Mark O'Brien

The Dark Stranger (2015)

The Dark Stranger (2015)
Rating: ★★
May 28, 2018Boogeyman Emerges from a Graphic Novel
This comes with an original idea where a troubled girl starts drawing a graphic novel that mirrors her own life only for the characters to emerge into the real world. Less horror than a dark allegorical fantasy
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End of Days, Inc. (2015)

End of Days, Inc. (2015)
Rating: ★★½
Nov 8, 2017Office Workers Prepare for the End of the World
A comedy in which office staff working overtime gradually realise their efforts are in preparation for the end of the world. This needed more of a dark bite to fully work but has occasional amusement
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Arrival (2016)

Arrival (2016)
Rating: ★★★★★
Dec 11, 2016First Contact with Aliens
Most SF films gloss over the issue of communication with aliens, having them either speaking English or with devices like Universal Translators. This is a superbly intelligent film that grapples with how to communicate with something different
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The Darkest Minds (2018)

The Darkest Minds (2018)
Rating: ★★
Apr 20, 2020Young Adult/Psychically Powered Kids on the Run
Adapted from a series of Young Adult books concerning a group of children with psychic powers on the run in a dystopian future, this failed to find the audience it sought
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How It Ends (2018)

How It Ends (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Nov 16, 2018Mysterious Catastrophe/Journey Across an Anarchic Countryside
Concerning a catastrophe of never-explained nature, this follows two men – Theo James and a bad-ass Forest Whitaker – across a landscape where society is visibly collapsing
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Ready or Not (2019)

Ready or Not (2019)
Rating: ★★
Nov 29, 2019Deadly Game of Hide and Seek
This is The Most Dangerous Game in the setting of an Agatha Christie whodunnit with Samara Weaving marrying into a family of privilege only to find her wedding night requires her to engage in a deadly game of Hide and Seek
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