As I’m trying to make a list of 30 Christmas themed films I’ve never seen, which is quite a challenge, as I think I’ve covered all the titles I might like last year, I have a little time to write some reviews, amd as I’m going on a holiday in 2 weeks, I won’t be posting any film reviews till next year. My plan is to publish 10 more posts with film reviews in November and then only the TV ones in December. I don’t know which shows will still air in December, but I’ll review all of them.

Me and Earl and The Dying Girl

If you were that kid who spent all their time making your own versions of popular films, then you’ll get this film, as that’s exactly what the main characters were doing. Where you that film freak that everyone knew they’re gonna exceed in what they do? Did you get distracted or discouraged along the way and now you don’t do anything film related anymore? The kid spent a whole year making a film for his friend. I hated that they lied to us that she doesn’t die at the end. As a whole it was an enthralling coming out story. I hoped it to be like Perks of being a Wallflower or It’s kind of a funny story and it was in a way, just more melancholic.

7.5/10

House Arrest

Jocose and unerringly how all family films should be. I said it in the previous post, but 90s family films are one of those little things that make my life better. I wish Jamie Lee Curtis did more films like this one. Didn’t we all want to lock our parents in the basement?

7/10

The Little Rascals

Turns out I’m too old for some of the family films after all. The film was witty, but not exactly what I expected.

4/10

I Spit on Your Grave 3

I absolutely love the I Spit on your grave series as I’m a huge fan of the rape and revenge genre. The original The House on the Left and I Spit on Your Grave, pictured rape, but took a path of revenge as a healing process. I thought the remake of the first part was very good, but i was crest fallen with the sequel. They went from rape and revenge in the first one to rape porn. The second part was more scary, as the survivor could not end her nightmare as they brought her abroad and the person she trusted was related to the rapists. The third one though does not show almost any rape, but focuses on avenging rapists. There was this 80s film called The Ladies Club where the rape survivors went to rape survivors anonymous meetings and they decided to castrate/murder all the rapists. I highly recommend it to everyone interested in the subject. This is what this story is about. I absolutely can’t stand the ending of ISOYG 3, as it shows that rape victims don’t have a chance of having a normal life, as the girl will probably end up jailed for life.

6.5/10

Hocus Pocus

I am still disenchanted that Thora Birch isn’t acting as much and that her career didn’t start off after The Hole, American Beauty and Ghost World. I remember following her career as a kid, like I do now with a few other actresses. I watched all her films when they came out and I’m sad she isn’t doing this to that same extend anymore. It’s like with the Olsen twins, or Kay Panabaker, I will never get over them retiring. Why can’t someone I don’t like and who is talentless retire for once? The only way I could have enjoyed this film more would be if I watched it on Halloween, back when I was Thora’s age. This is most likely my second favorite performance of her as a little kid after The Monkey’s business. And I am definitely watching All I want for Christmas this Christmas.

7/10

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

What a piece of garbage. When I first watched the first movie, I was shocked with how good it was, and glad that looked past the teen franchise headline. The second part doesn’t have the closing labyrinth or the mechanic spiders. Instead it has zombies and a bunch of boring talks between the characters. I will watch the last part and It better be rather gnarly.

1.5/10

Shutter

When It came to Netflix, I asked my horror mates if they’ve seen it and they said it was chilling. To be honest, I found it quite displeasing. We all have seen these types of horrors, where they focus on the picture as there’s some other entity on it. It looks like the girl did not avenge them because they raped her, even though she did kill these two who did, but she was still obsessive of the guy. Why on earth did he electrocute himself? Everyone knows you can’t shoot or electrocute a ghost. The final scene was what finally convienced me. Watch it, because, believe me, you’ll like the ending.

3/10

Window Wonderland

This is not exaclty the type of films we had in mind when we let Chyler go on Greys. After years, we’ve finally accepted her exit, but we expected her carrer to start off, not to go back. I love Christmas films, but this was like one of those crappy Christmas dog films that no one knows why people make, and you won’t enjoy unless you’re under 8 or have a dog of the same rase at home.

2.5/10

I’m so behind on film reviews, I owe you almost 200 titles. Here are some of them, and now I’m onto 10 more.

Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead

Oh, The 90s and family films. It’s as hard to find an aboninable one, as to find a stupendous one nowadays. This one was funny and cute, and wouldn’t we all wish to get a stable job without anyone checking our credentials? I am glad the older brother got his act together, but he should have gone to work too, so the film does not come off as sexist. A little over dramatic, a little dark-comedy-ish, but overall a 90 min you definitely won’t want back. Thanks Netflix.

4.5/10

Paper Towns

As much as I enjoyed it as a whole, I thought that leaving town before graduating was an extremely immature behaviour. It looked like she didn’t think she would have to go to work. How do you expect to start over when you’re not going to college and it does not look like you’re going to work either? You can’t just say ‘screw it, I hate this town, I don’t need a high school diploma, and I am not going to work’. How is she going to support herself? I haven’t read the book, but I would rather see Looking for Alaska than this again.

5/10

The Man Who Knew Too Little

Absolutely adored the parts where he didn’t have a clue, which frankly was throughout the whole film. My favorite scene was when he got stopped by the police after running over all the cones and the guy who was chasing him said to his men ‘he’s good, he clearly has connections’ when it was the first time he met the cop. The greek dance was a little long, but none of the less entertaining when he danced with the bomb. This is one of Bill Murray’s quieter projects, but he should do even more comedies like this one.

6/10

When Calls The Heart

Why would they invent a fake aunt, when they could have just done exactly what they did in the series of the same name. They should have introduced Elizabeth as who she was in the book, not her niece finding her diaries and following her footsteps.

2/10

Hidden

Best horror/thriller I have seen in months. Entertaining, claustrophobic, the only problem is the weak ending. I told you Emily Alyn Lind was going to have an amazing career after playing the little Amanda on Revenge, and she really is.

7/10

The Visit

More funny, than scary. I am very glad I could relate to this film on a personal level due to Ed’s character’s obsessive compulsive disorder. But why didn’t he wash his hands after peeing rather than throwing a fit over the tissues being gone. And no OCD person would run around on their hands and knees under the house. The owen scene reminded me of Case 39. A friend of mine watched it before me, and when I asked him he said he can’t tell me as he didn’t want to spoil it for me, but the moment, when thy find out -spoiler- that these people were not their granparents is the absoulte best from the whole film. I don’t think the kids would have dropped their cameras when running out of the house when carried their cameras everywhere with them.

4/10

The Gift

A friend mentioned above said to me he thought the gift would be an actual gift, not rape. The film was a little too long, and lacked action, I really thought it would be more similar to The Purge, but they got a gift as a form of a child, in a creepy pervy ‘The Resident’ way, but they did. The thing is the wife didn’t do a thing to the assailant and she was the one raped and the main character could just as well leave her with the child. If the ending was different, the film would be simply awful.

5/10

The Gallows

It was a little better than the trailer at the cinema suggested. The haunted play takes lives of students involved in the ressurection of the play. Looked low budget and sometimes that’s all a horror film needs.

5/10

Sharknado 3

The first one was entertaining, the second one laughable, the third one, disastrous. I know that Aubrey Peeples is doing great on Nashville but they should not have recast her character. Best scene, when the guys head is bitten off at Jaws Shark Park while taking a picture.

3/10