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Comic Book Review – Horizon Zero Dawn #1

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Kevin McDowall reviews Horizone Zero Dawn #1… Based on the hit video game of the same name, Horizon Zero Dawn takes place after the events of the game when everything seems to have settled in the new world. The hunt for a deadly new breed of machine begins. Issue #1 starts with us following Talanah on her […]

Movie Review – Diablo Rojo PTY (2020)

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Diablo Rojo PTY. 2020. Directed by Sol Moreno and J. Oskura Nájera. Starring Carlos Carrasco, Leo Wiznitzer, Alejandra Araúz, Natalia Beluche, Renan Fernandez, and Julian Urriola. SYNOPSIS: A “Diablo Rojo” bus driver, his helper, a priest, and two policemen fall victim to a mysterious spell and end up lost somewhere in the Chiriqui jungle, where […]

Movie Review – The Tax Collector (2020)

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The Tax Collector, 2020. Written and Directed by David Ayer. Starring Bobby Soto, Shia LaBeouf, Conejo, Lana Parrilla, Elpidia Carrillo, Chelsea Rendon, Cinthya Bornacelli, George Lopez, Cheyenne Rae Hernandez, Noemi Gonzalez, Gabriela Flores, and Rene Moran. SYNOPSIS: A “tax collector” for a crime lord finds his family’s safety compromised when his boss’ old rival shows […]

Quibi Review – The Fugitive

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Martin Carr reviews The Fugitive… Mike Ferro (Boyd Holbrook) is a convicted felon who had a fresh start. Detective Clay Bryce (Kiefer Sutherland) a police officer of long standing across town. Soon their two lives will converge as mistaken identity and a series of unfortunate events brings them together. Mike Ferro is one bad day […]

Movie Review – An American Pickle (2020)

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An American Pickle, 2020. Directed by Brandon Trost. Starring Seth Rogen, Sarah Snook, Maya Erskine, and Jorma Taccone. SYNOPSIS: An immigrant worker at a pickle factory is accidentally preserved for 100 years and wakes up in modern day Brooklyn. For those that thought one Seth Rogen was not enough, An American Pickle goes a step […]

Movie Review – Waiting for the Barbarians (2020)

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Waiting for the Barbarians, 2020. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi, David Dencik, Sam Reid, Harry Melling, and Bill Milner. SYNOPSIS: A Magistrate working in a distant outpost begins to question his loyalty to the empire. J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians is already a novel […]

Movie Review – La Llorona (2019)

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La Llorona, 2019. Written and directed by Jayro Bustamante. Starring María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz, Julio Diaz, and Margarita Kenéfic. SYNOPSIS: An aging paranoid dictator, protected by an witchcrafting wife, faces death and the uprising of his people in Guatemala. Atypical of Hollywood’s tendency to soullessly remake successful foreign-language horror hits, in the […]

Netflix Review – Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege… After a few lighter TV series over the past several years, the Transformers franchise returns to a darker and more serious vision in Transformers: War for Cybertron – Siege. While the latest animated series from Netflix and Red vs Blue creator Rooster Teeth doesn’t stray too far from […]

Movie Review – Holy Trinity (2019)

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Holy Trinity, 2019. Directed by Molly Hewitt. Starring Molly Hewitt, Theo Germaine, Heather Lynn, and Imp Queen. SYNOPSIS: A sex-positive dominatrix in Chicago discovers a newfound (and drug-induced) talent for speaking to the dead. Holy Trinity did something I didn’t think was possible in 2020: it reminded me of a John Waters movie. That’s a […]