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Movie Review – Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

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Sonic the Hedgehog, 2020.Directed by Jeff Fowler. Starring Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter, Lee Majdoub, Frank C. Turner, Adam Pally, Natasha Rothwell, and Neal McDonough.SYNOPSIS:After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help it defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on it.After hitting a bit […]

Movie Review – M.O.M. (Mothers of Monsters) (2020)

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M.O.M. (Mothers of Monsters), 2020.Directed by Tucia Lyman. Starring Melinda Page Hamilton, Bailey Edwards, Janet Ulrich Brooks, and Edward Asner.SYNOPSIS:A mother suspects her son of being a psychopath and to prevent him from committing a terrible atrocity, takes matters into her own hands.I can imagine that many parents share the same worry about their children. […]

Blu-ray Review – Parasite (2019)

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Parasite, 2019.Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun, Jang Hyae-jin.SYNOPSIS:A poor family, the Kims, con their way into becoming the servants of a rich family, the Parks. But their easy life gets complicated when their deception is threatened with exposure. Not only was Parasite’s big night […]

Movie Review – Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

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Sonic the Hedgehog, 2020.Directed by Jeff Fowler. Starring Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter, Lee Majdoub, Frank C. Turner, Adam Pally, Natasha Rothwell, and Neal McDonough.SYNOPSIS:After discovering a small, blue, fast hedgehog, a small-town police officer must help it defeat an evil genius who wants to do experiments on it.Nobody could be blamed […]

Movie Review – Camp Cold Brook (2020)

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Camp Cold Brook, 2020. Directed by Andy Palmer. Starring Chad Michael Murray, Danielle Harris, Michael Eric Reid, Candice De Visser, Courtney Gains, and Doug Van Liew. SYNOPSIS: A paranormal team sets to check out an abandoned summer camp where a mass murder had taken place decades previous. Andy Palmer’s Camp Cold Brook left me feeling […]

Star Trek: Voyager 25th Anniversary Special – Review

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Voyager – 25th Anniversary Special…Is it better to say Star Trek: Voyager is now twenty-five years old or that it’s a quarter of a century old?  What would make us feel a lot less older? Captain Janeway and her crew, aboard the USS Voyager, were flung into the Delta Quadrant so […]

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Absolute Candor’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Star Trek: Picard… For the first time since Picard premiered things have slowed down. Not so much lacking momentum as treading water, in episode four we are treated to further back story which offers insight rather than progress. Flashbacks are employed to supply context, introduce specific belief systems […]

Black Lightning Season 3 Episode 12 Review – ‘The Book of Markovia: Chapter Three: Motherless ID’

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Red Stewart reviews the twelfth episode of Black Lightning season 3…Credit where credit is due, even a broken clock is right twice a day. Black Lightning managed to make-up for the atrocious “Lynn’s Addiction” by delivering a compelling narrative this week wrapped around two storylines the season has been building up to- the confrontation with the Markovians […]

Movie Review – Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)

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Sonic the Hedgehog, 2020.Directed by Jeff Fowler. Starring Ben Schwartz, James Marsden, Jim Carrey, Tika Sumpter, Adam Pally and Natasha Rothwell.SYNOPSIS:When a power surge alerts the government to the presence of an alien hedgehog on Earth, Sonic teams up with a small town cop in an attempt to avoid the malevolent Dr Robotnik.It seems crazy […]

Movie Review – First Love (2019)

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First Love. 2019Directed by Takashi Miike Starring Becky, Masataka Kubota, Nao Omori, Masaaki Uchino, Shota Sometani, Takehiro Miura, Sakurako Konishi, Jun Murakami, and Sansei ShiomiSYNOPSIS::A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.One of the upsides of directing over 100 films to […]