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chellebkr.bsky.social
@chellebkr.bsky.social
I like watching movies and t.v. and having opinions about them.
Watched Raiders of the Lost Shark. Shark movie.

Shark genetically engineered by the military hunks people at a lake.

The name of this movie is amazing but that is where the amazingness ends. The shark did not eat these characters fast enough...cont.
November 27, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Watched Coriolanus. Drama.

Arrogant Roman general takes revenge after being expelled from the city for failing to quell a riot of starving Romans.

A modern retelling of a lesser known play of William Shakespeare...cont.
November 26, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Watched The Moogai (2024). Aussie thriller.

Indigenous mother becomes convinced a malevolent spirit is trying to take her newborn baby.

This has poor reviews, unfairly. I found it gripping...cont.
November 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Watched The Moogai (2020). Horror short.

Creature comes to take a woman's newborn baby.

Only 15 minutes long but packs quite a lot into those 15 minutes. The story is based on Australian indigenous folklore...cont.
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Watched A Dog Year. Drama.

Writer with writers block adopts a dog that needs a lot of training.

Based on Jon Katz's experience of adopting an abused border collie at a low point in his life.

If you cry at animal stuff, you will cry at this...cont.
November 23, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Watched The Bloody Brood. 50s crime drama.

Local beatnik gang murders a delivery boy for kicks.

Those crazy beatniks and their bad poetry and constant bongo playing...cont.
November 22, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Watched Aniara. Swedish sci-fi.

A trip to Mars goes terribly wrong.

Definitely not a feel good movie. So, so bleak. It delved deep into existential nihilism quite quickly as the reality of being stuck in space with no hope of returning to human civilisation slowly hit each passenger...cont.
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Watched Arq. Sci-fi.

Couple in dystopian world get stuck in a time loop.

Quite a satisfying time loop movie, even with the ending...cont.
November 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Rewatched Junior. Comedy.

Two medical researchers and an OBGYN conduct a wildly unethical experiment to get a drug approved.

I don't think I have seen this since it came out in the early 90s. It was a different time...cont.
November 18, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Watched Runt. Aussie family movie.

Aussie country kid and her mutt dog try to win money to save the family farm from a dodgy property developer who stole the town's water.

This was lovely and so Aussie. There were a lot of great shots of country Australia and very familiar Aussie culture...cont.
November 17, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Watched Inhumanwich. Sci-fi horror parody.

After an accident in space, an astronaut comes back to Earth as a sentient blob of meat that eats everyone in its path.

This is a movie that knows it's terrible and doesn't try to be anything else...cont.
November 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Watched Get Away. Comedy horror.

Family go to a remote Swedish island with a dark past for a holiday.

This got poor reviews, unfairly I think. It was dark and quirky.

Nick Frost and Aisling Bea worked really well together...cont.
November 15, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Watched Isn't It Romantic. Rom-com.

Woman who hates rom-coms hits head and wakes up in a rom-com.

I didn't want to like this but I found myself laughing a lot. I find Rebel Wilson a little hit and miss but I liked her in this one...cont.
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Watched Hope Gap. Drama.

Couple put their son in the middle of their marriage breakdown.

Quite an uncomfortable watch. It was never slow though which is quite the feat for a drama.

Amazing acting with Annette Bening, Bill Nighy and Josh O'Connor as the family...cont.
November 13, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Rewatched I, Tonya. Biopic.

The story of Tonya Harding, disgraced figure skater.

I have a bit of a soft spot for mockumentary style movies. I don't know how much of tye story is actually true but a lot of the more insane things people said came straight from actual interviews they did...cont.
November 12, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Watched Shark Side of the Moon. Sci-fi.

Russians create mutant shark people and send them to the moon where they hunt American astronauts.

Yes, you read that right. When one of the characters said 'why are there sharks on the moon' I said what a great question...cont.
November 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Watched The Sloth Lane. Kid's animation.

A family of sloths run a food truck in a new city and compete with an unscrupulous fast food restaurant.

This was done in stop animation style without being stop animation, which I find a bit unusual to watch...cont.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Watched Sing Street. Irish musical rom-com.

Dublin teen in the 80s starts a band to impress a girl.

That was a lot of acid wash denim. This was charming but also peppered with hard to watch scenes with domestic violence and a priest half drowning the teen boy to scrub his make-up off...cont.
November 9, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Watched Flipped. Rom-com.

Boy is a jerk to the girl next door and then falls in love with her.

This was delightful. It was told from the perspective of both main characters; Bryce and Juli. Gave me Wonder Years vibes...cont.
November 8, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Watched A Minecraft Movie. Kid's movie.

Based on the Minecraft game.

I haven't played Minecraft and I know little about it except you build stuff with cubes. It was visually pleasing and had a great soundtrack but a lot of the jokes were lost on me...cont.
November 7, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Watched Flow. Animation.

A cat collects friends in a rapidly flooding world.

This was cute. All the animals had a lot of character, despite no dialogue in the film...cont.
November 6, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Watched Cruella. Family movie.

The origin story of Cruella De Vil.

I watched this on a plane so not the best format to watch it in. Emma Stone's accent was a little grating at first but I forgot about it after a while. I also loved that red shag haircut on her...cont.
November 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Watched Jump, Darling. Drama.

Rookie drag queen trying to get over a break up visits his grandmother, who doesn't want to go into a nursing home and is in cognitive decline.

The great Cloris Leachman's final film. Even at 93, she had such great screen presence...cont.
November 4, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Rewatched Heathers. Dark comedy.

Teen girl is sick of the popular kids so teams up with the school sociopath to deal with them.

One of my all time favourite movies. Beautifully dark.

Shannen Doherty is in her element and this is peak Winona Ryder...cont.
November 3, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Watched American Murder: Gabby Petito. True crime doco.

The murder of Gabby Petito.

There is so much footage of Gabby that it was odd that Netflix felt the need to use AI to recreate her voice.

This was really text book domestic violence...cont.
October 21, 2025 at 6:47 AM