As with the best thrillers, The Woman in the Window has an impressive and intriguing premise. Agoraphobic Anna, played by Amy Adams, watches as her new neighbours movie in across the street. Suspicious, she keeps an eye on the new … Continue reading The Woman in the Window (2021) Review
You can’t blame the producers and studio behind Dark Places for hoping it would be a sleeper hit. Based on a novel by the writer of Gone Girl, starring an accomplished actress in the lead role, centered around a drip-fed mystery … Continue reading Dark Places (2015) Review
The Unreliable Narrator: A narrator in a movie, play or literature who’s reliability has been compromised. This post contains spoilers for many films featuring unreliable narrators You can’t discuss Twist Week without talking about the great use of unreliable narrators … Continue reading Twist Week: The Joy of the unreliable narrator
Career Peak – The point in an actor, actress or director’s career when they have given their best performance, reaching a point they will probably never match again! The idea is to examine a person’s film or television career and … Continue reading What was their Career Peak? – David Fincher
Trying to celebrate the 20th Bond movie with one eye firmly at the past is Die Another Day’s biggest flaw. The film isn’t necessarily a disaster until you realise that everything that is wrong with the movie is a direct result … Continue reading Month of Bond: Die Another Day (2002) Review
Today is the third anniversary of Views of the Sofa and to commemorate the birthday of the blog, I take a look back at the previous year in film with my Views from the Sofa Awards. These awards are slightly … Continue reading Views from the Sofa Awards – 2015
There are not many films that have played with my emotions and blindsided me so much as Gone Girl managed too. I went from rooting for one character, to believing certain things about another, to finally hating someone completely new. … Continue reading Gone Girl (2014) Review
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