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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. […]

Video Game Review – Evergate

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Red Stewart reviews Evergate for PC (Steam)… Developed by Stone Lantern Games LLC and published by PQube Limited, Evergate is one of the best puzzle platformers I have played in a while. I know I usually begin these reviews with an extravagant introduction talking about the antiquity of a genre or a personal experience I had […]

Movie Review – Eighteam (2014)

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Eighteam, 2014. Directed by Juan Rodriguez-Briso. Starring Kalusha Bwalya, Dennis Liwewe, Christopher Katongo, Ciro Ferrara, Mauro Tassotti and Hervé Renard. SYNOPSIS: The against-the-odds story of how Zambia rebuilt its national football team after an air disaster led to the death of almost their entire squad in 1993. Football loves an underdog story. And it’s difficult […]

Movie Review – The True Adventures of Wolfboy (2020)

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The True Adventures of Wolfboy, 2020. Directed by Martin Krejci. Starring Jaeden Martell, John Turturro, Eve Hewson, Chris Messina, Stephen Henderson, Sophie Giannamore, and Chloë Sevigny. SYNOPSIS: Follows a young boy who runs away from home in the search of his estranged mother. Don’t judge a book by its cover. Of course, the statement applies […]

Movie Review – Come Play (2020)

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Come Play, 2020. Written and Directed by Jacob Chase. Starring John Gallagher Jr., Gillian Jacobs, Azhy Robertson, Rachel Wilson, Winslow Fegley, Jayden Marine, Gavin MacIver-Wright, Eboni Booth, and Alana-Ashley Marques. SYNOPSIS: A monster named Larry that manifests itself through smartphones and mobile devices. Feature film version of the 2017 short film. A clever concept is […]

Marvel’s Helstrom Season 1 Finale Review – ‘Hell Storm’

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Martin Carr reviews Helstrom’s season 1 finale… Flaming scimitars, a funhouse finale and home births from hell all jockey for position in an intriguing endgame. With Daimon little more than a scorched husk things go from bad to worse as casualties are created left, right and centre. Mexican stand offs on hallowed ground clash with […]