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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 […]

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 […]

Movie Review – Escape from Pretoria (2020)

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Escape from Pretoria, 2020Directed 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 political activists sentenced to […]

Movie Review – Amulet (2020)

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Amulet. 2020Written and Directed by Romola Garai Starring Carla Juri, Alec Secăreanu, Imelda Staunton, Angeliki Papoulia, and Paul O’KellySYNOPSIS:An ex-soldier, living homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for her, he cannot ignore his suspicion […]

Movie Review – The Humans (2021)

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The Humans, 2021.Written and Directed by Stephen Karan. Starring Richard Jenkins, Jayne Houdyshell, Steven Yeun, Beanie Feldstein, Amy Schumer, and June Squibb.SYNOPSIS:Set inside a pre-war duplex in downtown Manhattan, The Humans follows the course of an evening in which the Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things […]

Movie Review – In the Earth (2021)

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In the Earth, 2021.Written and Directed by Ben Wheatley Starring Joel Fry, Ellora Torchia, Hayley Squires, Reece Shearsmith, Mark Monero, and John Hollingworth.SYNOPSIS:As the world searches for a cure to a disastrous virus, a scientist and park scout venture deep in the forest for a routine equipment run.While it features a pandemic similar in reaction […]

Movie Review – Texas Chainsaw 3D (2013)

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Texas Chainsaw 3D, 2013. Directed by John Luessenhop. Starring Alexandra Daddario, Dan Yeager, Tremaine Neverson, and Tania Raymonde.SYNOPSIS: Continuing directly from the original film, the local town folk deal with the Sawyer family, only for some unexpected truths to come back and haunt them years later.Completely ignoring the various sequels to the 1974 horror classic, […]

Movie Review – The Desperate Hour (2022)

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The Desperate Hour, 2022.Directed by Phillip Noyce. Starring Naomi Watts, Colton Gobbo, and Sierra Maltby.SYNOPSIS:A mother desperately races against time to save her child as authorities place her small town on lockdown.If anything about The Desperate Hour looks familiar, that’s because it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last year under the title Lakewood. […]

Movie Review – No Exit (2022)

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No Exit, 2022.Directed by Damien Power. Starring Havana Rose Liu, Danny Ramirez, Dennis Haysbert, Dale Dickey, David Rysdahl, Mila Harris, Benedict Wall, and Kirsty Hamilton.SYNOPSIS:During a blizzard and stranded at an isolated highway rest stop in the mountains, a college student discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people […]