Cinema Goggles – October 31

Horns

Genre: Thriller

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Ig Perrish

Based on the novel by Joe Hill, a young man falsely accused of the murder of his girlfriend. However, when he gains something akin to supernatural powers and horns begin to grow from his head, he sets out to find the real killer and clear his name.

Oculus

Genre: Horror

Ten years ago tragedy struck the family of now-teenage siblings Tim and Kaylie Russell. Their parents were brutally murdered and Tim was charged with their deaths and convicted.

Tim now in his 20s, is released from a mental institution and just wants to move on with his life; but his sister Kaylie wants to clear his name. She’s convinced the Lasser Glass, an antique mirror in their childhood home, unleashed a malevolent supernatural force that killed their parents.

A Walk Among the Tombstones

Genre: Thriller

Starring: Liam Neeson, Dan Stevens

Based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Block, this brooding crime thriller focuses on Matt Scudder a former NYPD cop-turned-private eye who takes on the case to find the killers’ of a murdered drug dealer’s wife.

When his wife is abducted and murdered, heroin dealer Kenan Khoury employs Scudder to find out who was responsible. However, the deeper Scudder delves into the case, the more he realises that he is looking for people far more sinister than simple kidnappers.

Postman Pat

Genre: 3D/2D, Animation, Comedy, Family

This animated family comedy features everyone’s favourite postman coming face-to-face with the temptations of money, status and a shiny new suit when he enters a national TV talent show competition that threatens to tear him away from his hometown of Greendale and his family and friends. What happens when kindness meets selfishness? When local fame meets global notoriety? Will a nice cup of tea be kicked aside by a Frappa Cappuccino? Pat is set to find out as he falls for the age-old temptation of the grass being greener.