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Movie Review – Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

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Bad Times at the El Royale, 2018.Directed by Drew Goddard. Starring Jon Hamm, Dakota Johnson, Jeff Bridges, Lewis Pullman, Cynthia Erivo, Chris Hemsworth, and Cailee Spaeny.SYNOPSIS:At Lake Tahoe’s El Royale hotel, the paths of seven strangers converge at this derelict destination in the hope of escaping their past. Over the course of one dark night, […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 8 – Dracula (1958)

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Dracula (a.k.a. Horror of Dracula), 1958.Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling, and Carol Marsh.SYNOPSIS:After his friend Jonathan Harker goes missing, vampire hunter Dr Van Helsing finds himself locked into a battle against his murderer, the centuries-old vampire known as Count Dracula.To say that Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula has […]

Movie Review – An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn (2018)

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An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, 2018.Written and directed by Jim Hosking. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Emile Hirsch, Jemaine Clement, Craig Robinson, Sam Dissanayake, Matt Berry, Zach Cherry, and Sky Elobar.SYNOPSIS:Lulu Danger’s unsatisfying marriage takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious man from her past comes to town to perform an event called “An Evening […]

DVD Review – Bad Samaritan (2018)

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Bad Samaritan, 2018.Directed by Dean Devlin. Starring David Tennant, Robert Sheehan, Kerry Condon, Jacqueline Byers, Carlito Olivero, and Lisa Brenner.SYNOPSIS:A pair of thieving valets get more than they bargained for when they come across a kidnapped girl in the home of one of their customers.Bad Samaritan is a smart movie. Smart because in this day […]

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 […]

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, […]