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Texas Chainsaw (2013)

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Review by CJ

Director:
John Luessenhop

Starring:
Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Tremaine ‘Trey Songz’ Neverson, Tania Raymonde, Scott Eastwood, Keram Malicki-Sánchez, Shaun Sipos, Thom Barry, Paul Rae

Other notable appearances:
Gunnar Hansen

Running time:
92 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Saw, Wrong Turn

 

Just before a road trip to New Orleans, Heather Miller (Daddario) discovers she is adopted and her birth grandmother has bequeathed a house in Texas to her. Heather and her friends decide to stop in on the way to Louisiana. What she doesn’t realise is that the house comes with a secret — a murderous, chainsaw wielding secret.

 

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Jack of Hearts by Christopher Greyson (2017)

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Review by CJ

Page count:
238

ISBN:
9781683990734

Jack Stratton is headed to Florida for fun in the sun and to introduce girlfriend Alice to his parents. What he doesn’t expect is to be nominated by his mother to help her book club solve the mystery of the garden ornament thief. When the mystery takes a deadly turn, will Jack be able to protect his family or will he have to fold?

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Annabelle: Creation (2017)

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Director:
David F. Sandberg

Starring:
Anthony LaPaglia, Talitha Bateman, Lulu Wilson, Stephanie Sigman, Miranda Otto, Samara Lee

Running time:
109 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Conjuring, Annabelle, Lights Out

 

When their orphanage closes down, Sister Charlotte (Sigman) takes her six charges to live with a kind couple doing their Christian duty. What Sister Charlotte doesn’t know is that when Samuel (LaPaglia) and Esther (Otto) lost their daughter, they would have done anything to get her back — and they did.

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The Adventures of Peter Pan and Tinker Bell in Return to PantoLand (2017)

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Review by CJ

Starring: 
Todd McKenney, Tim Maddren, Robyn Loau, Katrina Retallick, Jaime Hadwen, Kev Orkian, Ksenia Zofi, Ric Pragnell, Matthew Geronimi, Michael Stone, Jay Johns, Samuel Richardson, Brandon Ware, Justin Rive, Michael Francisco

Venue:
The Comedy Theatre (Melbourne, Australia)

Running time:
150 minutes (including intermission)

 

The story of Peter Pan (Maddren) and Tinker Bell’s (Hadwen) journeys with Wendy (Zofi), John and Michael Darling in Neverland. They meet Tiger Lily (Loau), fight Captain Hook (McKenney) and think all of the happy thoughts that their hearts desire.

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War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)

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Review by CJ

Director:
Matt Reeves

Starring:
Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Amiah Miller, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary, Michael Adamthwaite

Other notable appearances:
Judy Greer, Aleks Paunovic

Running time:
140 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

 

With humans hunting them at every outpost, it’s not long until Caesar’s (Serkis) family is found and attacked. When on a mission to avenge his murdered family, Caesar discovers that the army Colonel (Harrelson) who killed them has taken the whole ape tribe hostage.

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