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Movie Review – Sisu: Road to Revenge (2025)

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Sisu: Road to Revenge, 2025. Written and Directed by Jalmari Helander. Starring Jorma Tommila, Richard Brake, and Stephen Lang. SYNOPSIS: A man returns to dismantle his family’s house, where they were murdered in war, to rebuild it elsewhere. When the killer, a Red Army commander, tracks him down, a brutal cross-country pursuit begins. Early in […]

TV Review – The Death of Bunny Munro

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Chris Connor reviews The Death of Bunny Munro… Nick Cave is known the world over for his music, especially his work with The Bad Seeds, and film scores with Warren Ellis. Perhaps it’s not as well known that he is also an accomplished novelist and his second novel, The Death of Bunny Munro, originally published […]

Movie Review – Train Dreams (2025)

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Train Dreams, 2025. Directed by Clint Bentley. Starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Jones, Kerry Condon, William H. Macy, Clifton Collins Jr., John Patrick Lowrie, Alfred Hsing, Ron Ford, Olive Steverding, Zoe Rose Short, Jennifer Simmons, Cisco Keanu Reyes, and Jerry Dykeman. SYNOPSIS: A story about Robert Grainier, a day laborer employed as a logger helping to […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: The Last Starship #2

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: The Last Starship #2… Star Trek: The Last Starship #1 was exactly what we needed. We Star Trek fans love Trek when it’s brilliant, and we hate Trek when somebody in a writers’ room seems determined to ruin it. It’s fair to say that a lot of modern Trek left a […]

4K Ultra HD Review – MaXXXine (2024)

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MaXXXine, 2024. Written and Directed by Ti West. Starring Mia Goth, Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito, Kevin Bacon, Chloe Farnworth, Deborah Geffner, Sophie Thatcher, Cecilia Yesuil, Kim Charley, Rowan McCain, Susan Pingleton, Uli Latukefu, Ned Vaughn, Larry Fessenden, Marcus LaVoi, and Charley Rowan McCain. SYNOPSIS: In 1980s […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Pearl (2022)

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Pearl, 2022. Directed by Ti West. Starring Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Alistair Sewell, and Emma Jenkins-Purro. SYNOPSIS: In 1918, a young woman on the brink of madness pursues stardom in a desperate attempt to escape the drudgery, isolation, and lovelessness of life on her parents’ farm. It’s almost unhealthy how much […]

Movie Review – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025)

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If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, 2025. Written and Directed by Mary Bronstein. Starring Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, Delaney Quinn, Mary Bronstein, Ivy Wolk, Mark Stolzenberg, Conan O’Brien, Manu Narayan, Danielle Macdonald, Eva Kornet, Ella Beatty, Helen Hong, Daniel Zolghadri, Josh Pais, Ronald Bronstein, Laurence Blum, Lark White, Amy Judd Lieberman, Char Sidney. Jodi […]

Book Review – Star Wars: Master of Evil

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Master of Evil by Adam Christopher… Return to Darth Vader’s earliest days in Adam Christopher’s Star Wars: Master of Evil, a new novel exploring Anakin Skywalker’s transformation into the fearsome Darth Vader set shortly after Revenge of the Sith. The book gives a layered portrayal of Vader mostly through the eyes […]

Blu-ray Review – Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Series

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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Series Starring Larry David, Jeff Garlin, Susie Essman, Cheryl Hines, JB Smoove, Richard Lewis, Ted Danson, and Bob Einstein. SYNOPSIS: All 12 seasons of Larry David’s hysterically funny series Curb Your Enthusiasm have arrived on Blu-ray in this 24-disc set, which also includes close to six hours of bonus features. […]

Movie Review – Rental Family (2025)

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Rental Family, 2025.  Written and Directed by Hikari. Starring Brendan Fraser, Takehiro Hira, Mari Yamamoto, Shannon Mahina Gorman, Akira Emoto, Paolo Andrea Di Pietro, Shinji Ozeki, Yuji Komatsu, Ryoko Osada, Gan Furukawa, Risa Kameda, Kana Kitty, Yuma Sonan, Nihi, and Shino Shinozaki. SYNOPSIS: An American actor in Tokyo struggles to find purpose until he lands […]