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Movie Review – Straight Outta Compton (2015)

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Straight Outta Compton, 2015.Directed by F. Gary Gray. Starring O’Shea Jackson Jr., Corey Hawkins, Jason Mitchell, Aldis Hodge, Neil Brown Jr., Marlon Yates Jr. and Paul Giamatti.SYNOPSIS:The group NWA emerges from the streets of Compton, California in the mid-1980s and revolutionizes Hip Hop culture with their music and tales about life in the hood.Billed as […]

Movie Review – Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)

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Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, 2010.Directed by Edgar Wright. Starring Michael Cera, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ellen Wong, and Kieran Culkin.SYNOPSIS: In order to date the girl of his dreams Ramona Flowers, Scott Pilgrim must defeat her seven evil ex’s.Having so much hype around a film can ensure that unless the film lives up to its […]

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 to […]

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 Last Bus. These are […]

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 that No Man of […]

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 idea of how stripped-down […]

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 family he has […]

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 trained in the […]

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 like The Night House. […]