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Movie Review – Summertime (2015)

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Summertime, 2015.Directed by Catherine Corsini. Starring Cecile de France, Izia Higelin, Noemie Lvovsky, Benjamin Bellecour and Kevin Azais.SYNOPSIS:Facing an uncertain future working on the family farm, Delphine (Izia Higelin) moves to Paris, where she falls in with a group of radical feminists.  She’s attracted to one of its leaders, the older Carole (Cecile de France) […]

Movie Review – Honeytrap (2014)

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Honeytrap, 2014.Directed by Rebecca Johnson. Starring Jessica Sula, Lucien Laviscount, Ntonga Mwanza, and Naomi Ryan.SYNOPSIS:Layla, a naive teenager from Trindad, moves to Brixton, London to live with her emotionally distant mother. Layla gets sucked into local gang activity trying to impress those around her.Honeytrap is an engaging film based on a deeply disturbing event that […]

Movie Review – The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

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The Stanford Prison Experiment, 2015.Directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez. Starring Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Michael Angarano, Tye Sheridan, Thomas Mann, and Olivia Thirlby.SYNOPSIS:Twenty-four male students out of seventy-five were selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.The only thing […]

Movie Review – The Incident (2015)

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The Incident, 2015.Directed by Jane Linfoot. Starring Ruta Gedmintas, Tom Hughes and Tasha Connor.SYNOPSIS:A successful young couple have their lives shattered when they each encounter the same teenage prostitute.  The husband meets her when buying pizzas on the way home from work and money changes hands.  The wife wakes up one night to find the […]

Movie Review – Titane (2021)

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Titane, 2021.Directed by Julia Ducournau. Starring Agathe Rousselle, Vincent Lindon, Laïs Salameh, Myriem Akheddiou, Bertrand Bonello and Garance Marillier.SYNOPSIS:A woman with a metal plate in her head following a childhood car accident ends up on the run after a killing spree.Julia Ducournau announced herself as a new voice in horror cinema in brutal fashion with […]

British Cinema – Naked (1993)

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Naked, 1993.Directed by Mike Leigh. Starring David Thewlis, Lesley Sharp and Ewen Bremner.SYNOPSIS: Naked follows Johnny (Thewlis) a highly articulate and intelligent loner who drifts through the backstreets of London taking part in violent sex, living on the streets and eloquently engaging everyone in conversation to completely different reactions from each stranger.Naked is the dark […]

Movie Review – Titane (2021)

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Titane, 2021.Directed by Julia Ducournau. Starring Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Laïs Salameh, Mara Cissé, Marin Judas, Diong-Kéba Tacu, Myriem Akeddiou, Bertrand Bonello, Céline Carrère, and Adèle Guigue.SYNOPSIS:Following a series of unexplained crimes, a father is reunited with the son who has been missing for 10 years. Titane: A metal highly resistant to heat […]

Movie Review – Landmine Goes Click (2015)

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Landmine Goes Click, 2015Written and directed by Levan Bakhia Starring Sterling Knight, Spencer Locke, Dean Geyer, Kote TolordavaSYNOPSIS: Trapped standing on an armed landmine, an American tourist is forced to watch helplessly while his girlfriend is terrorized and brutally assaulted.There’s an audacity to Levan Bakhia’s Landmine Goes Click, a film drenched in misogyny, trying desperately to find […]

Vikings Season 2 – Episode 6 Recap

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Megan Applegate recaps the sixth episode of Vikings season 2…This week’s episode title, “Unforgiven” could have been interpreted a couple ways.The first? The most obvious.Jarl Borg journeys from his home to Kattegat with Rollo to forge a new, better-than-the-last-time-these-guys-screwed-me-over deal with Ragnar and King Horik.He’s tentative, but eventually thanks Ragnar for forgiving him for that […]