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Oscars 2021: Best Documentary Short Film Nominees Reviewed

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Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated documentary short films… The final instalment of our three-part series delving into this year’s short-form Oscar nominees tackles the Best Documentary Short field. Of the three short film categories, this collective is by far the most pervasively upsetting and difficult-to-watch, but their journalistic, humanistic value absolutely speaks for itself. Several […]

Oscars 2021: Best Animated Short Film Nominees Reviewed

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Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated animated short films… With the 93rd Academy Awards imminently due to take place, what better time to shine a light on the typically underserved short film categories? This year’s slate of nominees for the Best Animated Short Film Oscar range from traditional and quaint to boundary-pushing, transgressive, and inevitably heartbreaking. […]

Oscars 2021: Best Live-Action Short Film Nominees Reviewed

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Shaun Munro reviews 2021’s Oscar-nominated live-action short films… We’re right on the eve of the 93rd Academy Awards, and in an attempt to foreground the typically under-discussed short film categories, this review series tackles each of the three fields – Animated, Live-Action, and Documentary. True to form, this year’s batch of live-action nominees offer hard-hitting […]

Video Review – 2021’s Mortal Kombat: A Fanboy’s Disappointment

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EJ Moreno with a video review of 2021’s Mortal Kombat… As a longtime fan of the Mortal Kombat movies and games, our host EJ Moreno is a bit let down by the latest installment. In his latest video, EJ dives into what he enjoys about Mortal Kombat 2021 and what he wanted to see done […]

Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier Finale Review – ‘One World, One People’

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Martin Carr reviews the finale of Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier… There is a turning point in this finale which makes the running time worthwhile. Forget that extended action sequence, redemptive team up segue and power broker reveal. Those moments may have been pretty, awe inspiring and polished like a new pin, but […]

Movie Review – Limbo (2021)

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Limbo, 2021. Written and Directed by Ben Sharrock. Starring Amir El-Masry, Vikash Bhai, Ola Orebiyi, Kwabena Ansah, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Kais Nashif, Kenneth Collard, Sanjeev Kohli, Cameron Fulton, Lewis Gribben, Grace Chilton, and Raymond Mearns. SYNOPSIS: Omar is a promising young musician. Separated from his Syrian family, he is stuck on a remote Scottish island […]

Movie Review – Mortal Kombat (2021)

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Mortal Kombat, 2021. Directed by Simon McQuoid. Starring Lewis Tan, Jessica McNamee, Josh Lawson, Tadanobu Asano, Mehcad Brooks, Ludi Lin, Chin Han, Joe Taslim, Hiroyuki Sanada, Max Huang, Sisi Stringer, Matilda Kimber, Laura Brent, Daniel Nelson, Melanie Jarnson, Ian Streetz, Nathan Jones, Yukiko Shinohara, Ren Miyagawa, Damon Herriman, and Angus Sampson. SYNOPSIS: Washed-up MMA fighter […]

Comic Book Review – Dark Nights: Death Metal Deluxe Edition

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Ricky Church reviews Dark Nights: Death Metal Deluxe Edition… For nearly a decade writer Scott Snyder and artist Greg Capullo have held the reins of Batman, taking him on quite a wild series of adventures from The Court of Owls to Dark Nights: Metal and Last Knight on Earth. Now Snyder and Capullo have reunited for ‘one last tour’ in Dark […]

Movie Review – Stowaway (2021)

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Stowaway, 2021. Directed by Joe Penna. Starring Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Shamier Anderson, and Toni Collette. SYNOPSIS: A stowaway on a mission to Mars sets off a series of unintended consequences. It’s unsurprising to learn that co-writer/Director Joe Penna actually penned Stowaway before his recently released film of similar survivalism, the Mads Mikkelsen led […]

Movie Review – The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021)

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The Mitchells vs. the Machines, 2021. Directed by Michael Rianda. Starring Abbi Jacobson, Danny McBride, Maya Rudolph, Michael Rianda, Olivia Colman, Eric André, Chrissy Teigen and John Legend. SYNOPSIS: A dysfunctional family find themselves as humanity’s last hope – the only people who manage to avoid captivity when a tech company inadvertently brings about a […]