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Death Note (2017)

Review by CJ

Director:
Adam Wingard

Starring:
Nat Wolff, Willem Dafoe, Lakeith Stanfield, Margaret Qualley

Other notable appearances:
Paul Nakauchi

Running time:
101 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Donnie Darko, The Crow

 

Light (Wolff) finds a journal that unites him with a death god named Ryuk (Dafoe) who will kill anyone whose name and method of death Light writes in the book. When Light starts to use the journal to kill anyone he deems to be evil, he quickly discovers that being a vigilante isn’t as easy as the comic books make it seem.

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Odd Thomas (2013)

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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Finding Dory (2016)

Review by CJ

Finding Dory

Director:
Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane

Starring:
Ellen Degeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Ed O’Neill

Other notable appearances:
Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Kaitlin Olson, Ty Burrell, Idris Elba, Dominic West, Bob Peterson, Bill Hader, Sigourney Weaver, Andrew Stanton, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett, Allison Janney

Running time:
103 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Toy Story 3

 

When Dory (Degeneres) suddenly starts remembering clues about who her parents are, Marlin (Brooks) and Nemo (Rolence) agree to help her find them on a trek that will once again take them across the ocean.

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