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A pair of Mormon missionary sisters find themselves in a dangerous battle of wills with a charming but sinister spiritual seeker in Scott Beck and Bryan Woods’s religious themed horror puzzle box, Heretic. Sisters Paxton (Chloe East) and Barnes (Sophie Thatcher) are a pair of young, ambitious missionaries eager to make their next conversion, if they can just get in the door. Paxton is a neophyte, raised in the church but without a single baptism under her belt, she’s starting to get discouraged at her perceived failure. By her side is Sister Barnes, a more rough-and-tumble vet of the missionary game, who seems just as comfortable with success as failure but also very ready for a win. Checking off names on their list of curious…

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I don’t want to discount the possibility of the supernatural, since there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy, but most ‘monsters; do turn out to be human. And more often than not, a human with very specific characteristics. But there is no doubt that a theory of monsters, perhaps, can be helpful – or at least, there is a healthy fear that can come from that fear, that would hopefully drive some to action. Part coming of age story, part supernatural capture, part romance, Spirit in the Blood follows a somewwhat familiar path, though with a different eye, asking us to rethink how we might view certain characters that are often presented without depth in horror films….

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Jane Giles and Ali Catterall discuss the transformation of London’s Scala cinema from an underground movie theater into an icon of cult film and counterculture.

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Like much of the jazz that soundtracks it, Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat doesn’t hold your hand. From the start, the film unleashes a frenetic, almost overwhelming, visual language. It’s a visual language that, along with the phenomenal titular soundtrack, makes the two and a half hour documentary riveting from start to finish. Archival snippets of musicians accompanied by text informing us of the musicians’ names and song titles blast on the screen to introduce the many iconic jazz tracks of the soundtrack. White, thick, block lettered text against black screens offers information, quotes, and statistics from primary and secondary sources, with attributions for quotes in the top left and source citations nestled under the relevant text. Footage from political speeches, television interviews, previously classified…

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