Thursday Movie Picks

This week’s Thursday Movie Picks, hosted by Wandering through the Shelves, are movies from Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden, Norway and sometimes Finland and Iceland). 

Going Aganist the Crowd

The Going Against the Crowd Blogathon is hosted by Dell On Movies and KG’s Movie Rants. Basically, it’s a Blogathon to showcase the times you weren’t a sheep and went against the critical consensus as you are your own unique, individual person.  

Lights Out

In California, a family of three is being terrorised by an evil spirit that seemingly can only be seen in the dark. When the father is murdered by this monster, Sophie (Maria Bello) falls into depression and is regularly found to be talking to herself by her young son, Martin (Gabriel Bateman), however, Sophie is not talking to herself, but to the very same evil spirit. This has happened before, and it drove mother and daughter, Rebecca (Teresa Palmer), apart. Rebecca must find out the cause of this evil spirit's attachment to her mother before it destroys their family.

Notes on Blindness

Pete Middleton and James Spinney's deeply moving documentary is part drama, part documentary about theologian John Hull's descent into blindness. Much like Clio Barnard's The Arbor, the film uses actors lip syncing to actual audio recordings of the film's subjects, namely John Hull (Dan Renton Skinner) and his wife Marilyn (Simone Kirby).

The Huntsman: Winter's War

This sort of sequel/prequel stars Emily Blunt as Queen Freya who builds her own kingdom following the framing of her lover (Colin Morgan) who Freya killed as she believed that he killed her baby. After this massive betrayal, Freya flees to build her own kingdom and turns the Northern Lands into a frozen wasteland, in this frozen wasteland a heartbroken Freya bans all her subjects from falling in love. However, Huntsmen Eric (Chris Hemsworth) and Sara (Jessica Chastain) do exactly this and when they are caught in the act they are sentenced to death. The pair try to escape, but whilst Eric is escape Sara is killed.

Victoria

For Victoria (Laia Costa) a night out in Berlin turns in a tumultuous one as she becomes entangled in a debt owed by a newly found friend. To pay the debt owed to one of Berlin’s most notorious underground criminals, the gang must rob a bank but without proper planning its doesn’t go entirely smoothly. 

Thursday Movie Picks #110: Movies About Crimes Gone Wrong

Welcome to Thursday Movie Picks Hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves, This week's theme is movies where crime goes awry. I committed a crime once that went awry, I tried to steal a lollipop and got caught and then banned from my local corner shop.

Note that there may be spoilers for The Killing