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Movie Review – The Nun II (2023)

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The Nun II, 2023. Directed by Michael Chaves. Starring Taissa Farmiga, Jonas Bloquet, Bonnie Aarons, Storm Reid, Katelyn Rose Downey, Anna Popplewell, Suzanne Bertish, Léontine d’Oncieu, Anouk Darwin Homewood, Peter Hudson, Tamar Baruch, Natalia Safran, Maxime Elias-Menet, Alexandra Gentil, Margot Morris, Pascal Aubert, David Horovitch, Paul Spera, Aaron-Jon North, and Kate Colebrook. SYNOPSIS: 1956 – […]

Movie Review – Megalomaniac (2022)

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Megalomaniac, 2022. Directed by Karim Ouelhaj. Starring Eline Schumacher, Benjamin Ramon, Hélène Moor, Wim Willaert, and Pierre Nisse. SYNOPSIS: The sibling children of a serial killer seem to have inherited their father’s madness. Time is circular, and you can be sure that fashions and trends once deemed cutting edge and exciting will have their time […]

Movie Review – Sympathy for the Devil (2023)

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Sympathy for the Devil, 2023. Directed by Yuval Adler. Starring Nicolas Cage, Joel Kinnaman, Kaiwi Lyman, Burns Burns, Cameron Lee Price, Rich Hopkins, Alexis Zollicoffer, Oliver McCallum, and Nancy Goode. SYNOPSIS: After being forced to drive a mysterious passenger at gunpoint, a man finds himself in a high-stakes game of cat and mouse where it […]

Movie Review – Operation Seawolf (2022)

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Operation Seawolf, 2022. Directed by Steven Luke. Starring Dolph Lundgren, Frank Grillo, Hiram A. Murray, Apostolos Gliarmis, Andrew Stecker and Edgar Damatian. SYNOPSIS: In the last days of WWII, Germany, desperate for any last grasp to defeat the Allied powers, formed together the German Navy and the last remaining U-Boats for one last mission, to […]

Movie Review – Sitting in Bars with Cake (2023)

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Sitting in Bars with Cake, 2023. Directed by Trish Sie. Starring Yara Shahidi, Odessa A’zion, Bette Midler, Ron Livingston, Maia Mitchell, Aaron Domínguez, Rish Shah, Martha Kelly, Adina Porter, Navid Negahban, Simone Recasner, Will Ropp, Charlie Morgan Patton, Rashaun Sibley, Casey Burke, Diep Tran, Reshma Gajjar, and Kayla Njeri. SYNOPSIS: Extrovert Corinne convinces Jane, a […]

Movie Review – Monstrous (2020)

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Monstrous, 2020. Directed by Bruce Wemple. Starring Anna Shields, Rachel Finninger, and Grant Schumacher. SYNOPSIS: A young woman goes searching for answers after her friend mysteriously vanishes in Whitehall, NY, an Adirondack town known for its Bigfoot sightings. She quickly learns that hiding in the woods is an evil more sinister than she could ever […]

Movie Review – Rotting in the Sun (2023)

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Rotting in the Sun, 2023. Co-written and directed by Sebastián Silva. Starring Sebastián Silva, Jordan Firstman, and Catalina Saavedra. SYNOPSIS: Follows social media celebrity Jordan Firstman as he starts a search for filmmaker Sebastian Silva who went missing in Mexico City. He suspects that the cleaning lady in Sebastian’s building may be involved in his […]

Movie Review – Sisu (2023)

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Sisu, 2023. Written and directed by Jalmari Helander. Starring Jorma Tommila, Aksel Hennie, Jack Doolan, Onni Tommila, and Mimosa Willamo. SYNOPSIS: When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, Nazi soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him. Finnish filmmaker Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports, […]

Movie Review – Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2023)

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Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, 2023. Written and Directed by Aitch Alberto. Starring Max Pelayo, Reese Gonzales, Eugenio Derbez, Veronica Falcón, Kevin Alejandro, Eva Longoria, Luna Blaise, Marlene Forte, Isabella Gómez, Maynor Alvarado, Hanani Taylor, Jose Diaz, and Emiliano Torres. SYNOPSIS: Based on the book by Benjamin Alire Sáenz, set in […]

Movie Review – The Knocking (2022)

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The Knocking, 2022. Directed by Joonas Pajunen & Max Seeck. Starring Inka Kallén, Saana Koivisto, Pekka Strang, Niko Saarela, Janina Berman, Saana Koivisto, and Olga Temonen. SYNOPSIS: Three siblings return to their secluded family home after the murder of their father with the intent of selling up, but the forest has other ideas. Finland is […]