A smart, twisty, turny mind fuck of a movie from the imagination of writer/director Christopher Smith. The film is a slow burn of tension and revelation with a kicker of a pay off. Triangle is tonally similar to Smith's first movie, Creep, and is lacking the laughs of his second, Severance. Melissa George is great as a woman who goes on a yachting trip with friends only to become stranded in a time loop on an abandoned cruise ship. Solid suspense, some scares and worth watching more than once. A Good from this Basement Dweller.
If you're a 40 + white dude, like myself, you may remember a comic series called " The Adventures of Tintin ". I know I remember them. This series, dating back to 1929, got turned into a animated feature film by Steven Spielberg in 2011. After buying a model of ship called The Unicorn, teenaged journalist Tintin finds himself on adventure that will take him from the high seas, to the low deserts, and from the distant past to the present. With his trusty dog, Snowy, by his side, Tintin uncovers a story connecting two men across the centuries.. . The story is really quite good. It's well crafted, and high paced- with just enough slow moments to build and develop the world and the characters. This is the sort of adventure story you'd find in the old serials of the 1930's and '40's. In fact, it felt like it was the sort of tale that you'd find Indiana Jones undertaking. I found myself swept up, and swept along as our hero swung from one e...
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