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X-Men ’97 Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Fire Made Flesh’

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Ricky Church reviews the third episode of X-Men ’97…Well, that was a trippy episode! X-Men ’97‘s ‘Fire Made Flesh’ was all over the place in the best ways as the team discovered the truth behind the mysterious other Jean Grey and one of their most dangerous enemies made a spectacular comeback. It showed the series, much […]

Movie Review – The Sweet East (2023)

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The Sweet East, 2023.Directed by Sean Price Williams. Starring Talia Ryder, Earl Cave, Simon Rex, Ayo Edebiri, Jeremy O. Harris, Jacob Elordi and Rish Shah.SYNOPSIS:A picaresque journey through the cities and woods of the Eastern seaboard of the U.S undertaken by Lillian, a high school senior from South Carolina. She gets her first glimpse of […]

Movie Review – Lousy Carter (2024)

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Lousy Carter, 2024.Written and Directed by Bob Byington. Starring David Krumholtz, Olivia Thirlby, Martin Starr, Stephen Root, Jocelyn DeBoer, Trieste Kelly Dunn, Macon Blair, Luxy Banner, Andrew Bujalski, and Mona Lee Fultz.SYNOPSIS:Man-baby Lousy Carter struggles to complete his animated Nabokov adaptation, teaches a graduate seminar on The Great Gatsby, and sleeps with his best friend’s […]

Movie Review – The Listener (2024)

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The Listener, 2024.Directed by Steve Buscemi. Starring Tessa Thompson, Logan Marshall-Green, Derek Cecil, Margaret Cho, Blu del Barrio, Ricky Velez, Alia Shawkat, Jamie Hector, Casey Wilson, Bobby Soto, Matt Van Orden, and Rebecca Hall.SYNOPSIS:Follows a helpline volunteer who is part of the small army that gets on the phone every night, fielding calls from all […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Bad Biology (2008)

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Bad Biology, 2008.Directed by Frank Henenlotter. Starring Charlee Danielson, Anthony Sneed, R.A. The Rugged Man, Ginger Starr, John A. Thorburn.SYNOPSIS:A man and a woman who both have specific sexual proclivities eventually meet and fall in love… sort of.“I was born with seven clits” may not be as iconic an opening line to a movie as […]

Movie Review – Asphalt City (2024)

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Asphalt City, 2024.Directed by Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire. Starring Tye Sheridan, Sean Penn, Katherine Waterston, Michael Pitt, Kali Reis, Mike Tyson, Onie Maceo Watlington, Raquel Nave, Shelly Burrell, Gbenga Akinnagbe, and Daniel Foote.SYNOPSIS:Ollie Cross is a young paramedic assigned to the NYC night shift with an uncompromising and seasoned partner Gene Rutkovsky. Each 911 call is often […]

Movie Review – The Beautiful Game (2024)

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The Beautiful Game, 2024.Directed by Thea Sharrock. Starring Bill Nighy, Micheal Ward, Valeria Golino, Susan Wokoma, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Cristina Rodlo, Kit Young, Sian Reese-Williams, Callum Scott Howells, Sheyi Cole, Jessye Romeo, Aoi Okuyama, Layo-Christina Akinlude, and Robin Nazari.SYNOPSIS:Advocates to end homelessness, organize an annual tournament for Homeless men to compete in a series of football […]

Blu-ray Review – North Dallas Forty (1979)

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North Dallas Forty, 1979.Directed by Ted Kotcheff. Starring Nick Nolte, Mac Davis, Charles Durning, Dayle Haddon, Bo Svenson, John Matuszak, Steve Forrest, G.D. Spradlin, Dabney Coleman, Savannah Smith Boucher.SYNOPSIS:One of the greatest football movies, if not sports movies, of all time, North Dallas Forty returns to Blu-ray with a new 4K scan courtesy of Kino […]

Movie Review – Out of Darkness (2023)

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Out of Darkness, 2023.Directed by Andrew Cumming. Starring Kit Young, Chuku Modu, Iola Evans, Luna Mwezi, Safia Oakley-Green, and Arno Luening.SYNOPSIS:In the Old Stone Age, a disparate gang of early humans band together in search of a new land. But when they suspect a malevolent, mystical being is hunting them down, the clan are forced […]