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Film Review: Isolation (2021)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: As a narrative framework, Director and Producer, Nathan Crooker created a fictional world many months into the future that is based around the current global pandemic. All eleven filmmakers used the same unifying framework in creating their stories. The filmmakers were tasked with how to stay creative using only what was available to them at the …

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Film Review: Silent Night (2021)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: From producers Matthew Vaughn (Kingsman franchise), Trudie Styler (Moon) and Celine Rattray (The Kids Are Alright), Silent Night follows parents Nell (Knightley) and Simon (Goode) who have invited their closest friends to join their family for Christmas dinner at their idyllic home in the English countryside.  As the group comes together, it feels like old times – but behind all of the laughter and merriment, something …

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Film Review: The Appearance (2018)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: When a medieval monk unexpectedly dies in a horrific way, the Church sends Mateho the Inquisitor, a rational man of science, to investigate the alleged ‘witch’. When Mateho himself becomes implicated as more monks die mysteriously, he must learn that science cannot explain the horrors around him, before he is seduced by the evil that haunts …

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Film Review: Werewolves Within (2021)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS After a proposed pipeline creates divisions within the small town of Beaverfield, and a snowstorm traps its residents together inside the local inn, newly arrived forest ranger FINN (Sam Richardson) and postal worker CECILY (Milana Vayntrub) must try to keep the peace and uncover the truth behind a mysterious creature that has begun terrorizing the community.

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Film Review: The Show (2020)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A man’s search for a stolen artifact leads him to the haunted town filled with Voodoo gangsters, masked adventurers, Depression-era private eyes and violent chiaroscuro women. REVIEW: The movie “The Show” is a 2020 hypnotic new film directed by Mitch Jenkins, written by Alan Moore. Being a fan of Moore’s previous stories such as “Watchmen”, “From …

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Film Review: Black Friday (2021)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: On Thanksgiving night, a group of disgruntled toy store employees begrudgingly arrive for work to open the store at midnight for the busiest shopping day of the year. Meanwhile, an alien parasite crashes to Earth in a meteor. This group of misfits led by store manager Jonathan (Bruce Campbell) and longtime employee Ken (Devon Sawa) soon find …

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Film Review: Witch Hunt (2021)

Rate This Movie   SYNOPSIS: In a modern America where magic is real and witches are persecuted by US authorities, teenager Claire and her family are part of an intricate network that helps these women escape across the border to seek asylum in Mexico. However, when their mode of transport is disrupted by federal witch hunters, trouble befalls the family …

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Film Review: Viva (2007)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “VIVA (2007) is a cult retro spectacle about a bored 1970s housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi (writer/director Anna Biller, THE LOVE WITCH) is dragged into trouble by her girlfriend, who spouts women’s lib as she gets Barbi to discard her bra and go out on the town. …

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Film Review: Risen (2021)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Disaster unfolds when a meteor strikes a small town, turning the environment uninhabitable and killing everything in the surrounding area. REVIEW: Been some time since a fair amount of intellectualism has been so at the center of a sci-fi chiller meant more to scare for box office dollars than provoke thought, contemplation and elevate the discussion …

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