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Movie Review – How To Build a Girl (2019)

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How To Build a Girl, 2019. Directed by Coky Giedroyc. Starring Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine, Sarah Solemani, Frank Dillane, Laurie Kynaston, Joanna Scanlan, Chris O’Dowd, Emma Thompson, Michael Sheen, Jameela Jamil, Lucy Punch, Lily Allen, Gemma Arterton, Sharon Horgan, Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Andi Oliver and Bob Mortimer. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl from […]

Movie Review – Life With Music (2019)

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Life With Music (a.k.a. Coda), 2019. Directed by Claude Lalonde. Starring Patrick Stewart, Katie Holmes, and Giancarlo Esposito. SYNOPSIS: A conflicted virtuoso pianist with performance anxiety, strikes an unusual relationship with a young music critic. Emotional dramas centered around the subject of music is not something new. They can come in myriad forms, ranging from […]

Movie Review – Useless Humans (2020)

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Useless Humans. 2020. Directed by Stephen Ohl. Starring Josh Zuckerman, Rushi Kota, Davida Williams, Luke Youngblood, James Croak, and Joey Kern. SYNOPSIS: A thirtieth birthday — and the survival of mankind — are left hanging in the balance after a mysterious creature crashes the party, forcing four childhood friends to save the night. Stephen Ohl’s […]

Netflix Review – Cursed

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Shaun Munro reviews the first season of Netflix’s Cursed… If the corpse of Guy Ritchie’s failed – yet actually quite entertaining – punk-rock blockbuster version of King Arthur is barely cold, there’s something to be said for a take on Arthurian legend which isn’t striving desperately for a multi-strand cinematic universe, and even dares to […]

Movie Review – Lake Of Death (2020)

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Lake Of Death. 2020. Directed by Nini Bull Robsahm. Starring Patrick Walshe McBride, Ulric von der Esch, Iben Akerlie, Elias Munk, Jonathan Harboe, Sophia Lie, and Jakob Schøyen Andersen. SYNOPSIS: Lillan and some friends travel back to the remote cabin by the little lake, where her twin brother died last year, and soon after arriving […]

Movie Review – Clemency (2019)

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Clemency, 2019. Directed by Chinonye Chukwu. Starring Alfre Woodard, Aldis Hodge, Wendell Pierce, Richard Schiff, Danielle Brooks, Richard Gunn and Michael O’Neill. SYNOPSIS: A prison warden working on Death Row prepares for the execution of a Black man convicted for shooting a police officer. Clemency is book-ended with two shots of Alfre Woodard’s Death Row […]

Movie Review – Black Rainbow (1989)

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Black Rainbow, 1989. Directed by Mike Hodges. Starring Rosanna Arquette, Jason Robards, Tom Hulce, Mark Joy, Ron Rosenthal, and Helen Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: A touring medium has a vision about a murder before it happens. Directed by Mike Hodges (Get Carter/Flash Gordon), Black Rainbow is a slightly more low-key affair that sees Rosanna Arquette (Desperately Seeking […]

Comic Book Review – Superman – Action Comics Vol. 3: Leviathan Hunt

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Ricky Church reviews Superman – Action Comics Vol. 3: Leviathan Hunt… While Superman lets everyone in on his big secret in Brian Michael Bendis’ concurrent Superman title, Action Comics continues to see Superman dealing with the threat of the Invisible Mafia and Leviathan in Metropolis. However, Superman – Action Comics Vol. 3: Leviathan Hunt doesn’t feature much of […]

Snowpiercer Season 1 Episode 10 Review – ‘994 Cars Long’

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Martin Carr reviews the season 1 finale of Snowpiercer… As the molten metal is melted through and a throng of armed passengers wait on tender hooks Snowpiercer comes to its premature conclusion. Layton and Melanie may have reached an accord but their outlooks are forever changed. With their population diminished, looters running rampant and a […]