Attack the Block: A film review

 - Vancouver, British Columbia - Last year there was a film that seemed to garner a lot of buzz, but sadly never made it to the big screens here in Canada; not Vancouver anyway. I rarely am one to give into hype, but this one had me genuinely interested. And fortunately, the trailers that I saw didn't really give that much away. Attack the Block follows a group of teenaged thugs that, after mugging a woman, come across a strange creature that literally falls from the sky. After the creature attacks them and mauls the face of their leader, Moses (John Boyega), they beat it to death and take it somewhere safe to eventually claim their prize, after all, it's a life form that fell from the sky. However, more creatures are falling to the ground as the night continues, but they're all much bigger and more vicious. And they seem to have taken a very special interest in Moses and his gang.

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The Code: A short film review

 - Vancouver, British Columbia - This will be my first attempt to review a short film here on Sour Grapes Winery. It certainly isn't that I don't enjoy short films, I do. Otherwise I'd be a hypocrite. They're a great way to get practice for making larger, more ambitious feature length movies, which I imagine the majority of film makers aspire to make. So, I don't typically review short films for a number of reasons. One: they're not as easy to access, which isn't entirely true this day in age because the internet has them all over the place. But then it's a matter of over saturation. Two: there isn't as much interest in seeing short films outside of the online platform or festival circuit. My opinion could either be entirely irrelevant to a reader because it's about a film they might never see, or everyone has seen it Youtube and made their opinions perfectly clear.

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