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Marvel’s What If? – Episode 3 Review

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Marvel’s What If…? The Avengers coming together was a turning point for the MCU. That is when a disparate string of blockbuster films coalesced into something else. This is when comic book franchises turned into big business. Audiences were enthralled, Disney expressed an interest and studios started running […]

Movie Review – The Last Bus (2021)

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The Last Bus, 2021. Directed by Gillies MacKinnon. Starring Timothy Spall, Phyllis Logan, Natalie Mitson, Ben Ewing and Celyn Jones. SYNOPSIS: After the death of his wife, an elderly man decides to retrace the bus journey that took them from Land’s End to John O’Groats decades earlier. It’s easy to sneer at movies like The […]

Movie Review – No Man of God (2021)

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No Man of God, 2021. Directed by Amber Sealey. Starring Luke Kirby, Elijah Wood, Aleksa Palladino, Robert Patrick, W. Earl Brown, and Christian Clemenson. SYNOPSIS: The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Bundy during Bundy’s final years on death row. It should be said right off the bat […]

Movie Review – Together (2021)

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Together, 2021. Directed by Stephen Daldry. Starring James McAvoy, Sharon Horgan, and Samuel Logan. SYNOPSIS: A husband and wife are forced to re-evaluate themselves and their relationship through the reality of the COVID-19 lockdown. As soon as James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan (the couple is only credited as He and She, to give you an […]

Movie Review – Sweet Girl (2021)

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Sweet Girl, 2021. Directed by Brian Andrew Mendoza. Starring Jason Momoa, Isabela Merced, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Adria Arjona, Raza Jaffrey, Justin Bartha, Lex Scott Davis, Michael Raymond-James, Dominic Fumusa, Nelson Franklin, Will Blagrove, and Amy Brenneman. SYNOPSIS: A devastated husband vows to bring justice to the people responsible for his wife’s death while protecting the only […]

Movie Review – The Protégé (2021)

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The Protégé, 2021. Directed by Martin Campbell. Starring Michael Keaton, Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Patrick, Patrick Malahide, Ekaterina Baker, Madalina Anea, Ori Pfeffer, Jack Derges, Lili Rich, Florin Piersic Jr., Caroline Loncq, Gamba Cole, Velizar Binev, and Florin Zhang. SYNOPSIS: Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody (Samuel L. Jackson) and […]

Movie Review – The Night House (2020)

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The Night House, 2020. Directed by David Bruckner. Starring Rebecca Hall, Stacy Martin, Sarah Goldberg, Vondie Curtis-Hall and Evan Jonigkeit. SYNOPSIS: A woman grieving after her husband’s suicide begins to suspect that he might have been having an affair. And he’s probably haunting their house too. It takes a special performance to anchor a film […]

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 […]