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The Expanse Season 5 Episode 7 Review – ‘Oyedeng’

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Ricky Church reviews the seventh episode of The Expanse season 5… The latest episode of The Expanse both advanced the ongoing plot and delivered a very strong character driven story for Naomi, diving into the full extent of Marco Inaros’ manipulative and abusive tactics toward her and the people serving under him. ‘Oyedeng’ pushed the […]

Movie Review – Archive (2020)

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Archive, 2020. Directed by Gavin Rothery. Starring Theo James, Stacy Martin, Rhona Mitra, and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: 2038: George Almore is working on a true human-equivalent AI. His latest prototype is almost ready. This sensitive phase is also the riskiest. Especially as he has a goal that must be hidden at all costs: being reunited […]

Movie Review – Outside the Wire (2021)

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Outside the Wire, 2021. Directed by Mikael Håfström. Starring Anthony Mackie, Pilou Asbæk, Emily Beecham, Michael Kelly, Damson Idris, Kristina Tonteri-Young, Bobby Lockwood, Enzo Cilenti, Velibor Topic, and Henry Garrett. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, a drone pilot sent into a war zone finds himself paired with a top-secret android officer on a mission to […]

Movie Review – Locked Down (2021)

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Locked Down, 2021. Directed by Doug Liman. Starring Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ben Stiller, Stephen Merchant, Dulé Hill, Jazmyn Simon, Mark Gatiss, Mindy Kaling, Ben Kingsley, and Lucy Boynton.   SYNOPSIS: A couple attempts a high-risk, high-stakes jewelry heist at a department store. People, including loved ones, are not meant to be around each other […]

Movie Review – Synchronic (2019)

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Synchronic, 2019. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Ally Ioannides, Katie Aselton and Ramiz Monsef. SYNOPSIS: Two paramedics find themselves embroiled in the chaos of a new “designer drug”, which has been linked to several gruesome deaths. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are among the leading modern proponents of […]

Movie Review – The Marksman (2021)

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The Marksman, 2021. Directed by Robert Lorenz. Starring Liam Neeson, Jacob Perez, Katheryn Winnick, Teresa Ruiz, Juan Pablo Raba, Dylan Kenin, Luce Rains, Chase Mullins, and Christopher Mele. SYNOPSIS: A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who’ve pursued him into the U.S. […]

Movie Review – The Call (2020)

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The Call, 2020 Directed by Chung-Hyun Lee Starring Park Shin-Hye, Jong-seo Jun, Sung-ryung Kim, El Lee, and Ho-San Park SYNOPSIS: Two people live in separate times. Seo-Yeon (Park Shin-Hye) lives in the present and Young-Sook (Jong-seo Jun) lives in 1999. One phone call connects the two, and their lives are changed irrevocably. The premise for this time-shifting […]

Movie Review – Flinch (2021)

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Flinch, 2021. Written and Directed by Cameron Van Hoy. Starring Daniel Zovatto, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Buddy Duress, Tom Segura, Steven Bauer, David Proval, Michael Drayer, Adam Lazarre-White, and Cathy Moriarty. SYNOPSIS: A young Hitman who lives with his mother catches feelings for the witness of a murder he commits. Flinch is simultaneously uncomfortable and misguided (regardless […]

American Gods Season 3 Episode 1 Review – ‘A Winter’s Tale’

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Martin Carr reviews the first episode of American Gods season 3… Literary adaptations which strike the same chord as American Gods are rare. In the opening season it redefined the standard and dramatically challenged anyone within spitting distance to a fist fight. Daring in its disregard and dangerous to a fault it redrafted the lines of engagement. […]