She Dies Tomorrow (2020) - Movie Review

It’s good that people are able to talk openly about their mental health status. As much as it can easily be fetishised within certain Internet cultures, that is still preferable to when there was such a crippling stigma attached to it that no one talked about it, no one treated it seriously, and all we did was suffer in silence. I myself have been quite open (perhaps a little too open) about my own conditions and neuroses, which I mainly discuss on here to try and explain my own perspective when interpreting a given film.

But there’s something about that level of openness that can also be a serious problem, namely the effect it can on those listening in. Same with just about any other medical condition, if you spend too long reading about it, and start seeing connections to your own behaviours, it can make you worse. It can either exacerbate your own conditions, or even instil a psychosomatic effect where you convince yourself that that’s what’s happening, regardless of any evidence to the contrary. It’s one of the reasons why Googling medical symptoms is rarely (if ever) a good idea, and it’s the main reason why this film in particular taps into something unnervingly real.

The Secret: Dare To Dream (2020) - Movie Review

Well… this is an idea that someone thought was going to work: Make a movie based on a self-help book that, for those who even remember it in the first place, was met with meme status on initial release and has stayed there ever since. Book-to-film adaptations are usually iffy at the best of times purely because of the adaptation process, so you can imagine the hill that needs to be climbed to inject cinematic narrative into something objectively plotless.

The Most Hated Woman In America (2017) - Movie Review

The plot: Atheism activist Madalyn Murray O’Hair (Melissa Leo), her son Jon (Michael Churnus) and her granddaughter Robin (Juno Temple) have been kidnapped by Madalyn’s former work colleague David Waters (Josh Lucas) for a ransom. As they try and find a way out of their situation, Madalyn reminisces about the events that led her to this point, from working with her other son William (Vincent Kartheiser) to ban in prayer in public schools to founding the organisation American Atheists to her frequent clashes with the Christian populace. It seems that no good deed truly goes unpunished.

Boychoir (2015) - Movie Review

With how pseudo-academic these reviews must sound at times, today’s film seems like the sort of film I should be reviewing as opposed to something like the Pitch Perfect series. Something deeply cynical in my brain, that is to say my entire brain, wants me to believe that Pitch Perfect 2 and this film being out as the same time isn’t a coincidence: Both featuring vocal groups, with the former focusing on Top 40 hits and the latter on classical works and hymns; Hansen vs. Handel, if you will, except the bout is being done on-screen instead of on Epic Rap Battles Of History… hmm… I should remember to suggest that at some point. At any rate, today’s film is the latest offering featuring one Dustin Hoffman and features vocal ranges that the human voice should not be able to reach.