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FrightFest Presents Review – Terror of Hallow’s Eve (2017)

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Terror of Hallow’s Eve, 2017. Directed by Todd Tucker. Starring Caleb Thomas, Sarah Lancaster, Annie Read, Mcabe Gregg, Doug Jones, and Eric Roberts. SYNOPSIS: A bullied teenager summons the Trickster and wishes revenge on his tormentors. If the John Carpenter-esque font of the title cards and the opening shot of three teenage girls walking down […]

Movie Review – Diego Maradona (2019)

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Diego Maradona, 2019. Directed by Asif Kapadia Featuring Diego Armando Maradona SYNOPSIS: Senna and Amy director Asif Kapadia tackles one of football’s most controversial and gifted icons: Diego Maradona. Enfant terrible, pantomime villain, or the best footballer ever to grace the green fields of this planet? It’s not a question that Asif Kapadia’s third icon […]

Blu-ray Review – Def-Con 4 (1985)

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Def-Con 4, 1985. Directed by Paul Donovan, Digby C. Cook & Tony Randel. Starring Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Kate Lynch, Tim Choate, and Kevin King. SYNOPSIS: During World War III a satellite containing three astronauts crashes to Earth where they become the target of gangs of diseased humans. The 1980s was a creative and productive […]

Blu-ray Review – Escape Room (2019)

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Escape Room, 2019. Directed by Adam Robitel. Starring Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, and Kenneth Fok. SYNOPSIS: Six strangers find themselves trapped in a building where they must solve puzzles in able to move onto the next room before the inevitable traps kick in. So in Escape Room we […]

Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Striking Vipers’

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Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Striking Vipers… Charlie Brooker might be frenetic, prone to tangential leaps of inspiration and talking a mile a minute, but there is no way you could call the man boring. Video games, virtual reality and gender politics might seem like strange bedfellows, but somehow he draws it all together whilst […]

Movie Review – The Child Remains (2019)

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The Child Remains, 2019. Directed by Michael Melski. Starring Suzanne Clément, Allan Hawco, Shelley Thompson, and Géza Kovács. SYNOPSIS: An expectant couple’s intimate weekend turns to terror as they discover their secluded country inn is a haunted maternity home where infants and mothers were murdered. Canadian horror joint The Child Remains is an outrageous, messy […]

Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’

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Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too… Apart from the syntactic call back to a sweet natured provincial sex comedy worked into that title, this episode focuses on grief and how we process it. Similar thematically to Smithereens, Brooker explores the coping mechanisms we all employ and what comes from that. He […]

Movie Review – Hi-Death (2018)

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Hi-Death, 2018. Directed by Brad Sykes, Anthony Catanese, Tim Ritter, Amanda Payton and Todd Sheets. Starring Kristen Adams, Kate Durocher, Jensen Jacobs, Craig Kelly, Todd Martin, Thomas Kindler, Christopher Preyer, Fabiana Formica, Julia Vally, Jay Sosnicki, Nick Randol and Eve Smith. SYNOPSIS: A collection of five low-budget horror shorts, linked by a pair of young […]

Movie Review – Gloria Bell (2019)

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Gloria Bell, 2019. Directed by Sebastián Lelio. Starring Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera and Alanna Ubach. SYNOPSIS:  A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs. English-language remakes of hit foreign films rarely go over well, and usually for good reason, but it’s a different case altogether when the original filmmaker […]