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Film Review: Huesera (the Bone Woman) (2022)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Valeria has long dreamed about becoming a mother. After learning that she’s pregnant, she expects to feel happy, yet something’s off. REVIEW: Motherhood is never simple. From pregnancy, to delivery, to caring for the baby and raising it; each step is entirely different, but just as challenging as the previous, if not more. When a mysterious …

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Film Review: Sissy (2022)

SYNOPSIS: Teen best friends Cecilia and Emma, after a decade run into each other. Cecilia is invited on Emma’s bachelorette weekend where she gets stuck in a remote cabin with her high school bully with a taste for revenge. REVIEW: When confronted with past trauma, with your whole life’s work on the line, some might resort to desperate measures to …

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Film Review: Deadstream (2022)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: A disgraced internet personality attempts to win back his followers by livestreaming one night alone in a haunted house. But when he accidentally pisses off a vengeful spirit, his big comeback event becomes a real-time fight for his life. REVIEW: What happens when the horror-comedy subgenre meets the found footage style involving ghosts? An amusing cross …

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Film Review: All Jacked Up and Full of Worms (2022)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Follows Roscoe, a seedy motel maintenance man, after discovering some powerful hallucinogenic worms he meets Benny, They fall in love making worms together before embarking on an odyssey of sex and violence. REVIEW: Everyone wants to feel good. Some get their high from working out; others from eating their favorite foods. Then again, some literally get …

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Film Review: Swallowed (2022)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Follows two best friends on their final night together, with a nightmare of drugs, bugs, and horrific intimacy. REVIEW: The line between risk and reward is often a fine one to walk along. Smuggling drugs across the border could easily fall into this category of reaping an important payment if you can overcome the risk of …

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Film Review: The Sadness

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After a year of combating a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a frustrated nation finally lets its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, giving rise to a mind-altering plague. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things they can think of. …

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Film Review: The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Winter, 1843. A young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family’s matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy. REVIEW: In today’s world, being attracted to someone of the same sex, although widely accepted, still unfortunately and sadly rubs some people the wrong way. …

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Film Review: #Blue_Whale (2021)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: The story of a girl who, in an attempt to understand the mysterious suicide of her younger sister, embarks on a dangerous game, hoping to stop the curators of the “death group” pushing teenagers to suicide. REVIEW: Technology has literally taken control of modern day lives, but for some, it has also taken control of their …

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Film Review: The Feast (2021)

Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Filmed in Welsh, the picture follows a young woman serving privileged guests at a dinner party in a remote house in rural Wales. The assembled guests do not realize they are about to eat their last supper. REVIEW: Always be cautious whose house you are entering when starting up a new job. However, perhaps you should …

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