Shaun Munro reviews WWE 2K23… Following the abject disaster that was WWE 2K19, last year’s 2K22 marked a serious step back in the right direction, and while the new 2K23 is very far from perfect, it too takes another incremental inch forward. The gameplay could still use some work and there are myriad design “quirks” which need ironing […]
Movie Review – Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre (2023)
Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre, 2023. Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Hugh Grant, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, and Eddie Marsan. SYNOPSIS: Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a […]
Video Game Review – Ten Dates
Shaun Munro reviews Ten Dates… In November 2020, during one of the most fraught peaks of the pandemic, Wales Interactive released an FMV game far removed from the publisher’s usual horror/thriller-themed interactive video projects. Five Dates was an FMV rom-com in which players controlled a male protagonist, Vinny, as he went on virtual dates with five […]
Movie Review – Dark Glasses (2022)
Dark Glasses, 2022. Co-written and directed by Dario Argento. Starring Ilenia Pastorelli, Asia Argento, Andrea Gherpelli, and Mario Pirrello. SYNOPSIS: Diana, a young woman who lost her sight, finds a guide in a Chinese boy named Chin. Together they will track down a dangerous killer through the darkness of Italy. You’d be forgiven for assuming […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Pod Generation
The Pod Generation, 2023. Written and Directed by Sophie Bartes. Starring Emilia Clarke, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rosalie Craig, Vinette Robinson, and Jean-Marc Barr. SYNOPSIS: A rising tech company executive, Rachel lands a coveted spot at the Womb Center, which offers couples a convenient (and shareable) maternity by way of detachable artificial wombs, or pods. Sophie Barthes’ […]
Movie Review – Breaking (2022)
Breaking, 2022. Co-written and directed by Abi Damaris Corbin. Starring John Boyega, Michael K. Williams, Nicole Beharie, Olivia Washington, Selenis Leyva, and Connie Britton. SYNOPSIS: A Marine war veteran faces mental and emotional challenges when he tries to reintegrate back into civilian life. Abi Damaris Corbin’s feature debut is a textbook example of a film […]
Movie Review – Eight for Silver (2021)
Eight for Silver, 2021. Written and directed by Sean Ellis. Starring Boyd Holbrook, Kelly Reilly, Alistair Petrie, Roxane Duran, and Áine Rose Daly. SYNOPSIS: In rural 19th-century France, a mysterious, possibly supernatural menace threatens a small village. John McBride, a pathologist, comes to town to investigate the danger – and exorcise some of his own demons […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Shortcomings
Shortcomings, 2023. Directed by Randall Park. Starring Justin H. Min, Sherry Cola, Ally Maki, Debby Ryan, Tavi Gevinson, Sonoya Mizuno, Jacob Batalon, and Timothy Simons. SYNOPSIS: Follows a trio of young Bay Area urbanites – Ben Tanaka, Miko Hayashi, and Alice Kim – as they navigate a range of interpersonal relationships, traversing the country in […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – Landscape with Invisible Hand
Landscape with Invisible Hand, 2023. Written and directed by Cory Finley. Starring Tiffany Haddish, Asante Blackk, Kylie Rogers, Josh Hamilton, Michael Gandolfini, and William Jackson Harper. SYNOPSIS: A pair of teenagers come up with a plan to ensure their families’ futures when an occupying alien race’s promise of economic prosperity leaves most of humanity impoverished […]
2023 Sundance Film Festival Review – The Starling Girl
The Starling Girl, 2023. Written and directed by Laurel Parmet. Starring Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Jimmi Simpson, Austin Abrams, Wrenn Schmidt, and Jessamine Burgum. SYNOPSIS: 17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church. Laurel Parmet makes a fundamentally […]
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