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A Review of "The Darkness"

The Darkness is a 2016 film written and directed by Greg McLean. The film centers around a separated family with a bulimic teenager daughter, an autistic son, a recovering alcoholic mother, and a conflicting father. The film begins with the family on a camping trip in the Grand Canyon. While on the trip Micheal, the son, wonders away and finds a cave where five stones were strategically placed in a semicircle. On each of these stones had a different symbol craved into it. It is later realized that the symbols stand for the wolf, crow, snake, bull, and coyote. Micheal decides to take the stones home with him. The following morning Bronny, the mother, and Peter, the father, begin notice strange smells around the house and Micheal has made a new friend called Jenny that only he can see. While, Peter and Micheal's sister, Stephanie, go off to work and school, Micheal and Bronny stay home as even stranger things begin to happen. Fires start, black hand prints appear, and doors open by t...
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A Review of "Get Out"

Get Out is a psychological thriller written and directed by Jordan Peele. In this film a young African-American man, Chris visits his Caucasian girlfriend, Rose's, mysterious family estate. Which is scary all on it's own. But while at first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, he then begins to make a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries that might make him think he's losing his mind. Chris will soon discover that this is no average, slightly racist family at all. As dramatic as that synopsis was, that is pretty much how the movie goes. This time I went to the movie that night it came out and I was pleasantly surprised that the theater wasn't packed. However, it should've been. While the trailer presents itself to be conquering racial divides it's really more about Chris trying to figure what's going down at that house. I've seen a lot of Dan...
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A Review of "Sweet Home"

Sweet Home is a 2015 film written and directed by Rafa Martinez and originally produced in Spain. The movie begins with a real estate agent, Alicia, inspecting a dying building with a stubborn old man as it's only living resident. The building seems too far beyond its years to continue standing but Alicia clears the inspection. The old man then tells her about the frequent attacks he experiences from his land lord who wants him to leave. Alicia disregards the old man and brings her boyfriend, Simon, to the building for a romantic evening on his birthday. When three men arrive to "convince" the old man into leaving, the couple becomes trapped. However, it appears they will escape unscathed until the killers call for back up. The film for the most part was pretty fast paced. The story answered most questions, but there were most definitely questions leftover. Such as, how does one get Alicia from Aly?  I rated film 68. I liked it, really just to laugh at it. My favorite s...
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A Review of "Tiger House"

Tiger House is a 2015 thriller written by Simon Lewis and directed by Tom Daley. The film begins with a teenage couple, Mark and Kelly, hanging out in the woods with a crossbow. At this time Kelly talks about her promising gymnastic career and her upcoming competition in Rio. Immediately following Mark shoots her in the leg. Months later, Kelly sneaks into Mark's room and begin making out but Mark's mom, Lynn, knocks on the door. Lynn does not hide her disaffection for her son's girlfriend and how little she thinks of Kelly as a person. Mark shoos his mother and the night falls. By 4 am the house has been intruded. After his mother has been tied up and his father taken captive, Mark hears the commotion and goes to investigate. He is able to stab one of the intruders with a piece of glass but then he is knocked out and tied up. The wounded man is carried upstairs to Mark's room, where Kelly is hiding under the bed yet to be discovered. Kelly must figure how to either esc...
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A Review of "Road Games"

Road Games is a British-French film written and directed by Abner Pastoll originally released in 2015. The movie begins with a short scene of the dismembering a corpse in the woods. The killer's face isn't seen but it is apparent that they are male. Then a man, Jack, is seen walking alongside the road, hitchhiking. Jack has no luck securing a ride back to London. After helping a woman, who was also hitchhiking, escape her abusive driver, he learns why.  The woman, Veronique, tells him about the killer that has been prowling this highway. The duo decide it's best stick together. That night Veroniques shows Jack some of her many practiced signatures, which look all the same. This details proves to be important. After another day of walking they are picked up by a rather strange man. Veronique is hesitant to ride with him and even more hesitant to accept his offer of dinner and a warm bed. The man reveals himself to be called Grizard when he and Jack get out of the car to see ...
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A Review of "Don't Breathe"

Don't Breathe is a film written by Rodo Sayagues and directed by Fede Alvarez originally released in Italy. The film begins with three teenagers, Alex, Rocky, and Money, robbing a house seemingly perfectly, then going out of their way to trip the alarm. The three go in and gather anything they like as long as it's not cash. That only benefits Raul, their handler, who gets them their jobs and their money, which is hardly enough to scrape the bottom of the barrel. After Money threatens to quit, Raul suggests that they hit a house with some actual dough. 300, 000 dollars worth. The house is of an old man who acquired the cash as settlement after his young daughter was killed by a speeding car. The trio go to scoop out the place and find that the old man is blind. Even so, they are not deterred from their mission. The following night they infiltrate the house. Little did they know that this old blind man was a retired war veteran who's other senses that have increased dramatica...
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18 'til 18 - Phone Free

I got up 7:30 to do everything that I might want, need, or believe that I have to do before I turned my phone off at 8 o'clock. Because I wouldn't be allowed to turned it back before 8 o'clock that night. 12 hours without a phone. I honestly didn't know what was gonna happen. I going to get dressed and get ready to leave but I couldn't play my music, which I normally do. So, I went back to sleep for the first two hours and got back up around 10:15. What? It's summer break. Then I did my regular thing of watching Netflix while eating breakfast. I messed with my mom a bit. Did so reading. Then around 2 pm, I remembered the burden it was to not use my as I once again could not play my music. There was six hours left. We drove up to Phoenix - 2 hours - listening to my mom's music. Eck! The following three hours was spent in Ikea. I was too mesmerized by the beauty that was Ikea Home Decor, to even notice that I didn't have my phone. Did you know this was th...
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