Written and directed by Duncan Birmingham
Adam and Margo’s housewarming party is a success. One couple linger after the other guests, revealing themselves to be wealthy neighbours. As one night cap leads to another, Adam and Margo suspect their new friends are duplicitous strangers
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written and Directed by Hannah Barlow and Kane Senes
Teen best friends Cecilia and Emma, after a decade run into each other. Cecilia is invited on Emma’s bachelorette weekend where she gets stuck in a remote cabin with her high school bully with a taste for revenge.
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Written by James Mark & Matthew Nayman
Directed by James Mark
Get ready for a mind-bending sci-fi thriller. With a fragmented memory and no clear way out, Eileen (Sara Mitich, Star Trek: Discovery) is forced to complete tasks by an unseen entity whilst trapped in a mysterious room, or else her daughter will be killed. Her only clue is Roger (George Tchortov, Kick-Ass), the man imprisoned alongside her, claiming to be her husband – thrust into a reluctant partnership, the two must work together to save Eileen’s daughter. However, nothing is truly as it seems, and very quickly, a much greater plot is unveiled – with Eileen at the centre.
Overall, I enjoyed my time with CONTROL and, if the synopsis interests you, then I think you will too. It’s always a personal thing, but the lack of detail around Eileen’s incarceration may annoy some, but it is not a deal breaker on what is, otherwise, a decent low-budget thriller.
Control comes to UK streaming platforms on 26th September 2022.
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Written by Conor Boru and Ed Hartland
Directed by Conor Boru
When Norman Graysmith is invited into the home of an aspiring serial killer, Aidan Mendle, he believes he has the subject for the documentary that will make his career.
If you like daft films with silly humour, but with a human touch underneath the jokes, then When the Screaming Starts will definitely keep you amused.
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The Invitation (2022)
Written by Blair Butler
Directed by Jessica M. Thompson
Review by: Mark Walker
A young woman is courted and swept off her feet, only to realize a gothic conspiracy is afoot (IMDB)
There are likely some spoilers in this review but nothing that I don’t think has already been shown in the trailers.
Nathalie Emmanuel plays Evie, a struggling artist, working as a waitress for a crap boss and mourning the recent loss of her sick mother. With her father having died when she was 14, she is all alone apart from her close friend, Grace (Courtney Taylor). After sending off her DNA using a kit from a goody bag she and Grace nick from an event they are waitressing at, Evie discovers that she has distant family in England and agrees to meet up with her newfound cousin Oliver who is in New York on a business trip.
After getting to know each other over lunch, Oliver tells Evie about another relation marrying into a wealthy family and invites Evie to join him.
Defying all common sense, Evie agrees to go, despite the protestations of Grace, the sensible, sassy best friend. So far, so GET OUT; the lone black woman in a sea of white faces, far from home and out of her comfort zone. While the set-up is familiar, The Invitation takes a vastly different turn from GET OUT and doesn’t quite work as well.
Written by Scott Mann and Jonathan Frank
Direct by Scott Mann
Best friends Becky and Hunter find themselves at the top of a 2,000-foot radio tower. (IMDB)
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Directed by Nico van den Brink
Written by Daan Bakker and Nico van den Brink
Betriek lives at the edge of a peat bog in the North of the Netherlands. When she and her family are attacked by a random stranger one night, Betriek sets out to find an explanation. The more she digs, the more she becomes convinced that she is being hunted by something ancient. (IMDB)
Moloch opens on what appears to be the home invasion and murder of Betriek’s (Sallie Harmsen) grandmother when Betriek was a young girl. We then fast forward 30 years and Betriek still lives at the family home with her mother and father (who appear to be separated) and her young daughter, Hanna (Noor can der Velden).
As Betriek, a school teacher, helps prepare the kids for the annual festival to celebrate Feike, the focus of a local folk story, a team of archaeologists unearth a number of bodies, all women, who have had their throats cut vertically before being dumped in the peat bog. The bodies come from many different eras but all appear to have died in the same way.
Written by Ryan Engle
Story by Jaime Primak Sullivan
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur
A father and his two teenage daughters find themselves hunted by a massive rogue lion intent on proving that the Savanna has but one apex predator. (IMDB)
In an effort to reconnect with his daughters, bereaved Dr Nate Samuels (Idris Elba) returns to his ex-wife’s South African home for a cathartic family holiday. Norah (Leah Jeffries) and Meredith (Iyana Halley) are almost strangers to him and Meredith, in particular, is finding it hard to forgive Nate for, in her eyes, abandoning their mother when she was sick.
Staying with Martin (Sharlto Copley) a game warden and old friend of Nate and his wife, they plan to see the sights and get a “behind the scenes” look at the Savanna and its animals.
BEAST opens with a group of poachers getting what they deserve at the paws of a big Lion who has gone rogue and is fighting back without any consideration for who it mauls.
Written by David Coggeshall (screenplay by), David Leslie Johnson McGoldrick (story by), Alex Mace (story by)
Directed by William Brent Bell
After orchestrating a brilliant escape from an Estonian psychiatric facility, Esther travels to America by impersonating the missing daughter of a wealthy family. (IMDB)
In a weird way, and I suspect the director is just messing with your head, you may end up rooting for Esther.
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Written and Directed by Jordan Peele
The residents of a lonely gulch in inland California bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery.
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There is a lot going on in the latest from Jordan Peele and to discuss the plot in any detail would lead to numerous spoilers that will ruin the experience for you. NOPE is a film that is worth going in to knowing as little as possible so you can just enjoy it as the images literally unfurl in front of you on the screen.
Siblings OJ (Daniel Kaluuya) and Emerald (Keke Palmer) Haywood are thrown together at the family ranch, Haywood’s Hollywood Horses, which is suffering after the unexpected and, frankly, strange death of their father, Otis (Keith David). OJ’s heart isn’t in it and, while Emerald is a natural salesperson, the Ranch is not at the top of her list of career options. With OJ selling horses off to local attraction owner, Ricky ‘Jupe’ Park (Steven Yeun) it feels as if time is running out for Haywood’s Hollywood Horses after being in the movie business since it began.
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