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From @torisparksmusic the BCN Queen of Rock-Flamenco Fusion & @theclubwithlucas we wish you a great end of ‘22 & fab start to 2023, with a strive to be more free…✊🏽 • • Follow the Links-in-Bios for a full taste of our Season 4 Finale! + access to the dope upcoming shows on Lady @torisparksmusic website! • • #BCN #local #musicians 🌍#global #inspiration #writers #musicians #guitarists #doers #producers #singers #actors #directors #performers #HI #educators #InstaGood #real #InTheKnow #aware #Others #CluedUp #NewsToUse in #VOSE #LIVE! #English 📻#Radio for #CAT & #ESP and #AutomaticForThePeople✌🏽 (at RCE) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmv-WvkDjci/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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abitterlifethroughcinema · 11 months

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#THECLUBWITHLUCAS serves up ART love on this week’s edition post-Juneteenth edition (20.06-style) with our newest patrons #TooLipArtContest and a round of the award winners joining us LIVE! and remotely on @rce1069fm!

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@theclubwithlucas was proud to welcome quadruple-threat @alexloracercos director/editor/write/professor of cine as he prepares for the release of his latest social piece #Unicornios in cinemas this May by @filmaxpresenta 🎞 • • Watch the lit-ness flow with your eye holes on @youtube by clicking the Link-on-Tag at @theclubwithlucas PLUS check out some of the film love by @alexloracercos with a wee click✊🏽 • • #BCN #local #cinema #global #reach #directors #writers #creators #actors #producers #musicians #movers #shakers #doers #artists #designers #CluedUp #InstaReal #InstaGood #InTheKnow #daJamz #moved #grooved #loved & #aware #LIVE! #English #Radio 📻in CAT/ ESP, #Automatic4ThePeople always! (at RCE) https://www.instagram.com/p/CphuQuDjB10/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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With so many women in need here in BCN, 3 queens & 1 wee prince + a tonne of hands on deck bring you the uber- spectacular extravaganza known as #FashionCares, a charity/fashion soirée & sale of pre-loved, upcycled, vintage & new apparel amongst a mélange of art, sustainability workshops and exquisite live music by none other than Lady @gwenperry_lavoz the current reigning queen of #LaVozSeniorEspaña 🎙THIS SUNDAY from 12-20h kicks off the love, fashion & grooves at @palaudalmasesbarcelona💃 • • Mix in the runway styles by bo$$es in the fashion world AND with pups 🐶 to boot, your spring/ summer wardrobe will be served in spades along with seamstresses to advise and recommend alterations PLUS MC’ing by none other than @lady.red.velvet and yours truly, @theclubwithlucas ✊🏽 • • Follow the love in our Link-in-Bio at @theclubwithlucas to watch and get deets with your eye 👁 and ear 👂 holes! Also @laurabarcelonalondon AND @barcelona_womens_network can be contacted for all info and if you’d like to help out! ALL proceeds go to support @aadas_associacio 🙏 • • #BCN #act #local #think 🌎 #global #musicians #artists #designers #creators #eco #organic #sustainability #HI #coutoure #upcycled #real #InstaGood #InstaReality #educators #workshops #sponsors #grooved #moved #LIVE! #English #Radio 📻 in #CAT / ESP and as always #AutomaticForThePeople (at RCE) https://www.instagram.com/p/Co7iwfZjr3V/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Three creative gents get locked inside of a studio & truthiness flows!✊🏽 @theclubwithlucas had @spread_spectrum_films director #PhilAntigua and actor-musician @alexlebrontorrent in the box to talk out of it about #AIRWAVES, a sci-fi labour of reality tale in our post-pandemic world 🌍 Teaser interview at the Link-in-Bio at your boi’s bio @theclubwithlucas 🤘🏽 • • Check out a bit more of what’s cooking in our guests’ kitchens at @spread_spectrum_films & @alexlebrontorrent 🎞 • • #BCN #local #creators #global #thinkers #directors #writers #actors #producers #models #designers #musicians #doers #singers #designers #educators #aware of #OTHERS #AI #reality #CluedUp #InTheKnow #Jamz #grammys #LIVE! #English 📻 #Radio in CAT and ESP and always #AutomaticForThePeops (at RCE) https://www.instagram.com/p/CoZnX9zqdT2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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@theclubwithlucas celebrates Christmukkahkwanzaa '22 with @designerkelliellis @spenceritamoore & resident doc-in-charge @loraxlaz aka Sir Jeff Lazarus and a year-end recap rarely feels this bloody brilliant so grab your tipple, get into the holiday cheer🥂 & click on the Link-in-Profile-Bio to watch your expat royals in action! • • • Learn more about our co-hosts by clicking their Links-in-Bio at: @designerkelliellis @spenceritamoore AND the good doctor at @loraxlaz HAPPY HOLIDAZE, luvs! • • • #BCN #Expat #Royals #Society #local #tradition #global #ambition #culture #news #jamz #design #health #wealth #knowledge #CluedUp #InTheKnow BeSpokeGoodness #InstaGood #holidaze #cheer #Babs #HemlockeSprings #HarryStilo #LIZZO #LIVE! #English #Radio in #CAT/ESP & siempre #AutoForThePeople🤘🏽 (at RCE) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmJU-rujYXr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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The Club With Lucas s.4, Ep.33...#TheClubW/Lucas celebrates Christmukkah '22 with Kelli Ellis, Spencer Landvater & Jeff Lazarus, our resident doc-in-charge!Learn more about our co-hosts/guests at: kelliellis.com/ AND instagram.com/designerkelliellis PLUS get informed about your health with Doctor Jeff at: https://twitter.com/jvlazarus and Lady Spencer's art love at bespokepaper.com/ ... AND of course follow OUR LOVE! at instagram.com/theclubwithlucas & twitter.com/TheClubwLucas/ HAPPY HOLIDAZE, luvs!

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abitterlifethroughcinema · 2 years

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It’s just 2 dope boyz & a slay of bags! @oscar.rico.style went LIVE! in-studio with your voice in VOSE @theclubwithlucas & with a showroom of accessories & a lifetime of knowledge, Sir Oscar uses one’s personal essence to imbue a new sense of style, one that is unique to every individual! • • @mr.oscar.rico is also a muse here in BCN at @fendi & you can contact him by merely clicking on the links-in-bio on his tags, also at @oscar.rico.style es clar! • • #BCN #local #inspiration #global 🌍#motivation #hautecouture or #pretaporter #image #style #consultants #designers #doers #creators #producers #actors #musicians #directors #artists #educators #PoliticAll #CluedUp #InTheKnow #aware of #others #LIVE! #English #Radio 📻 in #CAT & #ESP and forever & a day, #automaticforthepeople✊🏽 (at RKB Radio Kanal Barcelona 106.9 fm) https://www.instagram.com/p/ClBQoYNDZZB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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abitterlifethroughcinema · 2 years

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This week on a Spanglish edition of @theclubwithlucas artist/sculptor/NFT designer @samueldesagas.art kicked it with us and shared a life story that infuses his art with such a semblance of truth and a sense of wonder/gratitude. That’s always the right attitude ✌🏽🎹 • • This FRI, 7 OCT after 19h, @samueldesagas.art unveils a collection of his finest at @mrstoolipartgallery in c/ d’Ausias Marc 14 in Eixample. And take a wander down to @sohofriends in BCN where some of his sculpture & NFT love awaits! • • #BCN #aesthetic #local #art #global #start #artists #doers #creators #musicians #actors #directors #writers #movers #producers #DJs #designers #educators #PoliticAll #aware #truthiness #Spanglish #HI #InstaGreat #LIVE! #English 📻#Radio in #CAT/#ESP & always #Automatic4ThePeops ✊🏽 (at RKB Radio Kanal Barcelona 106.9 fm) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjU_aDQjNSH/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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abitterlifethroughcinema · 2 years

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Calling all fashion & style lovers this busy week as over at yours truly @theclubwithlucas we stripped down to the nitty gritty basics of fashion design and inspiration with @gydeonvaldezdoesshanghai 🔥From @tommyhilfiger to @esprit & NYC to China, Europe and back again, #TowyVaughns has been there, done it AND designed the T-shirt plus it’s denim accompaniment 👖 • • Whether design or decor, style consulting to business management, if your boutique exquisiteness is looking for that biz touch, local fave @gydeonvaldezdoesshanghai is your go-to! Get inspired today & let Towy’s goodness come your way✊🏽 • • #BCN #creators #global 🌍 #reach #fashion #lovers #inspired #hired #realness #required #aware #LIT🔥#onfleek #styledarling #fierceness #integrity #honesty #InTheKnow #TheFashionBusiness #design #craft #artwork #InstaGreat #LIVE! #English #Radio in #CAT/ESP & always #AutomaticForThePeople! (at RKB Radio Kanal Barcelona 106.9 fm) https://www.instagram.com/p/CiyPLkSjYrM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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abitterlifethroughcinema · 2 years

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This queen right here! Season 4 kicked off again with the maven behind BCN’s @bodyworxhub Ms @train_withjulia and we pumped it UP on @theclubwithlucas just as we always do. Our guest’s motto: Get fit but get LIT 🔥 & get ripped with full benefits! It is rare as heck that fitness, energy, grooves & an added social life meld themselves into one but that is the beauty of BCN’s very own @bodyworxhub 💪🏽 • • Follow the Link-in-Bio at the @bodyworxhub tag OR contact @train_withjulia directly and start changing your body, mindset & add a touch of life to your post-summer life NOW! • • #BCN #fitnessmotivation #global 🌍#inspiration #PostSummer #HI #goals #intentions #mindsets #vision #nutrition #ambition #grooved #moved #BodyWorx #GetSmart #GetReal #BeYOU #aware #OTHERS #InstaGood #CluedUp #InTheKnow #health #music #film #PoliticAll #LIVE #English #Radio 📻 (at RKB Radio Kanal Barcelona 106.9 fm) https://www.instagram.com/p/CihKXnmjDFV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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abitterlifethroughcinema · 5 years

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A WOKE! Film Review As Awards Season Begins... by Lucas Avram Cavazos

Midway ###-1/2

Roland Emmerich is the mind behind the helming of huge blockbusters Stargate in 1994 and Independence Day a couple of years later. These flicks created stars and launched careers, but Emmerich went on to continue creating mega-movies that required big budgets, special effects and often (for this critic and viewer) way too much suspension of disbelief…e.g., Universal Soldier, his disaster flicks like Day After Tomorrow and 2012, Godzilla, the heinous Stonewall violation and yes, even the Independence Day sequel from three years ago. I would also note that he is one of only two big budget directors who is gay and can still draw your atypical, straight male, aged 18-49 audience to his flicks. The other man would be Bryan Singer but as he is a paedophile piece of shit whose actions ruined the joy that was The X-Men and savagely drivelled out his take on Freddie Mercury, only to then be removed as director, we’ll not speak of his nasty, botoxed-ass face.

My grandfather on my mother’s side was one of the only (if not the only) Mexican-American naval admirals during the WWII era, so watching this film really kept putting a lot of my mother’s yapping over the years into focus and later became a notice of something awry, but we shall speak of that later. This autumn’s big (and a tad desperate attempt) at wooing Oscar falls a bit right of the middle, (almost) like a poor man’s version of a Dunkirk endeavour, though it’s fair to say that Emmerich and Christopher Nolan are very different directors.

Starting briefly in 1937 with an also quick meeting between Japanese Marshal Admiral Yamamoto and US intelligence officer, and a lead character in the film, Edwin Layton (never-ageing Patrick Wilson) where Yamamoto tells him that the Japanese will do whatever necessary if their oil supplies are in any way jeopardised. Fast forward four years, the world is at war, and what starts off as a film with way too many sappy one-liners that are ultra-cringeworthy soon turns into a visual tour de force that is incredible as much as it is laborious.

For certain, while Emmerich and film rookie writer Wes Tooke pull out all the wannabe-an-epic stops with a semi-lock on military vernacular and shoddy banter, they also do a decent job of covering the Pearl Harbor drama that securely put the US into World War II, and they end up nailing it with a lot of historical accuracies. From documenting the Doolittle Raids (Jimmy Doolittle is played here by a where’s-he-been Aaron Eckhart) to US cryptographers breaking some of the Japanese codes to highlighting the inefficiency of US weapons and their ridiculous uses, even bringing in cinema director John Ford and his presence during a Japanese raid that made its way into one of his movies, they accurately get a show-in of facts as the plot plods along. What does not seem to make its way into the film is a sense of realness expressed by the myriad of stereotypes employed here from the goofy Italiano-type guys to the smarmy Southerner to the golly shucks whitey fords, it seems that every 40s, male, US-American film role was taken up by someone except that there was not a single, solid scene that had any African or Native or Latin-American or Asian-American person in the mix here at all, despite the fact that millions of them, as well as, more than half a million Jews and Arabs and Armenians and so many more served hand-in-hand with the nearly 16 million men and women who comprised some part of the armed services during the WWII years. As a tutor and student of history, I take issue with that, and I also wonder if Emmerich had actually been from the US, would he have paid a tad more attention to that? I’d like to think so, but sincerely doubt it at the same time...Yet I digress.

It seems to me that the glory of Midway lies in its impeccable action sequences which engage the audience so vividly that it is virtually impossible not to stay glued to the intensity being displayed so spectacularly before you, but then that is exactly the stuff that big war movies are made of. Well…that and a huge lineup of stars to draw different audiences from all over the entertainment spectrum. To note, and in addition to anyone named above, we also have Woody Harrelson, Luke Evans, the odd-looking Ed Skrein, Darren Criss, Mandy Moore, Dennis Quaid, and even Nickalicious Jonas, playing the role of an ill-fated pilot. I kept seeing a new actor every ten minutes and thinking, ‘Oh shit, is that so-and-so?’…and it was so-and so!

Now while I would likely be safe to predict that there may be a nomination thrown in for some of the effects sequences perhaps, this mediocre war film is not likely to pick up any major love come awards season soon, but what it does do in its own way is completely highlight all the chaos of the attacks over three crucial days in US and Japanese history. The battle moments fought over a blazingly clear and sunlit sky serves to add credence to the heroic and insane nature of the US and Japanese pilots, but what it also does is introduce just how vital passing through this evil war was in relevance to what would turn out to be this modern age.

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WOKE! Film Reviews in BCN

The Summer 2019 Movie Season Kick-Off!

by Lucas Avram Cavazos

Cue DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince! When I was coming of age in the 90s and early millennium, there were moment of sheer relief, joy even, as June broke through with certain heat in tow, that the summer would be bringing with it a break from the reality of non-stop scholastic rigamarole, as well as, a load of blockbuster films and some hot dance jams of the summertime. It was also usually ushered in by the Entertainment Weekly annual summer movie preview, but who gets magazine subscriptions nowadays? What we do get is down to business, so let’s roll!

Men In Black International ##-1/2

The first MIB film was released just as I made that high school to uni transition, and over two decades later, we start the 2019 summer movie season with this fourth instalment of what may have easily been put out to pasture long ago, but why stop when there is profit to be had, right? The charming sense of wonder that was first introduced to us back in ’97 was even served up back then with a now no longer Fresh Prince, but instead a mediocre hip-pop Will Smith single…oh the 90s. The thing is, that first film came across as right on time. Remember, this was at the height of paranormal entertainment, as the X-Files ruled the telly waves, alien movies started being produced in spades and pretty much everything commenced a somewhat pre-millennium tension, so setting a comedy/action thriller based on the tracking and maintaining of aliens in modern NYC society was a perfect, cinematic fit. In 2019, we now get the “int’l” version of MIB, where Agents H and B come poised like action figures in the skins of Thor:Ragnarok alums Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson. They have been given the specific job of playing escorts to one of H’s old alien buddies who is a bigwig now and visiting Earth in search of a grand old time…cute. And then it becomes clear that old homeboy is also in possession of a diamond-sized weapon that could be a seismic shift to life as we know it and other evil forces want this for their possession too and la di da di da….It’s all been so overdone before, and I abhor seeing Miley Cyrus’ bro-in-law making such trite shite when, despite the obvious camaraderie between him and Lady Agent B, of which there is suspiciously mucho, when the script by three different writers is so obviously lacklustre, where is one to go from there? I digress but while it’s fun to see director F. Gary Gray do his attempt at dealing with alien life forms and shape-shifting cretins with a glossy sheen of comedy, if there is such real substance, how can you make a tired series shoot back to life? Answer: NOT LIKE THIS!

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Disney’s consistent, modern renderings of animated classics into live-action, blockbuster behemoths continues with Guy Ritchie’s take on this undoubted classic from 1992 remade for #metoo 2019. While it may seem odd to not give the task to an Indian or Arab director, Ritchie takes on the task with aplomb that even gives this version a, dare I even say it, a woke feel to a story that truly should not be lily-white. Original Broadway star of Aladdin and TV’s Jack Ryan star Mena Massed nails it just as annoyingly as Robbie Benson did back in the day as the titular character, and although Indan-English actress Naomi Scott is a tad meh in her role, she also employs a fresh sense of independent woman ‘tude that vibrates through the celluloid and scenery despite the paint-by-numbers songs. But, let’s be frank, it’s beyond time that a production so perfectly timed and so immense in this modern time should and would have POC actors painting a picture of those times, so it comes to no surprise that Ritchie would want a big name star like Will Smith to embody the role left so perfectly-tinged with greatness like the cartoon original voiced by the late, great Robin Williams. Guess what? He does the role very fine justice…thankfully. And he does it in a classic, Fresh Prince vibe…smoothly and with easy aplomb. I also found the choices of lady-in-waiting Nasim Pedrad as Dahlia and Marwan Kenzari as the cruel Jafar as impeccably cast worthy…timely comic and story relief. Gone, however, is the annoyingly necessary voice of evil parrot sidekick Iago by Gilbert Gottfried and instead is a guy with a bird-like tone. Only time will tell if this particular film piece stands the test of time as I believe The Jungle Book and latter Beauty and the Beast will, but after the ho-hum taste of MIB Int’l, I’ll take this eye-spectacle anyway!

Godzilla: King of the Monsters ##-1/2

In this new addition to the decades-old franchise, our infamous title character gets to slug it against a foe out on the field at Fenway Park…fun! For years now, dino and/or Godzilla movies have consistently littered the summer movie theatres for more than a couple of decades now. Godzilla: King of the Monsters is a sequel to the last 2014 eyesore, which was released just before I began critiquing cinema, so right off the bat, the film commences with a throwback to the drama where the other film left us and we get paleo-biologist and mum Emma Russell (Vera Famiga of The Conjuring and Bates Motel fame) tethered to her adorable one Madison (Stranger Things star Mille Bobby Brown) as they gaze in awe at the apparent nascence of a larva named Mothra. This kaiju movie (entertainment that employs the use of oversized combative creatures) happens to present us with the fact that Godzilla is a supposed ringleader of the Titans, which are huge, dormant creatures ensconced beneath the earth…you know the ones, Rodan, the aforementioned Mothra, Monarch, something called Monster Zero…oh and don’t forget that Monster Zero is also called Ghidora, and if you’re not confused yet, let me give you another interesting summer movie fact…this film also stars Sally Hawkins of The Shape of Water and Blue Jasmine success and king of character actors and John Sayles movies David Strathairn as some admiral. My qualm comes down to this…if this is the shlocky summer stuff Hollywood is going to be throwing at us for the next three months, we’ve got a long way to go, and I’m going to have to apply some indie skills real fast because watching so many good actors put to mediocre use is not the way to start off the summer! Here’s to hoping.

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abitterlifethroughcinema · 5 years

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From portrait painting to jewelry design, @keilleylee has lived and done it all! #work #design #schooled #customjewelry #KLee #real #local #global #citizen #bcn #theclubwithlucas #WOKE! (at RKB Radio Kanal Barcelona 106.9 fm) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bymvgx7npYa/?igshid=1l7xsi5rq2br1

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MORE WOKE! Film Reviews for Spring ’19

We Shan’t Leave You Again Without Some Dope Films to Step To

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Lucas Avram Cavazos

Beautiful Boy #### premiered a couple of Fridays ago here in the Iberian peninsula, and this is a film that hits on so many levels, especially within the confines of the USA at a time when more people are dying from drug overdoses in North America than almost anything else. Telling the story of Nic Sheff (Timothée Chalamet) and his horrid struggle with meth (but really all manner of drugs) and how that affects his familial relationships, most significantly with his father, played to impeccable perfection by Steve Carrell. Director Felix van Groeningen makes his English-language debut with such a tour de force that it’s ever so apparent that he has been slowly crafting his oeuvre over the last decade-and-a-half. (MUST SEE: The Broken Circle Breakdown) Adapted from two separate autobiographies by the Sheff family (dad and son) on the subject matter of a young adult’s journey into massive addiction, the director’s take on this subject matter becomes a lesson in patience, in futility, in the understanding of the addiction process. There is a specific scene that stuck with me, a moment of medical jargon that simply emblazoned itself in my memory because we, the viewer, start to learn just how certain drugs (most especially methamphetamine) severely inhibits and erodes pertinent cerebral functions…often to the point of no repair. So as you watch the deterioration of this wonderful young man, it becomes all too real that sometimes the only way to help anyone, even when it’s family you love, is to let them the hell GO! The thing is…that hell is exactly what you may feel when doing so, just like the father feels he has caused his son. You especially feel that at one brutally moving scene towards the end of the film, when it’s fair game to say that all is lost. For anyone who has ever struggled with drug addiction or has experienced this in one’s family, the truth that it tells is something that is as redemptive as it is heartbreaking.

Pet Sematary ###…It’s sad to say that this remake is just a bit better than the first interpretation that did its best to butcher a Stephen King classic three decades ago…Can it be that long ago now? Yes…yes, it can. That said, it does something that outshines the original film and highlights the need of more discussions on our very westernised inability to deal with our fear of death, an inevitable part of life. In that vein, they respect the tenants of the King novel because that is truly what he was aiming for, this critic would say. Revamping the narrative of Louis and Rachel Creed fresh from a move to Maine from Boston, along with their cute-as-heck kids Ellie and Gage, plus kitty Church, we see the perfect little family getting away from the city to a life of relative tranquility, or so one thinks. After a series of odd deaths, the one that strikes fear into the hearts of men is the greatest fear any parent can face. A bit earlier in the film, their new neighbour Jud (John Lithgow) mentions not to venture out alone in the woods, for fear of the danger within. This naturally acts as a foreshadowing on things to come, but it also helps foment some fertile ground to talk about the Wendigo, spirits that possess humans or animals, making them monstrous…which incidentally is also used in medical lexicons as being a psychosis. When that greatest of parental fears occurs, after a seeming resurrection of the dead family cat, the need to try and practice the same possibility of burying their daughter in the forestal pet cemetery occurs, so we get to see what happens. It almost becomes almost too much to bear. Sequencing slight moments of creepiness with dramatic tinges makes things ever so gripping at times, but the languid nature of a rather quick film culminates in an eerie, if expected, ending. Better for the local box office perhaps had it been released around Halloween, this stronger piece makes an effective case for turning a formulaic remake into a wannabe think-piece of sorts.

Boy Erased #### Dealing with a situation that can not be overstated in its ridiculous tactics to make life a Mike Pence wet dream, this latest celluloid effort on the topic, after some time I might add, of Christian, gay conversion camps is likely the best one yet. I recall a film from years back called But I’m a Cheerleader with Natasha Lyonne that took a comedic look at this topic, as well as, Chloe Moretz’s dramatic The Miseducation of Cameron Post; however, here we get a dose of reality that paints these camps in such a light that it’s hard not to see why these institutions should be closed and deemed unlawful. I realised a bit into the film that the acting in it was brutally honest and frighteningly real, at times like watching life being played out in front of your eyes on a screen. Lucas Hedges stars as a sexually-confused, Christian teenager in this practically perfect and poignant outing by actor/writer/director Joel Edgerton, who creates a canvass of middle-class, deep-US believers’ lives in a way that definitely struck a chord to this youngish Judeo-Christian watching. Baptist minister and wife Marshall and Nancy (Aussie royalty Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman, respectively) quietly shuffle their son off to a conversion camp called Love in Action, in an attempt to reprogram him. Director Edgerton plays programme director Victor Sykes, a man whose likely quasi-sordid past is the demon that forces him to reign over this camp like a military official…Flea of Chili Peppers fame makes the best cameo as a teacher at the camp, good Lord! Detailing all of your family’s dirty secrets, and thereby airing out all dirty family laundry, is just one of the many ploys used by the camp to “cure” their clients/patients/students, I mean…what can you call these poor kids? Your heart will likely break watching the insanity, so do be warned, but there is a redemptive factor that shines through with the incredible performances by Hedges and his cinematic parents, and stay through the credits…they catch us up on the au courant life of the man on whom this story was based, Garrard Conley…tears.

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