Halloween Kills follows on from Halloween (2018), which I only got round to watching about two days before this sequel, but Michael Myers’ return – seemingly, lazily ignoring every sequel since (given that Myers has …
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Halloween Kills follows on from Halloween (2018), which I only got round to watching about two days before this sequel, but Michael Myers’ return – seemingly, lazily ignoring every sequel since (given that Myers has …
Continue readingMadres is a new Amazon Prime / Blumhouse movie for Halloween, and starts well, as Diana (Ariana Guerra) and Beto (Tenoch Huerta) have left Mexico, settled in the US, and moved into a new house. …
Continue readingThe Manor centres around Judith (Barbara Hershey), a former ballet dancer, then teacher, but as she reaches 70, time catches up with us all and following a stroke and receiving treatment for Parkinson’s disease, she …
Continue readingBlack As Night means it’s time for zombies again, and they’re partial to eating hobos… Leading the charge is Shawna (Asjha Cooper), who fancies Chris (Craig Tate). Safe to say, before long, she’s bitten by …
Continue readingBlush is a new short animation on Apple TV+ about an astronaut, and whereas Matt Damon in The Martian was a botanist, this chap is a horticulturist, but both want to try and grow something …
Continue readingNo One Gets Out Alive begins with archive footage in Mexico, 1963, where a mysterious box is found… Fast-forward to the present day, and a young woman is staying in a poorly-maintained, enormous house overseen …
Continue readingThe Starling centres around Lilly Maynard (Melissa McCarthy – Nine Perfect Strangers) and husband, Jack (Chris O’Dowd), who welcome baby Katie into their life. After the opening credits, however, we see Jack is in a …
Continue readingThe Guilty (2021) is a remake of the 2018 Danish real-time thriller which was very good, but the action moves to California, where once on-the-beat cop Joe Baylor (Jake Gyllenhaal – Nightcrawler) has been demoted …
Continue readingBirds of Paradise centres around a ballet dance-off contest against professional dancers, where the prize is join the Opéra national de Paris, the two leads – Kate (Diana Silvers) and Marine (Kristine Froseth) – having …
Continue readingThe Mad Women’s Ball is a pet project for Mélanie Laurent (The Concert, Oxygen), who has directed and written the screenplay for this, based on a novel by Victoria Mas and set in 1885, in …
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