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VANITY FAIR (ITV, 2018)
After losing her teaching job, orphan Becky Sharp convinces kindly school-friend Amelia to take her in, then promptly sets about ensnaring Amelia’s wealthy but oafish brother…
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A STAR IS BORN (2018)
A musician helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
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BETTER CALL SAUL, 4.10 – ‘Winner’
Singing siblings. We opened on a touching flashback that gave us another welcome chance to see Chuck (Michael McKean), during the time when Jimmy (Bob Odenkirk) was inducted into the New Mexico bar. The scenes cleverly swerved expectations on several occasions, as we’re conditioned to see Chuck and Jimmy in a certain light, certainly as…
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NIGHT OF THE CREEPS (1986)
Alien brain parasites, entering humans through the mouth, turn their host into a killing zombie. Some teenagers start to fight against them.
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BAD SAMARITAN (2018)
A pair of burglars stumble upon a woman being held captive in a home they intended to rob.
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HEREDITARY (2018)
After the family matriarch passes away, a grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences, and begin to unravel dark secrets.
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BOJACK HORSEMAN – Season Five
The fifth season of BoJack Horseman finds the titular washed-up actor on the road to recovery, of sorts. He’s working again, on a moody crime drama called Philbert (a perfect satire of prestige cable dramas), he’s trying to drink less, and attempting to be a better person. But the road he’s on is long and…
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The Early Films of Olivier Assayas: DISORDER (1986) • WINTER’S CHILD (1989)
French writer-director Olivier Assayas is capable of great things. Irma Vep (1996) is one of my favourite arthouse classics and Cold Water (1994) is a delicate, heart-rending period piece about teenage hopes and aspirations. I was very pleased to have the opportunity to view his first two movies, restored to their full glory on a…
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VENOM (2018)
When Eddie Brock acquires the powers of a symbiote, he has to release his alter-ego ‘Venom’ to save his life…
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CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (1980)
A reporter and a psychic race to close the Gates of Hell after the suicide of a clergyman caused them to open, allowing the dead to rise from their graves.
