Tag: reviews
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SORRY, BABY (2025)
STORYLINE: Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on – for everyone around her, at least. (IMDb) During the summer cinenas are stereotypically filled with big blockblocters, franchise sequels, and fun family film fair. The small independent features have a tendency to fall off the radar as Superman flies high or Four become…
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THE HOME (2025, Horror)
STORYLINE: Max, a troubled man, starts working at a retirement home and realizes its residents and caretakers harbor sinister secrets. As he investigates the building and its forbidden fourth floor, he starts to uncover connections to his own past and upbringing as a foster child. (IMDb) Horror films are often sited as the most…
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SMURFS (2025)
STORYLINE: When Papa Smurf (John Goodman) is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette (Rihanna) leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe. (IMDb) The Nightmate Before Christmas (1993), Brave…
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I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER (2025)
STORYLINE: When five friends inadvertently cause a deadly car accident, they cover up their involvement and make a pact to keep it a secret rather than face the consequences. A year later, their past comes back to haunt them and they’re forced to confront a horrifying truth: someone knows what they did last summer…and is…
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DON’T LET’S GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT (2025)
STORYLINE: “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” thrusts us into the tumultuous world of 8-year-old Bobo, whose childhood unfolds on her family’s Rhodesian farm, now Zimbabwe, as the Bush War rages to its bitter end. Set against this violent backdrop, and seen through her eyes, we witness the family’s desperate attachment to Africa’s soil…
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MERCHANT IVORY (2023 – Documentary Feature)
STORYLINE: Follows the history of the Merchant Ivory partnership, featuring interviews with James Ivory and close collaborators detailing and celebrating their experiences of being a part of the company. (IMDb) When making a documentary about a subject you admire, I imagine it is difficult to remove your fandom, to create an unbiased motion picture. …
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ABRAHAM’S BOYS: A DRACULA STORY (2025)
STORYLINE: Abraham van Helsing moves his two sons to the United States in an attempt to escape their past. (IMDb) Movies inspired by vampires, Draculain particular, are all over the radar. It’s hard to top the 1931 Universal Monster Movie Dracula or the 1992 Gary Oldman Dracula adaption. Of course I have to…
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PAVEMENTS (2025)
STORYLINE: A prismatic, narrative, scripted, documentary, musical, metatextual hybrid, is an examination of the iconic 90s indie band Pavement. The film intimately shows the band preparing for their sold-out 2022 reunion tour while simultaneously tracking the preparations for a musical based on their songs, a museum devoted to their history and a big-budget Hollywood biopic…
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MEFAN 2.0 (2025)
STORYLINE: Two years after M3GAN’s rampage, her creator, Gemma, resorts to resurrecting her infamous creation in order to take down Amelia, the military-grade weapon who was built by a defense contractor who stole M3GAN’s underlying tech. (IMDb) Its basic Hollywood mathematics, when a film is popular, it makes money, the idea of a…
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BRIDE HARD (2025)
STORYLINE: When a mercenary group takes a lavish wedding hostage, they have no idea what they are in for as the maid of honor is actually a secret agent ready to rain hellfire upon anyone who would ruin her best friend’s wedding. (IMDb) Comedies are untended to make the viewer laugh. They come…
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