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Mary and the Witch's Flower - Film Review

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Sorry I was gone for so long, I didn't go to see any other movies between Insidious: The Last Key and this, but at least I got to see Mary and the Witch's Flower. Mary and the Witch's Flower is directed by  Hiromasa Yonebayashi and stars Ruby Barnhill, Kate Winslet, Jim Broadbent, and Louis Ashbourne Serkis and is based off the book The Little Broomstick  by Mary Stewart. Plot So the plot is about a girl named Mary (Ruby Barnhill) who is led into the forest by a cat an discovers a mysterious blue flower called the Fly-By-Night. She crushes the flower in her hand and discovers a broomstick which leads her to Endor College where she meets Madame Mumblechook (Kate Winslet) and Doctor Dee (Jim Broadbent), who want the Fly-By-Night for themselves. Mary gives the address of a boy named Peter (Louis Ashbourne Serkis) who she later learns was kidnapped by Mumblechook and Dee and has to set everything right. The poster I picked up. Sorry about poor quality ...

Insidious: The Last Key - Film Review

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Insidiousthon Day whatever Insidious: The Last Key is directed by Adam Robitel and stars Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Josh Stewart and Caitlin Gerard. Plot Elise Rainier is back again in this prequel to Insidious  where she has to investigate a haunting in her childhood home. Review Finally, I got to see this tonight, after days of being sick, I can get this review out. I thought this movie was good, I don't love it as much as I do Insidious  or even Insidious: Chapter 3 , but I enjoyed it. I don't really like to go to much into plot details when a movie is just a few days old, so I won't go into those much, in case you haven't seen it yet. One thing I liked is how this film directly ties into the first movie. It actually has archived footage of Ty Simpkins, Rose Byrne and Patrick Wilson from Insidious. One thing I forgot to mention in my review of the third one is that I heard a rumor that this ties into the first movie, and this doesn...

Insidious: Chapter 3 - Film Review

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Insidiousthon Day 3 Insidious: Chapter 3 is directed by Leigh Whannell and stars him, Lin Shaye, Stefanie Scott, Dermot Mulroney and Angus Sampson. Plot A prequel set before the haunting of the Lambert family, where Elise (Lin Shaye) reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl (Stefanie Scott) who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity. Review I thought this film was actually quite good, maybe a bit better than Chapter 2 , but not as good as the first one. Unlike the first two, this has almost nothing to do with the Lambert family except for the pictures of Josh as a kid they showed in the first movie. One thing I really liked was when they brought a couple of demons from the other two, where they showed The Bride in Black attacking Elise and Darth Maul- I mean, the Lipstick-Face Demon appears at the very end before the credits. One thing I want to point out is that between the beginning where Quinn meets Eli...

Insidious: Chapter 2 - Film Review

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Indiousthon Day 2 Insidious: Chapter 2 is directed by James Wan and stars everybody from the first as this is a direct sequel to the first Insidious . Plot Immediately after the events of the first Insidious , Renai (Rose Byrne) is being interrogated by police and the family temporarily moves into Josh's (Patrick Wilson) childhood home. They think they are done, but it turns out that when Josh went into the Further to retrieve Dalton (Ty Simpkins), he brought another spirit back with him which is currently possessing him. Meanwhile, Lorraine (Barbara Hershey), Carl (Steve Coulter) and Elise's former assistants Specs and Tucker (Leigh Whannell and Angus Sampsons) investigate the past to save the future (that sounds very Back to the Future -ish). Review I actually think Insidious: Chapter 2  is a decent sequel. No, it's not as good as the first, but I still enjoyed it. I pretty much described the story in the plot section, so there's not much else to say. De...

Insidious - Film Review

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Insidiousthon Day 1 I'm seeing Insidious: The Last Key on Saturday instead of Friday, so I'm starting the marathon today. Insidious  is directed by James Wan and stars Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins and Barbara Hershey. Plot Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai (Rose Byrne) Lambert move into a new home with their kids Dalton (Ty Simpkins), Foster (Andrew Astor) and Cali. What they don't know is that the house is haunted. The next evening, Dalton falls off a ladder in the attic and falls into a coma, but the doctors can't find any problems. After strange things start happening, they move into a new home only for it continue there. Josh's mother Lorraine (Barbara Hershey) calls medium Elise (Lin Shaye), who concludes that Dalton is a gifted traveler who is capable of leaving his physical body and traveling through astral projection and that his spirit is lost in a realm called the Further that is not meant for humans. Lorraine reveals that Josh...