Posts Tagged ‘Brenton Thwaites’
Film Review – Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
14 years ago Disney released what I will definitively name the best movie in an incredibly specific and narrow genre. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is the best movie based on an amusement park ride. There were many factors in…
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Film Review – Gods of Egypt
I’m a firm believer that to know what a good movie is, one has to see bad ones. How can you discern the difference if you haven’t seen both in ample amounts? In the case of Gods of Egypt (2016), here’s an opportunity to see…
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Film Review – The Giver
Part of buying into a Science Fiction book or movie is the ability to accept the world building as reasonable. Some things – no matter how well written or shown – just make no sense to me. (What do you mean they divide society up…
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SIFF Interview – William Eubank – The Signal
Spencer interviews writer/director William Eubank from the sci-fi thriller The Signal at SIFF 2014.
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SIFF Film Review – The Signal
In The Signal, directed by William Eubank and shown at the Seattle International Film Festival, MIT students Nic (Brenton Thwaites) and Jonah (Beau Knapp) are escorting Nic’s girlfriend Haley (Olivia Cooke) to California, where she will be attending school for a year. They are also…
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Film Review – Oculus
Just to be perfectly clear, the trailer for the new horror film Oculus sucks. Big time. I recently saw the preview in a movie theater and was disappointed by how crappy it made the movie seem. The film has a lot going for it, but…
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