Issue 5 / October 2020
Rants & Raves
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Everyone’s a critic - send us your rants and raves but keep it short, please! Submit 150 words or less to givemoviesachance@gmail.com to see your rant/rave/ rebuttal featured here! Hubie Halloween For an Adam Sandler film set during Halloween, perhaps the scariest thing about it is the fact that I actually found it amusimg. BLACKPINK: Light up the Sky After watching this, I love and admire BLACKPINK more than I ever have before. Insightful in terms of both their success and K-Pop as a whole; if you’re a fan of them, you’ll most likely enjoy this. The Trial of the Chicago 7 Deliberately, depressingly timely in a way I find sanctimonious and not entirely productive but also extremely engrossing and with all the prestigious craft you’d expect. Enola Holmes Enola Holmes is much better than it should be. It has the right amount of feelgood fluff to make for an entertaining watch. I think I would’ve eaten this up a few years back and completely fell in love with it, but even now I had quite some fun with it, even though it doesn’t have the most inventive plot. There’s definitely some potential for more adventures and I would gladly watch them as well. The Wolf of Snow Hollow A thrilling small-town serial killer monster murder mystery that, instead of pulling back from the story, leans in harder to focus on the character trying desperately to stay afloat at the center of it all. The only true way to know any human’s innermost essence is by their reactions.
I’m Thinking of Ending Things Every single line of dialogue in this movie is entirely deliberate, a piece of an exceedingly intricate puzzle that you slowly start to piece together over the course of the film’s runtime. Shockingly, at no point does it become tedious, repetitive or boring. It’s a genuine thrill to see how even the most mundane conversation can be warped into something far more important and meaningful over time. The Shining Arguably the most aesthetic, artistic, and technically accomplished of all horror films, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is another masterwork of precision craftmanship that presents the gifted filmmaker in top form as he smoothly blends the elements of supernatural and psychological horror into one methodically structured and meticulously layered story. Scream One of the best and most intense opening scenes in a horror film ever. I love that the meta horror jokes and humor make it hilarious, but there are still many terrifying parts. The score and music worked beautifully together. The cast is phenomenal. Halloween Arguably the most influential of all slasher films, John Carpenter’s Halloween is the reason why this particular subgenre of horror even exists in the first place. Although it wasn’t the first of its kind, it certainly was the game-changer since almost every other slasher flick that followed this low-budget indie horror only ended up imitating the formula this this classic originated.
