Revenge is best served cold.
“As long as you can still grab a breath, you fight. You breathe… keep breathing.” – Hugh Glass
Reviewed by Suzanne Shimmin
Under 5 Words – The Revenant (2015)
Month: March 2016
100 Word Review – Room (2015)
Adapted from the best selling novel by Emma Donoghue by the author herself, and directed by Lenny Abrahamson (Frank, What Richard Did), this film perfectly captures the sense of claustrophobia and terror of the two awe-inspiring leads.
Jack (Jacob Tremblay) is five. He has lived his whole life in one room with his mother (Brie Larson), visited only by their captor, Old Nick (Sean Bridges).
A heartbreaking story that there are far too many chilling modern day examples of. Tremblay is extraordinary, and Larson is well deserving of her Oscar. Currently #119 on IMDb’s Top 250, make sure you’re prepared to cry.
100 Word Review – Spotlight (2015)
This is one of those films you really wish wasn’t based on real events.
In Boston in 2001, a group of reporters for the Spotlight section of the Boston Globe investigate allegations of priests sexually assaulting minors.
Written by Tom McCarthy (Up) and Josh Singer (The Fifth Estate), with an all-star cast headed-up by Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Liev Schreiber and Stanley Tucci, it is truly worthy of its Best Picture Oscar.
It is dark, personal and guaranteed to shock you to your core. The only words left to say are “Holy shit!” in every sense of that phrase.
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