On the surface, Lucy is just a typical university student; bright-eyed, dutifully open-minded, vulnerable and definitively broke. But as the story goes on, we learn there’s much more going on with the attractive Lucy…and most of it isn’t pretty. Don’t get this Australian Sleeping Beauty(2011, Julia Leigh) mixed up with the 1959 Disney fable of the [...]
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When we meet Martha(played by Elizabeth Olsen), she’s tiptoeing out the front door of a decrepit, dirty and crowded farmhouse. She’s leaving, running from something; we don’t yet know from what. She stumbles into a small town, disheveled and seemingly disoriented with her surroundings and the civilized world she once knew. Still befuddled, Martha calls [...]
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Ripe with strife, grieving couple Martin(Cillian Murphy) and Kate(Thandie Newton) pack up and travel to an astonishingly secluded, docile island in hopes of salvaging their struggling marriage after suffering the devastating stillbirth of their first born child. Totally cut off from the rest of the world both physically and technologically, they commit to a two [...]
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How would the world react to a deadly, untreatable virus outbreak? How would it not only affect me and you, but how would it play out on the political, medical and societal stage? How would the world deal with such chaos? It’s an interesting, valid posit and film is a great place to explore [...]
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