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Angels in America (2003)

Angels in America (2003)
Rating: ★★★★★
Jan 6, 2005Surreal AIDS Drama/Angelic Visitations
Stunning tv mini-series adaptation of Tony Kushner's award-winning play about the impact of the AIDS crisis on gay culture in the 1980s, which becomes a surreal fantasy filled with appearances of angels and ghosts
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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Rating: ★★
Jan 6, 2005Disfigured Madman Beneath the Opera House/Musical Adaptation
The long-planned film adaptation of The Phantom musical emerges as disaster under Joel Schumacher. The Phantom's presence has all been watered down and the film exists as no more than a series of scenographic poses
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Hard Candy (2005)

Hard Candy (2005)
Rating: ★★★★
Jul 24, 2006Underage Girl Tortures Paedophile
Brilliantly nasty film where Ellen Page is a 14 year-old who is lured by a paedophile Patrick Wilson and promptly turns the tables, preparing to castrate him. Filled with razor sharp dialogue and career-best performances from Page and Wilson
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Passengers (2008)

Passengers (2008)
Rating: ★★
Feb 18, 2015Haunted Plane Crash Survivors/Deathdream
Well-cast, nicely made film that seems to be setting out as a supernatural variant on Fearless, which had Jeff Bridges as a reinvigorated plane crash survivor, only to fall apart in a groan-worthy twist ending that has become tediously overused in recent years
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The Conjuring (2013)

The Conjuring (2013)
Rating: ★★½
Jul 19, 2013Haunting/Possession/"True Story"
Supposedly based on a true story. A film that feels written entirely by cliches taken from every other haunting and exorcism film, but you cannot deny that director James Wan generates a more than fair degree of spooky atmosphere
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Space Station 76 (2014)

Space Station 76 (2014)
Rating: ★★
Jan 4, 20151970s TV SF Parody
This has an irresistible premise – of doing for 1970s tv SF what GalaxyQuest did for Star Trek – parodying the sets, costumes and cliches. On the other hand, the superb conception fails to ever play out as comedy and the film centres around a series of singularly dull personal dramas
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Bone Tomahawk (2015)

Bone Tomahawk (2015)
Rating: ★★★½
Dec 19, 2015Horror Western/Wilderness Cannibal Tribe
This is like a Western version of The Hills Have Eyes. Exceptionally written – slow, sombre and character-driven, containing one of Kurt Russell's best performances, before emerging into a brutal horror survival story
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The Conjuring 2 (2016)

The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Rating: ★★½
Jun 19, 2016Haunting/Possession/"True Story"
If you want a genuinely scary spook show that will make you jump out of your seat, you would not go wrong with this. On the other hand, the Conjuring films with their claims to true stories of peddle superstition and fabricate most of their so-called facts
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The Nun (2018)

The Nun (2018)
Rating: ★
Jan 19, 2019Possessed Nun
Another spinoff from The Conjuring films. James Wan is one of the finest horror directors of the 2010s but has had difficulty imparting his skills to the directors of the films he has produced. This feels like a fairground haunted house show of tedious and repetitive pop-up shocks that runs free of any connection to a plot
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In the Tall Grass (2019)

In the Tall Grass (2019)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 18, 2019Trapped in a Sea of Grass/Stephen King Adaptation
Vincenzo Natali, the director of Cube, adapts a novella by Stephen King and his son Joe Hill about people becoming lost in a topographically and temporally shifting sea of grass
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The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)
Rating: ★★
Jun 12, 2021Possession/“True Story”
The third of the Conjuring films, this lacks the presence of James Wan in the director’s seat while peddling an even more highly dubious Based on a True story claim regarding a demonic possession
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The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)

The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)
Rating: ★
Oct 18, 2025Paranormal Investigators/“True Story”
Another supposedly true story from the casebook of the psychic investigator frauds Ed and Lorraine Warren. James Wan’s first two entries were eerily haunting; by now, the constant profusion of effect becomes overkill that produces no results at all
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