Showing posts with label Dermot Mulroney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dermot Mulroney. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 March 2020

The Mountain Between Us (2017)



Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow-covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across the wilderness.

Formulaic and predictable survival tale including a likewise corny romance has mainly some good beautiful landscape photography to go for it; no challenge for the two stars either. 


Saturday, 25 January 2020

The Trigger Effect (1996)



A blackout leaves those affected to consider what is necessary, what is legal, and what is questionable, in order to survive in a predatory environment.

Moralizing doomsday tale has a good premise exploring the effects of a catastrophe on human society, but, despite serviceable performances, it is unsatisfactorily uneven and inconsequential.

Maltin**1/2: "Maddeningly uneven apocalyptic thriller...Intended as an examination of contemporary insensitivity and alienation, and how society might unravel in the wake of such a catastrophe, but falls apart after a solid start.The finale is especially incongruous."

Saturday, 29 December 2018

I Still See You (2018)



Set ten years after an apocalyptic event that killed millions and left the world inhabited by ghosts.

Although this movie is nicely made, has atmosphere and some well-staged scenes, it is hamstrung by a wildly far-fetched plot based on a likewise implausible premise.


Friday, 26 October 2018

Truth (2015)



Newsroom drama detailing the 2004 CBS 60 Minutes report investigating then-President George W. Bush's military service, and the subsequent firestorm of criticism that cost anchor Dan Rather and producer Mary Mapes their careers.

Solid, but a bit old-fashioned political docudrama makes well use of its star cast and does manage to convey the vagaries and risks of a high-profile journalistic investigation into a political scandal.


Friday, 2 October 2015

Beyond (2012)



A detective teams with a tabloid psychic to track down a missing child.

The movie starts promising with atmospheric settings in the Alaskan landscape, but the good cast can't help raise this standard crime mystery full of the usual cliches.


Thursday, 21 May 2015

Inhale (2010)



A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.

Intense and in the end harrowing thriller with a complex sociocritical message.