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THE X-FILES, 11.8 – ‘Familiar’
Ironically, this episode felt very familiar. A small town’s community rocked by a spate of strange murders? Creepy kids? A thick forest full of cops with flashlights? Mulder (David Duchovny) believing in a supernatural explanation, Scully (Gillian Anderson) hatching a more down-to-earth theory? This was bread-and-butter X-Files. “Familiar” wouldn’t have looked out of place in…
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Competition: Win PADDINGTON 2 Blu-ray Steelbook & Assorted Goodies!
Would you like to win a Blu-ray Steelbook of PADDINGTON 2, plus other prizes? Read on…
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ATTACK ON TITAN – Season Two
Attack on Titan isn’t for the faint-hearted. The enormously popular anime can be hard to recommend to the uninitiated, on account of just how gory, bleak, and unrelenting it is. Watching this series is a scary and often uncomfortable experience. For those who know what it’s all about, however, this is also one of the…
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RED SPARROW (2018)
A Russian ballerina is recruited by an intelligence agency, then given a mission targeting a CIA agent she falls in love with…
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MOM AND DAD (2018)
A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.
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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (2017)
In 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a teenage student and an older man hired as his father’s research assistant…
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THE X-FILES, 11.7 – ‘Rm9sbG93ZXJz’
There was much to enjoy about this episode, not least how it’s an hour The X-Files couldn’t have done during its original run. It was also very experimental, in terms of using very limited dialogue, and I loved the idea of Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) almost meandering into a dangerous situation during…
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THE GATE (1987)
Three kids, left home alone, accidentally unleash a horde of malevolent demons from a mysterious hole in their backyard…
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THELMA (2017)
A confused religious girl tries to deny her feelings for a female friend, leading to suppressed psychokinetic powers reemerging with devastating results.
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JIGSAW (2017)
When bodies start turning up around the city, each having met a uniquely gruesome demise, the police investigation points to one suspect: John ‘Jigsaw’ Kramer, who has been dead for 10 years…
