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Movie Review: The Visit
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PETER MCROBBIE stars as Pop Pop in Universal Pictures' The Visit

The Visit
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenwriter: M. Night Shyamalan
Cast: Kathryn Hahn, Olivia De Jonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Benjamin Kanes
Universal Pictures
Rated PG-13 | 94 Minutes
Release Date: September 11, 2015

Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) and produced by Jason Blum (Creep, Insidious), The Visit is a return to form for the much-maligned filmmaker.

Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and her younger brother Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) say goodbye to their mom, Paula (Kathryn Hahn), as they board a train and head deep into Pennsylvania farm country to meet their maternal grandparents for the first time.

The kids are greeted at the train station by Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie), who can’t wait to spend the week with their grandchildren. Things are going great until the siblings begin to notice increasingly strange and hostile behavior from their dear old grandparents.

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Charlotte Readers: Win Passes To ‘The Gallows’
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Charlotte Readers: Win Passes to THE GALLOWS

From Blumhouse Productions, the studio behind Paranormal Activity and Insidious, The Gallows creeps into theaters July 10, and Geeks of Doom has your chance to see it first!

We’re giving away 10 passes to see The Gallows. To enter for a chance to see the movie early and for free, send an e-mail to     with the subject line “THE GALLOWS.” The screening is on Monday, July 6th at 7:30 p.m. at Regal Stonecrest in Charlotte, NC, so don’t enter if you think you’ll be unavailable. Multiple entries from a single person will disqualify all entries from that person.

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SXSW 2014 Review: Creep
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Creep SXSW bannerCreep
Director: Patrick Brice
Cast:Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice
World Premiere | Blumhouse Productions
Not Rated | 80 Minutes
Release Date: March 8, 2014

Looking for work, Aaron (Patrick Brice) comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.”

Low on cash, Aaron drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef (Mark Duplass), his video subject for the day. Josef is nice enough – even if he is a little weird – and the project seems sincere, so Aaron grabs his gear and begins to shoot. As the day goes on, however, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says.

That’s the basic setup for Creep, Brice’s directorial debut, which is produced by Duplass and Jason Blum (Insidious, Sinister). Creep is an intense, disturbing, and hilarious piece of work, combining elements of found footage with the naturalistic, improvised dialogue of mumblecore.

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