Adrift first published by Little White Lies Based on a real-life story from 1983, Adrift opens in medias res, in the middle of the ocean, and in the middle of a nightmare. After blurry, barely visible images of a ship’s detritus and a human figure sinking through dark waters, 23-year-old Tami Oldham (Shailene Woodley) awakens,…
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The Deep (2013)
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks. “I’m going home,” declares Gulli (Ólafur Darri Ólafsson) near the end of The Deep (Djúpið). One icy night, a fishing boat sinks three miles off the coast of Iceland’s Westman Islands. All aboard are killed except for Gulli, a gentle giant who swims for six long hours in subzero…