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Hollywood Film Review Johnson Thomas This survival thriller hooks you like no other Film: Dangerous Animals Cast: Hassie Harrison, Jai Courtney, Josh Heuston, Ella Newton, Liam Greinke, Rob Carlton, Ali Basoka, Michael Goldman Director: Sean Byrne Rating: * * * Runtime: 98 min Sean Byrne’s Dangerous Animals is a shark attack movie with a double bite. The opening pre-credits interlude itself sets the stage for some attention grabbing series of sequences. Here sharks are only the second biggest threat to Zephyr (Hassie Harrison). The sharks just do what you’ve seen in countless movies but it’s one particular man who emerges more dangerous than them. Bruce Tucker (Jai Courtney), seems like a good-natured captain of the boat that takes tourists into the ocean for cage diving experiences. It’s only when they are in the water that his true nature surfaces. He overpowers the tourists, feeds them to the sharks as live bait while videotaping the whole despicable act. Zephyr...

Hollywood Film Review Johnson Thomas Hollow recompense Film: The Strangers: Chapter 2 Two Towers Cast: Madelaine Petsch, Richard Brake, Rachel Shenton, Brooke Lena Johnson, Froy Gutierrez, Florian Clare, Janis Ahern, Pablo Sandstrom Director: Renny Harlin Rating: * * Runtime: 98 min. Renny Harlin’s second instalment of his intended three chapter universe of The Strangers is quite a let down. “Two Towers” merely exist as a stepping stone for the third chapter and there’s neither logic or sense going in. This middle chapter has nothing new to depict. The masked figures are there but their appearance is drawn on past memory. We get a segment of flashbacks telling us what happened previously. Maya has survived the attack from the first film, and begins to wonder if everyone around her might be one of the masked figures who killed her fiancé and tried to kill her. Even the Sheriff (Richard Brake), acts shady and is made out to be a suspect here. Maya (Madelaine Petsch) is ...

Hollywood Film Review Johnson Thomas Film: A Big Bold Beautiful Journey Cast: Colin Farrell, Margot Robbie, Kevin Kline, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lily Rabe, Jodie Turner-Smith, Lucy Thomas, Billy Magnussen Director: Kogonada Rating: * * Runtime: 109 min. “A Big Bold Beautiful Journey” is about how memory of past issues, grief, and loss guide us to shape our future. The film is meant as a soul trip leading to romance. But writer Seth Reiss’ fanciful expectations fail to find a match in Kogonada’s helming. It’s an interesting experiment even though it fails to fulfill engineered expectations. The concept has some merit. Imagine two commitment phobic singles meeting at a wedding and going on a weird GPS engineered road trip that helps them come to terms with their personal demons? That’s exactly what happens here. David ( Colin Farrell), is forced to rent a vehicle to get to his friend’s wedding, from two chatty agents (Kevin Kline and Phoebe Waller-Bridge) working in ...

Hollywood Film Review Johnson Thomas Sketchy thrills, disaffecting psychobabble Film: The Surfer Cast: Nicolas Cage, Julian McMahon, Justin Rosniak, Alexander Bertrand, Rahel Romahn, Nicholas Cassim, Finn Little, Charlotte Maggi Director: Lorcan Finnegan Rating: * 1/2 Runtime: 100 min. In this film Nicholas Cage tackles a similar role to ‘Vampire’s Kiss’ which he did in 1988 and it’s not a pretty sight. The director Finnegan and Martin, the scriptwriter, have admitted in an interview that this film is partially inspired by the classic 1968 film The Swimmer, an adaptation of a John Cheever short story. But this film inspired or not, doesn’t achieve any great heights. Cage plays a man who grew up in a small town on the Australian coastline and since has been living in the U.S. for several decades. The opening scene has him return home to Australia with his son (Finn Little) and attempt to venture out to the coastline to surf the waves and also negotiate to repurchase his ...