Evie's 'Good Film Hunting'

  Now quite a lot of my family is Irish, whether that be my northern Irish mother or my southern Irish grandmother on my dads side, yet I have not seen that many films set in or based on Ireland. I felt like I should have brought my Irish passport to my cinema trip to see 'The Banshees of Inisherin', the demographic of the film was definitely Irish viewers over the age of 40.  Knowing very little about this film going into the viewing I was excited to understand what the plot of this film was about, knowing only it was about friendship on a  remote island off Ireland and that Colin Farrell played opposite Domhnall Gleeson's dad. Brendan Gleeson played an old  pudgy fiddle player very well, though I doubt this was a challenging role for him, whilst Farrell's character Pádraic was an inherently likeable protagonist.  I was aware this film was meant to be a comedy of sorts yet despite the few laughs scattered about the film it was a lot more darker than comedic in ...

  My house is full of movie night fiend, especially a thriller, so over the past few weeks I have seen quite a few thriller, crime, psychological films. Most recently a new one I hadn't seen before called 'The Silencing' staring that incest twin from 'Game of Thrones' Nikolaj Coster-Waldau.   The film was a classic teen girl abducted from a small remote American hunting town, the parents are now split up mum leaving the drunken dad and a new city cop thinking she will be Sherlock Holmes. So to begin with the plot wasn't exactly something to write home about. However the abductor murderer was something relatively creative, only ever seeing something similar in an episode in 'Criminal Minds'; he let his victims go in a vast forest and then proceeded to hunt them for sport.  Where ever this film was filmed was beautiful, with spanning shots of the isolating landscape. Cool tones and an almost twilight appearing skyline did create an eery atmosphere to backd...