More Posts By Lotte
Review: Web van Angst – Arlette Krijgsman
In the city-state of Agathon, citizens must take a daily drug called peras to suppress their fear. This is vital because the fears of the inhabitants of Agathon manifest as Daimons: shadow monsters that can only be controlled by “Apaten”. At the prestigious Ataraxia Academy, Clara is training to become an Apaat, until one night she and her friends find themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, and her whole world is turned upside down.
Review: Blade Runner 2049 – Denis Villeneuve
In 2049, androids have replaced humans as blade runners – androids are now hunting their own kind. When K is sent to retire a particular android, a peculiar find under the roots of dead tree sets him on the trail of something equally impossible and dangerous: an android that was born. Over the course of his investigation, he finds out about his own origins as well.
Review: Blade Runner – Ridley Scott
Rick Deckard is a blade runner, a bounty hunter tasked with seeking out – and taking out – rogue androids who have infiltrated society. When he is faced with a particularly dangerous group of the newest models, his conscience starts troubling him when he begins having difficulty telling them apart from humans.
Review: Total Recall – Paul Verhoeven
Based (rather loosely) on Philip K. Dick’s 1966 short story We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Verhoeven’s 1990 cult classic is a weird amalgamation of senseless violence, aged effects, mediocre acting and a thought-provoking concept.
Review: Minority Report – Steven Spielberg
This Spielberg film is loosely based on ‘The Minority report’, a 1956 short story by Philip K. Dick. It takes the story’s premise of a police agency that prevents crimes on the basis of predictions of the future, and a police chief whose life is turned upside down when it is predicted he will commit a murder himself. Hollywood adds Tom Cruise, an innovative near-future cyberpunk visual style, action-packed chase scenes, and a twisting plot.
Review: KPop Demon Hunters – Sony Pictures Animation
This animated musical follows K-Pop group the Huntr/x, who use the magic of singing to protect the world from demons, and strengthen the Honmoon, a magical barrier shielding our world from that of the demons. As the girls gear up to permanently banish the demons, one of them is forced to confront not only the demons she and her friends are fighting, but also the markings on her skin indicating that she is part demon herself
Review: Practical Magic – Alice Hoffman
The Owens sisters have always been different from their peers. All Sally and Gillian wanted was to get away from the kids and school, who shunned and teased them for the magic that surrounded them and their aunts. When an unexpected death brings the sisters back into each other’s lives years later, they discover that the love of a family is its own kind of magic.
Review: Van Helsing – Stephen Sommers
Van Helsing is a monster hunter with no memories of his early life. His current days are determined by the jobs the Church assigns to him, thankless jobs that most often leave him hated or feared by the general public. Van Helsing’s latest quarry requires him to travel to Transylvania to deal with the infamous vampire lord Dracula, in order to save the souls of a pious family. In these dark lands, he discovers a greater plot is in the works, something that might even relate to his own unknown history…
Review: Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales – Heather Fawcett
Emily Wilde is a researcher specialising in dryadology, the study of faeries. Having previously managed to escape a faerie realm by tricking their king, she now finds herself facing a new conundrum entirely: finding her place in the realm of the faerie king she loves, and helping him defend his home.
Review: The Familiar – Leigh Bardugo
Hidden away in the kitchen of her not-quite-rich employer’s house, scullery maid Luzia is hiding a gift that could have her burned at the stake by the Inquisition. When her mistress finds out and starts parading her around to gain favour with the wealthy elite, Luzia suddenly finds herself entangled in a dangerous web of magic, power and love.
Review: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes – Lionsgate
Decades before Katniss Everdeen even volunteered as tribute, president Coriolanus Snow is a promising young student selected to mentor one of the tributes during the annual Hunger Games. His mentee is Lucy Gray Baird, a young woman who is as feisty as she is musical. Could Lucy Gray possibly win the games?
Review: Love and Monsters – Netflix/Paramount
In a world that has been ravaged by insects that have grown to the size of dinosaurs after a fatal asteroid crash, twenty something Joel Dawson wiles away his life in an underground bunker with a small group of fellow survivors. As the only single person in a colony full of couples, Joel finally decides to venture onto the dangerous surface to find his pre-apocalypse girlfriend, Aimee. one small problem: Joel freezes when he gets scared, and there’s a lot on the surface to be scared of.