Pasha's Film Reviews Etc.

7/10 Three school girls are kidnapped on the way back from a birthday party, but their kidnapper is no ordinary psycho. 23 three personalities live in his head. Some of them want to hurt the girls, the others want to protect them. But all of them are waiting for the coming of The Beast - a hidden identity  that will forever change the understanding of multiple personality disorder. Thriller lovers will find the premise of SPLIT familiar. What sets this film apart is one great performance from James McAvoy, who portrays the many faces of an MPD sufferer  with great timing and authenticity. This is great material to work with and McAvoy gives it his everything. No CGI required for his incredible transformations and this one performance is something to talk about. His younger co-star Anya Taylor-Joy as the brooding Casey, one of the kidnapped girls who has guts and a secret of her own,  proves that a damsel in distress can be an interesting character. Her ro...

5/10 It seemed that the difficult childhood of a little Indian boy called Saroo had a happy ending. Adopted by a caring couple from Australia he had everything a child could wish for - a loving family, a proper education and incredible opportunities. But the past still haunts him. The only way to carry on is to find his real family. Will it help to reunite his present self with his old past? Or will it divide him? Let's get it out of the way now - the main character of LION is a spoilt little brat. This naked truth is carefully masked by many tear jerking moments. Apparently bad things in one's childhood can excuse anything you put others through. When his past calls out to him, Saroo quits his job, dumps his girlfriend, abuses his brother and abandons his adoptive parents. Then he is sulking in his million dollar ocean view home and is searching for his mommy  on his thousand dollar laptop. How terrible for him! If you thought that LION will take you on exc...

  7/10 Christian Wolf (Ben Affleck) is an accountant, but of a special kind. He works for some dangerous people, laundering their money. People in his field of work have a pretty short lifespan, so it is a mystery how Christian has managed to survive for so long?  His means of survival is put to test when he takes on the first legitimate job in a while – to find the missing 60 million dollars of a large electronic company. Working together with an awkward fellow accountant he uncovers the mistake… only setting himself up for a trap. Now he has to face an enemy more dangerous than any of his former dodgy clients, and the true identity of his adversary may just be his undoing. Christian Wolf is an interesting character. He is suffering from a form of autism, but is extremely successful at what he does. He’s got a mysterious assistant “an English lady” whose identity is hidden, until the very end, and he collects fine art, which he exhibits in a trailer, full of ...