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Silent Movie (1976)

Plot: Aspiring filmmakers Mel Funn, Marty Eggs, and Dom Bell go to a financially troubled studio with an idea for a silent movie. In an effort to make the movie more marketable, they attempt to recruit a number of big-name stars to appear, while the studio’s creditors attempt to thwart them. Review: Mel Funn (Mel Brooks)...

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Anna and the Apocalypse (2017) (Director’s Cut)

Plot: A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven – at Christmas – forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and...

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Like Sunday, Like Rain (2014)

Plot: A struggling musician becomes a 12-year-old musical prodigy’s guardian for a summer. Review: Reggie (Julian Shatkin) is a 12-year-old cello prodigy and an all-round genius living in the Upper West Side of New York City with a self-obsessed mother whose parenting is limited to hiring maids and nannies to look after her son. Eleanor...

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The Sonata (2018)

Plot: A gifted musician inherits a mansion after her long-lost father dies under mysterious circumstances. She discovers his last musical masterpiece riddled with cryptic symbols that unravels an evil secret. Review: Rose Fisher (Freya Tingley), on the rise, talented violinist, inherits her estranged father’s property in France after his death. On arriving at the mansion, she...

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Airheads (1994)

Plot: Three band members hoping for a big break head to a radio station to play their demo tape and wind up holding everyone hostage with plastic guns when the head DJ refuses to play them. Review: “I’m screwed up and average enough that I could write a song that’ll live on forever and then after...

Grand Piano

Grand Piano (2013)

Plot: A pianist with stage fright endures a performance under the eyes of a mysterious sniper, who will shoot and kill him if a wrong note is played. Review: When Tom Selznick (Elijah Wood), a once renowned and respected pianist who after choking while playing “La Cinquette”, a seemingly unplayable piece composed by his mentor, now...

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Green Room (2015)

Plot: A punk rock band is forced to fight for survival after witnessing a murder at a neo-Nazi skinhead bar. Review: “You know I’m lucky at least they were gonna shoot me.” – Amber. When getting shot is considered lucky you realize the enormity of the gruesomeness witnessed by the characters. Punk band The Ain’t Rights are struggling...

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Blinded by the Light (2019)

Plot: In England in 1987, a teenager from an Asian family learns to live his life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of American rock star Bruce Springsteen. Review: “Is a dream a lie if it doesn’t come true, Or is it something worse” - Bruce Springsteen, The River. In 1987 situated...

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Blow Out (1981)

Plot: A movie sound effects recordist while recording sounds one night inadvertently ends up recording the evidence of murder which results in him being engulfed in danger. Review: John Travolta plays Jack Terry, a sound effects recordist who is working on a horror b-movie. One night while recording sounds, he accidentally records a car crash. His...