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What's streaming this April on Shudder

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What's streaming this April on Shudder We’re launching into a big month of horror with these spine-chilling offerings in April: Cursed Films II  is back to explore the facts and myths surrounding a new batch of famous films some consider cursed. The new season will feature films including  The Wizard of Oz ,  Rosemary’s Baby ,  Stalker  and  The Serpent Filmed on location in Roscommon, Ireland,  The Cellar  tells the story of Keira Woods ( Elisha Cuthbert ), whose daughter mysteriously vanishes in the cellar of their new house in the country. Keira soon discovers there is an ancient and powerful entity controlling their home that she will have to face or risk losing her family’s souls forever. Official Selection, SXSW 2022 Shudder's popular  Halfway to Halloween Hotline  of personalised horror movie recommendations returns this April as part of the annual ‘Halfway to Halloween’ celebration, which also features a killer line-up of new ori...

The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Disney+ Review

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The Eyes of Tammy Faye: Disney+ Review Cast: Jessica Chastain, Andrew Garfield Director: Michael Showalter The Eyes of Tammy Faye is a film that hinges solely on the performances of its two leads, with each complementing the other in ways that help them excel on the screen. Which is fortunate, because as a drama and biography, The Eyes of Tammy Faye clearly really doesn't know what it wants to be. Charting the journey of Tammy Faye Bakker as she negotiated her way into the world of televangelism in the 1970s, Jessica Chastain is excellent as the infinitely perky, potentially naive and believing-the-best-of-people Tammy Faye.  It's possibly helped by a script that really does champion her point of view, and does little else to delve deeper into the potential complexities of the crimes the Bakkers were committing, stealing from their evangelical foundation for their own use.  The Eyes of Tammy Faye implies that Jim Bakker (a fierce Andrew Garfield, in one of his career best...

House of Gucci: Blu Ray Review

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House of Gucci: Blu Ray Review From its animalistic sex scene atop on an office table on a construction site to its laughably insulting Italian accents that at times feel like they're from 80s UK sitcom 'Allo 'Allo, Ridley Scott's House of Gucci is a high serving of cheese with a side order of tonal disorder to feed proceedings. Driver plays Maurizio Gucci, the ostracised heir of the Gucci family business, who's cast aside when he begins a relationship with Lady Gaga's Patrizia Reggiani. With his disapproving father (an increasingly gaunt and almost vampiric Irons, replete with sunken cheeks and sallow eyes) in the rear view mirror, Maurizio forges a more normal life.  But Patrizia believes he's entitled to his birthright, and begins to whisper in his ear about power grabs, leading Maurizio into the world he once shunned and the family fights he wanted to avoid. High on melodrama, draped in elements of camp, House of Gucci's 160 minutes outing is the kin...

Dog: Movie Review

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Dog: Movie Review  Cast: Channing Tatum, A Belgian Malinois Directors: Reid Carolin, Channing Tatum Dog knows exactly what it wants to do - the pitch is right there in front of an audience. Channing Tatum, a dog and a road trip to a fallen comrade's funeral. It's all laid out in that simple synopsis - and it's cemented by the opening credits which provide a snapshot of the relationship between the dog Lulu and its military owner, who's died. And yet for a film whose premise isn't exactly earth-shattering, or whose denouement is never in doubt, Dog makes the conventional road seem appealing enough for its 100 minute run time. Tatum is Jackson Briggs, a former Army Ranger, who's been cast aside from the service due to a combination of post traumatic stress disorder and also a brain injury that could leave him prone to seizures. Desperate for money, and scrabbling to make ends meet after working at a gas station, Briggs is offered a shot at redemption - if he can t...

Deep Water: Movie Review

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Deep Water: Movie Review Cast: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Finn Whitrock Director: Adrian Lyne Deep Water is supposed to be a return to the erotic thriller, helmed by the meister Adrian Lyne. The director who steamed up the screen some 20 years ago with the likes of Unfaithful, 9 1/2 Weeks and Fatal Attraction. But what emerges in Deep Water is sexual tension that's about as tepid as a cold bath and about as sexy as a wet lettuce. Based on the Patricia Highsmith novel of the same name, former lovers Ben Affleck and Ana de Armas play Vic and Melinda, a married couple whose passion has veered into loathing and parenting. Vic spends his days wasting time and biking after retiring from making millions creating a microchip that helps with drone warfare; Melinda spends her time having casual affairs with younger beaus under the growing-resentful eyes of her husband. But when one of the latest flings ends up dead, Vic's suddenly in the frame for murder. Deep Water doesn't really do...

Last Night in Soho: Blu Ray Review

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Last Night in Soho: Blu Ray Review Edgar Wright's latest really boils down to a mesh of a time-travelling horror film that deals with the PTSD of toxic masculinity. McKenzie plays Eloise Turner, a Cornish-dwelling wannabe fashionista whose room is bedecked in 60s aesthetics from music to the style of the times. When her dream of studying to become a designer in London comes true, she heads to the capital's Soho. However, Eloise finds when she arrives that life is not as she expected, and she's troubled by her own demons, and the demons of another's past, those of would-be singer Sandy (The Queen's Gambit's Anya Taylor-Joy).... Director Edgar Wright has asked for some secrecies around the events after Eloise heads to London, so to respect that makes a review of his latest tricky, but not impossible. At its heart, this coming-of-age tale is mixed with Wright's trademark editing sensibilities (albeit toned down a little for pacing) and some bravura visual flair...

Win a prize pack to see Marvel's Morbius exclusively in cinemas

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Win a prize pack to see Marvel's Morbius exclusively in cinemas To celebrate the release of Marvel's Morbius, in cinemas from March 31, you can win a prize pack. Each prize pack contains Double pass to the movie Stainless steel cups Drawstring bag About Marvel's Morbius One of Marvel’s most compelling and conflicted characters comes to the big screen as Oscar® winner Jared Leto transforms into the enigmatic antihero, Michael Morbius. Dangerously ill with a rare blood disorder, and determined to save others suffering his same fate, Dr. Morbius attempts a desperate gamble. What at first appears to be a radical success soon reveals itself to be a remedy potentially worse than the disease. Morbius, starring Jared Leto, is in cinemas March 31.

The Boys season 3 teaser trailer

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The Boys season 3 teaser trailer Today, Prime Video revealed the first teaser from  the highly anticipated third season of the Emmy-nominated drama  The Boys  during their panel at South by Southwest (SXSW). During the panel—moderated by Christian Slater,   who voices a character in the animated anthology series   The Boys Presents: Diabolical —cast members and showrunner Eric Kripke revealed details about the next instalment of the fan-favourite superhero series.   The teaser showcases just some of the truly diabolical moments ahead, and offers a glimpse at all of the fan-favorite characters and fresh faces from the upcoming season of   The Boys . It is also set to the song “Bones,” the first new music from Grammy-winning band Imagine Dragons’ forthcoming release  Mercury – Act 2  (KIDinaKORNER/Interscope Records).   The series will debut on Prime Video with three episodes on Friday, June 3. New episodes will be available each Friday fo...

Elden Ring: PS5 Review

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Elden Ring: PS5 Review Developer: From Software Ltd Publisher: Bandai Namco Platform: PS5 Those devils at From Software have done it again. Not content to ruin our lives with the continual deaths in the likes of the Dark Souls series and Bloodborne, they've continued to mine a similar genre and furrow a familiar path with their latest release, Elden Ring. Once again, the words "You Died" will haunt your life and irritate the heck out of you as you try to negotiate your way through the world of Elden Ring. Made in collaboration with George R R Martin of Game of Thrones' fame, the third person perspective Elden Ring sees you roaming around an open world of the Lands InBetween, some time after destruction of the famed Elden Ring. You are one of the Tarnished, a warrior being who roams the land, trying to reunite the shards and facing all manner of conflicts as you do so. It's not an easy game to master, and in truth the opening sequences and gameplay of Elden Ring wi...

Fresh: Movie Review

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Fresh: Movie Review Cast: Sebastian Stan, Daisy Edgar-Jones, Charlotte Le Bon, Jonica T Gibbs Director: Mimi Cave Noa (Normal People's Daisy Edgar-Jones) is tired of dating. After one too many dud meet-ups, she decides to swear off the apps for a while, frustrated at the attitudes of the men she meets. However, while on a break from the dating scene, but secretly yearning for someone, Noa meets Sebastian Stan's dashing Steve in the supermarket. One flirtation later over cotton candy grapes, ("I didn't think people met people IRL these days", Noa says) Noa's swapped numbers and rushes headlong into what seems to be a perfect relationship with Steve. But when she heads off on a romantic weekend with Steve despite warnings from her best friend Mollie (Gibbs, one of the film's stellar supports), everything changes as Steve reveals his true nature. With plenty of close ups of mouths and eating, you can guess what's coming as the film winds its smartly execu...

Nightmare Alley: Disney+ Review

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Nightmare Alley: Disney+ Review Spanish director and master of the whimsical and unsettlingly macabre Guillermo del Toro heads to the carnival for this Gothic slice of neo noir. Essentially a parable about going too far and overachieving your dreams above your own station, Bradley Cooper delivers a restrained near-career best as Stanton Carlisle, who takes a job working as a carny. Enthralled by the life of a clairvoyant act (Collette and Strathairn, both utterly compelling and human), Carlisle begins to learn the tricks of the trade while trying to woo fellow performer Molly (Mara), promising her a new life and riches if they head off together. But when Carlisle starts to enjoy the trappings of success and leaves the carnival to reinvent himself as the Great Stanton, he ends up falling under the spell of psychologist Dr Lilith Ritter (Blanchett, a cool and icy femme fatale presence). Realising he can use her inside knowledge as a tool to manipulate marks, the pair form an uneasy allia...