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Movie Review – Things Will Be Different (2024)

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Things Will Be Different, 2024.Written and Directed by Michael Felker. Starring Riley Dandy, Adam David Thompson, Chloe Skoczen, Justin Benson, and Sarah Bolger.SYNOPSIS:When estranged siblings Joseph and Sidney rendezvous at a local diner after a close-call robbery, they hightail it to an abandoned farmhouse that transports them to a different time to escape the law. […]

Movie Review – The Outrun (2024)

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The Outrun, 2024.Written and Directed by Nora Fingscheidt. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Paapa Essiedu, Nabil Elouahabi, Izuka Hoyle, Lauren Lyle, Stephen Dillane, Saskia Reeves, Naomi Wirthner, Tony Hamilton, Posy Sterling, Danyal Ismail, Scott Miller, and Seamus Dillane.SYNOPSIS:After living life on the edge in London, Rona attempts to come to terms with her troubled past. Hoping to […]

The Penguin Episode 2 Review – ‘Inside Man’

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Chris Connor reviews the second episode of The Penguin…The Penguin’s opening episode set the bar high for the rest of the series, picking up the pieces in the aftermath of The Batman. This is a Gotham on the brink of a gang war as the remnants of Marone’s operation and the Falcone’s look to control […]

4K Ultra HD Review – The Hitcher (1986)

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The Hitcher, 1986.Directed by Robert Harmon. Starring C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jeffrey DeMunn, and Armin Shimerman.A young man picks up a hitchhiker whilst crossing the desert, only to be unable to escape from the murderous traveller.It has been a long time coming but finally Robert Harmon’s 1986 thriller The Hitcher has […]

Movie Review – Megalopolis (2024)

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Megalopolis, 2024.Written and Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Starring Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Shia LaBeouf, Jon Voight, Jason Schwartzman, Talia Shire, Grace VanderWaal, Laurence Fishburne, Kathryn Hunter, Dustin Hoffman, James Remar, Chloe Fineman, Isabelle Kusman, D.B. Sweeney, Haley Sims, Balthazar Getty, Bailey Ives, Adams Bellouis, Madeleine Gardella, and Romy Mars.SYNOPSIS:The city […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Body Double (1984)

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Body Double, 1984.Directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Craig Wasson, Gregg Henry, and Melanie Griffith.SYNOPSIS:Brian De Palma’s thriller Body Double is 40 years old, and Sony is celebrating the milestone with a new SteelBook of the film that contains 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray Discs, along with a code for a digital copy. No new […]

Movie Review – Apartment 7A (2024)

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Apartment 7A, 2024.Directed by Natalie Erika James. Starring Julia Garner, Dianne Wiest, Kevin McNally, Jim Sturgess, Marli Siu, Rosy McEwen, Andrew Buchan, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Julia Westcott-Hutton, Nikkita Chadha, James Swanton, Anton Blake Horowitz, Patrick Lyster, Amy Leeson, Brooke Walter, Mellanie Hubert, and Scott Hume.SYNOPSIS:A struggling dancer finds herself drawn into dark forces by a peculiar […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Happiness (1998)

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Happiness, 1998.Directed by Todd Solondz. Starring Jane Adams, Elizabeth Ashley, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle, Ben Gazzara, Jared Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Louise Lasser, Jon Lovitz, Camryn Manheim, Rufus Read, and Cynthia Stevenson.SYNOPSIS:Todd Solondz’s 1998 movie Happiness, which takes discomfort to an extreme, makes its 4K Ultra HD debut courtesy of Criterion. Unfortunately, there aren’t […]

Movie Review – Killer Heat (2024)

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Killer Heat, 2024.Directed by Philippe Lacôte. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Richard Madden, Shailene Woodley, Manos Gavras, Babou Ceesay, Clare Holman, Abbey Lee, Emmanouil Gavridakis, Eleni Vergeti, Christos Efthimiou, and Argyris Gaganis.SYNOPSIS:Follows twin brothers who find themselves in a dangerous love triangle on an isolated Greek island. The investigation is given to “The Jealousy Man,” a wounded […]

Slow Horses Season 4 Episode 4 Review – ‘Returns’

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Chris Connor reviews the fourth episode of Slow Horses season 4…After the aftermath of the conflict at the end of the previous episode, Lamb grills bad Sam Chapman about how this connects to Lavendres. Sam realises there is a connection to Les Arbres and makes it clear he doesn’t want this intel going anywhere near […]