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No Man of God

            In the new film No Man of God, Elijah Wood plays real-life FBI Special Agent Bill Hagmaier, who was a former guidance counselor recruited into the elite Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI. He is given the unenviable task of…
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Annette & The Anti-Musical

            Annette, the dazzling new film by Leos Carax (Holy Motors), now streaming on Amazon Prime, is about the tumultuous love affair between an edgy, stand-up comedian (Adam Driver) and a renowned opera singer (Marion Cotillard).              It’s done as a crackpot…
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Till Death

            A fiendish, supremely suspenseful slice of bloody revenge is opening in Theaters and On Demand July 2.              Megan Fox plays Emma, a woman conflicted about celebrating her anniversary with her controlling, attorney husband (Eoin Macken). He takes her to a…
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Honeydew

            Devereux Milburn’s macabre, sublimely unsettling film is about a young couple on a camping trip- Sam, an aspiring actor (Sawyer Spielberg) and Rylie (Malin Barr), investigating, for her thesis, a blight on wheat that caused mutations and the death of…
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Run

            “No one in the universe loves their kid more than I do,” exclaims Diane (Sarah Paulson) to her special-needs daughter Chloe (Kiera Allen). Frankly, Joan Crawford starts looking like “Mother of the Year” after this smart, incredibly tense thriller by…
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Blind

            What’s unfortunate about this indie horror film by Marcel Walz is, while there are a lot of terrific twists, you just wish it was a scarier film.             The story is about Faye (Sarah French), a famous actress living up in…
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Death of Me

            A young couple vacationing in a tropical paradise find themselves in a living, waking nightmare from director Darren Lynn Bousman (who directed several of the Saw movies and knows how to sadistically tighten the noose on poor unfortunates).             Luke Hemsworth…
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