Tag: film
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TRAIN DREAMS (2025)
STORYLINE: Based on Denis Johnson’s beloved novella, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker who leads a life of unexpected depth and beauty in the rapidly-changing America of the early 20th Century. (IMDb) Westerns have a tradition of being films about tough guys, typically cowboys, and will…
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THE RUNNING MAN (2025)
STORYLINE: A man joins a game show in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are pursued by “hunters” hired to kill them. (IMDb) Over the years director Edgar Wright has directed a wide variety of feature films. His cornetto trilogy features a horror comedy (Shaun of the Dead, 2004), an…
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CHRISTY(2025)
STORYLINE: Tells the story of Christy Martin, the most successful female boxer of the 90s. (IMDb) I say “boxing movies” you say “Rocky”. “Boxing movies!” “ Rocky!” “Boxing movies!” “Rocky!” The sub genre of sports films is filled with more then that iconic Oscar winning feature. Cinderella Man (2005) is a…
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DIE MY LOVE (2025, Drama)
STORYLINE: In a forgotten patch of countryside, a woman is battling her demons: embracing exclusion yet wanting to belong, craving freedom whilst feeling trapped, yearning for family life but wanting to burn the entire house down. Given surprising leeway by her family for her increasingly erratic behavior, she nevertheless feels ever more stifled and repressed.…
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THE GREAT HOLIDAY FILM DEBATE!
STORYLINE: New York City policeman John McClane (Bruce Willis) is visiting his estranged wife (Bonnie Bedelia) and his daughter and son Christmas Eve. He joins her at a holiday party in the headquarters of the Japanese-owned business she works for. But the festivities are interrupted by a group of terrorists who take over the exclusive…
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Retro Rewind: 1974’s THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
STORYLINE: En route to visit their grandfather’s grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home… where they’re plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they…
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CHAIN REACTIONS (2025: Documentary)
STORYLINE: Fifty years after Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE shocked the world and forever changed the face of global cinema and popular culture, CHAIN REACTIONS charts the film’s profound impact and lasting influence on five great artists – Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King, and Karyn Kusama – through early memories,…
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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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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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