Category: Uncategorized
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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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BLUE MOON (2025)
STORYLINE: Tells the story of Lorenz Hart’s struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of “Oklahoma!”. (IMDb) Throughout the years director Richard Linklater and star Ethan Hawke have collaborated on multiple films. Their film together was Before Sunrise in 1995. It spawned two sequels, Before…
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REGRETTING YOU (2025)
STORYLINE: Centers on the strained relationship between young mother Morgan Grant and her teenage daughter Clara, exacerbated by Morgan’s husband Chris’s tragic death, forcing them to navigate life’s challenges together. (IMDb) There is no force powerful enough, on this planet that can make me relive my teenage years. They were hell for me,…
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BALLAD OF A SMALL PLAYER (2025)
STORYLINE: Lord Doyle is laying low in Macau spending his days and nights on the casino floors, drinking heavily and gambling what little money he has left. Struggling to keep up with his fast-rising debts, he is offered a lifeline by the mysterious Dao Ming, a casino employee with secrets of her own. However, in…
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URCHIN (2025)
STORYLINE: A young addict living on the streets of London is given a shot at redemption, but his road to recovery soon curdles into a strange odyssey from which he may never escape. (IMDb) Addiction in film is a hard topic to watch. Many biopics, such as Rocketman (2019) have covered the subject.…
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AFTER THE HUNT (2025)
STORYLINE: A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light. (IMDb) Films have a unique ability in popular culture. They have the ability to bring the…
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GOOD FORTUNE (2025)
STORYLINE: In Good Fortune, Ansari plays a down-on-his-luck guy who is working myriad jobs. He’s called by his friend (played by Seth Rogen), who lives in the Hollywood Hills, to do various jobs for him – put in a disco floor, fix the pool heater. Keanu Reeves “valley” angel makes it so Rogen’s rich guy…
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BLACK PHONE 2 (2025)
STORYLINE: As Finn, now 17, struggles with life after his captivity, his sister begins receiving calls in her dreams from the black phone and seeing disturbing visions of three boys being stalked at a winter camp known as Alpine Lake. (IMDb) Insidious(2010)/Insidious Chapter 2 (2013) Sinister (2012)/Sinister (2015) Ouija (2014)/Ouija: Origins of Evil (2016)…
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TRUTH & TREASON (2025)
STORYLINE: When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, one teen risks everything to expose the truth. With the Gestapo closing in, he must decide what it really means to be a good German. (IMDb) I have a love/hate relationship with Angel Studios. Ever since I saw Sound of Freedom in 2023, I…
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ORWELL: 2+2=5 (2025, Documentary)
STORYLINE: The ultimate and comprehensive documentary film about the exceptional writer George Orwell. (IMDb) Whether it’s an original idea, or a film adapted from a book, every film starts with the written word. Of course, there are documentaries that set their focus on writers. Author: The JT Leroy Story (2016) tells the tale of…