Welcome to Reel Talk.
My name is Ana, and what follows is a compilation of my thoughts and reviews on the newest, oldest, and my most favourite movies. As my January 2021 New Year’s resolution, I decided that, instead of boring my friends and family with hours of my thoughts on films and television, I would write about it on a blog. Feel free to read through and listen to my ramblings. Welcome to Reel Talk.
What I’ve Been Watching
The Ritual
As a lover of horror movies, I felt well-prepared for the plot of The Ritual: four friends with skeletons in their group closet venture into the Nordic woods for a hiking holiday, where brutality unfolds. The plot itself was nothing new—the forest is always full of dangers for young men stranded outside civilization—but the expert…
Signs
As I was sitting down to watch an M Night Shyamalan film, I felt fairly well prepared for to what I was about to watch. And that’s not a bad thing. Shyamalan has a knack for thrillers that is unmatched within the genre. Most thrillers are filled with unexplained twists and turns, over the top…
I Care a Lot
Rosamund Pike takes centre stage again as a cunning and sinister ‘lioness’ in the new thriller I Care a Lot. Pike plays Marla Grayson, a career driven woman who makes her profit from swindling the elderly and fooling the justice system. Grayson, along with her friend, a corrupt doctor, convince courts to allow Grayson full…
“Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.“
Pauline Kael
