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Movie Review – Hamnet (2025)

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Hamnet, 2025.Directed by Chloe Zhao. Starring Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Emily Watson, and Joe Alwyn.SYNOPSIS:A story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.Chloé Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel Hamnet arrives with ideal credentials: a celebrated source text, the backing of Steven Spielberg and Universal Pictures, and a […]

Movie Review – Alpha (2025)

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Alpha, 2025.Written and Directed by Julia Ducournau. Starring Mélissa Boros, Tahar Rahim, Golshifteh Farahani and Emma Mackey.SYNOPSIS:Alpha, 13, is a troubled teenager who lives alone with her mother. Their world comes crashing down the day she comes home from school with a tattoo on her arm.Julia Ducournau’s astonishing debut Raw and her Palme d’Or-winning sophomore […]

The Top 10 Batman: The Animated Series Episodes

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Simon Thompson presents his picks for the top ten episodes of Batman: The Animated Series…To describe Batman as a pop culture institution would, quite frankly, be an understatement. Ever since his creation by Bill Finger and Bob Kane (who it turns out took a tonne of credit and profit from his creative partner but that’s […]

4K Ultra HD Review – A Nightmare on Elm Street 7-Film Collection

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A Nightmare on Elm Street 7-Film Collection, 2025.Directed by Wes Craven, Jack Sholder, Chuck Russell, Renny Harlin, Stephen Hopkins, and Rachel Talalay. Starring Robert Englund, John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, Johnny Depp, Jsu Garcia, Amanda Wyss, Ronee Blakley, Linn Shaye, Mark Patton, Robert Rusler, Kim Myers, Clu Gulager, Marshall Bell, Hope Lange, Laurence Fishburne, Craig Wasson, […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Martyrs (2008)

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Martyrs, 2008.Directed by Pascal Laugier. Starring Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin, Robert Toupin, Patricia Tulasne, and Juliette Gosselin.SYNOPSIS:A quest for revenge against a family of abusers leads two young women into a nightmare of existential dread.‘Masterpiece’ or ‘classic’ are words that get bandied around far too easily when it comes to popular culture, but […]

Movie Review – Dreams (2025)

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Dreams, 2025.Written and directed by Michel Franco. Starring Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell, Eligio Meléndez, and Mercedes Hernández.SYNOPSIS:Romance blossoms between a wealthy socialite and a Mexican ballet dancer, intertwining their contrasting lives and cultures.Following 2023’s excellent Memory, Mexican writer-director Michel Franco’s second collaboration with Jessica Chastain is a far more cynical affair, […]

4K Ultra HD Review – The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

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The Return of the Living Dead, 1985. Written and Directed by Dan O’Bannon. Starring Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathes, Beverly Randolph, John Philbin, Jewel Shepard, Miguel Nunez, Brian Peck and Linnea Quigley. SYNOPSIS: When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Creepshow 2 (1987)

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Creepshow 2, 1987.Directed by Michael Gornick, Starring Lois Chiles, George Kennedy, Dorothy Lamour, and Tom Savini.SYNOPSIS:Three macabre tales from the latest issue of a boy’s favorite comic book, dealing with a vengeful wooden Native American, a monstrous blob in a lake, and an undying hitchhiker.When Creepshow 2 first lurched onto screens in 1987, it already […]

Blu-ray Review – The Diabolical Dr. Z (1966)

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The Diabolical Dr. Z, 1966.Directed by Jess Franco. Starring Estella Blain, Howard Vernon, Mabel Karr, Fernando Montes, Cris Huerta, Jess Franco, and Antonio Jiménez Escribano.SYNOPSIS:After a fatal heart attack kills her father, the daughter of Dr. Z seeks revenge by using her father’s experiments in mind control.The title The Diabolical Dr. Z is a little […]