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Movie Review – The Price We Pay (2023)

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The Price We Pay, 2023. Directed by Ryûhei Kitamura. Starring Emile Hirsch, Stephen Dorff, Gigi Zumbado, Tyler Sanders, Erika Ervin, Jesse Kinser, Sabina Mach, Vernon Wells, Tanner Zagarino, and Eleanor Burke. SYNOPSIS: After a pawn shop robbery goes askew, two criminals take refuge at a remote farmhouse to try to let the heat die down […]

Movie Review – Nocebo (2022)

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Nocebo, 2022. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Eva Green, Chai Fonacier, Mark Strong, and Billie Gadsdon. SYNOPSIS: Unable to figure out the cause behind her recent health problems, Christine accepts a nanny’s help despite not remembering that she hired her. Christine (Eva Green) is in the middle of a fashion show for her new line […]

Video Review – The Outwaters can’t live up to its massive internet hype

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EJ Moreno with a video review of indie horror The Outwaters… The Outwaters, 2023. Directed by Robbie Banfitch. Starring Robbie Banfitch, Angela Basolis, Scott Schamell, and Michelle May. When a new indie horror movie takes over social media, you have to see it. For better or worse, movies like The Outwaters drive the horror conversation […]

Movie Review – Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, 2023. Directed by Peyton Reed. Starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Bill Murray, Katy O’Brian, William Jackson Harper, Jamie Andrew Cutler, David Dastmalchian, Randall Park, and Corey Stoll. SYNOPSIS: Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne, along with Cassie Lang, Hank Pym and Janet […]

Movie Review – The Twin (2022)

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The Twin, 2022. Directed by Taneli Mustonen. Starring Teresa Palmer, Steven Cree, Barbara Marten, Tristan Ruggeri, and Raul Talmar. SYNOPSIS: A family mourning the loss of one of their twin sons after an accident return to the father’s family home, but all is not well. If you thought that the ‘horror as a metaphor for […]

Movie Review – Broker (2023)

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Broker, 2023. Directed by Hirokazu Kore-Eda. Starring Song Kang Ho, Gang Dong Won, Doona Bae, Lee Ji Eun, and Lee Joo Young. SYNOPSIS: One night in the pouring rain, a couple of small-time crooks secretly carry off an infant who was left at a baby box. But on the following day, the mother So-young unexpectedly […]

Movie Review – Next Exit (2022)

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Next Exit, 2022. Written and Directed by Mali Elfman. Starring Katie Parker, Rahul Kohli, Rose McIver, Karen Gillan, Tongayi Chirisa, Diva Zappa, Gavin Powers, Joe Powers, Ty Molbak, Jim Ortlieb, Tongayi Chirisa, Tim Griffin, Jeffrey David Anderson, Marcelo Tubert, Nico Evers-Swindell, and Sloane Weber. SYNOPSIS: In a world where ghosts are real and front-page news, […]

Video Game Review – Ten Dates

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Shaun Munro reviews Ten Dates… In November 2020, during one of the most fraught peaks of the pandemic, Wales Interactive released an FMV game far removed from the publisher’s usual horror/thriller-themed interactive video projects. Five Dates was an FMV rom-com in which players controlled a male protagonist, Vinny, as he went on virtual dates with five […]

Movie Review – Murina (2021)

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Murina, 2021. Directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović. Starring Gracija Filipović, Leon Lučev, Danica Curcic and Cliff Curtis. SYNOPSIS: Living on an idyllic Croatian island, teenager Julija (played by Gracija Filipović) is at odds with her father. Controlling in the wants for his daughter, the family tension escalates when wealthy friend Javier (Cliff Curtis) comes to […]

Movie Review – Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, 2023. Directed by Peyton Reed. Starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Jonathan Majors, Kathryn Newton, Michelle Pfeiffer, Michael Douglas, Bill Murray, Katy O’Brian, William Jackson Harper, Jamie Andrew Cutler, David Dastmalchian, Randall Park, and Corey Stoll. SYNOPSIS: Scott Lang and Hope Van Dyne, along with Hank Pym and Janet Van Dyne, […]