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Battling sexists and gremlins
published : 12 Feb 2021 at 04:00
33 Chloë Grace Moretz as flight officer Maude Garrett in Shadow In The Cloud. (Photo: M Pictures Co.,Ltd)
There s a certain type of thriller movie in which filmmakers try to bring something different to the table by designing a plot with the main character getting stuck in a single location while having to deal with a series of life-and-death situations. This is quite challenging as it forces the director, writer and actor to step up their game as there is limited space and scenery and most of the time, they fail to pull it off.
Movie Review – Shadow in the Cloud (2020)
Directed by Roseanne Liang.
SYNOPSIS:
In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military flight, the crew tests Maude’s every move. Just as her quick wit is winning them over, strange happenings and holes in her backstory incite paranoia surrounding her true mission. But this crew has more to fear…lurking in the shadows, something sinister is tearing at the heart of the plane. Trapped between an oncoming air ambush and an evil lurking within, Maude must push beyond her limits to save the hapless crew and protect her mysterious cargo.
Gremlins have long been a favorite creature of Hollywood, and we’re not talking Mogwai here. British Royal Air Force folklore about a beastie that tears planes apart in midair flew across the Atlantic, starting with Roald Dahl’s first kids book, 1943’s
The Gremlins, which almost became a Disney animated feature. They remained an ideal subject for cartoons, starting with Warner Bros.’ “Falling Hare,” featuring Bugs Bunny going toe-to-paw with the diabolical sabotage of the gremlins. They weren’t always so adversarial: 1944’s “Russian Rhapsody” pretty much gave the story away with its original title, “Gremlins From the Kremlin,” as Soviet pixies take a swing at “Der Feuhrer’s Face.” Postwar, William Shatner went face-to-face with a destructive creature in “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” when he stared out of the window into
SHADOW IN THE CLOUD: Chloë Grace Moretz Battles Sky Gremlins In Bonkers Full Trailer
Following yesterday s teaser, the full trailer for Roseanne Liang s
Shadow in the Cloud is now online, and it gives us a much better idea of what to expect from this insane-looking adventure.
RorMachine |
12/10/2020
Kick-Ass) shared the first teaser trailer for Roseanne Liang s insane-looking genre hybrid,
Shadow in the Cloud, yesterday, and we now have the full trailer and a poster courtesy of Vertical and Redbox Entertainment.
The WWII-set action thriller focuses on Flight Officer Maude Garrett (Moretz), who hitches a ride on a B-17 with a mission to escort a highly classified package to the plane s destination. Once aboard, the young pilot is not only forced to contend with the sexist crew, but a destructive gremlin intend on wreaking as much havoc as possible.