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Movie Review – It Comes at Night (2017)

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It Comes at Night, 2017. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. Starring Joel Edgerton, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr, Christopher Abbott, and Riley Keough. SYNOPSIS: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put […]

Second Opinion – It Comes at Night (2017)

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It Comes at Night, 2017. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. Starring Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbot, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. SYNOPSIS: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put […]

Movie Review – It Comes At Night (2017)

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It Comes At Night, 2017. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. Starring Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbot, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. SYNOPSIS: A small family – father, mother and teenage son – live in what appears to be an abandoned house.  The windows are boarded up and, from the outside, there’s little sign […]

Joel Edgerton to direct and star in Boy Erased alongside Lucas Hedges

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A distributor bidding war is currently underway for Boy Erased, the second directorial effort from Joel Edgerton, which will see him starring alongside Lucas Hedges (Manchester By the Sea). Based upon Garrard Conley’s 2016 memoir, Boy Erased tells of his time attending Love in Action, a brutal Twelve-Step conversion therapy porgamme designed to ‘deprogram’ LGBT people. However, rather […]

Movie Review – It Comes at Night (2017)

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It Comes at Night, 2017. Written and Directed by Trey Edward Shults. Starring Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbott, Carmen Ejogo, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Riley Keough, Griffin Robert Faulkner, and David Pendleton. SYNOPSIS: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and […]

Movie Review – Loving (2016)

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Loving, 2016. Directed by Jeff Nichols. Starring Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Michael Shannon, Marton Csokas, Nick Kroll, Will Dalton and Sharon Blackwood. SYNOPSIS: In 1958, Richard and Mildred Loving were married in Washington DC.  Interracial marriage in their home state of Virginia was illegal and, on their return home, they were arrested, imprisoned but also spared […]

Movie Review – Loving (2016)

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Loving, 2016. Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols. Starring Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Nick Kroll, Chris Greene, Bill Camp, Martin Csokas, Sharon Blackwood, and Michael Shannon. SYNOPSIS: Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, are sentenced to prison in Virginia in 1958 for getting married Before even diving into Loving, let’s get one piece of […]

Joel Edgerton to join Jennifer Lawrence in spy thriller Red Sparrow

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Joel Edgerton has entered talks with 20th Century Fox to join Jennifer Lawrence in the upcoming spy thriller Red Sparrow, which is being directed by Lawrence’s Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence. Red Sparrow will take place in modern-day Russia, with Lawrence playing Dominika Egorova, a state intelligence officer coerced into becoming a ‘Sparrow’, a trained […]

Movie Review – Midnight Special (2016)

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Midnight Special, 2016. Written and Directed by Jeff Nichols. Starring Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sean Bridgers, Bill Camp, Paul Sparks, and Sam Shepard. SYNOPSIS: A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers. On the surface, Midnight Special appears to indulge […]