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Movie Review – Glass Jaw (2018)

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Glass Jaw, 2018.Directed by Jeff Celentano. Starring Lee Kholafai, Korrina Rico, Jamie Camil, Boosie, Brandon Sklenar, Reynaldo Gallegos, Vernon Wells, and Mark Rolston.SYNOPSIS:A champion boxer goes to prison and loses everything for a crime he didn’t truly commit. Once out, he fights to earn everything back.Glass Jaw is a boxing movie. It is painfully and […]

Movie Review – The Book of Birdie (2017)

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The Book of Birdie, 2017.Directed by Elizabeth E. Schuch Starring Ilirida Memedovski, Suzan Crowley, Kymberly Mellen, Kitty Hall, and Kathryn Browning.SYNOPSIS:A young girl with an obsession for blood is taken to a convent after some unmentioned trauma.The Book of Birdie is legitimately a film that is hard to categorize. Is it a horror film? Well, […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 7 – The Conjuring (2013)

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The Conjuring, 2013.Directed by James Wan. Starring Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, and Lili Taylor.SYNOPSIS:Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are called in to help a family in Rhode Island who finds that their new dream home is trapped under the curse of an evil force hell-bent on forcing the new residents from the […]

Movie Review – 22 July (2018)

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22 July, 2018.Written and Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring Anders Danielsen Lie, Jonas Strand Gravli, Jon Øigarden, Thorbjørn Harr, Seda Witt, and Trim Balaj.SYNOPSIS:A three-part story of Norway’s worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway’s political system and the lawyers who worked […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 6 – 28 Days Later (2002)

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28 Days Later, 2002.Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston and Brendan Gleeson.SYNOPSIS:Jim awakens from a coma to find London decimated by a deadly virus that has reduced its remaining inhabitants into a horde of rabid violent creatures.It’s safe to say that we’re entering the late stages of the ‘Golden Age […]

Movie Review – A Star Is Born (2018)

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A Star Is Born, 2018.Directed by Bradley Cooper. Starring Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Sam Elliott, Dave Chapelle, Anthony Ramos, and Michael Harney.SYNOPSIS:A musician helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.Hollywood adores a film about itself. It’s infatuated with its own ego, […]

Movie Review – The Queen Of Hollywood Blvd (2017)

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The Queen Of Hollywood Blvd. 2017Directed by Orson Oblowitz Starring Rosemary Hoschschild, Ana Mulvoy Ten, Michael Parks, Roger Guenveur Smith and Ella Thomas.SYNOPSIS:On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her on a downward spiral of […]

Movie Review – Private Life (2018)

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Private Life, 2018.Written and Directed by Tamara Jenkins. Starring Paul Giamatti, Kathryn Hahn, Kayli Carter, John Carroll Lynch, Molly Shannon, Siobhan Fallon Hogan, Emily Robinson, Lizzy DeClement, Francesca Root-Dodson, David Cale, Samantha Buck, and Desmin Borges.SYNOPSIS:An author (Hahn) is undergoing multiple fertility therapies to get pregnant, putting her relationship with her husband (Giamatti) on edge.I’m […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 5 – Night of the Living Dead (1990)

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Night of the Living Dead, 1990.Directed by Tom Savini. Starring Tony Todd, Patricia Tallman, Tom Towles, McKee Anderson and William Butler.SYNOPSIS:Barbara and her brother Johnny are visiting their mothers’ grave when the two are attacked by seemingly deranged assailants and Johnny is killed. After escaping to a nearby farmhouse Barbara is joined by a band […]