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This Episode’s Movies
Prevenge
Rated TV-MA
Runtime: 1hr 28min
Written & Directed by Alice Lowe
Stars: Alice Lowe, Dan Renton Skinner and Jo Hartley
Premiered at Venice Film Festival September 1, 2016
Released in US (streaming) March 24, 2017
RT: 92% critics / 53% audience
Synopsis
Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant and is being persuaded by her unborn child to exact revenge on the people she deems responsible for her husband’s death.
The Stylist
Unrated
Runtime: 1hr 45min
Directed by Jill Gevargizian
Written by Jill Gevargizian, Eric Havens and Eric Stolze
Stars: Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant and Jennifer Seward
Premiered at Fantastic Fest September 26, 2020
Released in US (streaming) March 1, 2021
RT: 93% critics / 42% audience
Synopsis
Claire is a lonely, awkward hair stylist who occasionally scalps her clients and has a dungeon dressing room full of her grisly wigs. When a bride-to-be invites her into her circle of friends, Claire is thrilled. Unfortunately, she’s just too weird to not screw it up.
Huesera: The Bone Woman
Not Rated
Runtime: 1hr 37min
Directed by Michelle Garza Cervera
Written by Michelle Garza Cervera and Abia Castillo
Stars: Natalia Solián, Alfonso Dosal and Mayra Batalla
Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival June 9, 2022
Released in US (limited) February 10, 2023
RT: 97% critics / 65% audience
Synopsis
Valeria and her husband Raul have been trying to conceive and are delighted to find that they have succeeded. However, Valeria soon begins having second thoughts. She used to be a riot grrrl with a girlfriend, how did she let herself become so square? Oh yeah, and some kind of evil spirit with bad joints is stalking her.
Join us in two weeks when we’ll be reviewing Hokum, opening in theaters May 1.
Theme music: "Secret of Tiki Island" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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