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Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 8 – ‘Jig-A-Bobo’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode Lovecraft Country… Brutal beatings, reams of barbed wire and a community in mourning work in opposition to an Eighties soundtrack. Demonic twins from Uncle Tom’s Cabin haunt the steps of a Freeman member, while Hippolyta remains at large. Elsewhere runes and rituals clash with time travel and racial unrest […]

October Horrors 2020 – Beetlejuice (1988)

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Beetlejuice, 1988. Directed by Tim Burton. Starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones and Michael Keaton. SYNOPSIS: After dying in a car accident, Adam and Barbara are horrified by the new obnoxious residents moving into their former home. Eager to rid their house of the new tenants, Adam and Barbara are […]

2020 BFI London Film Festival – Shirley

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Shirley, 2020. Directed by Josephine Decker. Starring Elisabeth Moss, Odessa Young, Michael Stuhlbarg, Victoria Pedretti, Robert Wuhl, and Logan Lerman. SYNOPSIS: When a young couple take up residence in the home of a reclusive horror writer (Elisabeth Moss), a symbiotic relationship begins which sparks inspiration and infatuation. Half glimpsed through a crowd of people transfixed […]

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Relic

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Relic, 2020. Directed by Natalie Erika James. Starring Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Chris Bunton, Steve Rodgers, Catherine Glavicic, Jeremy Stanford, and Christina O’Neill. SYNOPSIS: A daughter, mother, and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family’s home. Ari Aster’s Hereditary recently proved the enormous artistic potential of horror which commits […]

Movie Review – The War with Grandpa (2020)

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The War with Grandpa, 2020. Directed by Tim Hill. Starring Robert De Niro, Uma Thurman, Christopher Walken, Jane Seymour, Oakes Fegley, Laura Marano, Rob Riggle, Cheech Marin, T.J. McGibbon, Isaac Kragten, Juliocesar Chavez, and Lydia Styslinger. SYNOPSIS: Upset that he has to give the room he loves to his grandfather, Peter decides to declare war […]

Movie Review – Hubie Halloween (2020)

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Hubie Halloween, 2020. Directed by Steven Brill Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Julie Bowen, Ray Liotta, Steve Buscemi, Rob Schneider, Maya Rudolph, Tim Meadows, Michael Chiklis, June Squibb, George Wallace, Keenan Thompson, Shaquille O’Neill, Noah Schnapp, and Paris Berelc SYNOPSIS: For years Hubie Dubois (Adam Sandler) has kept the streets of Salem safe from trouble, […]

Disney+ Review – The Right Stuff

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Martin Carr reviews The Right Stuff… Philip Kaufman’s adaptation of the Tom Wolfe novel is recognised as a classic. Broad, bold and epic in scale The Right Stuff which starred a young Dennis Quaid and Jeff Goldblum, and character actors of merit still holds up. Burnished earth, heat haze horizons and containing more sound barrier […]

Movie Review – Shithouse (2020)

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Shithouse, 2020. Written and Directed by Cooper Raiff. Starring Cooper Raiff, Dylan Gelula, Amy Landecker, Logan Miller, Olivia Welch, Abby Quinn, Joy Sunday, Ashley Padilla, Tre Hall, Alina Patra, Chinedu Unaka, Nick Saso, Wyatt Whipple, Juan Wood, Danny Scharar, Mallory Low, Adan Rocha, Natalie Rousseau, Teddy Padilla, Adam Foster Ballard, Tessa Hope Slovis, and Mike […]

2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Painter and the Thief

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The Painter and the Thief, 2020. Directed by Benjamin Ree. SYNOPSIS: A Czech artist forms a surprising friendship with a Norwegian man who stole two of her paintings. For journalist-turned-documentary-filmmaker Benjamin Ree, the desire to make an art heist movie had been simmering away since the release of his acclaimed chess-champ doc Magnus in 2016. […]