Devil's Due (2014) Download Fuld

The movie's found-footage conceit never creates a proper atmosphere, something essential to any horror film but particularly one involving the occult.. The author's obsession with the number 23 becomes Walter's, and we're treated to a lot of examples of numbers that add up to 23, which means a lot of scenes in which people say things like, 'What's 14 plus 9? 23!' and look haunted.. There's little in this first script by Fernley Phillips but bloodless notions -- nothing that might qualify, by the...

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Ritualet (2011) Download Film

Oooh. Scary.. Dave Whitehead's sound design fills the production with ominous whooshings that sometimes overwhelm the dialogue, not that the dialogue doesn't deserve it.. A horror film that goes nowhere very, very slowly.. Despite an impressive cast (excluding the excruciatingly dull O'Donoghue, a newcomer from Ireland), "The Rite" is the sort of misfire that Hollywood has long buried in January.. There's nothing wrong with The Rite that spinning heads and a little pea soup wouldn't cure.. There...

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Saw VII - The Final Chapter (2010) Online Streaming

"The Best Offer" is at its best when it's decidedly weird.. The Uninvited is a mess of styles and stolen ideas, including a plot twist that would make M. Night Shyamalan roll his eyes and dialogue straight from a CW scene generator.. If its destination is patently obvious from the outset, the journey does at least offer scattered pleasures.. The story line is more crafted than it at first appears, but a big finish doesn't always make up for everything that came before. Until then, The Uninvited ...

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Illusionisten (2006) Spille Film

With exquisite performances (Giamatti's, in particular), it leaves you thrillingly hovering, happily uncommitted to any one interpretation.. "Diminishing returns" is a description that applies to many film series. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is a delicious exception.. Underneath its hocus-pocus is a compelling story, very well told.. This terrific romantic thriller, set in 1900 Vienna, is an outstanding example of frugality in the service of art.. You might not buy all the twists and tu...

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Inside Man (2006) Online Streaming

A slick, kinetic and relatively straightforward -- which is to say enjoyably twisty-turny -- tranche of cat-and-mouse procedural.. Movie magic hangs in the air of Martin Scorsese's Hugo, much like the steam and dust that fills almost every frame.. Scorsese transforms this innocent tale into an ardent love letter to the cinema and a moving plea for film preservation.. If the story is a smidge predictable, at least the movie is pleasingly old-fashioned and grown-up, with a '90s paranoid-thriller v...

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Harry Potter og dødsregalierne - del 1 (2010) Download Fuld

There's plenty of humor, plenty of magic and even a bit of romantic stress, although there's also quite a bit of mulling and standing about.. Alas, as directed by the returning David Yates, these big chase sequences are the usual compendium of ear-splitting noise and eye-glazing edits -- again, no magic required and none delivered.. The trouble with Harry, as becomes clear from this seventh and penultimate installment, is not that we have lost the plot -- the film is as tangled and as corkscrewe...

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Pod (2015) Se Streaming

The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to do nothing else. It embraces a mystery and protects it, and it’s thrilling to behold.. A movie can have a superb story, amazing cinematography, and mesmerizing writing as well as directing, but without the talent to deliver it all, it finds itself lacking. Great!!. Absolutely one of the greatest, most cringe-worthy movies I've ever seen.. The film conceals as much as it reveals, and its beauty is that it pretends to ...

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