LA NOCHE DEL VIRGEN (THE NIGHT OF THE VIRGIN) (full review at The Reel Word)

On New Year’s Eve 2015, the perpetually unlucky and titular virgin, Nico (Javier Bolando), is seduced by older woman Medea (Miriam Martin) and invited back to her apartment. When Nico arrives Medea reveals an educated side to herself, interested in eastern philosophy and an obscure Nepalese religion. Conversely, her home is a grimy, cockroach infested hovel. Driven by his rampaging hormones, Nico ignores this and spends the night anyway. In the morning Nico and Medea find themselves barricaded within the apartment by Medea’s angry and jealous ex-boyfriend Spider (Victor Amilibia).

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IMDB: La Noche del Virgen (The Night of The Virgin)

PEELERS (full review at The Reel Word)

On the last night of work before selling her strip club, Blue Jeans (Wren Walker) oversees the final evening's entertainment alongside a motley assortment of regulars, staff and new customers. When a group of miners turns up for the night, we discover they have unearthed a mysteriously infectious black goo, which mistaking for oil, causes the afflicted to projectile vomit a lot and turn into psycho monsters.

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IMDB: Peelers

THE NEON DEMON (full review at The Reel Word)

The Neon Demon is Nicolas Winding Refn’s tenth movie and the story of young model, Jesse (Elle Fanning), who moves to Los Angeles in the hope of making it big in a cut throat and superficial fashion industry. Dropping out of high school and alone in the seedier side of Pasadena, Jesse befriends make-up artist Ruby (Jena Malone) and begins to make a name for herself in the industry, much to the disgust of rivals Gigi (Bella Heathcote) and Sarah (Abbey Lee).



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IMDB: The Neon Demon

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