Tag: reviews
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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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SARAH’S OIL (2025)
STORYLINE: Sarah’s Oil is inspired by the remarkable true story of Sarah Rector, an African American girl born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, who believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted and whose faith is proven right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to her family, friends,…
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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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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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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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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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