It can be a startling thing when expectations are upended. You think you’re familiar with something, say, a filmmaker based on a particular film. And you hear about their new film, and it looks like it treads similar ground. And it does, except it doesn’t. And in that thin veil of difference can lay everything. So if you’re a fan of Jon Wright and his alien SF/horror fest Grabbers and saw he has a new film, one that ALSO takes place in Ireland and features a bunch of little goblins terrorizing a family, you might think Ah! This should be right up my alley. And it is, but Unwelcome is tonally a very, very different beast, as are its featured villains, most of whom are all too human…

Cinema Dual (TEST SITE)

Examining a life through the media we consume. In other words, I’m reviewing all of my physical music media in alphabetical order, one day at at a time. Except when I don’t, as has been the case for the past few years. Still, we march onwards…Coffee essential, but not mandatory

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Hooptober 11.0 – Unwelcome (2023)