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Undertone

Director – Ian Tuason – 2025 – Canada – Cert. 15 – 94m

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The co-host of a paranormal podcast is disturbed by ten mysterious sound files even as her elderly mother is nearing death in her bedroom upstairs – out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 10th

A two person paranormal podcast comprises Evy Babic (Nina Kiri) and Justin (voice: Adam DiMarco) in a good cop / bad cop routine. Adam’s good cop is always willing to believe – or at least hoping – that the incident or phenomena underlying the latest episode is real, however strange or unlikely it might be. Evy’s bad cop always assumes the phenomena are fake or a hoax, until or unless she has incontrovertible evidence that suggests otherwise.

We never see Justin since the movie focuses on Evy living in her house and Justin only appears (on the soundtrack) as her co-host when they go live on air or in conversation with her on the phone outside of that recording / broadcasting process. You might think that focusing on the subject of the paranormal would drive someone off the deep end, but for Evy, doing the podcast with Justin is the one thing that keeps her sane.… Read the rest

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A Normal Family
(Bo-tong-ui Ga-jog,
보통의 가족)

Director – Hur Jin-ho – 2023 – South Korea – Cert. – 116m

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Lacking any moral sense of right and wrong, the teenage children of two brothers, a lawyer and a doctor, kick a homeless man to death – from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival 2023 which runs in cinemas from Thursday, November 2nd to Thursday, November 16th

After a road rage incident in which an out of order, rich twentysomething wilfully runs down an irate baseball player who objects to his driving, and puts the baseball player’s young daughter in a coma, the twentysomething hires defence lawyer Jae-wan (Sol Kyung-gu from The Boys; Chung Ji-young, 2022; 1987: When That Day Comes, Jang Joon-Hwan, 2017; Memoir Of A Murderer, Won Shin-yeon, 2017; Peppermint Candy, Lee Chang-dong, 2000) who is motivated not by justice but by doing everything he can to get his client off scot-free. Jae-wan has a new, young wife Ji-su (Claudia Kim from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald, David Yates, 2018; The Dark Tower, Nikolaj Arsel, 2017; Avengers: Age Of Ultron, Joss Whedon, 2015) with a small baby and a teenage daughter Hye-yoon (Hong Yi-ji) by his late first wife.… Read the rest