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October Horrors 2019 Day 3 – The Amityville Horror (1979)

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The Amityville Horror, 1979. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Starring James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud and Murray Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: The Lutz family move into what looks to be their dream home in Amityville, Long Island. The family’s stay soon becomes a terrifying ordeal as supernatural forces from the houses dark past seek to […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Peanut Butter Falcon

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The Peanut Butter Falcon, 2019. Directed by Tyler Nilson and Mike Schwartz. Starring Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes, Jon Bernthal, Thomas Haden Church, Yelawolf, Jake Roberts, and Mick Foley. SYNOPSIS: A man with Down syndrome and a passion for wrestling escapes from a nursing home and joins a man on […]

Movie Review – Werewolf (2018)

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Werewolf, 2018. Directed by Adrian Panek. Starring Nicolas Przygoda, Kamil Polnisiak, Sonia Mietielica, Werner Daehn and Danuta Stenka. SYNOPSIS: When a group of kids escape a Nazi concentration camp and hole up in an abandoned orphanage, they find themselves stalked by wolfhounds circling the building. Cinema just loves the Second World War. It seems like […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Workforce

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Workforce, 2019. Directed by David Zonana. Starring Luis Alberti, Jessica Galvez, Ramiro Resendiz, Rodrigo Mendoza and Jonathan Sanchez. SYNOPSIS: The marginalised workers helping to decorate a luxurious home take advantage of an opportunity to move into the property, and make it their own. Inequality is an issue all over the world, with those at the […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Personal History of David Copperfield

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The Personal History of David Copperfield, 2019. Directed by Armando Iannucci. Starring Dev Patel, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Laurie, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Peter Capaldi, Rosalind Eleazar, and Tilda Swinton. SYNOPSIS: A haunting semi-autobiographical tale of a boy who is sent away by his stepfather after his mother dies but manages to triumph over incredible adversities. Set in […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 2 – Blood and Black Lace (1964)

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Blood and Black Lace, 1964. Directed by Mario Bava. Starring Eva Bartok, Cameron Mitchell, Thomas Reiner, Arianna Gorini and Mary Marden. SYNOPSIS: After a model is brutally murdered by a masked killer, a fashion house becomes the centre of a mystery as police and the house’s staff try to figure out who among them lurks […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Ghost Town Anthology

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Ghost Town Anthology, 2019. Directed by Denis Côté. Starring Robert Naylor, Josée Deschênes, Jean-Michel Anctil, Diane Lavallée and Larissa Corriveau. SYNOPSIS: An isolated rural community is locked in a fugue of grief after the potential suicide of one of its residents. Grief is one of the most intimate human emotions. It’s deeply private and intensely […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project

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Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project, 2019. Directed by Matt Wolf. SYNOPSIS: A Philadelphia librarian-turned-activist secretly recorded television 24-hours a day for 30 years. In November of 1979, Marion Stokes pressed the record button on her television set and didn’t stop until her death in December, 2012. In that time, she amassed hundreds of thousands of […]

Netflix Review – The Spy

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Hasitha Fernando reviews The Spy… In this latest spy thriller that dropped from Netflix, Sacha Baron Cohen plays the main role as newly recruited Mossad spy Eli Cohen and boy, is he something or what. In fact, if I were to sum up my review succinctly in three words it would be; Sacha Baron Cohen. […]