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Movie Review – A Monster Calls (2016)

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A Monster Calls, 2016.Directed by J.A. Bayona. Starring Lewis MacDougall, Felicity Jones, Sigourney Weaver, Toby Kebbell and Liam Neeson.SYNOPSIS:A young boy struggling to come to terms with his mother’s terminal illness is visited by a talking yew tree that tells him stories.With his first two films (The Orphanage and The Impossible) director J.A. Bayona proved […]

Movie Review – Locked Down (2021)

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Locked Down, 2021.Directed by Doug Liman. Starring Anne Hathaway, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Ben Stiller, Stephen Merchant, Dulé Hill, Jazmyn Simon, Mark Gatiss, Mindy Kaling, Ben Kingsley, and Lucy Boynton. SYNOPSIS:A couple attempts a high-risk, high-stakes jewelry heist at a department store.People, including loved ones, are not meant to be around each other 24/7. If there’s one takeaway […]

Movie Review – Synchronic (2019)

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Synchronic, 2019.Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Ally Ioannides, Katie Aselton and Ramiz Monsef.SYNOPSIS:Two paramedics find themselves embroiled in the chaos of a new “designer drug”, which has been linked to several gruesome deaths.Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are among the leading modern proponents of intelligent, twisty sci-fi. Their […]

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 flight, the crew […]

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 slugfest is great fun […]

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.Stop me if you’ve […]

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 of its far too […]

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. It […]

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. Klaus Richter, the […]