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Last month I reviewed Survive! (see the review here). That film was an exploitative depiction of the Miracle in the Andes, the harrowing plight of a rugby team that was stranded in the Andes after a plane crash in which 29 out of the 45 passengers survived. The next 72 …

Early January of 2024 will see the Netflix release of Society of the Snow, directed by J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage 2007). The film is based on the infamous 1972 Uruguyan plane crash in the Andes which carried a team of rugby players as well as their families and other passengers. …

Fugue: “a loss of awareness of one’s identity, often coupled with flight from one’s usual environment, associated with certain forms of hysteria and epilepsy.” According to Google’s dictionary, the definition of Fugue is as unnerving and ambiguous as Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska’s (The Lure 2015) 2018 release of the same …

Some movies are hard to watch. We hope and pray that, as a society, we will be better than the previous generation. Sadly, that is not the case for the people in the film, Cruel Summer, which was based on true events. Our story begins with autistic teen Danny who …

Based on the horrifying true 1993 murder of two-year-old James Bulger, Bartosz M. Kowalski’s Playground sets the story in a stark, bleak Polish town. The movie revolves around three very different characters, each with their own very personal and sometimes terrible secrets that will propel them towards a shocking conclusion. …

After the Harry Potter films launched his acting career, Daniel Radcliffe would not remain seen as the young iconic sorcerer for long. Proving his versatility as an actor, Radcliffe went on to star as a young man who sprouts horns overnight in Horns (2013), a farting corpse in Swiss Army …

Extreme horror films provide the world with films that are so controversial, not even horror fans can handle them. I wasn’t expecting The Snowtown Murders – also known as Snowtown – to be in that category.  https://youtu.be/qcoCTA2IZ7c The Snowtown Murders was Justin Kurzel’s directorial debut. Since then, Kurzel has brought us Macbeth …