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Movie Review – Baby Done (2020)

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Baby Done, 2020.Directed by Curtis Vowell. Starring Rose Matafeo, Matthew Lewis, Emily Barclay, Matenga Ashby, Fasitua Amosa, Loren Taylor, Olivia Tennet, Rachel House and Nic Sampson.SYNOPSIS:An adventurous woman finds her risk-taking life challenged when she discovers that she has fallen pregnant.Anyone who is currently childless in their 20s and 30s will know the gradual build-up […]

Movie Review – No Man’s Land (2021)

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No Man’s Land, 2021.Directed by Conor Allyn. Starring Jake Allyn, Frank Grillo, Jorge A. Jimenez, Alex MacNicoll, Andrés Delgado, Ofelia Medina, Esmerelda Pimentel, Andie MacDowell, and George Lopez.SYNOPSIS:Border vigilante Bill Greer (Frank Grillo) and his son Jackson (Jake Allyn) are on patrol when Jackson accidentally kills a Mexican immigrant boy. Bill tries to take the […]

Comic Book Review – Doomsday Clock: The Complete Collection

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Ricky Church reviews Doomsday Clock: The Complete Collection…It is funny that within the last couple of years we’ve gotten not one but two sequels to the groundbreaking graphic novel Watchmen in two different forms of media and context. HBO’s Watchmen delivered a miniseries that is a direct sequel to the graphic novel while DC’s Doomsday Clock is, like […]

Movie Review – The Exception (2020)

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The Exception, 2020.Directed by Jesper W. Nielsen. Starring Danica Curcic, Amanda Collin, Sidse Babett Knudsen and Lene Maria Christensen.SYNOPSIS:When four co-workers receive a series of threatening emails, workplace frictions that were previously bubbling away under the surface start to evolve into suspicions of a more sinister nature.There’s a moment midway through Jesper W. Nielsen’s moody […]

Comic Book Review – Lois Lane: Enemy of the People

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Ricky Church reviews Lois Lane: Enemy of the People…Lois Lane has always been tied to Superman’s legacy as his love interest and thought of, more often than not by mainstream audiences, a damsel in distress who Superman is always in need of rescuing. However, despite not having any superpowers of her own she is one […]

Blu-ray Review – The Don is Dead (1973)

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The Don is Dead, 1973.Directed by Richard Fleischer. Starring Anthony Quinn, Frederic Forrest, Robert Forster, Al Lettieri, Abe Vigoda, Angel Tompkins, Jo Anne Meredith, and Sid Haig.SYNOPSIS:A mafia enforcer instigates an internal war when he beats his girlfriend to a pulp, not knowing she was having a romance with the Don of the family.‘THE DON […]

American Gods Season 3 Episode 2 Review – ‘Serious Moonlight’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of American Gods season 3…Episode two might possess the formidable presence of Ian McShane’s Odin, but beyond that Serious Moonlight treads water. Visual flourishes prove distracting but ultimately story seems to be in stasis. Aside from a gathering of Gods fronted by Peter Stormare’s Czernobog things are decidedly lacklustre. Vaguely clandestine meetings on rooftops involving Shadow […]

Movie Review – The Mauritanian (2021)

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The Mauritanian, 2021.Directed by Kevin Macdonald. Starring Tahar Rahim, Benedict Cumberbatch, Jodie Foster, Shailene Woodley and Zachary Levi.SYNOPSIS:Accused of recruiting terrorists for the 9/11 attacks, Mohamedou Ould Slahi is held without being charged for over a decade in the infamous Guantanamo Bay facility.In the wake of a globally tragic event, fear and anger can lead […]

The Stand Episode 3 Review – ‘Blank Pages’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of The Stand…Heaven and hell clash as Ouija board prophecies and biblical references start trickling into The Stand. Back stories continue coming thick and fast as the use of judicious flashback gives audiences a deeper understanding of Nadine Cross. Elsewhere Stu Redman, Fran Goldsmith and Harold Lauder fleetingly cross paths on their way […]

25th Anniversary Review – From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

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From Dusk Till Dawn, 1996.Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Starring Harvey Keitel, George Clooney, Quentin Tarantino, Juliette Lewis, Ernest Liu, Salma Hayek, Michael Parks, Danny Trejo, Tom Savini, and Cheech Marin.SYNOPSIS:Seth and Richie Gecko, a pair of escaped criminals on the run seek refuge, along with a family of hostages, in a bar on the US/Mexican […]