Showing posts with label M. Night Shyamalan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label M. Night Shyamalan. Show all posts

Sunday, August 11, 2024

Saturday, August 3, 2024

A cabin in the woods


KNOCK AT THE CABIN

2023
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Written by Steve Desmond, Michael Sherman, and M. Night Shyamalan (based on the novel The Cabin At the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay)

Spoilers: high

Wednesday, July 31, 2024

Middle-aged by dawn


OLD

2021
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan (based on the comic book Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Levy and Frederik Peeters)

Spoilers: moderate

Sunday, February 3, 2019

This part won't be like a comic book


UNBREAKABLE

One of the best superhero movies is one of the smallest; less surprisingly, one of the best M. Night Shyamalan movies is one of the earliest.

2000
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan

Spoiler alert: severe

Sunday, January 27, 2019

The first superman couldn't fly


GLASS

M. Night Shyamalan's least bad movie in years.

2019
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan

Spoiler alert: highish, I guess, but nothing you'd be unlikely to figure out yourself

Monday, January 23, 2017

Hedwig and the angry witch

SPLIT

There's fun to be had, albeit in the sense that there's usually a certain kind of "fun to be had" from sitting through any M. Night Shyamalan film.  Sometimes, however, he seems like he's even in on the joke here, and that's when Split is pretty good.  But then, sometimes, he is the joke.  And that's when Split is very, very bad.

2017
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan
With Anya Taylor-Joy (Casey), Haley Lu Richardson (Claire), Jessica Shula (Marcia), Betty Buckley (Dr. Karen Fletcher), and James McAvoy (Kevin... et cetera)

Spoiler alert: moderate

Friday, August 9, 2013

Everybody wants to [destroy] the world, part 2



AFTER EARTH

A metamovie, about what, basically, constitutes child abuse.

2013
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Written by Gary Whitta, M. Night Shyamalan, and Will Smith
With Will Smith (Cypher Raige), Jaden Smith (Kitai Raige), Gwaihir the Windlord (himself)

Spoiler alert: mild