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Blu-ray Review – Fist of Fury (1972)

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Fist of Fury, 1972. Directed by Lo Wei. Starring Bruce Lee, Nora Miao, Riki Hashimoto, Robert Baker, Tien Feng, Paul Wei, Monica Yi, Chung Hsin, and Haw Ying Chien. SYNOPSIS: Umbrella Entertainment has issued Bruce Lee’s classic Fist of Fury on Blu-ray in Region B, but it worked in my players here in the U.S., […]

Movie Review – Fresh (2022)

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Fresh, 2022. Directed by Mimi Cave. Starring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Sebastian Stan, Jonica T. Gibbs, Andrea Bang, Dayo Okeniyi, Charlotte Le Bon, Brett Dier, and Alina Maris. SYNOPSIS: The horrors of modern dating seen through one young woman’s defiant battle to survive her new boyfriend’s unusual appetites. Fresh plays out like director Mimi Cave (primarily known […]

Movie Review – The Pink Cloud (2021)

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The Pink Cloud, 2021. Written and directed by Iuli Gerbase. Starring Renata de Lélis and Eduardo Mendonça. SYNOPSIS: After a toxic and mysterious pink cloud appears, Giovana finds herself stuck in a flat with a man she just met, changing her life in a way she never expected. Though it’s surely inevitable that the next […]

Movie Review – The Batman (2022)

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The Batman, 2022. Directed by Matt Reeves. Starring Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell, Barry Keoghan, Alex Ferns, Jayme Lawson, Rupert Penry-Jones, Con O’Neill, Vic Waghorn, Dave Simon, Luke Roberts, Stella Stocker, Oscar Novak, and Archie Barnes. SYNOPSIS: In his second year of fighting crime, […]

Peaky Blinders Season 6 Episode 1 Review – ‘Black Day’

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Liam Hoofe reviews the season 6 premiere of Peaky Blinders… After two long years away, Peaky Blinders returned to our screens last night with an atmospheric and typically stylish opener.  The opener picks up where the last episode left us – with Tommy holding a gun to his own head after failing to kill Oswald Moseley. […]

Movie Review – Escape from Pretoria (2020)

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Escape from Pretoria, 2020 Directed by Francis Annan. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Ian Hart, Daniel Webber, Nathan Page, Mark Leonard Winter, and Adam Ovadia. SYNOPSIS: Based on the real-life prison break of two political captives, Escape from Pretoria is a race-against-time thriller set in the tumultuous apartheid days of South Africa. Escape from Pretoria follows two […]

Blu-ray Review – Caveat (2020)

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Caveat, 2020. Directed by Damian McCarthy. Starring Ben Caplan, Jonathan French, Leila Sykes, Inma Pavon, and Conor Dwane. SYNOPSIS: A man is offered a job of keeping an eye on a troubled woman in an isolated house for a few days – what could possibly go wrong? Rarely has a movie title been as apt […]

Movie Review – Amulet (2020)

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Amulet. 2020 Written and Directed by Romola Garai Starring Carla Juri, Alec Secăreanu, Imelda Staunton, Angeliki Papoulia, and Paul O’Kelly SYNOPSIS: An ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot […]

Blu-ray Review – Pan’s Labyrinth (2006)

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Pan’s Labyrinth, 2006. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Sergi López, Maribel Verdú, Ivana Baquero, Doug Jones, Ariadna Gil, and Álex Angulo. SYNOPSIS: Umbrella Entertainment has released Guillermo del Toro’s classic Pan’s Labyrinth on Blu-ray in Region B, but it worked in all my American players, so I assume it’s actually an all-region release. This […]