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Movie Review – Jurassic Punk (2022)

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Jurassic Punk, 2022.Directed by Scott Leberecht. Starring Steve “Spaz” Williams, Phil Tippett, Robert Patrick, Jamie Hyneman, Mark Dippe, Scott Ross, Stefen Fangmeier, Bill Kimberlin, John Schlag, and Jody Duncan.SYNOPSIS:Steve “Spaz” Williams is a pioneer in computer animation. His digital dinosaurs for Jurassic Park transformed Hollywood in 1993, but an appetite for anarchy and reckless disregard for authority […]

Movie Review – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022)

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Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, 2022.Directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu. Starring Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, and Iker Sanchez Solano.SYNOPSIS:A renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his identity, familial relationships, and the folly of his memories.Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s […]

Video Review – Avatar: The Way of Water is a beautiful mess

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Avatar: The Way of Water…James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way of Water is the film version of that beautiful person with no personality. Avatar 2 tries to say and do a lot but comes off as a striking shell for a lackluster core.The spectacle is there, and the violence […]

Movie Review – Gone in the Night (2022)

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Gone in the Night, 2022.Co-written and Directed by Eli Horowitz. Starring Winona Ryder, Dermot Mulroney, John Gallagher Jr, Owen Teague, and Brianne Tju.SYNOPSIS:Upon arriving at a remote cabin in the redwoods, Kath and her boyfriend find a mysterious younger couple already there.A seemingly typical cabin-in-the-woods romp becomes something different both for better and worse in […]

Movie Review – Barbarian (2022)

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Barbarian, 2022.Written and Directed by Zach Cregger. Starring Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, Justin Long, Matthew Patrick Davis, Richard Brake, Kurt Braunohler, Jaymes Butler, Sophie Sörensen, Rachel Fowler, J.R. Esposito, Kate Nichols, Kate Bosworth, Brooke Dillman, Sara Paxton, Will Greenberg, Derek Morse, Trevor Van Uden, and Zach Cregger.SYNOPSIS: A woman staying at an Airbnb discovers that the […]

Movie Review – The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

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The Banshees of Inisherin, 2022.Written and Directed by Martin McDonagh. Starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan, Gary Lydon, Pat Shortt, Jon Kenny, Sheila Flitton, David Pearse, and Bríd Ní Neachtain.SYNOPSIS:Two lifelong friends are at an impasse when one abruptly ends their relationship, with alarming consequences for both.Sometimes, friends just fall out with […]

Movie Review – Prey for the Devil (2022)

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Prey for the Devil, 2022.Directed by Daniel Stamm. Starring Jacqueline Byers, Colin Salmon, Christian Navarro, Lisa Palfrey, Nicholas Ralph, Ben Cross, Virginia Madsen, Tom Forbes, Velizar Binev, Owen Davis, Debora Zhecheva, Cora Kirk, Posy Taylor, and Elizabeth Gibson.SYNOPSIS:A nun prepares to perform an exorcism and comes face to face with a demonic force with mysterious […]

Movie Review – Amsterdam (2022)

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Amsterdam, 2022.Written and Directed by David O. Russell. Starring Christian Bale, Margot Robbie, John David Washington, Robert De Niro, Anya Taylor-Joy, Rami Malek, Chris Rock, Zoe Saldaña, Mike Myers, Michael Shannon, Timothy Olyphant, Andrea Riseborough, Taylor Swift, Matthias Schoenaerts, Alessandro Nivola, Mel Fair, Vaughn Page, Bonnie Hellman, Max Perlich, Jessica Drake, Ed Begley Jr., Colleen […]

Blu-ray Review – Enter the Void (2009)

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Enter the Void, 2009.Directed by Gaspar Noé Starring Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy, Olly Alexander, and Emily Alyn Lind.SYNOPSIS:A drug dealer is shot by police and his spirit floats around Tokyo, connecting with the past, present and future of himself and his sister.There are movies that can give you a gut punch […]

Blu-ray Review – Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 80s Kadokawa Years

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews the Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 80s Kadokawa Years box set…When talking about Nobuhiko Obayashi (at least in the US) it’s almost a given that any conversation about his work will start by mentioning House (1977), and for good reason. House is a one-of-a-kind movie – a film that garners recognition – yet, given how […]