I had expected a nice SciFi movie about a person who involuntary gains superhuman powers and uses them to revenge herself with some nice action scenes. What I got was all that, wrapped in a movie-long theory / documentary about using more brain-power. Or rather, that part was kind of interwoven with the story of the film. And there even was some ( Read more... )

I have no idea if this film is available in English, too, since it’s based on a German book and has been brought to the big screen as a German production. Funny enough, since the story mainly takes place in London, all letters and books etc. the characters find are in English.
It’s actually the 2nd part of a trilogy and I don’t know if I would have ( Read more... )

First of all, I kind of liked this one better than the first Purge film, although you probably should watch that first. It’s not that the concept is very complicated or doesn’t get explained in the necessary essentials in this part, nor do their stories (as much as there are any) build on each other. However, the first film dealt with actually ( Read more... )

I’ve never been much of an ape fan (the animals itself), but I certainly always liked the idea of the Planet of the Apes films. This one continues a few years after the previous one, and it fits well into the development of this idea ( Read more... )

It’s been a while that I finished reading this book, but to be honest I had forgotten half the plot shortly after I’ve read it anyway. That doesn’t mean I didn’t like it or that I don’t like the author, Jane Lindskold, or her style. In this series the characters and the world are just far more interesting than the stories they tell. Seems odd, but ( Read more... )

Is there anyone who does not adore Toothless the Nightshadow? He is extremely cute, after all, and funny and brave and apparently you can still learn a thing or two about and from him. So yes, I admit the other dragons and the human characters or the stories of “How to train your Dragon” don’t interest me half as much as this wonderful creature, ( Read more... )

Hm, I don’t know. I used to like Optimus Prime and the Autobots a lot when I was a kid. I was literally devastated when Optimus died back then. The films themselves are a nice spectacle and I know I’m not kid any more, but nevertheless I find myself caring little if a Transformer lives or dies and many of them actually annoy me with their odd and ( Read more... )

At first I thought this would be a road-movie … then I realized the protagonist was a child and I was kind of worried it was a film for children. When I watched the trailer and read a bit more about it, I decided it was both and none at the same time and it could definitely be interesting ( Read more... )

And this was another comedy I hadn’t really intended to watch, but then it was shown as Sneak-Preview. I also have to admit that this one, too, turned out better than I had expected - although it was rather evil and had quite a lot of black humour ( Read more... )

Well, this film certainly was more hilarious in a good way and more real in a frightening way than I would have thought possible.

If not for the fact that there was no other better movie playing, we probably would not have watched it, but I don't regret it. I'm no big fan of pointless comedy, yet this story certainly did tell a proper story.
I'm ( Read more... )