Movies that we recommend - Part 1

The Cabin In The Woods (2012) 

The Cabin in the Woods is a movie that you don't want to know much about, and I don't want to tell you much about it. 

Here's what I can tell you - five friends head off in an RV for a weekend away in a cousin's cabin (which is, spoiler alert, in the woods) and things wind up not being quite as peaceful and serene as they hoped.

At first, the characters seem cardboard-thin: Chris Hemsworth (Thor) as Curt the jock, Anna Hutchison as Jules the sexy blonde, Kristen Connolly as Dana (her virginal opposite), Jesse Williams as Holden the nerd and Fran Kranz as Marty the stoner. Then they go in the basement, where monstrous challenges await them.

There's more I could say about it, but I want you to go in pure. The Cabin In The Woods it's the slasher/zombie/monster kind of movie that you didn't knew that you needed.

 It's fast, fun and furious. See it, trust.

A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) 

David, a robotic boy - the first of his kind programmed to love - is adopted as a test case by a Cybertronics employee and his wife. Though he gradually becomes their child, a series of unexpected circumstances make this life impossible for David. Without final acceptance by humans or machines, David embarks on a journey to discover where he truly belongs, uncovering a world in which the line between robot and machine is both vast and profoundly thin.

"A graceful, yearnful masterwork of connection and evolving artificiality within the tattered seams of the human heart. Reflections, sunrises, and countless other grand images compliment a bittersweet story laced with impenetrable darkness."

Hacksaw Ridge (2016) 

Hacksaw Ridge is a biographical war drama based on the 2004 documentary The Conscientious Objector. The film follows World War II Army Medic, Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), who was also a pacifist and a Seventh-Day Adventist Christian who refused to carry or use firearms of any kind-and he became the man in history to be awarded the Medal of Honor without ever firing a shot, for his role in the Battle of Okinawa.

This is a war film just as much as it is about sticking to one's own beliefs. Andrew Garfield puts on a great performance as a good, kind young man who wants to go to war to help people, not to hurt people.   

Howl's Moving Castle (2004)

Sophie is an eighteen-year-old girl who is cursed by an evil witch to inhabit the body of an old hag and, unable to continue her job in her mother's hat shop, she runs away to the mysterious moving castle of the notorious wizard Howl. There she befriends Calcifer - the fire demon - who is bound to Howl by a contract (the terms of which he can't reveal) and, seeing through the witch's spell, the two promise to help each other. But the young and handsome Howl can also see through the witch's spell; he falls in love with Sophie, who manages to bring life to the dead castle and tries to help Howl face his former tutor, madam Sulimen. A loose adaptation of the Diana Wynne Jones novel, here Miyazaki captures the richness of the characters while nailing the simultaneous charm and terror of Howl even though he's guilty of sometimes rushing the proceedings. There are some genuinely terrifying moments in Howl's Moving Castle, as you would expect from such a notoriously dark director and, unusually for a children's animation, the lines are blurred between friend and foe.