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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 […]

Movie Review – Flash Gordon Special 40th Anniversary Restoration

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Flash Gordon (Special 40th Anniversary Restoration), 1980. Directed by Mike Hodges. Starring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow, Brian Blessed, Timothy Dalton, Ornella Muti, Topol, Peter Wyngarde and Richard O’Brien. SYNOPSIS: A football player and a travel agent find themselves facing the wrath of an alien warlord, with the fate of the Earth […]

Netflix Review – The Umbrella Academy Season 2

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Shaun Munro reviews the second season of Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy… There’s no sophomore slump for The Umbrella Academy, which returns to screens with a vibrant second season that’s at least as smart, thrilling, funny, and heartfelt as what came before – if not a touch more so. If the basic narrative through-line once again […]

Movie Review – Nothing But The Blood (2020)

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Nothing But The Blood. 2020. Directed by Daniel Tucker. Starring Rachel Hudson, Jordan O’Neal, Nick Triola, Les Best, Vivian Glazier, and Austin Lynn Hall. SYNOPSIS:  A small-town journalist is sent to cover the opening of a controversial church. As the ministry digs its roots into the town and its residents, her life takes an unexpected, […]

Movie Review – Last and First Men (2020)

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Last and First Men, 2020. Directed by Johann Johannsson. Starring Tilda Swinton. SYNOPSIS: Two billion years into humanity’s future, a narrator outlines the similarities and differences between those still surviving and exploring the galaxy, and the people of today. It is awfully rare that a science fiction film aims to find the truth of what […]

Movie Review – Never Be Done: The Richard Glen Lett Story (2020)

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Never Be Done: The Richard Glen Lett Story, 2020. Directed by Roy Tighe. Starring Richard Lett, Roy Tighe, Breanna Lett, Graeme Morgan and Kathleen Bolton. SYNOPSIS: Never Be Done charts the journey of veteran comedian Richard Glen Lett into darkness. Foul mouthed, unrepentant and addicted film maker Roy Tighe documents his peaks and troughs on […]