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Movie Review – The Rifleman (2019)

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The Rifleman, 2019.Directed by Dzintars Dreibergs. Starring Oto Brantevics, Raimonds Celms, Martins Vilsons, Jekabs Reinis, Gatis Gaga, Renars Zeltins and Greta Trusina.SYNOPSIS:When his mother is gunned down by German soldiers, a Latvian teenager enlists to fight on the frontline of the First World War under the command of his military veteran father.It’s always refreshing to […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two – Vol. 11

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two – Vol. 11…In the next installment of IDW’s Transformers collection, plenty of stories come to a head as writers John Barber and James Roberts begin the climaxes of their “second seasons” of their respective Transformers series. Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two – Vol. 11 features exciting action, tension and emotional depth […]

Movie Review – Saint Frances (2019)

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Saint Frances, 2019.Directed by Alex Thompson. Starring Kelly O’Sullivan, Charin Alvarez, Lily Mojekwu, Max Lipchitz, Jim True-Frost and Ramona Edith Williams.SYNOPSIS:In the aftermath of having an abortion, a woman becomes the nanny for a precocious six-year-old.One of the most refreshing elements of the brilliant recent BBC drama I May Destroy You was its frank depiction […]

Movie Review – Stage Mother (2020)

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Stage Mother, 2020.Directed by Thom Fitzgerald. Starring Jacki Weaver, Lucy Liu, Adrian Grenier, Mya Taylor, Oscar Moreno, Allister MacDonald, Jackie Beat, Lenore Zann and Hugh Thompson.SYNOPSIS:When her drag queen son dies, a conservative Texas woman inherits the gay bar he owned with his boyfriend.The soaring popularity of RuPaul’s Drag Race – various incarnations of the […]

Movie Review – Yes, God, Yes (2019)

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Yes, God, Yes, 2019.Written and directed by Karen Maine. Starring Natalia Dyer, Timothy Simons, Wolfgang Novogratz, Francesca Reale, Susan Blackwell, Parker Wierling, Alisha Boe, and Donna Lynne Champlin.SYNOPSIS:After an innocent AOL chat turns racy, a Catholic teenager in the early 2000s discovers masturbating and struggles to suppress her new urges in the face of eternal […]

Movie Review – Most Wanted (2020)

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Most Wanted, 2020.Directed by Daniel Roby. Starring Josh Hartnett, Stephen McHattie, Jim Gaffigan, J. C. MacKenzie, Antoine-Olivier Pilon, Don McKellar, Rose-Marie Perreault, Frank Schorpion, and Frédéric Millaire-Zouvi.SYNOPSIS:In 1989, a Canadian journalist investigates the circumstances surrounding the suspicious arrest of a heroin addict imprisoned in a Thai jail.Originally and more tantalizingly titled Target Number One, Most […]

Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review – Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

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Three Outlaw Samurai, 1964.Directed by Hideo Gosha. Starring Tetsuo Tamba, Isamu Nagato and Mikijiro Hira.SYNOPSIS:A lone wolf samurai (Tetsuo Tamba) comes upon a town where local peasants are oppressed by the tyranny of a town magistrate. They have taken the law into their own hands and he decided to join their cause.There is a stark […]

Perry Mason Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Chapter Five’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Perry Mason…With the demise of E B Jonathan Perry Mason has risen like a phoenix from the ashes. Back stories are given breadth, characters more depth and Sister Alice returns from her convalescence empowered. Being side swiped by an emotional sledgehammer causes people to re-evaluate, brings Della and […]

Tech Review – BenQ W2700 4K HDR Projector

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Gary Collinson reviews BenQ’s W2700 4K HDR Projector…With theaters the world over closing their doors due to the public health crisis, movie lovers have been forced to rely on their home cinema setups these past few months. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend some of that time testing out BenQ’s W2700 4K HDR Projector, a […]

Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review – The Cameraman (1928)

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The Cameraman, 1928.Directed by Edward Sedgwick & Buster Keaton (uncredited). Starring Buster Keaton, Marceline Day and Harold Goodwin.SYNOPSIS:Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.Today the name Buster Keaton means something quite different. He […]