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Vesper is a 2022 sci-fi movie directed by Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper starring Raffiella Chapman. Synopsis Vesper is a 13-year-old girl struggling to survive after the apocalypse in a world shattered by a biological catastrophe. Our Opinion A small work of art made without the pretensions of a blockbuster…
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Athena is a 2022 French movie directed by Romain Gavras, starring Dali Benssalah, Alexis Manenti and Anthony Bajon. A Greek tragedy transposed to a ‘banlieu’, in Athena. Premise Set in a ‘banlieu’ in the neighborhood called Athena, few hours after the tragic and mysterious death of their youngest brother, Idir,…
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The Enforcer is a noir thriller movie directed by Richard Hughes, starring Antonio Banderas and Kate Bosworth, A movie that is blatant in its good intentions, and has too many highs as well as too serious lows, but, in all fairness, it does hit the mark with scarce frequency, here…
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The Girls at the Back (Las de la Última Fila) is a Spanish series written and directed by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo, starring Itsaso Arana, Mónica Miranda and Maria Rodríguez Soto. Premise Five women in their 30s, friends since their school days, go on their annual getaway. But this year, one…
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The Infernal Machine es una película de Andrew Hunt protagonizada por Guy Pearce. Una buena actuación de Guy pearce que, sin embargo, no logra salvar una película que podría haber estado bien. Pero no lo está, así que… ¡qué pena! Argumento Un escritor solitario que vive aislado se ve obligado…
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Bandit is a Canadian movie starring Josh Duhamel, Elisha Cuthbert and Mel Gibson. It is directed by Allan Ungar and the story is based on the novel by Robert Knuckle. Here we have a melange of comedy and thriller that lacks a bit in both genres, but it is nevertheless entertaining for a Friday eve in order…
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Lou is an action thriller directed by Anna Foerster, starring Allison Janney, Jurnee Smollett, Logan Marshall-Green, Ridley Bateman and Matt Craven. Premise Lou is solitary and enigmatic woman with a turbulent past. While she is preparing to end her own life, she is interrupted as the her neighbor’s daughter has…
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Starf*cker is a movie starring Erik Fellows. It is written and directed by Mark David. A biting and sharp satire about Hollywood with a good looking fella chasing fame, or infamy at all costs. Premise Jimmy Starr is an actor without much success, who happens to be a narcissist, with…
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The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist is a three part docu-series directed by Miles Blayden-Ryall. Recounts the sequence of events behind the burglaries in Hollywood celebrity homes in the period 2007-2009, carried out by a group of teenagers who became famous by robbing celebrity homes. Well, they did get the…
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DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story is ten part series that reconstructs the story about the Milwaukee serial killer. It stars Evan Peters, whom we know from American Horror Story. And guess who is behind the production of this series: Ian Brennan and a well known creator of horror…
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The Perfumier (Der Parfumeur) is a movie starred by Emilia Schüle and Ludwig Simon. It is directed Nils Willbrandt. Inspired upon the novel The Perfume by Patrick Süskind, it takes us through a modern day tale where the sense of smell and perfume elaborated by macabre means take center stage.…
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Storm of the Century is a three part mini-series directed by Craig R. Baxley, but more notably, it is a series written by Stephen King himself. It stars Tim Daly, Colm Feore and Debrah Farentino among many others. We can now enjoy it on Hulu uncut and unrated (in ’99…
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