-com teenage stoner humour, but actual witty clever lines of dialogue and funny moments, that for once I did not cringe at. There are moments like when Olive and her gay friend need to pretend they're having sex so they lock themselves in a room and star...

  Genre: Action/ Thriller Time: 1h 50mins Director:  Zack Snyder Quick Summary:  A young girl institutionalized by her abusive stepfather retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape. What the actual fuck. Who in their right mind thought this was cool let alone was okay to make a film It's gross and makes me uncomfortable. Sure lets have women, some of them looking a bit young and infantilised, barely dressed in some of the most obviously oversexualised halloween costumes, and make them be really cringey because it feels like they're just copying every single anime series ever. It's a mess. Supposedly it's the main character constantly going in and out of fantasies, but I was never sure when it began or when it changed. It flicks between multiple scenarios and this like brothel where they're even more scantly dressed. What makes this worse is the "Fantasies" are basically youtube edits with slowed down ve...

  Genre: Crime/ Action Time: 1h 32mins Director:  Nicolas Winding Refn Quick Summary:  A young man who was sentenced to seven years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending three decades in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter-ego, Charles Bronson. Absolutely golden film. How have I not watched this. British classic. Hidden gem. I am amazed. Brilliant How I had never heard of this film I have no idea, I only watched this through a recommendation. This is actually amazing. It's so fun and captivating to watch, and to my surprise the main actor is Tom Hardy? I would have never guessed as he acts so well and is so unrecognisable. From the antic we see throughout, this personality would be hard to pin down or even mimic, but he's done incredible considering.  Maybe it's due to my age but I had also never heard of Charles Bronson, as he was infamous back in the 90's mainly for his shenanigans, so this was bril...

  Genre: Horror/ Comedy Time: 1h 26mins Director:  Frank Henenlotter Quick Summary:  One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return. This feels like a PSA for drugs or something. I wasn't sure about this film to start with as it starts with a goofy, almost slapstick energy as an old couple goes absolutely nuts destroying their apartment looking for something; I was glad to have no idea what this was about, because as soon as I knew. I hated the thing. Admittedly I found it funny occasionally, but aside from that it really put me off the film. To make it worse the film gets more and more boring and sluggish the longer it goes on. As for the beginning, I enjoyed the start of this guys "addiction" to the fluid the creature produces as we are shown multiple essentially drug trips in visual format, though the firs...

  Genre: Family/ Musical  Time: 1h 28mins Directors:  Ben Sharpsteen, Hamilton Luske, Norm Ferguson, Wilfred Jackson, Bill Roberts, Jack Kinney, T. Hee Quick Summary:  A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy. I dare you to say something wrong with this film. This is so damn charming it warms my heart every single time I watch it. I remember watching this over and over again as a child just so I could see this fantastical journey all over again. Sure, there were moments that traumatised me, like the Donkey Transformation scene. But it did teach me not to be a little shit, or it would happen to me. Good old Disney. Jokes aside, this does actually teach a lot of morals, such as that it's not okay to lie because it will just get out of hand and so obvious, like your nose growing with each lie. How temptations can distract you, and how to make good choices. Something I do like as well is that it doesn'...

  Genre: Drama Time: 1h 30mins Director:  Thomas Carter Quick Summary:  Biography of Ben Carson who grew up to be Dr. Ben Carson, a world famous neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins. I forgot I was watching a film about a doctor for the first half. For real though, the first half of this film focuses on this guys childhood and man he was a dick. I never seen such an ungrateful, ignorant kid. It was genuinely hard to see how he grew up to be the kind doctor we saw in the beginning determined to do anything to save lives. Honestly though I loved we got to see this, as he goes from having nothing and having to metaphorically fight to get his way through life at the height of equal rights for black people in the 60's-70's, dumb with zero skills to this amazing knowledgeable person. Though, him as a kid feels a little unbelievable since it is so dramatic and we don't get much context unless it's fully related to him.  I know it doesn't sound that interesting, but it really is. ...

  Genre: Horror/ Mystery  Time: 1h 27mins Directors:  Thomas Guard, Charles Guard Quick Summary:  Anna returns home after a stint in a mental hospital, but her recovery is jeopardized by her father's new girlfriend and ghastly visions of her dead mother. This was fun, but underwhelming really. I found it really distracting how the main girl speaks in this sort of breathy way and trails off almost every sentence. It's not like she couldn't act; she honestly acted really well, just a strange way of speaking, like everything was incredibly dramatic. That said, I don't think anyone was an awful actor in this either considering the ending; just the characters sucked. Basically all of them had really strange motivations for why they did or were doing things, which never really got explained. As for the plot, it can't decide whether it wants to be a psychological thriller with a serial killer or a horror movie with an unidentified supernatural force being used to take re...