The Nest (2020)

The Nest (2020) is not a horror movie but it feels like one. It’s like The Shining but if The Overlook Hotel was haunted by the spirit of Reaganomics. Set during the 1980s, the film charts an American family placed under pressure by the father’s plan for a new wealthy life in his homeland, the […]

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The Kid Detective (2020)

Tone is such a tricky thing to get it right, particularly when you are juggling tones while blurring genres. The Kid Detective (2020) begins with a goofy premise – a kid detective (like Encyclopaedia Brown) who solved neighbourhood crimes, now a washed up adult still solving “cases” – and eventually becomes one of my favourite […]

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Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

Available to watch on Netflix is a new documentary by Kirsten Johnson called Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020). Who is Dick Johnson? Dick Johnson is Kirsten the director’s father and it is a look at the subject of death by having her dad star in fake constructions of his potential death – walking on the […]

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