Tag: movies
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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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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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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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