193 | Shapeless

• Directed by Samantha Aldana

• Written by Kelly Murtagh & Bryce Parsons-Twesten

• Stars Kelly Murtagh, Bobby Gilchrist and Jamie Neumann

• Unrated

• Runtime: 1hr 29min

• Premiered at Tribeca June 10, 2021 

• Released on Tubi February 10, 2022 and theaters the following day

• RT: 67% (only 15 reviews)

  Synopsis 
  Ivy, a struggling singer in New Orleans trapped in the hidden underworld of her eating disorder, must face her addiction - or risk becoming a monster.

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Join us next time when we will be covering 1BR, currently streaming on Netflix.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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190 | Dementer

• Written & Directed by Chad Crawford Kinkle

• Stars Katie Groshong, Stephanie Kinkle and Larry Fessenden

• Unrated 

• Runtime: 1hr 20min

• Premiered at Nashville Film Festival in Oct. 10, 2019

• Released March 2, 2021

• Available on VOD

• RT: 83%

  Synopsis: A woman named Katie, who appears to have run away from a dangerous cult, takes a job working as a caregiver at a group home for mentally disabled adults. She finds she takes to the job immediately, despite the upsetting flashbacks she suffers about her time with the cult. When one of her patients becomes ill, Katie begins to suspect that an evil spirit is behind it and uses the knowledge gained from the cult to attempt to rid her patient of the demon.
  

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Join us next time when we will be covering The Queen of Black Magic - currently streaming on Shudder and AMC+.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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178 | Saint Maud

Written and Directed by Rose Glass

Stars Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle

Premiered at TIFF September 8, 2019

Released February 12, 2021

Available in US on Hulu and Paramount+

Rated R

Runtime: 1hr 24mins

RT: 93% critics, 65% audience 

Synopsis: Maud is a young nurse who has recently undergone a religious conversion after she was responsible for an unnamed but serious accident that caused the death of one of her patients. When she takes an in-home assignment with a dying former dancer and choreographer, Maud becomes convinced that her real mission is to save the woman’s soul.

Trivia

• Rose Glass’s first feature film. She was named best debut director at the British Independent Film Awards

• Holy shit that chest bursting scene came from a real story from an ICU nurse

Caravaggio’s “Mary Magdalene in Ecstasy”

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It’s that time of the year here in the midwest when we like to watch a movie about people being killed/attacked in the water. Last year we covered the classic, Jaws. Join us next time when we’ll be reviewing 1978’s Piranha, now streaming on Amazon Prime.

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Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
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