stuff by paige

After how much I enjoyed WandaVision , I really hoped that I would enjoy The Falcon and the Winter Soldier just as much. And although I did enjoy it, there was just something not quite doing it for me from the beginning. The show follows the aftermath of The Blip (when Thanos snapped his fingers and made half of life in the universe disappear), specifically focusing on Sam and Bucky as they face many challenges adjusting to life after coming back from The Blip. Alongside their own many personal struggles, Sam and Bucky quickly find themselves involved in trying to stop a "terrorist group" called the Flag Smashers, who quite literally want to "smash flags" and abolish borders in order to help those in need after being uprooted from their homes and jobs after people returned from The Blip.  The show is quite heavily focused on humanitarian issues, including mental health, poverty, racism, and the abuse of power. These elements were all extremely gripping and I felt t...

Love and Monsters really took me by surprise, and I ended up enjoying it so much more than I would have ever thought. The film follows Joel (Dylan O'Brien) as he sets out on a journey in the midst of a mutated monster apocalypse to rekindle his relationship with his pre-apocalypse girlfriend. Along the way, Joel makes friends, overcomes his fears, finds his strengths and realises there's more to life than just purely surviving. Love and Monsters features some really interesting ideas, mixing sci-fi, dystopia, romance, comedy, and monsters, bringing a really fresh movie experience, especially to say that this was a feature which was based purely on a script and not derived from a book or TV show like many films nowadays. I also found that I really appreciated the casting; Dylan O'Brien is great (although I feel he is being typecast for running roles), Michael Rooker is brilliant, and I was also extremely excited  to see Arianna Greenblatt who played Young Gamora in Avenger...

I had this movie sitting in my watch list since it was released onto Netflix, and I am so glad that I finally got around to watching it. Directed by Amy Poehler, Moxie follows a teenage girl who takes inspiration from her mothers rebellious youth and decides to make a zine to protest against the sexism in her school. This film very accurately depicts issues which girls face in school surrounding how they are taught to act in certain manners and put up with gross and unacceptable behaviour from their male counterparts, raising some very important discussions about issues women and girls of all races, shapes and sizes experience and how men and institutions which allow this behaviour to continue should be held accountable. Although this is a movie which on the surface is targeted towards a female demographic, I think it is important for boys and men to also watch this movie, as the issues raised aren't issues which are women's and girls to fix, but for the men to. Moxie also feat...

When Deadly Illusions popped up on my Netflix feed I added it straight to my watchlist. It sounded right up my street; a thriller drama revolving around an author who finds her life and her fiction blending with one another upon hiring a nanny.  On paper this sounds like a great premise, however within the first ten minutes I began to regret my decision to watch it. The acting and dialogue is extremely unrealistic to start with, with key narrative drivers being explained in a very on the nose way rather than leaving the viewer with space to piece the story together. These issues also went hand in hand with the films predictability, as within the first thirty minutes I had guessed the main plot elements which were to come. The one thing which I would say the film did somewhat well was blurring the line between fiction and reality, but I feel this should have been something which was implemented later into the film, as it already felt unrealistic to start with, meaning that the blur...