A personal shopper in Paris refuses to leave the city until she makes contact with her twin brother who previously died there. Her life becomes more complicated when a mysterious person contacts her via text message. (IMDB)
Rating: R
Runtime: 1 hour 45 minutes
Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller
Released: March 10, 2017
Directed by: Olivier Assayas
Written by: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz
This was a very interesting film. The story takes you in multiple directions, leaving you wondering what genre of film you are really watching. Even the ending is left to interpretation, which makes the experience of watching Personal Shopper one that you must immediately repeat, in the hopes that you will catch something that you did not notice the first time you viewed it. Overall it has a perfect combination of horror and psychological thriller, and a score to match it. Multiple scenes in the movie leave you with this feeling of something not quite right, that something ominous is about to happen, and then it just keeps going. I have been a fan of Kristen Stewart for quite a while now and her performance in Personal Shopper is probably one of her best yet.
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10
Rating: ★★★★★★★☆☆☆ 7/10
United by dire circumstances, four unlikely allies from a Philadelphia prep school - the hacker, the slacker, the athlete, and the perfect student - band together to attempt the impossible: steal from the U.S. Mint. (IMDB)
Rating: TV-14
Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
Genre(s): Crime, Drama, Romance
Released: January 6, 2017
Directed by: Emily Hagins
Written by: Emily Hagins (screenwriter), Elisa Ludwig (based on a novel by)
Starring: Alex Saxon, Alexis G. Zall, Sasha Pieterse, Jay Walker
This film is a mess. At first, I found myself annoyed by what I perceived to be poor acting, but that turned out to just be horrible writing, directing, and editing. Do not be fooled, though; the acting is not great. However, there is only so much a cast of mediocre actors and actresses can do if the source material is absolute garbage. This movie featured some of the worst editing in a film that I have ever seen. There are several instances where they zoom out while someone is talking, and it is obvious that what you are hearing is not what they are saying (or at least it is not synced up at all). Something that I found to be particularly annoying is the lack of any logic in this story. Are we really supposed to believe that no one recognized the teenagers that were there previously on a field trip? How did they know how to work everything? Now let us take a moment to discuss the score. Just like pretty much everything else in this film, it was horrible. Incredibly cheesy instrumentals combined with the stereotypical pairing of the characters left it feeling like an extremely lousy Breakfast Club wannabe. I struggled to make it all the way through this movie. Why on earth did Netflix greenlight this?
Rating: ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 2/10
Rating: ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 2/10
As Myra Jackson and her friends set out to find the First Continuum, Captain Aero Wright and two companions from the outer space Second Continuum find themselves banished for treason and stranded on Earth. Wright has vowed to complete his late father’s mission to recolonize their ancestral planet, but his true mission is to find the mysterious girl who haunts his dreams. Meanwhile, Myra and the young refugees of the underwater Thirteenth Continuum must make an unlikely ally if they are going to survive the hostile surface world and reach their destination, the nexus of humanity’s hope for survival. As their paths begin to converge, the Beacons that guide and connect Myra and Aero begin to prove their power, and a shadowy force with a centuries-old grudge reveals itself. (Goodreads)
Thanks to all the world-building being taken care of in the first book, Return of the Continuums was a much easier and more entertaining read. However, the story still has many flaws and falls victim to tropes that have been overdone in the young adult genre. My annoyance with the main female character (Myra) has not changed. She often comes off as arrogant and helpless and I do not understand how she could be considered leader material. Many of the problems her group faces are due to her own stupidity. It makes sense that since she is a teenager and she grew up living underwater in a submarine that she would not be equipped with all of the knowledge she needs in her situation, but the author keeps pushing her as intelligent and adaptive. She is neither of those things. If only Myra was not so annoying, this book would have been much more enjoyable. However, I did really enjoy the new characters, lore, and the environment of the seventh continuum. The writing for the events that take place there is the best in the series so far and I hope that the amount of action we see there, reoccurs in the future in other areas.
Regardless of its failings, I believe it will be intriguing to find out what is going to happen in the first continuum in the conclusion of the trilogy and how everything is going to end.
Rating: ★★★☆☆3.5/5
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