The Kettering Incident – Episode 2: “The Lights”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W61YtXVyDQ Foxtel's The Kettering Incident Episode 2: "The Lights" Directed by Rowan Woods Written by Victoria Madden * For a review of Episode 1, "Anna" - click here * For a review of Episode 3, "The Search" - click here Fergus McFadden (Henry Nixon) is out in kayak. He comes across a bunch of dead …

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The Kettering Incident – Episode 1: “Anna”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W61YtXVyDQ Foxtel's The Kettering Incident Episode 1: "Anna" Directed by Rowan Woods Written by Victoria Madden * For a review of Episode 2, "The Lights", click here. In August of 2000 we find ourselves in Tasmania, in the midst of the Kettering Forest. Young anna (Maddison Brown) rides a bike with her friend Gillian into the …

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The Hospital: A Dark Bureaucratic Comedy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HftRP0NAJYg The Hospital. 1971. Directed by Arthur Hiller. Screenplay by Paddy Chayefsky. Starring George C. Scott, Diana Rigg, Barnard Hughes, Richard Dysart, Stephen Elliott, Donald Harron, Andrew Duncan, Nancy Marchand, Jordan Charney, Roberts Blossom, Frances Sternhagen, & Katherine Helmond. Simcha Productions. Rated PG. 103 minutes. Comedy/Drama/Mystery ★★★★1/2 Arthur Hiller is probably most well known to …

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Bad Day at Black Rock: An Open, American, Hardboiled Wound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWpvrb6i9bI Bad Day at Black Rock. 1955. Directed by John Sturges. Screenplay by Millard Kaufman; adapted by Don McGuire & based on a story from Howard Breslin. Starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis, Dean Jagger, Walter Brennan, John Ericson, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin, Russell Collins, & Walter Sande. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Not Rated. 81 minutes. Crime/Drama/Mystery …

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Aquarius – Season 2, Episode 6: “Revolution 9”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDbaykPx9Tk NBC's Aquarius Season 2, Episode 6: "Revolution 9" Directed by Jonas Pate Written by Rafael Yglesias * For a review of the previous episode, "Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me & My Monkey" - click here * For a review of the next episode, "Piggies" - click here At 10050 Cielo Drive on …

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The Night Of – Season 1, Episode 1: “The Beach”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=556N5vojtp0 HBO's The Night Of Season 1, Episode 1: "The Beach" Directed by Steven Zaillian Teleplay by Richard Price (The Wire, The Color of Money, Sea of Love, Ransom) * For a review of the next episode, "Subtle Beast" - click here As usual, HBO opens us on a nicely produced title sequence, accompanied with music by composer Jeff …

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Refn’s Bronson is a Surreal Character Study of Lonely Violence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMJ1c3qxOWc Bronson. 2008. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Screenplay by Brock Norman Brock & Refn. Starring Tom Hardy, Matt King, James Lance, Amanda Burton, Kelly Adams, Juliet Oldfield, Jonathan Phillips, Mark Powley, Hugh Ross, Joe Tucker, Gordon Brown, & Charlie Whyman. Str8jacket Creations/Vertigo Films/Aramid Entertainment Fund. Rated 14A. 92 minutes. Biography/Crime/Drama ★★★★1/2 Time and again …

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Apt Pupil is an Atmospheric but Watered Down King Adaptation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MouexZken-c Apt Pupil. 1998. Directed by Bryan Singer. Screenplay by Brandon Boyce; based on the novella by Stephen King from the collection Different Seasons. Starring Ian McKellen, Brad Renfro, Joshua Jackson, Mickey Cottrell, Michael Reid MacKay, Ann Dowd, Bruce Davison, James Karen, Marjorie Lovett, David Cooley, Blake Anthony Tibbetts, Heather McComb, Katherine Malone, Grace Sinden, …

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