American Horror Story: Season Three (Coven)

Review by CJ

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Director:
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, Michael Rymer, Michael Uppendahl, Jeremy Podeswa, Bradley Buecker, Howard Deutch

Writer:
Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Tim Minear, James Wong, Jennifer Salt, Jessica Sharzer, Douglas Petrie

Starring:
Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Taissa Farmiga, Emma Roberts, Gabourey Sidibe, Jamie Brewer, Lily Rabe, Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, Denis O’Hare, Angela Bassett, Frances Conroy

Other notable appearances:
Stevie Nicks, Mare Winningham, Alexandra Breckenridge, Danny Huston, Grace Gummer, Patti LuPone, Lance Reddick

Running time:
40-51 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
13

 

Witches in a New Orleans coven must defend themselves from destruction by forces both internal and external.

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American Horror Story: Season Two (Asylum)

Review by CJ

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Director:
Bradley Buecker, Michael Uppendahl, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon, David Semel, Michael Rymer, Michael Lehmann, Jeremy Podeswa, Craig Zisk

Writer:
Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Tim Minear, James Wong, Jennifer Salt, Jessica Sharzer

Starring:
Jessica Lange, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Lily Rabe, Lizzie Brocheré, Zachary Quinto, James Cromwell, Joseph Fiennes

Other notable appearances:
Britne Oldford, Clea DuVall, Chloë Sevigny, Naomi Grossman, Adam Levine, Jenna Dewan Tatum, Fredric Lehne, Joe Egender, Ian McShane, Frances Conroy, Dylan McDermott

Running time:
40-46 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
13

 

The story of Briarcliff Mental Institution, its patients and its staff as led by Sister Jude (Lange), Doctor Arden (Cromwell) and Monsignor Timothy Howard (Fiennes) in the 1960s.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016)

Review by CJ

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Director:
Burr Steers

Starring:
Lily James, Sam Riley, Bella Heathcote, Douglas Booth, Jack Huston

Other notable appearances:
Lena Headey, Sally Phillips, Charles Dance, Matt Smith, Suki Waterhouse

Running time:
108 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, Pride and Prejudice with gore

 

Elizabeth Bennet (James) is a young lady in the 19th century who is skilled in the arts of decorum, literature and zombie defence. Can Elizabeth and her four sisters please both of their parents by marrying well and staying alive during a mounting zombie invasion?

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Witch Hunt by SM Reine (2014)

Review by CJ

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Page count:
234 pages

Format:
Kindle ebook

ASIN:
B00I9IM9MW

 

Office of Preternatural Affairs Agent Cèsar Hawke wakes up after a night of drinking with a hangover and a dead waitress in his bathroom. Neither his agency or local law enforcement believe Cèsar is innocent and his own memory was compromised by alcohol. If he is to get out of this, Cèsar must team up with his partner Suzy and the necrocognitive Isobel to reveal what actually happened.

Witch Hunt is the first book in the Preternatural Affairs series.

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LEGO Frozen Northern Lights (2016)

Review by CJ

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Director:
Steven Spencer

Writer:
Mark Hoffmeier

Starring:
Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Chris Williams, Ciarán Hinds

Running time:
21 minutes

 

Elsa (Menzel), Anna (Bell), Olaf (Gad), Sven (Groff) and Kristoff (Groff) are shocked to discover that the northern lights are not visible from Arendelle. The crew head to where the northern lights originate to find out what has gone wrong.

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