Paradise Lost (2015)

"Godzilla vs. Kong" is all style and very little substance. It's also the most fun I've had in months.

These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.

All in all, “Event Horizon” is a cinematic misfire, begging to be perfected in the future. While it possesses an array of admirable visuals, the film leaves much to be desired. If only we could see Anderson’s preferred cut, which featured more character development and tortuous imagery. In the meantime, I have a catchphrase for this film: In space no one can hear you snore.

Gritty and bleak are the best words to describe this film. There’s nothing happy about it.

"Thunder Road" presents the grief that comes from a family member taking their own life.

How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?