ENTERTAINMENT NEWS, REVIEWS
Don’t you just feel sad when your anticipated movie turned out to be bad? We now discuss the disappointments in cinema this year: TOMORROWLAND (Brad Bird). Knowing that Brad Bird directed Pixar’s The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol, fans who knew the director’s filmography are excited with his new movie. But it …
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DARK PLACES (2015) Review “The truly frightening flaw in humanity is our capacity for cruelty – we all have it.” With Gillian Flynn and her ‘Gone Girl’ attached in all of its promotions, one would think Dark Places will have the same mysteries and edge-of-your-seat surprises. But the mysteries and surprises here felt out of …
When French director Gilles Paquet-Brenner decided to follow his modest Holocaust drama Sarah’s Key with an adaptation of a nourish American novel he liked, no one took much notice. And then Gillian Flynn followed Dark Places with Gone Girl, which became a literary sensation and David Fincher’s next A-list project, and suddenly Paquet-Brenner’s movie was a lot …
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Adapted from the novel by Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl), the dramatic thriller Dark Places follows Libby Day (Charlize Theron), mother and two sisters were brutally murdered when she was only seven years old. Now 25 years later and broke, Libby agrees to appear at a gathering of true crime aficionados to help them re-examine the crime by revisiting the …