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Film: The Darkness Year: 2016 Genre: Horror, Thriller Directed By: Greg McLean Starring: Kevin Bacon, Radha Mitchell, David Mazouz About:  A family unknowingly awakens an ancient supernatural entity on a Grand Canyon vacation, and must fight for survival when it follows them home. Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDhoqY1grJY My Review: Wanting a horror movie to watch, my mum decided to choose the film The Darkness. Knowing nothing about the film prior to seeing it and having not seen it before I was rather excited to see this. The Darkness is about a family who goes to the Grand Canyon and when their son comes across some stones decides to take them home with him. However the stones end up having a much darker purpose than they intended and could end up killing or breaking the family apart. I thought that this film was brilliant and I really enjoyed how the movie showed right away how the son found the stones in which ends up making all of the problems...

Film: The Games Maker Year: 2014 Genre: Adventure, Family Directed By: Juan Pablo Buscarini Starring: David Mazouz, Edward Asner, Joseph Fiennes About:  Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save his family and defeat Morodian, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true Games Maker Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3z5Rw2lAn4 My Review: Having been on my to watch pile for a while I decided to finally give this a watch. This film was nothing like what I had expected however and didn't entertain me as much as I hoped it would. The Games Maker is about a boy called Ivan who enters a competition about games making and ends up as the winner. Soon after however his parents die in an accident and he tries to find out what happened to his parents ...