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Movie Review – Pain and Glory (2019)

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Pain and Glory, 2019.Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Starring Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia, Penélope Cruz, Leonardo Sbaraglia, César Vicente, Asier Flores, Nora Navas, Julieta Serrano and Raúl Arévalo.SYNOPSIS:An ageing filmmaker is haunted by some of the ghosts of his past as he prepares for a restored screening of one of his most memorable works.With the movie […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2019 Review – Come to Daddy

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Come to Daddy, 2019.Directed by Ant Timpson. Starring Elijah Wood, Stephen McHattie, Martin Donovan and Michael Smiley.SYNOPSIS:A man in his thirties travels to a remote cabin to reconnect with his estranged father.This year’s Frightfest begins as it means to go on with an intriguingly demented, expectation-shifting blackly comic thriller from first-time filmmaker, long-time producer Ant […]

Melbourne International Film Festival 2019 Review – The Day Shall Come

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The Day Shall Come, 2019.Directed by Chris Morris. Starring Marchánt Davis, Anna Kendrick, Denis O’Hare, Kayvan Novak, Danielle Brooks, Adam David Thompson, and Jim Gaffigan.SYNOPSIS:The FBI are on the lookout for the next terrorist threat for them to stop. Agent Kendra Glack (Anna Kendrick) proposes they target Moses (Marchánt Davis), the eccentric leader of a […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers/Ghostbusters #3

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers/Ghostbusters #3…The Transformers/Ghostbusters crossover continues to be entertaining as Optimus Prime made his entrance to the Ghostbusters’ fire house. Erik Burnham again captures the voices and spirit of the bots and Ghostbusters pretty well as they investigate more ghostly disturbances that may be Cybertronian in nature. Transformers/Ghostbusters #3 keeps the story engaging thanks to […]

Movie Review – Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 2019.Directed by André Øvredal. Starring Zoe Colletti, Michael Garza, Austin Zajur, Austin Abrams, Gabriel Rush, Natalie Ganzhorn, Dean Norris and Javier Botet.SYNOPSIS:A group of teenagers are pursued by various supernatural beasties when they uncover an old book from a haunted house.The importance of gateway horror for young audience […]

Movie Review – Jacob’s Ladder (2019)

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Jacob’s Ladder. 2019Directed by David M. Rosenthal. Starring Jesse Williams, Michael Ealy, Joseph Sikora, Nicole Beharie, Karla Souza, Guy Burnet.SYNOPSIS:After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing […]

Blu-ray Review – Big Bad Wolves (2013)

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Big Bad Wolves, 2013.Directed by Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado. Starring Lior Ashkenazi, Rotem Keinan, Tzahi Grad, Rotem Keinan, and Guy Adler. SYNOPSIS:During a spate of child kidnappings and murders, the latest victim’s father, the investigating cop and the main suspect become embroiled in a twisted and violent downward spiral whilst seeking the justice the law […]

Movie Review – Crawl (2019)

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Crawl, 2019.Directed by Alexandre Aja. Starring Kaya Scodelario, Barry Pepper, Morfydd Clark and Ross Anderson.SYNOPSIS:A young woman attempting to rescue her injured father from his house in the middle of a hurricane finds herself terrorised by aggressive alligators.Crocodiles and alligators are great. Movies about them, however, are often not. There’s very little love for Lake […]

Movie Review – Gwen (2019)

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Gwen. 2019. Directed by William McGregor. Starring Eleanor Worthington-Cox, Mark Lewis Jones, Maxine Peake, Richard Harrington, Richard Elfyn, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, and Gwion Glyn. SYNOPSIS: A dark folk tale set in the hills of Wales during the industrial revolution. Every year, horror journalists (including myself) crown a new “[X] year’s The Witch!” Such classification translates to […]