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Movie Review – Shadow in the Cloud (2020)

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Shadow in the Cloud, 2020. Directed by Roseanne Liang. Starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Nick Robinson, Beulah Koale and Taylor John Smith. SYNOPSIS: In the throes of World War II, Captain Maude Garrett joins the all-male crew of a B-17 bomber with a top-secret package. Caught off guard by the presence of a woman on a military […]

Movie Review – Skylines (2020)

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Skylines, 2020. Directed by Liam O’Donnell. Starring Lindsey Morgan, Rhona Mitra, Alexander Siddig, James Cosmo, Daniel Bernhardt and Jonathan Howard. SYNOPSIS: With the harmony of alien hybrid co-existence under threat Rose Corley (Lindsey Morgan) and her crew set off to a distance planet, with the sole intention of saving mankind. This tongue in cheek alien […]

Movie Review – The Marksman (2021)

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The Marksman, 2021. Directed by Robert Lorenz. Starring Liam Neeson, Jacob Perez, Katheryn Winnick, Teresa Ruiz, Juan Pablo Raba, Dylan Kenin, Luce Rains, Chase Mullins, and Christopher Mele. SYNOPSIS: A rancher on the Arizona border becomes the unlikely defender of a young Mexican boy desperately fleeing the cartel assassins who’ve pursued him into the U.S. […]

Movie Review – Flinch (2021)

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Flinch, 2021. Written and Directed by Cameron Van Hoy. Starring Daniel Zovatto, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Buddy Duress, Tom Segura, Steven Bauer, David Proval, Michael Drayer, Adam Lazarre-White, and Cathy Moriarty. SYNOPSIS: A young Hitman who lives with his mother catches feelings for the witness of a murder he commits. Flinch is simultaneously uncomfortable and misguided (regardless […]

American Gods Season 3 Episode 1 Review – ‘A Winter’s Tale’

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Martin Carr reviews the first episode of American Gods season 3… Literary adaptations which strike the same chord as American Gods are rare. In the opening season it redefined the standard and dramatically challenged anyone within spitting distance to a fist fight. Daring in its disregard and dangerous to a fault it redrafted the lines of engagement. […]

Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Sky Sharks

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Sky Sharks, 2020. Written and directed by Marc Fehse. Starring Thomas Morris, Barbara Nedeljakova, Eva Habermann, and Tony Todd. SYNOPSIS: A team of geologists discovers a Nazi warship in the Arctic that was believed lost: the Himmelsfaust, a gigantic steel colossus from the Third Reich, filled to the brim with unimaginable machines of destruction. Dr. […]

Movie Review – Blithe Spirit (2020)

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Blithe Spirit, 2020. Directed by Edward Hall. Starring Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann, Judi Dench, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Emilia Fox. SYNOPSIS: A struggling crime novelist experiments with a séance in search of inspiration, only to unwittingly summon the ghost of his deceased ex-wife. Writer’s block is a very real problem. Certainly, anyone of a […]

The Stand Episode 2 Review – ‘Pocket Saviour’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of The Stand… Apathy after episode one has been replaced with a new found curiosity as The Stand finds its feet. After the tedious opener which felt protracted and lacking in drama, ‘Pocket Saviour’ establishes context as pieces begin falling into place. Much of this comes from a clarity of structure which […]

The Expanse Season 5 Episode 6 Review – ‘Tribes’

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Ricky Church reviews the sixth episode of The Expanse season 5… As The Expanse passes its halfway point of the fifth season, ‘Tribes’ offered us a look at the fractures. both literal and figurative, Marcos Inaros has caused with his attacks across the system. Compared to the previous couple of episodes, it gave viewers a bit of […]