Opinion as a Movie-freak

Summary
Alien robots come to Earth and assert their control over humanity. They claim that they only want to observe humanity. They enforce a strict no one allowed outside rule. They implant humans with a device that alerts sentries to anyone who goes outside and if they refuse to comply they are destroyed. They also employ humans to be their proctors. One of these men is Robin Smythe. He tries to get Kate Flynn to be his wife but she still mourns her husband whom Smythe says died. But her son Sean, doesn't believe it. He sends messages out asking anyone who knows anything about his father to tell him. One day he and three young people are fooling around when they discover that they turned off their implant. That's when they go outside and someone answers Sean's message and tells him where his father is.

Genre : Adventure/SF
Country : UK

Cast :
Gillian Anderson : Kate
Ben Kingsley : Robin Smythe
Callan McAuliffe : Sean Flynn

Director : Jon Wright

6/10 Action Crime

Run all Night (2015)

vrijdag, augustus 21, 2015

Summary

Professional Brooklyn hitman Jimmy Conlon is more commonly known as "The gravedigger". Jimmy was a mob hit-man, who was best friends with his boss Shawn Maguire. But when Jimmy's son, Michael, is marked for death by the mob, Jimmy must go up against Sean to protect Michael at all costs. Together, he and Michael must avoid corrupt cops, contract killers and the mob to survive the night.

Genre : Action/Crime
Country : USA

Cast :
Liam Neeson : Jimmy Conlon
Ed Harris : Shawn Maguire
Joel Kinnaman : Mike Conlon

Director : Jaume Collet-Serra

6/10 Thriller

The Well (2014)

donderdag, augustus 20, 2015

Summary
At the edge of an expansive barren valley, all that remains of The Wallace Farm for Wayward Youth is a few hollowed-out husks of buildings. Seventeen year-old Kendal can barely recall when the Oregon valley was still lush. It's been a decade since the last rainfall, and society at large has dried up and blown away. Kendal and the few others that remain barely scrape by, while dreaming of escape. When a greedy water baron lays claim to what little of the precious resource remains underground, Kendal must decide whether to run and hide or bravely fight for the few cherished people and things she has left.

Genre : Action/Thriller
Country : USA

Cast :
Haley Lu Richardson : Kendal
Booboo Stewart : Dean
Max Charles : Alby

Director : Thomas S. Hammock
Alternative title : The Last Survivors

4/10 Horror Thriller

Reversal (2015)

woensdag, augustus 19, 2015

Summary
A young girl, chained in the basement of a sexual predator, escapes and turns the tables on her captor.

Genre : Horror/Thriller
Country : USA

Cast :
Richard Tyson : Phil
Tina Ivlev : Eve
Amy Okuda : Girl #1

Director : José Manuel Cravioto

2/10 Comedy Drama

The Longest week (2014)

maandag, augustus 17, 2015

Summary
Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent's prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and... in love.

Genre : Comedy/Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Olivia Wilde : Beatrice Fairbanks
Jason Bateman : Conrad Valmont
Billy Crudup : Dylan Tate

Director : Peter Glanz

5/10 Action SF

Lockout (2012)

maandag, augustus 17, 2015

Summary
In 2079, in Washington, the ex-CIA Operative Snow is brutally interrogated, accused of treason against the United States. The chief of the secret service Scott Langral believes that he shot the agent Frank in a hotel room. Meanwhile, the idealistic daughter of the president of the USA, Emilie Warnock, is visiting MS One, a maximum security prison in outer space expecting to find evidences that the prisoners are actually guinea pigs of a huge corporation. When one of her bodyguards loses a hidden pistol to the dangerous prisoner Hydell, he subdues the staff in the central control room and releases the prisoners, including his brother Alex who becomes the leader of the riot. Now the veteran agent Harry Shaw offers freedom to Snow if he succeeds in rescuing the president's daughter. But the idealistic Emilie does not want to leave MS-One without the hostages.

Genre : Action/SF
Country : France

Cast :
Guy Pearce : Snow
Maggie Grace : Emilie Warnock
Peter Stormare : Scott Langral

Director : James Mather, Stephen Leger

7/10 Crime Drama

Rob the Mob (2014)

donderdag, augustus 13, 2015

Summary
A Queens couple who specialize in robbing mafia social clubs stumble upon a score bigger than they could ever imagine, becoming targets of both the mob and the FBI in the process.

Genre : Crime/Drama
Country : USA

Cast :
Michael Pitt : Tommy
Nina Arianda : Rosie
Andy Garcia : Big Al

Director : Raymond De Felitta

3/10 Horror Mystery

I-Lived (2015)

woensdag, augustus 12, 2015

Summary

Josh Fosse is a 20something guy whose life is going nowhere. His girl left, his rent is late, and he lacks a real job. He is trying to make it as an app reviewer online and decides to review a self help app called i-Lived for fun. He's signs on and immediately his life turns around. He meets the girl of his dreams and he gets a job offer he can't refuse. Convinced it's him and not the app, he signs out... and loses everything. He signs on again but this time the terms are different, the app is asking him to do things that are out of his moral comfort zone... but essential to becoming the success the app tells him he can be.

Genre : Mystery/Horror
Country : USA

Cast :
Jeremiah Watkins : Josh
Sarah Power : Greta
Christopher Mena : Bobby Yen

Director : Franck Khalfoun

5/10 Action

Wild Card (2015)

zondag, augustus 09, 2015

Summary
Nick Wild is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chased by enforcers and wanted by the mob. Having raised the stakes, Nick has one last play to change his fortunes...and this time, it's all or nothing.

Genre : Action
Country : USA

Cast :
Jason Statham : Nick Wild
Stanley Tucci : Baby
Sofía Vergara : DD

Director : Simon West

6/10 Drama Horror

Maggie (2015)

vrijdag, augustus 07, 2015

Summary
After a couple of weeks seeking out his teenage daughter Maggie, Wade finds her in the quarantine wing of a hospital. Maggie has been infected by a lethal outbreak that transforms the victim into a zombie. Wade's friend Dr. Vern Kaplan releases Maggie to spend her last days with Wade and her family. Her stepmother Caroline asks Wade to take their little kids to her sister's house to keep them safe. While Maggie is slowly transformed, Wade stays with her protecting Maggie. But Dr. Vern warns him that the moment that he will have to take an ultimate decision is closer.

Genre : Horror/Drama
Country : USA/Switzerland

Cast :
Arnold Schwarzenegger : Wade
Abigail Breslin : Maggie
Joely Richardson : Caroline

Director : Henry Hobson

6/10 Adventure SF

Insurgent (2015)

donderdag, augustus 06, 2015

Summary
One choice can transform you or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable horrors. War now looms as conflict between the factions and their ideologies grows. And in times of war, sides must be chosen, secrets will emerge, and choices will become even more irrevocable and even more powerful.

Genre : SF/Adventure
Country : USA

Cast :
Shailene Woodley : Tris
Theo James : Four
Kate Winslet : Jeanine

Director : Robert Schwentke

2/10 Comedy Horror Romance

Stung (2015)

donderdag, augustus 06, 2015

Summary
Mrs. Perch, an elderly, wealthy lady from rural America, is throwing a fancy garden party at her remote country villa. Same procedure as every year - except this time her illegally imported plant fertilizer seeps into the ground. Subsequently, a local species of killer wasps that usually lay their eggs into other insects mutates into 7 ft tall predators. And the celebrating upper class company provides just the right kind of prey. It's up to Paul and Julia, the two catering staffers, to stop the creatures, fight for their lives, and incidentally getting their stumbling romance in order.

Genre : Horror/Comedy/Romance
Country : USA/Germany

Cast :
Matt O'Leary : Paul
Jessica Cook : Julia
Lance Henriksen : Caruthers

Director : Benni Diez

7/10 Romance War

Suite Francaise (2014)

woensdag, augustus 05, 2015

Summary
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their small town, soon followed by a regiment of German soldiers who take up residence in the villagers' own homes. Lucile initially tries to ignore Bruno von Falk, the handsome and refined German officer staying with them. But soon, a powerful love draws them together and leads them into the tragedy of war.

Genre : War/Romance
Country : UK/France/Belgium

Cast :
Michelle Williams : Lucile Angellier
Kristin Scott Thomas : Madame Angellier
Matthias Schoenaerts : Bruno von Falk

Director : Saul Dibb

3/10 Drama Thriller

Final Girl (2015)

woensdag, augustus 05, 2015

Summary
A psychological thriller about a beautiful teen girl new to town who is lured out to the woods by a group of senior boys to be the victim in their final initiation. Taught by her trainer, William, to be a lethal weapon, she turns the hunters into the hunted with a level of perversity far beyond anything they could have ever imagined.

Genre : Thriller/Drama
Country : Canada/USA

Cast :
Abigail Breslin : Veronica
Wes Bentley : -
Alexander Ludwig : Chris

Director : Tyler Shields