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Jan 7, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Catherine Bray
Every film ought to have a signature image, and slow-burn supernatural chiller The Damned has a doozy: a body washed ashore shows unexpected signs of life, a stirring in the midsection … but surprise, slash the bloated stomach open and there’s an eel in there, wriggling about and presumably feasting on guts. Unfortunately nothing else provides quite so fulsomely gothic a moment, which is a shame, because it’s an arresting flourish.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
ecartelera.com | Alison Foreman |Catherine Bray |Owen Gleiberman |Brian Tallerico
La tercera entrega de Terrifier prometía superar las expectativas de los fanáticos del género slasher, pero lamentablemente, se queda a medio camino debido a un guion que pierde su rumbo a mitad de la película. Lo que comienza como una narrativa intrigante y con cierto potencial para explorar el trasfondo de Art the Clown, rápidamente se diluye en una serie de escenas caóticas y desconectadas que parecen existir únicamente para justificar el exceso de gore.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
msn.com | Catherine Bray
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Catherine Bray
A modest film with modest ambitions, this is a documentary that paints a portrait of a small Irish town at Christmas, through interviews with various inhabitants about their lives, touching on what the festive season means to them. There’s a single mum of three, now sober, who used to have a drinking problem. There’s a young widower contemplating his first Christmas with his two sons and without his beloved late wife.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
msn.com | Catherine Bray
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Catherine Bray
You know the way Dracula likes to deliver a dramatic speech, then turns into a bat, and flies away? It turns out that the angel Gabriel does something similar, only he turns into a blue scarf, the same kind of snazzy number you might get in Monsoon as a birthday present for your mum. Whoosh! Away he goes. Unfortunately, Gabriel-as-knitwear is about as entertaining as it gets in this fairly straightforward biblical adaptation of the early years of Mary, mother of Christ.
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
msn.com | Rachel Aroesti |Catherine Bray |Andrew Clements |John Fordham |Skye Sherwin |Jenessa Williams | +1 more
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Nov 30, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Rachel Aroesti |Andrew Clements |Catherine Bray |John Fordham |Skye Sherwin |Jenessa Williams | +1 more
1 DecPaul Heaton GlasgowIn support of the release of his 10th studio album The Mighty Several, Paul Heaton hits the arenas of the UK with his new sidekick, Rianne Downey. Alongside new material, the pair promise an array of Housemartins and Beautiful South hits, mapping the territories of British heartland pop with suitably wintery wit. JWOVO Hydro, and touring. 2 DecRuination at the Royal Opera House. Photograph: Camilla GreenwellRuination LondonA five-star show from dance-theatre company Lost Dog.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
msn.com | Catherine Bray
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Catherine Bray
Women falling for monsters of one sort or another is hardly a new concept, whether it’s Buffy swooning over brooding vampires, Belle getting tingly feelings for the Beast, or Oscar-winning woman and fish-man fable The Shape of Water. It doesn’t always work out very well: witness Geena Davis’s journalist in The Fly, pregnant with a human-insect hybrid, with her erstwhile lover imploring her to carry their baby to term.
