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DVD Review – Jungleland (2020)

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Jungleland, 2020. Directed by Max Winkler. Starring Jack O’Connell, Charlie Hunnam, Jessica Barden, John Cullum, Jonathan Majors, Owen Burke, Johnno Wilson, Meredith Holzman, Fran Kranz, Nick Mullen, and Bill Thorpe. SYNOPSIS: Two brothers try to escape their circumstances by traveling across the country for a no holds barred boxing match that becomes a fight for […]

Marvel’s WandaVision – Episode 8 Review

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Martin Carr reviews the penultimate episode of Marvel’s WandaVision… This retrofitted Charles Dickens fable repurposed for the Marvel multiverse is savvy, subtle and entirely in keeping with its progressive cannon. Playing like a narrative homage to that Endgame changer, episode eight provides back story and flexes its intellectual story telling muscle. Central to this conceit […]

2021 Glasgow Film Festival Review – The Toll

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The Toll, 2021. Directed by Ryan Andrew Hooper Starring Michael Smiley, Annes Elwy, Iwan Rheon, Dewi Morris, Evelyn Mok, Steve Oram, and Julian Glover. SYNOPSIS: After a chance encounter with an old enemy, a toll booth operator and master criminal awaits a violent fate approaching his quiet, rural Welsh post. At what point does homage […]

Cherry: A Must-See Tom Holland Performance | Video Review

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EJ Moreno with a video review of the Russo Brothers’ Cherry starring Tom Holland… With its vibrant energy and rambunctious personality, Cherry delights in many ways. While the film’s pacing makes you a bit of the long runtime, this latest film from Avengers: Endgame filmmakers The Russos Brothers comes together strongly. Our host EJ Moreno […]

Movie Review – The Marksman (2021)

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The Marksman, 2020. Directed by Robert Lorenz. Starring Liam Neeson, Katheryn Winnick, Juan Pablo Raba, and Teresa Ruiz. 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. It didn’t take Liam Neeson long to backpedal on his 2017 […]

Movie Review – Cherry (2021)

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Cherry, 2021. Directed by Joe Russo and Anthony Russo. Starring Tom Holland, Ciara Bravo, Jack Reynor, Thomas Lennon, Kelli Berglund, Forrest Goodluck, Jeffrey Wahlberg, Suhail Dabbach, and Michael Gandolfini. SYNOPSIS: An Army medic suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder becomes a serial bank robber after an addiction to drugs puts him in debt. Broken up into […]

Movie Review – Black Bear (2020)

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Black Bear, 2020. Written and Directed by Lawrence Michael Levine. Starring Aubrey Plaza, Christopher Abbott, Sarah Gadon, Lindsay Burdge, Jennifer Kim, Paola Lázaro, Shannon O’Neill, Grantham Coleman, Alexander Koch, and Lou Gonzalez. SYNOPSIS: A filmmaker at a creative impasse seeks solace from her tumultuous past at a rural retreat, only to find that the woods […]

Movie Review – Crisis (2021)

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Crisis, 2021. Directed by Nicholas Jarecki. Starring Gary Oldman, Armie Hammer, Evangeline Lilly, Greg Kinnear, Michelle Rodriguez, Luke Evans, Lily-Rose Depp, Scott “Kid Cudi” Mescudi, Duke Nicholson, Veronica Ferres, and Martin Donovan. SYNOPSIS: A drug trafficker organizes a smuggling operation while a recovering addict seeks the truth behind her son’s disappearance. The opioid crisis has […]

American Gods Season 3 Episode 6 Review – ‘Conscience of the King’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of American Gods season 3… There is something inherently humanising about a love story which stretches back centuries. Weathered by war and forever smitten by one affair of the heart, ‘Conscience of the King’ revels in the one true weakness of all entities. As a grizzled Odin and his […]