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Disney’s Aladdin the Musical

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Review by CJ

Starring:
Ainsley Melham, Michael James Scott, Hiba Elchikhe, Adam-Jon Fiorentino, Troy Sussman, Robert Tripolino, Adam Murphy, Aljin Abella, George Henare

Venue:
Her Majesty’s Theatre (Melbourne, Australia)

Running time:
150 minutes

Song list:
Arabian Nights. One Jump Ahead. Proud of Your Boy. These Palace Walls. Babkak, Omar, Aladdin, Kassim. A Million Miles Away. Diamond in the Rough. Friend Like Me. Act One Finale (Friend Like Me Reprise/Proud of Your Boy Reprise). Prince Ali. A Whole New World. High Adventure. Somebody’s Got Your Back. Proud of Your Boy (Reprise II). Prince Ali (Sultan Reprise). Prince Ali (Jafar Reprise). Finale Ultimo (Arabian Nights Reprise/A Whole New World Reprise).

 

A young man named Aladdin (Melham) lives on what he can steal with his three friends Kassim (Fiorentino), Babkak (Sussman) and Omar (Tripolino). That is until chance encounters with Princess Jasmine (Elchikhe) and a magical genie (Scott) throw their lives completely off course.

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I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (2016)

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Review by CJ

Director:
Oz Perkins

Starring:
Ruth Wilson, Paul Prentiss, Lucy Boynton

Other notable appearances:
Bob Balaban, Brad Milne

Running time:
18 days (okay, IMDb says it was actually 87 minutes)

Watch this if you like:
Being so bored that it aches

 

Lily (Wilson) is a hospice nurse who comes to live with elderly horror writer Iris Blum (Prentiss) in her haunted house.

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When A Stranger Calls (2006)

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Review by CJ

Director:
Simon West

Starring:
Camilla Belle, Tommy Flanagan, Lance Henriksen

Other notable appearances:
Katie Cassidy, Tessa Thompson, Clark Gregg, David Denman, Dianna Agron

Running time:
87 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Halloween, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Orphan

 

Jill Johnson (Belle) has been made to take a babysitting job at a large, isolated house as punishment for overusing her mobile phone. While there, Jill starts to receive menacing phone calls from an unknown caller who is about to make themselves very known.

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The Lizzie Borden Chronicles: Season One

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Review by CJ

Director:
Howard Deutch, Stephen Kay, Constantine Makris, Russell Mulcahy

Writer:
Richard Blaney, Jason Grote, Barbara Nance, David Simkins, Gregory Small

Starring:
Christina Ricci, Clea DuVall, Cole Hauser, Dylan Taylor

Other notable appearances:
Olivia Llewellyn, Jessy Schram, Jonathan Banks, Kimberly-Sue Murray, Chris Bauer, John Heard

Running time:
42-43 minutes

Number of episodes:
8

A fictionalised version of Lizzie (Ricci) and Emma (DuVall) Borden’s lives after the murder trial that threw their family into the spotlight.

The Lizzie Borden Chronicles follows the events in Lizzie Borden Took An Axe (2014).

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Odd Thomas (2013)

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Review by CJ

Director:
Stephen Sommers

Starring:
Anton Yelchin, Addison Timlin, Willem Dafoe

Other notable appearances:
Patton Oswalt

Running time:
97 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Supernatural, Stir of Echoes, The Frighteners, Fright Night

 

Odd Thomas (Yelchin) is a short-order cook by day and a psychic by … well, all of the time. With the help, guidance and encouragement of his girlfriend Stormy (Timlin) and friend, police chief Wyatt Porter (Dafoe), Odd helps spirits seek peace so they can cross over.

When a horde of bodachs — spirits drawn to oncoming mayhem and carnage — descends on Odd’s quiet town, it’s up to Odd to figure out what is going to happen and stop it.

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