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Movie Review – Calm With Horses (2019)

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Calm With Horses, 2019.Directed by Nick Rowland. Starring Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Niamh Algar, Ned Dennehy, David Wilmot and Anthony Welsh.SYNOPSIS:The enforcer for an Irish criminal family is torn between his loyalty to his bosses and his increasingly complex personal life.There’s something deeply depressing about grey, rural towns in the UK and Ireland. In the […]

Movie Review – Misbehaviour (2020)

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Misbehaviour, 2020.Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. Starring Keira Knightley, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Jessie Buckley, Greg Kinnear, Rhys Ifans, Keeley Hawes, Lesley Manville, Suki Waterhouse, Loreece Harrison, Clara Rosager and Ruby Bentall.SYNOPSIS:A group of women’s liberation activists plan to stage a protest at the 1970 edition of the Miss World pageant.The story of the 1970 Miss World event […]

Movie Review – Bacurau (2019)

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Bacurau, 2019.Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and Juliano Dornelles. Starring Bárbara Colen, Sônia Braga, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira, Thardelly Lima and Udo Kier.SYNOPSIS:A small Brazilian town finds itself under siege from heavily armed American invaders.Above all else, Bacurau delights in its status as a slippery, unpredictable beast that straddles genres, tones and themes. It opens […]

Movie Review – Bloodshot (2020)

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Bloodshot, 2020.Directed by Dave Wilson. Starring Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Guy Pearce, Toby Kebbell, Sam Heughan, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez, Siddharth Dhananjay, and Lamorne Morris.SYNOPSIS:Ray Garrison, a slain soldier, is re-animated with superpowers.If it were a better movie, Bloodshot would have taken the inherent blandness of its globetrotting vengeance tale, turning those […]

Video Review – The Hunt (2020)

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The Hunt, 2020.Directed by Craig Zobel. Starring Betty Gilpin, Emma Roberts, J. C. MacKenzie, Hilary Swank, Justin Hartley, Ethan Suplee, Macon Blair, Glenn Howerton, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Madigan, Teri Wyble, Wayne Duvall, Sylvia Grace Crim, Steve Coulter, Reed Birney, Christopher Berry, Kate Nowlin, Dean J. West, Vince Pisani, and Sturgill Simpson.In this video review, join […]

Movie Review – Bloodshot (2020)

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Bloodshot, 2020.Directed by Dave Wilson. Starring Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Guy Pearce, Toby Kebbell, Sam Heughan, Talulah Riley, Alex Hernandez, Siddharth Dhananjay, and Lamorne Morris.SYNOPSIS:After he and his wife are assassinated, Marine Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel) is brought back to life by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a […]

Movie Review – The Hunt (2020)

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The Hunt, 2020.Directed by Craig Zobel. Starring Betty Gilpin, Emma Roberts, J. C. MacKenzie, Hilary Swank, Justin Hartley, Ethan Suplee, Macon Blair, Glenn Howerton, Ike Barinholtz, Amy Madigan, Teri Wyble, Wayne Duvall, Sylvia Grace Crim, Steve Coulter, Reed Birney, Christopher Berry, Kate Nowlin, Dean J. West, Vince Pisani, and Sturgill Simpson.SYNOPSIS:Twelve strangers wake up in […]

Video Review – Bloodshot (2020)

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Bloodshot, 2020.Directed by David S. F. Wilson. Starring Vin Diesel, Eiza González, Sam Heughan, Toby Kebbell, and Guy Pearce.In this video review, EJ dives into Bloodshot, a new action film starring Vin Diesel. With the comic-book source material and Diesel’s love of all things nerdy, this should’ve felt fresh and new, but sadly EJ feels […]

Movie Review – Radioactive (2019)

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Radioactive, 2019. Directed by Marjane Satrapi. Starring Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Simon Russell Beale, Aneurin Barnard, Sian Brooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Cara Bossom, Edward Davis, Jonathan Aris, Corey Johnson and Tim Woodward. SYNOPSIS: A story of the scientific and romantic passions of Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, and the reverberation of their discoveries throughout the 20th […]

The Flash Season 6 Episode 14 Review – ‘Death of the Speed Force’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the fifteenth of The Flash season 6…We knew the title of the episode ahead of time but whoa, did that just happen?Tonight’s episode featured the return of Wally West, mostly to a good degree. Wally’s zen attitude came through in full force, except for his outburst on Barry, which we’ll get to. […]