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Video Review – The Night House

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EJ Moreno with a video review of The Night House… David Bruckner takes the haunted house sub-genre and flips it on its head with The Night House, a new horror film that will scare the pants off its viewers. Watch EJ’s review of the movie below, and be sure to follow us on YouTube for more […]

Marvel’s What If…? – Season 1 Episode 2 Review

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Marvel’s What If…? Episode two of Marvel’s What If…? comes with a certain degree of poignancy built into its fabric, as this is the last work Chadwick Boseman ever did. From the outset, his rich embodiment of T’Challa comes through effortlessly. Intonation, self-assurance and an innate dignity make […]

Movie Review – Rare Beasts (2019)

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Rare Beasts, 2019. Directed by Billie Piper. Starring Billie Piper, Leo Bill, Kerry Fox, Toby Woolf, and David Thewlis. SYNOPSIS: Mandy (Billie Piper) is a career driven single mother with relationship needs. Pete (Leo Bill) is her victim of choice in this dark fable on contemporary dating. Billie Piper has been many things over the […]

Movie Review – The Night House (2020)

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The Night House, 2020. Directed by David Bruckner. Starring Rebecca Hall, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Evan Jonigkeit, Stacy Martin, David Abeles, Christina Jackson, and Patrick Klein. SYNOPSIS: A widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband’s disturbing secrets. Rebecca Hall’s take on a grieving widow in director David Bruckner’s 2020 Sundance chiller The Night House […]

Movie Review – Annette (2021)

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Annette, 2021. Directed by Leos Carax. Starring Adam Driver, Marion Cotillard, Simon Helberg, Devyn McDowell, Angèle, Rebecca Dyson-Smith, Ron Mael, and Russell Mael. SYNOPSIS: A stand-up comedian and his opera singer wife have a 2-year-old daughter with a surprising gift. In a stacked year for cinematic musicals, there’s no denying that Leos Carax’s delirious new […]

Amazon TV Review – Nine Perfect Strangers

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Martin Carr reviews Amazon series Nine Perfect Strangers… The talent behind this Hulu original, making its way onto Amazon this August beggars belief. Writer John-Henry Butterworth penned Edge of Tomorrow, Get On Up and Le Mans ‘66. Director Jonathan Levine was behind teenage zombie rom-com Warm Bodies, comedy drama 50/50 and had a hand in Seth Rogen hit […]

Movie Review – The Courier (2021)

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The Courier, 2021. Directed by Dominic Cooke. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Merab Ninidze, Rachel Brosnahan, Jessie Buckley, Angus Wright, Kirill Pirogov, Iva Šindelková, James Schofield, Anton Lesser, Keir Hills, and Vladimir Chuprikov. SYNOPSIS: Cold War spy Greville Wynne and his Russian source try to put an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Courier director Dominic […]

Movie Review – John and the Hole (2021)

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John and the Hole, 2021. Directed by Pascual Sisto. Starring Charlie Shotwell, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Ehle, and Taissa Farmiga. SYNOPSIS: A coming of age psychological thriller that plays out the unsettling reality of a kid (Charlie Shotwell) who holds his family captive in a hole in the ground. In true crime documentaries, I’m usually […]

Comic Book Review – Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 3

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Ricky Church reviews Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 3… DC’s collection of John Byrne’s seminal run on the Superman titles continues with Superman: The Man of Steel Vol. 3 and much like the previous two volumes it features a mix of episodic adventures with a larger overarching story and several team-ups between Superman and DC heroes. […]