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  Here 2024

  ★★★½ Watched 16 Mar 2025

  I can understand why for some this did not work, it's a novel approach to take, with a fixed filming location recording events across time, mostly on the occupants of one house and their living room, but yes there is a limited nod to dinosaurs. It's delivered in a non linear style, reflecting the mundane, to the heartbreaking and those moments that change our lives forever. In this we see much of what can be described as the human condition,…

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  Rumpelstiltskin 2025

  ★★ Rewatched 08 Mar 2025

  The actor playing Rumpelstiltskin did a first rate job, along with those who worked on his makeup.

Popular reviews

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  Night at the Eagle Inn 2021

  ★★★½ Watched 15 Oct 2021

  Fraternal twins locate the motel they were born in, their mother died in and their father vanished from. Looking to uncover the events of the fateful night they opt to become the only paying visitors for one evening. So starts an evening of macarbe mayhem, peppered with spiky quick witted dialogue. Their are nice little nods to numerous other classics horrors, but not to such an extent that becomes a cliche, more reinforcing it's smart bantered filled ambiance. The small cast have a wonderful chemistry, and it is the dynamic between the twins - Amelia Dudley and Taylor Turner, that really makes the film work.

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  The Special 2020

  ★★★ Watched 08 Oct 2020

  A low budget but surprisingly effective slice of body horror, as husband Jerry out drinking with his best friend Mike, confides in him that he suspects his wife Lisa is having an affair. Mike's solution is for Jerry to visit a house of ill repute, and experience something unlike anything he's experienced before "The Special". And true to his word Jerry does find it to be beyond his wildest imagination, so much so that he ignores the warnings never to…