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Movie Review – West Side Story (2021)

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West Side Story, 2021.Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Rita Moreno, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Corey Stoll, Brian d’Arcy James, Josh Andrés Rivera, Mike Faist, Ana Isabelle, Paloma Garcia-Lee, Maddie Ziegler, Andrea Burns, Kyle Allen, Curtiss Cook, Jamie Harris, Iris Menas, Sean Harrison Jones, Patrick Higgins, Julius Anthony Rubio, Ricardo Zayas, Sebastian […]

Movie Review – Huda’s Salon (2022)

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Huda’s Salon, 2022.Written and Directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Starring Maisa Abd Elhadi, Ali Suliman, Manal Awad, Omar Abu Amer, and Samer Bisharat.SYNOPSIS:A woman whose visit to a hair salon turns into a nightmare when she is blackmailed by its owner.There is a meticulous finesse in which writer and director Hany Abu-Assad establishes a seemingly safe […]

Blu-ray Review – La Dolce Vita (1960)

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La Dolce Vita, 1960.Directed by Federico Fellini. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux, Alain Cuny, Annibale Ninchi, Magali Noël, Lex Barker, Jacques Sernas, and Nadia Gray.SYNOPSIS:Paramount continues its string of classic reissues with Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita on Blu-ray. The platter serves up the film based on a delicious 4K restoration. […]

Movie Review – Nightride (2022)

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Nightride, 2022.Directed by Stephen Fingleton. Starring Moe Dunford, Joana Ribeiro, Gerard Jordan, Ciaran Flynn, John Travers, and Stephen Rea.SYNOPSIS:Nightride is a real-time, one-shot thriller about a dealer trying to pull off one last job in order to go straight.There’s no denying you have seen the plot for Nightride at least 100 times before. Directed by […]

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., so it’s probably […]

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 for shorts and music […]

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 few years will usher […]

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, Batman uncovers corruption […]

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. The gunshot […]