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The Black Phone 2021
Children are mysteriously disappearing from the streets of a Denver suburb in 1978. Finney, a 13 year-old boy played by Mason Thames, and his sister, Gwen, played by Madeleine McGraw, are unsettled by the sight of the faces of classmates on flyers around town, but they are also fighting their own battles against bullies at school and against their abusive alcoholic father, played by Jeremy Davies. When Finney becomes the latest abductee of “The Grabber”, played by Ethan Hawke, and…
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Scared to Death 1980
Ted Londergan, a former detective played by John Stinson, now works as an author and spends his lackadaisical days using his uncanny awkwardness to romance women. When the Los Angeles police department fails to find any clues regarding multiple slayings by an apparent serial killer, however, Ted is reluctantly brought out of retirement to assist with the case. There is only one minor problem. The killer is actually a massive genetically-engineered monster that dwells in the storm drains beneath the…
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Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood 2019
In 1969, the landscape of Los Angeles is changing. The golden age of Hollywood is in the rear view mirror, as earnestly charismatic icons of cinema are ushered out in favor of complex antihero characters in increasingly cynical stories. The idealistic hippie dreams of peace and love are being corrupted with shady undercurrents. Through it all, however, traces of classic glamour, starstruck wonder, and ambitious hopes can still be glimpsed through the tendrils of cigarette smoke.
Years after his heyday…