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Movie Review – Sylvie’s Love (2020)

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Sylvie’s Love, 2020.Written and Directed by Eugene Ashe. Starring Tessa Thompson, Nnamdi Asomugha, Eva Longoria, Aja Naomi King, Wendy McLendon-Covey, and Jemima Kirke.SYNOPSIS:An upper-middle-class girl working in her father’s record store meets an aspiring saxophone player in 1950s Harlem.Sylvie’s Love is a period romance movie that exists in a world where music is the true […]

Movie Review – The Midnight Sky (2020)

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The Midnight Sky, 2020.Directed by George Clooney. Starring George Clooney, Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler, Demián Bichir, David Oyelowo, Tiffany Boone, Caoilinn Springall, Sophie Rundle, and Ethan Peck.SYNOPSIS:A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.Those hoping that Netflix were set to wrap up 2020 […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers #25

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers #25…Nothing on Cybertron will be the same again as the anniversary issue of Transformers sees the beginning salvo of the war between the Autobots and Decepticons. ‘War World’ is an apt title for the new arc of the series as Brian Ruckley wastes little time establishing the growth of the conflict as Megatron […]

Movie Review – The Midnight Sky (2020)

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The Midnight Sky, 2020.Directed by George Clooney. Starring George Clooney, Felicity Jones, David Oyelowo, Caoilinn Springall, Kyle Chandler, Demian Bichir, Tiffany Boone, Sophie Rundle and Ethan Peck.SYNOPSIS:One isolated scientist (George Clooney) remains behind at a research station in the Arctic. His only responsibility to ensure that a group of astronauts are dissuaded from returning to […]

His Dark Materials Season 2 Finale Review – ‘Æsahættr’

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Martin Carr reviews the season two finale of His Dark Materials…For those thinking there were no similarities between The Force Awakens and this finale think again. In the space of seven episodes we have never clapped eyes on Lord Asriel. James McAvoy that bastion of character actors, Scottish national treasure and X-Men franchise stalwart has […]

The Expanse Season 5 Episode 3 Review – ‘Mother’

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Ricky Church reviews the third episode of The Expanse season 5…The Expanse‘s return started off in an interesting way with Amazon putting out the first three episodes of the season at once, acting as almost a three-part premiere that has been strongly character focused as the crew of the Rocinante have gone their separate ways […]

The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘The Rescue’

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Ricky Church reviews the season 2 finale of The Mandalorian…It has all come to this as The Mandalorian’s second season finale sees Din Djarin and his many allies enact a daring rescue mission for Grogu from Moff Gideon’s Imperial ship. ‘The Rescue’ was an action-packed finale from Ant-Man director Peyton Reed that still contained a […]

Songbird – A Romantic Thriller for the Pandemic Era | Video Review

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Songbird, 2020.Directed by Adam Mason. Starring KJ Apa, Sofia Carson, Craig Robinson, Bradley Whitford, Peter Stormare, Alexandra Daddario, Paul Walter Hauser, and Demi Moore.While other critics don’t seem to enjoy this, our host EJ Moreno dives into why Songbird doesn’t really offend him. There’s enough in this film to enjoy the ride from the thrilling […]

The Expanse Season 5 Episode 2 Review – ‘Churn’

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Ricky Church reviews the second episode of The Expanse season 5…A strong argument can be made that the fifth season premiere of The Expanse isn’t just ‘Exodus’, but really a three-parter with Amazon Prime having dropped the first three episodes together. ‘Churn’ continues the themes and stories from the premiere in an effective manner and catches […]