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Movie Review – Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You (2020)

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Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You, 2020. Directed by Thom Zimny. Featuring Bruce Springsteen, Jon Landau, Roy Bitton, Nik Lofgren, Patti Scialfa, Garry Tallent, Steven Van Zandt, Max Weinberg, Charles Giordano, Jake Clemons and Frank Bruno. SYNOPSIS: Letter to You documents the coming together of Bruce Springsteen and his entire E-Street Band for a recording session. […]

Movie Review – Spell (2020)

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Spell, 2020. Directed by Mark Tonderai. Starring Omari Hardwick, Loretta Devine, Lorraine Burroughs, John Beasley, André Jacobs, Tumisho Masha, Peter Butler, Ri-Karlo Handy, Hannah Gonera, Kalifa Burton, and Steve Mululu. SYNOPSIS: A man crash lands in rural Appalachia and awakens in the attic of a traditional Hoodoo practitioner. He desperately tries to break free from […]

Comic Book Review – Batman: Three Jokers #3

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Ricky Church reviews Batman: Three Jokers #3… Batman and The Joker have had many clashes through their 80 year history and though this is their most recent, Batman: Three Jokers goes down as one of their most memorable and stunning conflicts with the release of the series’ third and final issue. Geoff Johns concludes his long-awaited […]

Movie Review – His House (2020)

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His House, 2020. Written and Directed by Remi Weekes. Starring Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Matt Smith, Malaika Wakoli-Abigaba, Javier Botet, Emily Taaffe, Rasaq Kukoyi, Vivien Bridson Cornell, John Bradley Banton, Gamba Cole, and Scott Michael Wagstaff. SYNOPSIS: A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, but then they struggle to adjust to […]

Movie Review – Snowden (2016)

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Snowden, 2016. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Zachary Quinto, Melissa Leo, Scott Eastwood, Tom Wilkinson, Joely Richardson, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, Ben Chaplin, Rhys Ifans, Nicolas Cage, and Edward Snowden. SYNOPSIS: The NSA’s illegal surveillance techniques are leaked to the public by one of the agency’s employees, Edward Snowden, in the […]

Movie Review – The Impossible (2012)

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The Impossible, 2012. Directed by Juan Antonio Bayona. Starring Naomi Watts, Ewan McGregor and Tom Holland. SYNOPSIS: During a holiday in Thailand, a family find themselves caught up in one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time. As a cinematic achievement, The Impossible does so many things right it’s very hard to fault it. […]

October Horrors 2020 – Southbound (2015)

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Southbound, 2015. Directed by Radio Silence, Roxane Benjamin, David Bruckner and Patrick Horvath. Starring Chad Villella, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Fabianne Therese, Hannah Marks, Nathalie Love, Kate Beahan and Davey Johnson. SYNOPSIS: An anthology tale in which five strangers are each forced to confront nightmarish horrors and their own dark pasts on a lonely desolate highway. Everyone […]

Movie Review – Assassination Nation (2018)

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Assassination Nation, 2018. Directed by Sam Levinson. Starring Odessa Young, Hari Nef, Suki Waterhouse, Abra, Colman Domingo, Bill Skarsgård, Joel McHale, Anika Noni Rose, Bella Thorne, Maude Apatow, and Cody Christian. SYNOPSIS: This is a thousand percent a true story about how the quiet, all-American town of Salem absolutely lost its mind. Fuck me up […]

Movie Review – Piercing (2019)

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Piercing, 2019 Directed by Nicolas Pesce. Starring Christopher Abbott, Mia Wasikowska, and Laia Costa. SYNOPSIS: Reed is planning the perfect murder. He has everything planned down to the minute, but he can’t prepare for the human tornado that is Jackie. The prostitute Reed is planning on killing is far crazier than he could ever dream to be. […]