Hurry Up Tomorrow centres around pop star The Weeknd, playing a fictionalised version of himself, and using his real name, Abel Tesfaye (and who was also in Netflix’s excellent Uncut Gems). Plot-wise, such that it …
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Hurry Up Tomorrow centres around pop star The Weeknd, playing a fictionalised version of himself, and using his real name, Abel Tesfaye (and who was also in Netflix’s excellent Uncut Gems). Plot-wise, such that it …
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Daisy Jones And The Six tells the story of the titular rock band from their rise in the 1970s, and to see where they are, later in life. It begins with the text: “On October …
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The Terminal List centres around James Reece (Chris Pratt), one of a team of marines who are tasked with going on a covert mission, Odin Sword, to seek out intel on an arms dealer’s chemical …
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The 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 …
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Calls is based on a French series of the same name, which has aired across 12 episodes so far between 2017 and 2020. Apple TV+’s version numbers 9 episodes so far, for which each episode …
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The Devil All the Time centres around a number of characters, beginning with Willard Russell (Bill Skarsgård – IT Chapter One, IT Chapter Two), who tells his son, Arvin (Michael Banks Repeta), how he “fought …
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The Lodge is similar to Crawl in that the trailer has several elements being timed to its soundtrack and looking damn cool for it. Grace (Riley Keough – The House That Jack Built) is a …
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Earthquake Bird looks like one of those weird movies where you’ll have absolutely no idea what’s going on for the majority of it. This one’s set in Japan, so if you hadn’t already guessed that …
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Under The Silver Lake surprised me right off the bat with some sharp direction with the camera moving about in directions I wasn’t expecting, and some sounds from the thunderous opening score of the 1991 …
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The House That Jack Built is a film for which I knew absolutely nothing when I first saw the trailer. Seemed like a fairly straight-forward drama at first, with Matt Dillon reluctantly pulling over for …
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