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Monday, 17 October 2016

The Conjuring 2 (2016)


The Amityville murders are referenced, the Warrens head to London, and that and the fact Lorraine is reluctant to continue her and her husband's old-school ghostbusting are what distinguish this second outing from the first one -- everything else is so familiar you'll catch yourself checking to see if it isn't in fact the one you've already watched: the Warrens bang on locked doors, tout Christian faith, are struck occasionally with supernatural apoplexy, and again fail to answer any of those nagging questions you have about inhuman spirits - why do they sometimes drift across corridors, at other times move as a shadow across walls, and at other times again choose to only appear in reflective surfaces?

★★★☆☆

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Thursday, 31 December 2015

The Hunter (2011)

This movie about an American sent to Australia to hunt a thylacine is built around one extremely, um, hard-to-swallow factual inaccuracy that almost, well, poisons the rest of the movie - to tell you what it is would constitute a spoiler - but if you can accept the oddity then the rest of the movie, starring Willem Dafoe and Frances O'Connor and spectacular Tasmanian scenery, is a well-acted, engaging mystery drama.

★★★☆☆

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