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Le Manoir Review A band of students comes to celebrate the New Year in an old manor house isolated from everything. But soon after their arrival, strange events disrupt the atmosphere, before the party turns squarely into a nightmare. “Le Manoir” is a film that requires a little bit of patience. If you were to […]
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The Laplace’s Demon Review (Aka: Il demone di Laplace) A glass in free fall. Have you ever thought if it is possible to calculate into how many pieces it can break into? After numerous experiments, a team of researchers succeeds in doing just this apparently impossible task. Attracted to their experiment, a mysterious professor invites
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Sequence Break Movie Review A reclusive video arcade repair technician (Chase Williamson) experiences bizarre biomechanical mutations and Cronenbergian hallucinations when a mysterious new arcade machine appears in his shop. Reality itself threatens to fracture as he works to solve its mystery and the new chaos that has entered his life. This film is Graham Skipper’s
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Replace Movie Review Kira (Rebecca Forsythe)’s skin starts to age rapidly, dry out and crumble away. But then she discovers that she can replace her own skin with somebody else’s. “Replace” is a film with an impeccable horror pedigree. Co-writer Richard Stanley is something of a legend with his films “Hardware”, “Dust Devil” and the
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Liberation Day Movie Review The Slovenian cult band Laibach becomes the first foreign rock group ever to perform in the fortress state of North Korea. Confronting strict ideology and cultural differences, the band struggles to get their songs through the needle’s eye of censorship before they can be unleashed on an audience never before exposed
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The Final Master Movie Review A Wing Chun master (Fan Liao of “Black Coal, Thin Ice”) has to defeat eight martial arts schools to open his own school. At the same time, he has become a chess piece in the local power dynamics. Right off the bat, anyone who loves good cinematography is going to
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Game of Death Movie Review Kill or be killed is the golden rule of the Game of Death (affiliate link). Unfortunately, seven millennials have ignored that rule. Now each one’s head will explode unless they kill someone. In the simplest terms, this film is “Jumanji” (affiliate link) meets “Battle Royale” (affiliate link). Others have said
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Super Dark Times Movie Review Gavin’s Review of Super Dark Times Viewers of a certain age and upbringing will latch on to Super Dark Times (affiliate link) almost immediately. This was life in the pre-Internet era, circa 1992, with scrambled pornography on television being the most exciting thing a teenage boy could hope for. Perhaps
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The Villainess Movie Review Sook-hee (Kim Ok-bin) was just a little girl when the assassin training started in Yanbian, China. After the death of her mentor, she went to South Korea to work as a government agent. They promised her that she would be free after ten years of service, but the truth was not
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Movie Review: Muck – Directed by Steve Wolsh Gavin’s Review: Muck One thing needs to be addressed up front, because it is the one thing most viewers will notice… Muck (affiliate link) seems obsessed with showing women topless. Throughout the opening credits, there are several shots of topless women. And not just topless, but with
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