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Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (2010)

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Review by CJ

Director:
Eli Craig

Starring:
Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss, Brandon Jay McLaren, Christie Laing, Chelan Simmons, Travis Nelson, Alex Arsenault

Other notable appearances:
Philip Granger

Running time:
89 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Cabin in the Woods, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland

 

Through a series of unfortunate events, well-meaning hillbillies Tucker (Tudyk) and Dale (Labine) are mistaken for murderers by a group of college students. When the college students decide to turn the tables, Tucker and Dale find themselves fighting for their lives.

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We Are Robin, Volume 1: The Vigilante Business (2016)

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Review by CJ

Page count:
157

Format:
Trade paperback

Publisher:
DC Comics

ISBN:
978-1-4012-5982-0

 

A band of teenagers don the Robin mantle to fight crime in Gotham City under the guidance of a mysterious figure.

We Are Robin, Volume 1: The Vigilante Business collects issues 1-6 of We Are Robin (2015).

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The Stepfather (2009)

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Review by CJ

Director:
Nelson McCormick

Starring:
Dylan Walsh, Sela Ward, Penn Badgley, Amber Heard

Other notable appearances:
Paige Turco, Sherry Stringfield, Jon Tenney

Running time:
101 minutes

 

When Michael (Badgley) returns from military school, he finds his mother Susan (Ward) engaged to a man she’s known for six months. Susan’s fiancé David (Walsh) tries to endear himself to Michael but the formerly wayward teen suspects his future stepfather has insidious motives. With the help of his girlfriend Kelly (Heard), Michael must discover what David is up to in order to save his mother and siblings.

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Under the Shadow (2016)

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Director:
Babak Anvari

Starring:
Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi

Running time:
84 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Babadook, Poltergeist, The Conjuring

 

In 1980s war torn Tehran, Shideh (Rashidi) and her daughter Dorsa (Manshadi) are left alone in their apartment while patriarch Iraj (Naderi) is deployed to perform medical duties in an area of combat. In addition to dealing with regular air raids, fleeing neighbours and her husband’s insistence that she take Dorsa to his parents, Shideh begins to suspect there is a supernatural entity stalking her daughter.

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Beauty and the Beast (2017)

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Review by CJ

Director:
Bill Condon

Starring:
Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Kevin Kline, Luke Evans, Josh Gad

Other notable appearances:
Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Audra McDonald

Running time:
129 minutes

 

The tale as old as time of a young girl who dreams of more, the cursed Prince whose cold heart has doomed him, and the lengths they go to trying to save each other.

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