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October Horrors 2019 Day 14 – Blair Witch (2016)

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Blair Witch, 2016. Directed by Adam Wingard. Starring James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, Brandon Scott, Corbin Reid, Valorie Curry and Wes Robinson. SYNOPSIS: After his sister went missing nearly 20 years ago searching for the Blair Witch, James and his friends venture into the very same woods in which she vanished to investigate what really […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Luce

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Luce, 2019. Directed by Julius Onah. Starring Naomi Watts, Tim Roth, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Octavia Spencer, Andrea Bang, Norbert Leo Butz, Astro, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Christopher Mann, and Noah Gaynor. SYNOPSIS: When a seemingly perfect married couple are forced to question the idealised version of their adopted son (Kelvin Harrison Jr.), cracks begin to appear […]

Movie Review – Holiday Hell (2019)

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Holiday Hell. 2019. Directed by Jeremy Berg, David Burns, Jeff Ferrell, and Jeff Vigil. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Joel Murray, Jeff Bryan Davis, Amber Stonebraker, Lisa Coronado, and Ailsa Marshall. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious shopkeeper narrates four horror tales, each set during a different holiday. I’ve (somehow) watched enough “Christmas Horror” anthologies over my career to confirm, […]

Movie Review – Sid & Judy (2019)

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Sid & Judy, 2019. Directed by Stephen Kijak. Starring Jennifer Jason Leigh and Jon Hamm. SYNOPSIS: A revealing new look at Judy Garland fifty years after her tragic, untimely death. Sid & Judy fuses the unpublished recollections of producer, manager and third husband, Sid Luft, with film clips, rare concert footage and Judy’s own inimitable […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Le Mans ’66 (a.k.a. Ford v Ferrari)

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Le Mans ’66 (a.k.a. Ford v Ferrari), 2019. Directed by James Mangold. Starring Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Caitriona Balfe, Jon Bernthal, Josh Lucas, Noah Jupe, Tracy Letts, Ray McKinnon, and JJ Feild. SYNOPSIS: When former Le Mans winner and American car designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) is tasked by Ford to make a revolutionary race […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 13 – Red Dragon (2002)

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Red Dragon, 2002. Directed by Brett Ratner. Starring Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Emily Watson, Mary Louise Parker, Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Harvey Keitel. SYNOPSIS: Gifted FBI profiler Will Graham is reluctantly brought out of retirement to help track down an elusive serial killer dubbed “The Tooth Fairy”. To gain an insight into his […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, 2019. Directed by Marielle Heller. Starring Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Susan Kelechi Watson, Chris Cooper, Enrico Colantoni, Maryann Plunkett, Tammy Blanchard, and Wendy Makkena. SYNOPSIS: After a jaded magazine writer is assigned a profile of Fred Rogers, he overcomes his skepticism, learning about empathy, kindness, and decency from America’s […]

Movie Review – El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)

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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, 2019. Written and directed by Vince Gilligan. Starring Aaron Paul, Charles Baker, Matt Jones, and Jonathan Banks. SYNOPSIS: After escaping Jack and his gang, Jesse Pinkman goes on the run from the police and tries to escape his own inner turmoil. When Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan first announced a […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Official Secrets

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Official Secrets, 2019. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Keira Knightley, Matt Smith, Matthew Goode, Ralph Fiennes, Rhys Ifans, Conleth Hill, MyAnna Buring, Jack Farthing, Katherine Kelly, Adam Bakri, and Tamsin Greig. SYNOPSIS: The true story of a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the […]