Review: ‘I, Tonya’ (2017)

Like many people the only thing I knew about ice skater Tonya Harding before this film was the incident of violence that she inflicted upon Nancy Kerrigan. This film deals with Tonya's upbringing and her life in general leading up to this point. One striking feature of the film is that it well and truly breaks down …

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Review- ‘Wonder’ (2017)

WARNING- The ending of this film is so sugar coated that you will become diabetic. This film is basically saying ‘Life sucks whether you have a facial deformity or not’. Julia Roberts is great (as per). Owen Wilson is in a film that isn’t an utter embarrassment for once (way to go). But the film feels …

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Day 20- 31 Days of Halloween- The Amityville Horror (1979)

A young family move into a house where a young man killed his entire family. And they wonder why the house price was so low. Cue all manner of haunted house shenanigans- flies, crucifixes being turned upside down, the kids suddenly acquiring imaginary friends, red eyes being seen through the window at night, black ooze overflowing …

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Day 16- 31 Days of Halloween- The Tingler (1959)

A scientist (played by Vincent Price with his usual aplomb) discovers an organism that attaches itself to the human spine and feeds on the feeling of fear from the host person. The parasite is known to be present as it makes the spine of the person feel a tingling sensation. For this reason its known …

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Day 15- 31 Days of Halloween- Freaks (1932)

I first saw this when studying film at University. Tod Browning tries the sideshow carnival trick of sensationalism to try to bring audiences in to gawk at the disgusting freaks of nature. But he has a trick up his sleeve- he treats the ‘freaks’ as human beings, utterly likeable and as having feelings like everyone else. …

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Day 13- 31 Days of Halloween- Friday the 13th Part 4- The Final Chapter

I remember seeing this on video at a friends house back in the day and being so freaked out that I had to ask his Dad to walk me home. I was 12 years old. Them were the days. After the camp of Part 3 this film gets back on track and is resplendent with really …

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