Felipe Paraguassu Film Reviews

North is a 1994 American comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Alan Zweibel, based on the novel also written by Zweibel. The film stars Elijah Wood, Bruce Willis, Alan Arkin, Dan Aykroyd, Kathy Bates, Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jon Lovitz, Matthew McCurley, Jussie Smollett, and Scarlett Johansson. The film follows a young boy named North (Wood) as he becomes a free agent from his parents and travels the world attempting to find the perfect duo to raise him, all the while dealing with his own inner turmoil between returning to his own parents, and being guided by Bruce Willis in various roles. Meanwhile, Norths friend Winchell (McCurley) teams up with Norths lawyer Arthur Belt (Lovitz) to essentially take over the world. North has been regarded by many critics as one of the worst movies ever made. To quote Roger Ebert’s infamous review of the film, he says, “ I hated this movie. Hated hated hated hated hated this movie. Hated it. Hated every simpering stup...

The Blackcoats Daughter is a 2015 Canadian American psychological horror film written and directed by Osgood Perkins. The film stars Emma Roberts, Kiernan Shipka, Lucy Boynton, James Remar, Lauren Holly, and Greg Ellwand. The film tells two stories, firstly that of a duo of young women stuck at Bramford Academy, Christian boarding school over spring break and how the freshman Kat (Shipka) becomes influenced by the Devil and turns on the senior Rose (Boynton). The secondary story occurs years later recounting how Kat, now called Joan (Roberts) escapes a mental institution and attempts to return to the haunting Bramford Academy. The film centers on many themes, primarily those of femininity, loneliness, Christianity, and familiar deaths. The Blackcoats Daughter is one of the most genuinely disturbing and tense horror films I’ve ever seen, and I would not be shy to call it one of the best horror films of the last 20 years. The film has so many clever ideas and purposeful storytelling thr...