THE VOID (full review at The Reel Word)

In the middle of a night shift, country police officer Daniel Carter (Aaron Poole) comes across an injured and bloodied young man, James (Evan Stern), on the edge of a forest. Bundling him into the back of his car, he races him off to the local hospital, which is running a skeleton staff due to a recent fire. On reaching the hospital it transpires that James is being pursued by a mysterious knife-wielding cult, dressed in white hooded robes. They lay siege to the hospital while Daniel and the staff, including his estranged wife, Allison (Kathleen Munroe), must find a way out.



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IMDB: The Void

THE HITMAN'S BODYGUARD (full review at The Reel Word)

Michael Bryce (Ryan Reynolds) is an elite bodyguard, down on his luck and catering to low-rent clients after an incident on a high-profile job sent his career into a tailspin. Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson) is an incarcerated contract killer who, in exchange for his wife’s freedom, agrees to testify in The Hague against infamous war criminal Vladislav Dukhovich (Gary Oldman). As fate would have it, Kincaid is being transported from England by Bryce’s ex-girlfriend, Interpol agent Amelia Roussel (Elodie Yung), whom he blames for his professional nosedive. When the Interpol convoy is ambushed, and suspecting an inside job, Roussel calls on Bryce to help get Kincaid to The Hague intact.

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IMDB: The Hitman's Bodyguard

FAULTS (full review at The Reel Word)

Dr Ansel Roth (Leland Orser) is a disgraced expert in mind control and cult deprogramming. Following a scandal, the cancellation of his TV series and being in hoc to his agent, he trawls around poorly attended speaking engagements, trying to sell his book. When his agent sends a debt collector after him, Ansel is given a looming repayment deadline. Soon afterwards he is approached at an event by the parents of a girl called Claire (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who has been indoctrinated into a cult. In need of the money, Ansel agrees to return to his former profession and help them.

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IMDB: Faults

THE BELKO EXPERIMENT (full review at The Reel Word)

On a normal day, in a normal office building just outside Bogotá, Colombia, the morning routine has barely started when the employees of the Belko Corporation receive an unusual ultimatum. Via intercom they are told they must kill a specified number of their colleagues or suffer fatal consequences. Initially believing it to be a prank, the employees congregate in the lobby and try to figure things out. But after the mysterious person on the end of the intercom locks them inside and proves they mean business, everything goes a bit pear shaped.

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IMDB: The Belko Experiment

BLOODLANDS (full review at The Reel Word)

Albanian/Australian horror movie Bloodlands is the follow-up to writer-director Steven Kastrissios’ little seen, yet terrific, Aussie revenge movie The Horseman.

Set in an impoverished Albanian community on the edge of a stunning, seemingly endless forest, Bloodlands nominally follows siblings Artan (Emiljano Palali) and Iliriana (Alesia Xhemalaj) in their daily life working in the family butcher shop. The family, rounded out by Skender (Gëzim Rudi) and Shpresa (Suela Bako), are plagued by weird dreams of a mysterious cloaked figure and there are periodic references to witchcraft, rumour and their great grandfather’s historical activities. After an altercation with a young man and woman caught rifling through their bins, the family becomes caught up in a feud with feral, possibly supernatural forest dwellers.

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IMDB: Bloodlands

KIKI, LOVE TO LOVE a.k.a. KIKI, EL AMOR SE HACE (full review at The Reel Word)

Kiki, Love to Love is a Spanish comedy / drama based on Australian director Josh Lawson’s 2014 film The Little Death. It follows the lives and unusual sexual preferences of a selection of Madrid residents.

Even though it deals with the fetishes and uncommon sexual foibles, it’s not as bawdy or crass as its synopsis sounds. And although the film is most certainly a comedy, the central message of Kiki, Love to Love is one of positivity. We’re not laughing at the weirdness (well, okay, maybe we are to begin with), but rather celebrating it. We are invited to look at these characters and the uncommon things that arouse them and realise there really is no such thing as ‘normal’. That while these proclivities might make for some very funny circumstances, there’s no shame or derision for anyone involved.

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IMDB: Kiki, Love To Love

HOUNDS OF LOVE (full review at The Reel Word)

Set in Perth in 1987, Hounds of Love is a horror/crime story dealing with the abduction, torture and imprisonment of a young girl by a sadistic couple, John and Evelyn White. Vicki Maloney is taken from the street at random one night, and with no clue as to her whereabouts and in the face of an apathetic response from local law enforcement, her distraught family face an uphill battle to find her.

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IMDB: Hounds Of Love

RAW a.k.a. GRAVE (full review at The Reel Word)

Julia Ducournau’s Raw (a.k.a Grave) has an intimidating festival reputation and a delicious vegetarian-turns-cannibal concept. Vet student Justine (Garance Marillier) arrives for her first week of university, but must first endure a bizarre and endless stream of initiation rituals instigated by the older students. Justine, nervous and unsure of herself, is peer pressured into ditching her vegetarianism when she eats a rabbit kidney as one of the oddball hazing stunts. Justine starts to find her feet at uni, with the help of her sister Alexia (Ella Rumpf) and roommate Adrien (Rabah Naït Oufella), but before long a craving begins to manifest for a particular kind of meat… human.

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IMDB: Raw

20th CENTURY WOMEN (full review at The Reel Word)

Writer / director Mike Mills follows up the wonderful Beginners with 20th Century Women, a semi-autobiographical drama/comedy that centres on the relationship between single parent Dorothea (Annette Bening) and her 15-year-old son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann). Set in California in 1979, Dorothea and Jamie live in a large, mouldering old house with tenants Abbie (Greta Gerwig) and William (Billy Crudup). Dorothea enlists Abbie and Jamie’s best friend Julie (Elle Fanning) to help raise him in areas where she, as his mother, cannot make a connection. We follow this unconventional family through a character rather than plot-driven narrative.

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IMDB: 20th Century Women

FREE FIRE (full review at The Reel Word)

In 1970s Boston, a small IRA group led by Frank (Michael Smiley) and Chris (Cillian Murphy) meet on a dockside to conduct a transaction with South African arms dealer Vernon (Sharlto Copley) and his group of henchmen. Directed by facilitators Ord (Armie Hammer) and Justine (Brie Larson) to a dilapidated former factory, the two groups immediately fail to get along. As everyone begins to needle each other it appears the deal could fall apart at any second. Cooler heads appear to prevail, but an incident sets tempers flaring and the situation inevitably descends into violence.

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IMDB: Free Fire

THE GREASY STRANGLER (full review at The Reel Word)

Big Ronnie (Michael St. Michaels) and Big Brayden (Sky Elobar) are a father and son duo who live together and work together in the family business – fleecing tourists in a garishly fluorescent L.A. disco tour of spurious pedigree. Their prickly relationship soon becomes even more strained when they meet disco tour customer Janet (Elizabeth De Razzo) and compete for her affections. Meanwhile, a slathered up serial killer known as The Greasy Strangler is offing community members in conveniently deserted locales.

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IMDB: The Greasy Strangler

DENIAL (full review at The Reel Word)

Denial is the true story of the 1996 libel case brought against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books by the notorious Holocaust denier David Irving. Taken to the British High Court over her book, she is compelled to prove under British libel law, that Irving willingly lied and misrepresented facts in order to support his own twisted world view.

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IMDB: Denial