CAFE SOCIETY (full review at The Reel Word)

Café Society, so called because of the term given to the bar and club hopping high life of the 1930s, is Woody Allen's 47th movie. Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) leaves behind his father’s jewellery business in New York City, to forge a new life for himself in Los Angeles. In search of employment he visits his uncle Phil (Steve Carell), a successful Hollywood agent who helps him out with a job. Taking him under his wing, Phil arranges for his secretary, Vonnie (Kristen Stewart), to show Bobby around town. Bobby immediately falls for her hook, line and sinker, but Vonnie is already involved with someone.

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IMDB: Cafe Society

NO STRANGER THAN LOVE (full review at The Reel Word)

Lucy Sherrington (Alison Brie) is a popular high school teacher. A do-gooder in the finest Capraesque tradition of small town Americana. Her dad is the mayor, and everybody likes her. But perhaps a bit too much, because she is the object of the besotted affection of every male in town. Lucy suffers their attentions with patience and good humour but is only interested in married, high school football coach Clint Coburn (Colin Hanks). When Clint sneaks out one night to visit Lucy at home, a large hole magically appears in her living room, into which Clint falls. With Clint trapped in the hole, the entire town turns out to look for him, as well as Rydell (Justin Chatwin), a novice loan shark to whom Clint owes gambling debts.

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IMDB: No Stranger Than Love

BLAIR WITCH (full review at The Reel Word)

In 1999 the Blair Witch Project created a phenomenon. A pre-internet marketing campaign, devoid of lead actors and perfectly realised with a fleshed out back story, it generated monumental hype, suggesting the events and mythos of the movie were true. The fact that Cannibal Holocaust had done the same thing, twenty years prior, was rendered immaterial by the fact The Blair Witch Project was a bone fide masterpiece.  A lesson in the craft of tension, horror and low budget filmmaking. It created a feeling of unease and genuine scares with seemingly little effort. But as seventeen years of imitators have shown us, it’s not as easy as it looks.

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IMDB: Blair Witch

BASKIN (full review at The Reel Word)

Can Evrenol’s Baskin  is an expanded version of his acclaimed 2013 short film of the same name. Baskin is a surreal, grisly horror movie, taking a simple premise and doing a hell of a lot with it. Evrenol has delivered an accomplished debut feature, and a cracking horror movie.

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IMDB: Baskin

ELLE (full review at The Reel Word)

Paul Verhoeven is responsible for some of the finest science fiction movies of the last thirty years, and although he conquered Hollywood in the 90s, it’s easy to forget that he is also the man responsible for Basic Instinct and Showgirls. As the credits open on Elle and the wannabe Bernard Hermann soundtrack screeches all over it, those memories come flooding back.

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IMDB: Elle

HIGH-RISE (full review at The Reel Word)

Generally speaking, it’s safe to say the words ‘unfilmable novel’ should not be taken as a challenge. But who better to take it up, than one of the most compelling and interesting filmmakers to emerge in recent years, Ben Wheatley. Wheatley’s debut, the gritty crime drama Down Terrace, put him on the map. He duly followed it up with a stunning tale of occult horror in Kill List – arguably the greatest horror movie of the last ten years. Sightseers combined the darkest of black comedy with English eccentricities, and for his fourth movie he gave us the divisive and surreal A Field in England. With High-Rise, Wheatley gets his teeth stuck in to J.G. Ballard’s classic dystopian novel. Grindhouse Ben Wheatley has morphed into Arthouse Ben Wheatley.

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IMDB: High-Rise

STRANGER THINGS (full review at The Reel Word)

Having only been on release for a mere two weeks, Netflix’s latest binge watch sensation, Stranger Things, is already gaining an inordinate amount of column inches and social media traction. Part thriller, part science fiction, part nostalgia trip, its stylish blend of retro aesthetic and Spielbergian adventure is connecting with a lot of people. But does Stranger Things live up to the hype? You bet it does.

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IMDB: Stranger Things