Repentance – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Imagine a Misery inspired movie in which the author was a psychiatrist and the crazed fan was someone who deeply needed their help with grief.
Author: Amari Allah
Amari is the founder and head writer of Wherever-I-Look.com and has been writing reviews since 2010, with a focus on dramas and comedies.
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The Danish Girl – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Through Eddie Redmayne’s performance as Lili, you’ll gain an increased respect for the various aspects which represent femininity, and through Alicia Vikander’s role as Gerda, you get to peer inside the lives of those who learn to accept the drastic change which is losing someone for their true self. Trigger Warning(s): Transphobia
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The Book of Life – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A traditional love conquers all story, with a Mexican twist. Review (with Spoilers) Between an all-star cast, perhaps the sweetest love story you have seen in a while, and quite a few moments of laughter, it is hard to not say The Book of Life isn’t bound to become a classic for some. However,…
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The Boy – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview The phrase “An Idle Mind Is The Devil’s Playground” would perhaps be the best tagline for a film like this. One which shows what happens when a boy is allowed to explore his small world unattended, not get the opportunity to socialize with people his age, and seemingly is left with nothing to amuse…
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Gimme Shelter – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A young girl struggling to gain stability finds it in one woman’s home. Review (with Spoilers) Like most people, when I think of any Disney Princess I think some bubblegum pop image of someone who seems marketable, but certainly isn’t a dramatic actress. However, Vanessa Hudgens seemingly is trying to break this trend by…
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Respire (Breathe) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
The new girl in town finds herself attracted to the resident demure girl, and through their friendship, they learn, and reveal, a lot about each other. Especially in terms of how far they will go to keep up appearances until the façade cannot be held up anymore.
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Iyanla Vanzant’s Peace From Broken Pieces [Book Review]
Peace From Broken Pieces is part biography/ part self-help book, and is very much like putting a puzzle together. You have to be in a certain mind frame to really focus on it, and the process can be both frustrating and therapeutic, yet satisfying once it is all over and things become clear.
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The Boy Who Smells Like Fish (Treading Water) – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview A love story made a bit too overcomplicated by a mother’s possible obsession and a boy who reeks of fish. Review (with Spoilers) – Below
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Get On Up – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview While most biopics seek to both educate and entertain you, as well as show you the soul of an icon, this film strangely skips out on giving you soul and solely focuses on the entertainment part of Brown’s life, with a sprinkle of his triumph and demons. Review (with Spoilers) James Brown has been…
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Collateral Beauty – Overview/ Review (with Spoilers)
Overview Will Smith continues to try to explore life past the Fresh Prince persona and finds himself starting to tap back into that well that made The Pursuit of Happiness perhaps one of his best films. Trigger Warning(s): Conversations about Death of a Child Review (with Spoilers) Noted Actor(s) Howard (Will Smith) | Whit (Edward…
