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Movie Review – Body Cam (2020)

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Body Cam, 2020. Directed by Malik Vitthal. Starring Mary J. Blige, Nat Wolff, Theo Rossi, Anika Noni Rose, David Warshofsky, Ian Casselberry, Demetrius Grosse,Lorrie Odom and Emonie Ellison. SYNOPSIS: When a regular routine traffic stop turns into the unexplained, unprovoked death of an unarmed youth by the hands of reckless police officers a cop named […]

Movie Review – The Trip to Greece (2020)

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The Trip to Greece, 2020. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Cordelia Bugeja, Rebecca Johnson, Claire Keelan, and Tim Leach. SYNOPSIS: Actors Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan travel from Troy to Ithaca following in the footsteps of the Odysseus. Farewells are often bittersweet. For Michael Winterbottom’s “The Trip” storyline, where better to […]

Movie Review – The County (2019)

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The County, 2019. Directed by Grímur Hákonarson. Starring Arndís Hrönn Egilsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson, Hannes Óli Ágústsson, Sveinn Ólafur Gunnarsson and Hinrik Ólafsson. SYNOPSIS: A widowed farmer tries to escape the clutches of the corrupt “co-operative” that has a stranglehold on her farming community. Recent years have seen a selection of interesting movies making their way […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 16 – Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972)

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Don’t Torture a Duckling, 1972. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Millian, Irene Papas, Marc Porel and Georges Wilson. SYNOPSIS: In a small Italian town, the local police are struggling to solve a recent spate of child murders that have ravaged the area, with the superstitious residents quickly falling into paranoia […]

Movie Review – The Haunted (2020)

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The Haunted, 2020. Directed by David Holroyd. Starring Sophie Stevens, Kirstie Steele, and Nick Bayly. SYNOPSIS:  Emily’s arrives for her first night-shift as a care-giver, to an elderly dementia patient. In an isolated house her night turns into a nightmare as she is tormented by a vengeful spirit, and starts to uncover the house’s dark […]

Movie Review – Body Cam (2020)

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Body Cam, 2020. Directed by Malik Vitthal Starring Mary J. Blige, Nat Wolff, Theo Rossi, David Zayas, Anika Noni Rose, Demetrius Grosse, Alfonzo Walker, Jeff Pope, Sylvia Grace Crim, and Lorrie Odom SYNOPSIS: When a routine traffic stop results in the unexplained, grisly death of her colleague, a cop (Mary J. Blige) realizes footage of […]

Movie Review – Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

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Never Rarely Sometimes Always, 2020. Directed by Eliza Hittman. Starring Sidney Flanigan, Talia Ryder, Théodore Pellerin, Kelly Chapman, Sharon Van Etten, Ryan Eggold and Drew Seltzer. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl and her cousin travel from small-town Pennsylvania to New York City in order for her to have an abortion. If there has been a winner […]

Movie Review – The Trip to Greece (2020)

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The Trip to Greece, 2020. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Kareem Alkabbani, Marta Barrio, Cordelia Bugeja, Richard Clews, Justin Edwards, Rebecca Johnson, Claire Keelan, Timothy Leach, Harry Tayler, and Tessa Walker. SYNOPSIS: Actors Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan travel from Troy to Ithaca following in the footsteps of Odysseus. There’s not […]

Snowpiercer Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘First, The Weather Changed’

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Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Snowpiercer… Based on the feature film adaptation by Boon Joon Ho and Kelly Masterson, Snowpiercer comes to screens following a protracted gestation period. Using elements from Le Transperceneige written by Jacques Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette and Benjamin Legrand it is a post-apocalyptic tale of class division, civil unrest and […]