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Santa Clarita Diet: Season One

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Review by CJ

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Director:
Ruben Fleischer, Marc Buckland, Ken Kwapis, Craig Zisk, Lynn Shelton, Steve Pink, Tamra Davis, Dean Parisot

Writer:
Victor Fresco, Clay Graham, Michael A. Ross, Chadd Gindin, Leila Cohan-Miccio, Ben Smith, Aaron Brownstein, Simon Ganz, Sarah Walker,

Starring:
Drew Barrymore, Timothy Olyphant, Liv Hewson, Skyler Gisondo, Ricardo Chavira, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Richard T. Jones, Joy Omanski

Other notable appearances:
Nathan Fillion, Andy Richter, Patricia Belcher, Patton Oswalt, Thomas Lennon, Deobia Oparei, Natalie Morales, Portia de Rossi

Running time:
30 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
10

 

Sheila (Barrymore) and Joel (Olyphant) are a normal married couple with a normal daughter (Hewson) living and working as realtors in sunny Santa Clarita. When Sheila dies and comes back to life, the family must make some significant adjustments to their lifestyle.

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Rings (2017)

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Director:
F. Javier Gutiérrez

Starring:
Matilda Lutz, Alex Roe, Johnny Galecki, Vincent D’Onofrio

Other notable appearances:
Bonnie Morgan

Running time:
102 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Ring, The Grudge, The Conjuring

 

College professor Gabriel (Galecki) discovers a videotape that causes anyone who watches it to be tormented and ultimately killed after seven days. Gabriel decides there is a study to be done of this phenomenon and gets students to watch it so that the effects can be observed. When Julia (Lutz) finds out that her boyfriend Holt (Roe) is involved, she will stop at nothing to free him from Samara’s curse.

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Cinderella adapted by Elizabeth Rudnick (2015)

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Page count:
167

Format:
Paperback

ISBN:
978-1-4723-9682-2

 

Adapted from the 2015 live action Disney movie, Cinderella tells the tale of a girl named Ella. After her mother’s death Ella’s father remarried, giving her a step-mother and two step-sisters. Not long after, Ella’s father also passes away leaving her a servant in her own home to serve her wicked step-mother and spoilt step-sisters. By remembering to have courage and be kind, Ella finds magic, true love and her happily ever after.

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11.22.63 (2016)

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Director:
Kevin Macdonald, Frederick O.E. Toye, James Strong, James Franco, John David Coles, James Kent

Writer:
Stephen King (based on the novel by), Bridget Carpenter, Quinton Peeples, Brian Nelson, Brigitte Hales, Joe Henderson

Starring:
James Franco, Sarah Gadon, Daniel Webber, George MacKay

Other notable appearances:
Chris Cooper, Josh Duhamel, Tonya Pinkins, Nick Searcy, Leon Rippy, Lucy Fry, T.R. Knight, Kevin J. O’Connor, Jonny Coyne, Annette O’Toole, Michael O’Neill, Joanna Douglas, Cherry Jones, Gil Bellows

Running time:
42-81 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
8

 

Jake Epping (Franco) is an English teacher who is tasked by a dying friend with travelling back in time to stop the assassination of JFK. During his time in the 1960s, Jake must juggle adjusting to a new time period with a new love and a past that doesn’t want to be changed.

11.22.63 is based on the novel of the same name by Stephen King.

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The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

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Director:
Peter Cornwell

Starring:
Kyle Gallner, Virginia Madsen, Martin Donovan, Ty Wood, Sophi Knight, Amanda Crew

Other notable appearances:
Elias Koteas

Running time:
92 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
The Amityville Horror, The Conjuring, The Conjuring 2, Poltergeist

 

The Campbell family move to a house in Connecticut to be closer to the hospital at which eldest son Matt (Gallner) is undergoing cancer treatment. The family soon learn that their new home was previously a funeral home and that they are not the only current tenants.

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