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Movie Review – Asking for It (2022)

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Asking for It, 2022. Written and Directed by Eamon O’Rourke. Starring Kiersey Clemons, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexandra Shipp, Ezra Miller, Radha Mitchell, Gabourey Sidibe, Casey Cott, Leslie Stratton, Casey Camp-Horinek, Leyna Bloom, Lisa Yaro, Demetrius Shipp Jr., Luke Hemsworth, David Patrick Kelly, Patricia Belcher, Eric Michael Cole, Dylan Flashner, and Eamon O’Rourke. SYNOPSIS: After a small […]

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, […]

Video Review – The Batman becomes the World’s Greatest Batman Movie

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EJ Moreno with a ★★★★★ video review of The Batman… 2022 sees the arrival of a new Batman movie and a new Batman, and director Matt Reeves and star Robert Pattinson show why this character is a timeless icon. Critic EJ Moreno calls this masterful and the best Batman movie yet; check out his full […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 – 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 […]

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 […]