Born To Live and Travel

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...

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...