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Movie Review – Starve Acre (2024)

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Starve Acre, 2024.Written and Directed by Daniel Kokotajlo. Starring Matt Smith, Morfydd Clark, Erin Richards, Sean Gilder, Robert Emms, and Roger Barclay.SYNOPSIS:An idyllic rural family life of a couple is thrown into turmoil when their son starts acting out of character.Not only taking place at some point in the 1970s in Yorkshire, writer/director Daniel Kokotajlo’s […]

Movie Review – Seven Veils (2025)

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Seven Veils, 2025.Written and Directed by Atom Egoyan. Starring Amanda Seyfried, Rebecca Liddiard, Douglas Smith, Mark O’Brien, Vinessa Antoine, Ambur Braid, Michael Kupfer-Radecky, Tara Nicodemo, Maia Jae Bastidas, Lynne Griffin, Lanette Ware, Maya Misaljevic, Joey Klein, Aliya Kanani, Siobhan Richardson, Michael Schade, and Karita Mattila.SYNOPSIS:An earnest theater director has the task of remounting her former […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2025 Review – On Falling

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On Falling, 2024.Written and directed by Laura Carreira. Starring Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, and Neil Leiper.SYNOPSIS:The story focuses on Aurora, a Portuguese worker in a Scottish warehouse, navigating loneliness and alienation in an algorithm-driven gig economy as she seeks meaning and connection amidst solitude and workplace confines.We’re so used to takes that paint a fairy […]

Movie Review – Day of the Fight (2024)

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Day of the Fight, 2024.Written and Directed by Jack Huston. Starring Michael C. Pitt, Nicolette Robinson, Ron Perlman, Joe Pesci, John Magaro, Steve Buscemi, Kat Elizabeth Williams, Anatol Yusef, Phillip Johnson Richardson, Charlize Orr, Ryan Bostedo, Kaili Vernoff, Jordyn Rax, Tim Gallin, Leo Solomon, Eugene Solfanelli, Milan Marsh, Ryan Bostedo, Darlene Dues, Beckett Guest, Zoe […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Cruising (1980)

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Cruising, 1980.Directed by William Friedkin. Starring Al Pacino, Paul Sorvino, and Karen Allen.SYNOPSIS:Are you a fan of William Friedkin’s 1980 thriller Cruising? Then you’ll definitely want to grab this new 4K Ultra HD release from Arrow, which features not only a stunning restoration but also three commentary tracks, around six hours worth of bonus features, […]

Book Review – Star Wars: Reign of the Empire – The Mask of Fear

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Reign of the Empire – The Mask of Fear…One of the time periods in the Star Wars franchise that has always been intriguing is the years between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope where the Empire ruled with an iron fist across the galaxy. While some Star Wars media like The Bad Batch, Obi-Wan Kenobi and […]

4K Ultra HD Review – The Nice Guys (2016)

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The Nice Guys, 2016.Directed by Shane Black. Starring Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Angourie Rice, Matt Bomer, Margaret Qualley, Keith David, and Kim Basinger.SYNOPSIS:Are you a fan of Shane Black’s 2016 film The Nice Guys, which features Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as a mismatched pair with tons of onscreen chemistry? Then you’ll probably appreciate the […]

Movie Review – Last Breath (2025)

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Last Breath, 2025.Directed by Alex Parkinson. Starring Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis, Bobby Rainsbury, Nick Biadon, Connor Reed, Riz Khan, MyAnna Buring, Mark Bonnar, Josef Altin, Claudiu Baciu, Brett Murray, Aldo Silvio, Kevin Naudi, Daithí O’Donnell, Christian Scicluna.SYNOPSIS:A true story that follows seasoned deep-sea divers as they battle the raging elements to […]

Movie Review – Alarum (2025)

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Alarum, 2025.Directed by Michael Polish. Starring Scott Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone, Willa Fitzgerald, Mike Colter, D.W. Moffett, Isis Valverde, Anton Narinskiy, Patrick Millin, Joel Cohen, Bailey Edwards, Abigail Spear, Patrick Millin, Ken Strunk, and La Monde Byrd.SYNOPSIS:After the CIA discovers the whereabouts of two rogue spies, who have not only gone off-grid but have become husband […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Russ Meyer’s Vixen Trilogy

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Vixen/Supervixens/Beneath the Valley of the UltravixensDirected by Russ Meyer. Starring Erica Gavin Harrison Page, Garth Pillsbury, Charles Pitts, Shari Eubank, Charles Napier, John Lazar, Kitten Natividad, Sharon Kelly, Ann Marie, Uschi Digard, Candy Samples, Stuart Lancaster, Russ Meyer. SYNOPSIS:The first three restored Russ Meyer movies in 4K UHD, released by Severin Films in partnership with […]