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Movie Review – Searching (2018)

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Searching, 2018. Directed by Aneesh Chaganty. Starring John Cho, Michelle La, Sara Sohn, Joseph Lee, Dominic Hoffman, Connor McRaith, Joseph John Schirle, and Debra Messing. SYNOPSIS: After his 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a desperate father breaks into her laptop to look for clues to find her. For a film so dependent on technology, Searching feels […]

Movie Review – Perdida (2018)

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Perdida, 2018. Directed by Alejandro Montiel. Starring Luisana Lopilato, Mara Alberto, Carlos Alcantára, Juan Ignacio Cane, Pedro Casablanc, and Nicolás Furtado. SYNOPSIS: A police officer, obsessed over an old case, decides to resume the search for a childhood friend who disappeared years ago. Perdida starts out with an ominous scene as befits its dark subject […]

Movie Review – Jean (2016)

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Jean, 2016. Directed by Shawn Welling. Starring Isabella Blake-Thomas, Lee Majors, Ranger Welling, Justin Lebrun, Derek Russo, Martin Copping, Shawn Welling, Elizabeth Blake-Thomas, Preslee Bishop, David Namminga, Leticia Peres, and Michael Pickering. SYNOPSIS: Jean heads into the wilderness accompanied by her faithful dog Ranger to find her grandfather. Jean sets itself in a beautiful, harsh […]

Movie Review – Five Fingers for Marseilles (2017)

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Five Fingers for Marseilles, 2017. Directed by Michael Matthews. Starring Vuyo Dabula, Hamilton Dhlamini, Zethu Dlomo, Kenneth Nkosi, Mduduzi Mabaso, Aubrey Poolo, Lizwi Vilakazi, Warren Masemola, Dean Fourie, Anthony Oseyemi, Brendon Daniels, and Jerry Mofokeng. SYNOPSIS: Lives change forever when Tau, the young lion, kills two corrupt policemen in a South African shanty town. Five […]

Movie Review – The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)

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The Strangers: Prey at Night, 2018. Directed by Johannes Roberts. Starring Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison, Lewis Pullman, Emma Bellomy, and Damian Maffei. SYNOPSIS: A family staying in a trailer park are stalked by three masked assailants. 2008s The Strangers seemingly came out of nowhere and proved to be something of a commercial success, […]

Movie Review – The Happytime Murders (2018)

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The Happytime Murders, 2018. Directed by Brian Henson. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Bill Barretta, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Leslie David Baker, Joel McHale, Michael McDonald, Ben Falcone, Dorien Davies, Cynthy Wu, Mitch Silpa, Hemky Madera, Ryan Tran, Fortune Feimster, Brekkan Spens, Benjamin Cole Royer, Jimmy O. Yang, Ryan Gaul, Jim Palmer, Dennis Keiffer, Michael Croner, Brett […]

Arrow Video FrightFest Review – The Cleaning Lady (2018)

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The Cleaning Lady, 2018. Directed by Jon Knautz. Starring Alexis Kendra, Stelio Savante, Rachel Alig, Elizabeth Sandy, Mykayla Sohn, JoAnne McGrath, and Keri Marrone. SYNOPSIS: As a means to distract herself from an affair, a love-addicted woman befriends a cleaning lady, badly scarred by burns. She soon learns these scars run much deeper than the […]

Movie Review – The Motive (2017)

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The Motive, 2017. Directed by Manuel Martin Cuenca. Starring Javier Gutierrez, Maria Leon, and Adelfa Calvo. SYNOPSIS: A struggling writer starts to manipulate his neighbours in order to generate ideas for a book. But is he really in control? The Motive is a quiet, studied film about a writer whose imagination becomes entangled with reality. […]

Comic Book Review – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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Christian Jimenez reviews Bram Stoker’s Dracula… This graphic novel follows the 1992 film adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Dracula decides to come to London and discovers a woman, Mina, who resembles a lover of his from centuries past. A doctor, Van Helsing, who hunts vampires discovers Dracula’s plant to kidnap Mina […]