Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premis
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Backcountry is a well-acted film with a familiar premise that pits the ignorance of man and woman against nature. This time around, couple-seemingly-on-the-verge-of-implosion, Jenn (Missy Peregrym) and Alex (Jeff Roop) leave their urban comforts to explore the never-seen-on-screen Blackfoot trail, secluded somewhere in the Canadian wilderness. Inevitably, the couple becomes lost and begins a longer-than-intended trip back […]
Frozen is the tale of two sisters, Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (Idina Menzel). Princesses of Arendelle, they are as close as sisters can be in their youth, until Elsa’s powers to create snow and ice accidentally wound Anna while they play in the castle one day. Fearing the end of Anna, her parents take her to […]
A number of films that deal with isolation also deal with the fear of containment. Castaway pits Chuck Noland (Tom Hanks) on an island. Pi is trapped on a boat with a hungry tiger. In Buried, Ryan Gosling must ward off claustrophobia and – inexplicably – fire in a coffin. Frozen relegates our skiers to their chairlift, […]
Making a movie about survival is tricky insomuch as, generally speaking, the writer, director, and cast have little frame of reference from which to draw the logical course of action for dealing with a pack of hungry wolves in the Alaskan wilderness. Perhaps our repeat viewings of Man vs. Wild suggest a rudimentary knowledge for survival, but […]
