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Movie Monday: Because October Needs More Thrills (Black Box movie review)

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2020… welp, it’s a year like no other, innit? Still, we do the best we can; we… adapt , certainly but also try to maintain as much of a sense of normalcy as possible. (Honestly, it’s that, or give up, and quitting is so not an option.) Anyway, that's why I've been trying to do some of the “normal” October stuff. (I mean, trick-or-treating, or the adult version—getting costumed up and partying till the wee hours—is totally out of the equation, but the less-people-y stuff? Like, solo, or with my nearest-and-dearest? Still do-able.) So, in a year that's all about surviving-from-the-safety-of-home? Reading and watching seasonally-chilling fare throughout the month is a no-brainer… which brings me to tonight's watch, Black Box , from the Blumhouse (streaming on Amazon). _______________ A young woman introduces her emotional husband to their newborn daughter… a tender family moment touchingly captured on video. Fade out—then back in—to the same man (Nolan), several years lat