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The Night House Review

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A woman (Rebecca Hall) reeling from her husband’s (Evan Jonigkeit) recent suicide takes refuge in the lakeside home he built for her. However, she soon begins to realize that she might not be alone. REVIEW: The public appetite for...

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CODA Review

Posted 5 years ago

CODA was originally reviewed as part of our Sundance 2021 coverage. PLOT: Ruby (Emilia Jones) is a Child Of Deaf Adults (the abbreviation of which gives the film its title – Coda). The only hearing member in her household, she...

The Courier Review

Posted 5 years ago

Previously reviewed at Sundance 2020 under the title Ironbark.  PLOT: Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch), a middle-aged businessman working in London circa 1960, is approached by British Intelligence and the C.I.A to act as an intermediary between them and a Russian...

Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth, Sundance – (Horror Movie Review)

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: In the middle of a pandemic, a scientist (Joel Fry) and a park scout (Ellora Torchia) venture deep into the forest to make contact with a lost doctor. REVIEW: One of the most pleasing aspects of this year’s edition...

Netflix shells out over $15 million to acquire Rebecca Hall’s Passing

Posted 5 years ago

Netflix has never been shy about shelling out the big bucks to get what they want, and Deadline has reported that the streaming service is nearing a deal to acquire Passing, a drama written and directed by Rebecca Hall that...

Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers (Review) Sundance

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: An in-depth look at the band Sparks, which consists of brother Russell and Ron Mael. REVIEW: The first time I ever saw Sparks was in this 1977 disaster movie called Rollercoaster, which I caught on cable one day. They...

Prisoners of the Ghostland (Review) Sundance

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: In a strange place called “Samurai Town”, a notorious criminal (Nicolas Cage) is placed in a booby-trapped leather jumpsuit and sent into the mysterious Ghostland to save the abducted daughter (Sofia Boutella) of the town’s despot ruler. REVIEW: Last...

Passing (Tessa Thompson & Ruth Negga) Review (Sundance)

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: A middle-class African-American woman (Tessa Thompson) living in Harlem during the 1920s, experiments with “Passing”, where she passes as white one day in a crowded tea room. While there, she discovers that an old childhood friend (Ruth Negga) of...

A Glitch in the Matrix (Review) Sundance

Posted 5 years ago

PLOT: This documentary digs into a school of thought that asks the question, what if reality as we know it isn’t real and we’re all living in a simulation? REVIEW: What if we were all living in a computer simulation?...

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