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2020 BFI London Film Festival Review – Farewell Amor

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Farewell Amor, 2020. Written and directed by Ekwa Msangi. Starring Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Zainab Jah, and Jayme Lawson. SYNOPSIS: Reunited after 17 years, an Angolan immigrant is joined in the U.S. by his wife and daughter. Now strangers sharing a one-bedroom apartment, they discover a shared love of dance that may help them overcome […]

Movie Review – The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

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The Forty-Year-Old Version, 2020. Written and Directed by Radha Blank Starring Radha Blank, Peter Kim, Oswin Benjamin, Imani Lewis, Reed Birney and Walker White. SYNOPSIS: A New York playwright (Radha Blank) is in search of an elusive success before she hits forty. Teaching theatre classes during the day and binge watching television shows at night, […]

Netflix Review – The Haunting of Bly Manor

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Shaun Munro reviews The Haunting of Bly Manor… Filmmaker Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep) set a perilously high bar for himself with 2018’s masterful Netflix Original series The Haunting of Hill House, which used its 10 episodes to tell a daring, emotionally rich reimagining of Shirley Jackson’s 1959 novel of the same name. Flanagan returns now […]

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, […]