Horror

X

  • Title: X
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Set in 1979, writer/director Ti West‘s X stars Mia Goth in dual roles as a stripper who heads off with friends to a Texas farmhouse to make a porn and also as the elderly resident of the home who goes on a sexually-frustrated murderous rampage as she begins picking off the visitors one at a time with the help of her equally bat-shit crazy husband (Stephen Ure).

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – The Adjustment / Troubled Waters

  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – The Adjustment / Troubled Waters
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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory - The Adjustment / Troubled Waters

After the reintroduction of Brooklyn (Kiersten Kelly), the show moves forward splitting the focus between Brooklyn and the rest of the Nublar Six who will eventually all reach the same location by season end. We see some of Brooklyn’s time with the DLN, explaining what she was doing with the rather dim eco-terrorists using them to find the Broker (Dichen Lachman) and nearly getting eaten by her pet raptor. We also see Brooklyn’s call with Ben (Sean Giambrone) and the reasoning behind her decision to stay disconnected from her friends. The tension in Brooklyn segments work really well, as she barely escapes for her life, but this also marks the end of her story making any sort of sense for the remainder of the season.

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A Discovery of Witches – Episode 6 & 7

  • Title: A Discovery of Witches – Episode 6 & 7
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A Discovery of Witches - Episode 6 & 7

The sixth and seventh episodes of A Discovery of Witches will reveal a truth about Diana Bishop (Teresa Palmer) and the lengths her parents went to in order to keep her safe from Peter Knox (Owen Teale). After being kidnapped by Satu (Malin Buska) and delivered to Gerbert D’Aurillac (Trevor Eve), the witch attempts to torture the truth out of Diana. The ordeal will have unexpected consequences leaving Satu drained and Diana’s power reawoken with questions that can only be answered by her family.

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – C13v3rGr186

  • Title: Jurassic World: Chaos Theory – C13v3rGr186
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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory - C13v3rGr186

“C13v3rGr186” steps away from the current storyline of the new island to fill in the gap of Brooklyn (Kiersten Kelly) starting with the events that occurred prior to the attack and also what happened to Brooklyn after she was saved by Ronnie (Carmen Moore). Much of this we’ve seen before, or has been directed alluded to. We see her visit to Kenji’s father with the added context of what she was after, the misunderstanding with Darius (Paul-Mikél Williams), and the night she lost her arm. Although considering letting the others know she’s alive, Brooklyn ultimately decides to keep it a secret to protect them and play on the advantages of being dead as she goes after the Broker on her own in a storyline which will eventually get away from the writers but starts with just being a very questionable decision.

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Coraline

  • Title: Coraline
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Coraline

Returning to theaters for the film’s 15th Anniversary, I had much the same reaction to Coraline that I had the first time I saw it in a theater. The dark tale of a young girl (Dakota Fanning) discovering a secret world of “others” who resemble her family and friends but with buttons for eyes is a vivid and creative use of stop-motion. However, the first-half of the film of Coraline exploring the magical world, and comparing her drab reality to it, has always left me a bit cold. For me, the film only picks up when the more sinister elements of the “Other Mother” (Teri Hatcher) are exposed and Coraline goes into survival mode.

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