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Bulk (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Ben Wheatley; Stars: Alexandra Maria Lara, Sam Riley, Noah Taylor, Mark Monero)
Sci-fi nightmare fusing head scrambling multiverse and a conspiracy of global proportions that might mean the end of the world as we know it.
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Dead Lover (Country: Canada; Year: 2025; Director: Grace Glowicki; Writer: Grace Glowicki, Ben Petrie; Stars: Grace Glowicki, Leah Doz, Ben Petrie, Lowen Morrow)
A lonely gravedigger who stinks of corpses finally meets her dream man, but their whirlwind affair is cut short when he tragically drowns at sea. Grief-stricken, she goes to morbid lengths to resurrect him through madcap scientific experiments, resulting in grave consequences and unlikely love.
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I Live Here Now (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Julie Pacino; Writer: Julie Pacino; Stars: Madeline Brewer, Lucy Fry, Sheryl Lee, Matt Rife, Cara Seymour, Alex Gaumond, Sarah Rich)
A woman finds herself trapped in a remote hotel where the violent echoes of her past come alive, blurring the lines between her darkest nightmares and the waking world.
Full Review See: Interview with Julie Pacino and Lucy Fry about I Live Here now
Odyssey (Country: UK; Year: 2025; Director: Gerard Johnson; Writer: Austin Collings, Gerard Johnson; Stars: Polly Maberly, Mikael Persbrandt, Jasmine Blackborrow)
A ruthless estate agent finds herself in debt to some vicious gangsters.
Full Review See: Interview with Gerard Johnson and Polly Maberly about Odyssey
Redux Redux (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus; Writer: Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus; Stars: Derick Alexander, Raphael Chestang, Debra Christofferson, Jim Cummings, Minita Gandhi, London Garcia, Jeremy Holm)
Irene Kelly travels through parallel universes, repeatedly killing her daughter's murderer. As she becomes consumed by vengeance, her humanity hangs in the balance.
Full Review See: Interview with Matthew McManus and Kevin McManus about Redux Redux
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I Live Here Now and Redux Redux
The Toxic Avenger (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Macon Blair; Writer: Macon Blair, Lloyd Kaufman; Stars: Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, Elijah Wood, Julia Davis, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, David Yow, Annette Badland)
A reimagining of the Eighties franchise in which a janitor is transformed by radioactive slime and becomes an unlikely hero.
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