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Movie Review – Vivarium (2019)

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Vivarium, 2019.Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg and Jonathan Aris.SYNOPSIS:After an encounter with a strange estate agent, a young couple looking for the perfect home become trapped in a mysterious neighbourhood in which all the houses look identical.Terror finds a home in the home in Vivarium, Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan’s sophomore feature […]

Movie Review – Greed (2019)

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Greed, 2019. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher, Dinita Gohil, Sarah Solemani, Shirley Henderson, Asa Butterfield, Sophie Cookson, Jamie Blackley, Pearl Mackie, Shanina Shaik, Asim Chaudhry, Enzo Cilenti and Ollie Locke. SYNOPSIS: Greed tells the story of self-made British billionaire Sir Richard McCreadie (Steve Coogan), whose retail empire is in […]

Movie Review – Greed (2019)

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Greed, 2019.Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Steve Coogan, David Mitchell, Isla Fisher, Sarah Solemani, Dinita Gohil, Asa Butterfield, Shirley Henderson, Sophie Cookson, Jamie Blackley, Pearl Mackie, Shanina Shaik, Asim Chaudhry and Paul Higgins.SYNOPSIS:A retail billionaire attempts to restore his falling reputation with a lavish party on the Greek island of Mykonos.Greed is about Topshop tycoon […]

Movie Review – The Invisible Man (2020)

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The Invisible Man, 2020.Written and Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Elisabeth Moss, Storm Reid, Aldis Hodge, Harriet Dyer, Amali Golden, and Oliver Jackson-Cohen.SYNOPSIS:When Cecilia’s abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she […]

Fantastic Film Festival Australia 2020 Review – Saint Maud

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Saint Maud, 2020.Directed by Rose Glass. Starring Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight and Lily Frazer.SYNOPSIS:A pious nurse begins caring for a terminally ill patient, and takes the task of saving her soul extremely personally, leading the nurse down an increasingly dangerous and violent path.The new horror, Saint Maud, is arguably the centrepiece of this […]

Movie Review – Dark Waters (2019)

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Dark Waters, 2019.Directed by Todd Haynes. Starring Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins, Bill Camp, Victor Garber, Mare Winningham, William Jackson Harper, Louisa Krause, Brian Gallagher, Bruce Cromer, and Bill Pullman.SYNOPSIS:A Cincinnati attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a large chemical company to expose a decades-long cover-up.The waters get muddied in more ways than […]

Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 7 Review – ‘The Zygon Invasion’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 7 – ‘The Zygon Invasion’…Zygon – We want the truth of who we are to be acknowledged.  We want to live as ourselves at any cost. We want our home.Doctor – Well you can’t have the United Kingdom, there’s already people living there.  People will think you’re going […]

Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Woman Who Lived’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 6 – “The Woman Who Lived”…Doctor – I know their lives are short, I understand, but those lives do matter.Me – Shut up! You’re not my dad!In this week’s Doctor Who we get to see the repercussions of the Doctor’s “God Like” decision of bringing Ashildr back from the […]

Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 5 Review – ‘The Girl Who Died’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 5 – ‘The Girl Who Died’…Doctor – I’m so sick of losingClara – You didn’t lose. You saved the town!Doctor – I don’t mean the war, I’ll lose any war you like.Doctor Who with Vikings in it. Instantly you’d think that you would be on to a winner here, […]

Comic Book Review – Deus Ex Universe: Children’s Crusade #1

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Calum Petrie reviews Deus Ex Universe: Children’s Crusade #1…With society still reeling from the Aug Incident – the Illuminati orchestrated event which caused augmented individuals to mindlessly attack their ‘natural’ counterparts – anti-aug sentiment is at an all-time global high. Task Force 29 – an Interpol-funded coalition, created to quash the rising tide of terrorist […]