MG's Haunted Library

Dear Visitors, Can we just give all the awards to Martin Freeman? Please? Pretty Please? Also please be advised of SPOILERS. I'll try to keep it at a minimum but here's your SPOILER WARNING! CARGO centers around Andy and his desperate journey to find a safe haven for his daughter, Rosie, in an Australian wilderness that is filled with zombie-like infected people and survivors who distrust EVERYONE. The worst part is that Andy only has 48 hours to find a home for Rosie. That's how long an infected person has before they turn into zombies! The only thing that made this movie bearable was Martin Freeman's performance. I always thought that he was a brilliant actor. He was believable as a father in a crazy circumstance and it was refreshing to see this father figure act like a protector and provider. There is a scene where Andy (Martin Freeman) and his wife Kay (Susan Porter) have an argument about what to do. They're currently living on a houseboat that ...

Dear Visitors, ZOMBIES!!! Or infected people...I don't know. Be prepared to witness the fantastic Martin Freeman as a desperate father trying to find a safe haven for his baby before time runs out! Will review on Friday!!  With Love, M.G.

Dear Visitor, During the Super Bowl, Netflix premiered the trailer for THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX and I about lost my mind with excitement. I love the Cloverfield franchise! So I was definitely excited about an installment set in outer space. However, it turns out not many people were happy with it like I was. I'm not saying that THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX was perfect. You didn't really connect with the characters which is rather upsetting since the cast was stellar. There was also a little confusion with the arm. How was it able to tell the crew what they needed to know to fix the navigation? The loudest complaint I heard was that people were confused about what happened to the crew. I didn't understand the confusion. The characters literally tell you what happened and before they start up their machine, you hear a news report of a scientist explaining what the "Cloverfield Paradox" is. Seriously, pay attention! Personally, I liked this movie...

Dear Visitor, With THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX on Netflix, which I will review later, I thought I'd look back at the film that started it all. I remember when this came out and I went to watch it with my friends. Our theater actually had an announcement that if you had epilepsy, you probably shouldn't watch this film. Anyway, I loved it then and I still love it today.  With Love, M.G.

Dear Visitor, The whole time I was sitting in my Structual Oppression I class, I thought about this movie. How quickly moral superoirity goes out the window when your life is on the line. The film is about a group of people who wake up and find themselves trapped in a room with this weird orb in the center of the circle they're standing in. As they try to figure out how to escape, they realise the only way out is to vote for who lives and who dies. Quickly, they conspire against each other and attempt, rather poorly, to justify their decisions. I thought this was a great study on how groups see each other. As much as we are lectured about how we should "be global citizens" and sing "We Are The World", that mentality goes out the window when your life is on the line. All of a sudden you're willing to put people into groups like "the old", "the disabled", "married", "not married", "unwed mothers",...

Dear Visitor, I watched this one last year on Netflix and thought it was entertaining and funny at the same time. I know it's not meant to be funny but it just came out that way.  One of the things that confused me about the language of the movie was that sometimes they would speak English. You know how Spanglish is a mix of Spanish and English? It was kinda like that. So it was a mix of Hindi and English. The film is abut a group of friends who think it's a brilliant idea to spend the night at haunted hotel as a last hurrah for a fiend who is moving abroad. While there they find all kinds of creepy things and later discover that they hotel was once an insane asylum. But now the malevolent spirit that calls the hotel home, refuses to let the group of friends leave! Who will survive the night? Check out Netflix and find out. I did enjoy this movie, but I thought the language was distracting. I really don't mind subtitles. In fact, I love foreign language m...

Dear Visitor, I watched this movie a while ago and I'm not just getting around to talking about it. I think that this movie is amazing! I love Blumhouse because they always make great horror and suspense movies. This film stars Jessica Alba, Lily Rabe, and Thomas Jane. Maggie (Jessica Alba) contacts the sole survivor of Heaven's Veil, a religious cult that committed mass suicide. She convinces Sarah Hope (Lily Rabe) to return to the compound where this horrible tragedy happened and make a documentary about what really happened there. While at the compound, the film crew discover old tapes that show them different experiments the Heaven's Veil cult conducted. The cult leader, Jim Jacobs (Thomas Jane), literally believed that he had the key to immortality. While the crew tries to piece together this house of fanatics, they notice strange things happening around the house. I really liked this one because it bounced back and forth from being a "mockument...

Dear Visitor, I know that this movie has been out for a while but I really want to talk about this gem. First of all, I want to talk about how much I love Korean cinema. My family and I absolutely love the shows and films that come out of Korea. They have great stories, everything is well written, and the acting is on point! Sometimes I wish that American television had this much drive. So let's move on. A zombie virus infects South Korea leaving a group of survivors on a train to fight off the undead, and their own paranoia, on their train and left to wonder, if there is anywhere safe to go. Their only hope is to make it to Busan. The thing I love most about this movie was were the characters. It was less about the zombies and more about the survivors. You had the father and daughter whose relationship is already struggling. While this father is trying to keep his daughter safe from the monsters and potential threats from the other survivors, she doesn'...