Verity (2026)

When Lowen Ashleigh takes a job to be a ghostwriter for best selling author Verity Crawford, everything isn’t as it first seems and she ends up involved in a situation she could never have dreamed.

Lowen Ashleigh was attempting to make her own way her novels, although the first did not really seem to find an audience and when she is invited to a meeting by her agent she thought it was going to be about her own writing. However, that was not the case and on behalf of Verity’s husband Jeremy they want to try and finish the collection that she had started.

Given the amount of money she can get for being the ghostwriter, it is an offer that Lowen decides will be worth it. She has to go to the house and live their for a while to go through all of the notes Verity had in written format and saved on computers and memory sticks. This immediately felt creepy as it was in a secluded area and when different werid things begin to happen Lowen doubts her decision and quite frankly everything she had been told.

It attempts to shock with twists and turns throughout, which doesn’t really work that well as it just comes across as way to predictable at times and in all honesty none of the characters had any likeable features to develop any care towards them. That is an aspect that needed to be better to help with the plot changes but the demeanour of each character was too poor.

I really should know better by this point, that watching films with Dakota Johnson in the leading role are going to be terrible and or disappointing. She is just not a great actress to watch at all, too emotionless and boring to watch. A positive though is Josh Hartnett, I am fully on board with the roles he has been taking on over the last couple of years in somewhat of a career revival. Anne Hathaway was probably the main reason I wanted to see this, and I thought she was going to be in it more than she actually was which I guess didn not help.