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DEPECHE MODE M (2025 – Concert Film)
STORYLINE: Concert film weaves Depeche Mode’s 2023 Mexico City performances with segments examining music, mortality, and Mexican death traditions. (IMDb) I don’t really care much for live events, such as concerts. I care even less for concert films. I am not that familiar with the band Depeche Mode. Why go see their concert film? …
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BUGONIA (2025)
STORYLINE: Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth. (IMDb) Pay close attention. That’s how I describe the works of director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster, 2015). His best works are his collaborations with actress Emma Stone: The Favourite…
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K POP DEMON HUNTERS (2025)
STORYLINE: world-renowned K-Pop girl group balance their lives in the spotlight with their secret identities as demon hunters. (IMDb) Animated films don’t just fit the classic Disney mold of yesteryear any more. Yes, with films like Encanto (2021) the traditional animated film still exists. Then there are films such as the apocalyptic Flow (2024),…
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THE MASTERMIND (2025)
STORYLINE: In 1970, failed architect James Blaine Mooney and cohorts wander into a museum in broad daylight and steal four paintings. When holding onto the art proves more difficult than stealing them, Mooney is relegated to a life on the run. (IMDb) The Score (2001), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), Art and Craft (2014),…
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STITCH HEAD (2025)
STORYLINE: Follows Stitch Head, a small creature awoken by a Mad Professor in a castle to protect the professor’s other creations from the townspeople of Grubbers Nubbin. (IMDb) There are all sorts of films, with things that go bump in the night that are designed entertain the entire family. Ghostbusters (1984) is my personal…
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CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC (2025)
STORYLINE: Denji became “Chainsaw Man”, a boy with a devil’s heart, and is now part of Special Division 4’s devil hunters. After a date with Makima, the woman of his dreams, Denji takes shelter from the rain. There he meets Reze, a girl who works in a café. (IMDb) When I watch anime, I…
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Retro Rewind: HALLOWEEN (1978)
STORYLINE: The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15-year-old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death by her 6-year-old brother, Michael. After being institutionalized for 15 years, Myers breaks out on the night before Halloween. No one knows, nor wants to find out, what…
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SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE (2025)
STORYLINE: Bruce Springsteen’s journey crafting his 1982 album Nebraska, which emerged as he recorded Born in the USA with the E Street Band. Based on Warren Zanes’ book. (IMDb) There are no shortages of films about musicians. They come in a wide variety. They come in the form as fiction films (Yesterday,…
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FRANKENSTEIN (2025)
STORYLINE: Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation. (IMDb) It is a tale, almost, as old as time.…
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SHELBY OAKS (2025: Horror)
STORYLINE: A woman’s desperate search for her long-lost sister falls into obsession upon realizing that the imaginary demon from their childhood may have been real. (IMDb) There is always a need to find new and creative ways to tell stories, especially within the horror genre. In 1980,Cannibal Holocaust conceived of the concept…
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