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Spring 2023 Horror Movie Recap: Evil Dead Rise, Beau Is Afraid, The Pope’s Exorcist

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EJ Moreno dives into the biggest horror films of Spring 2023… 2023 is off to a pretty strong start in terms of horror films. The genre has been in full force since the year began, and this spring wasn’t any different.  Three major horror films dropped right before we kicked off the summer movie season, […]

Movie Review – Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023)

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Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie, 2023. Directed by Davis Guggenheim. Featuring Michael J. Fox and Tracy Pollan. SYNOPSIS: “Follows the life of beloved actor and advocate Michael J. Fox, exploring his personal and professional triumphs and travails and what happens when an incurable optimist confronts an incurable disease.” Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie […]

Movie Review – The Starling Girl (2023)

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The Starling Girl, 2023. Written and Directed by Laurel Parmet Starring Eliza Scanlen, Lewis Pullman, Wrenn Schmidt, Jimmi Simpson, Claire Elizabeth Green, Austin Abrams, Chris Dinner, Paige Leigh Landers, Kieran Sitawi, Jessamine Burgum, Kyle Secor, Andrew Riley Stephens, and K.J. Baker SYNOPSIS: 17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But […]

Movie Review – Redeeming Love (2022)

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Redeeming Love, 2022. Directed by D.J. Caruso. Starring Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Logan Marshall-Green, Eric Dane, Wu Ke-Xi, Livi Birch, Brandon Auret, Jamie Lee O’Donnell, Tanya van Graan, and Famke Janssen. SYNOPSIS: Sold into prostitution as a child, Angel knows nothing but betrayal. Can her heart ever be mended? Based upon the novel by Francine […]

Movie Review – Blood Vessel (2020)

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Blood Vessel. 2020. Directed by Justin Dix. Starring Robert Taylor, Alyssa Sutherland, Nathan Phillips, Christopher Kirby, John Lloyd Fillingham, Alex Cooke, Steve Young, and Mark Diaco. “> SYNOPSIS: Somewhere in the North Atlantic, late 1945. A life raft adrift at sea, and in it, the survivors of a torpedoed hospital ship: With no food, water, […]

Succession Season 4 Episode 7 Review – ‘Tailgate Party’

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Chris Connor reviews the seventh episode of the fourth and final season of Succession… We’re rapidly moving towards Succession’s endpoint and we remain no clearer about where we will ultimately end up. So often this season the goalposts have shifted and so have a few expected and unexpected alliances from Roman’s initial swing towards his […]

Movie Review – Book Club: The Next Chapter (2023)

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Book Club: The Next Chapter, 2023. Directed by Bill Holderman. Starring Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen, Mary Steenburgen, Andy García, Craig T. Nelson, Don Johnson, Giancarlo Giannini, Hugh Quarshie, Adriano De Pasquale, and Vincent Riotta. SYNOPSIS: Follows the new journey of four best friends as they take their book club to Italy for the […]

Video Game Review – Mia and the Dragon Princess

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Shaun Munro reviews Mia and the Dragon Princess… Though Wales Interactive’s most recent FMV game, Ten Dates, proved the rom-com to be a surprisingly snug fit for the medium, the publisher’s bread-and-butter is undeniably their more high-stakes genre outings, and so their new release Mia and the Dragon Princess sees them return to more familiar – […]

Movie Review – What’s Love Got to Do with It? (2023)

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What’s Love Got to Do with It?, 2023. Directed by Shekhar Kapur. Starring Lily James, Shazad Latif, Shabana Azmi, Emma Thompson, Sajal Ali, Oliver Chris, Asim Chaudhry, Jeff Mirza, Alice Orr-Ewing, Rahat Fateh, Ali Khan, Peter Sandys-Clarke, Ben Ashenden, Alexander Owen, Pakiza Baig, Grace Askew, Lolly Askew, Luke McQueen, Dan Jarratt-Cook, and Shaheen Khan. SYNOPSIS: […]