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Movie Review – Sorry We Missed You (2019)

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Sorry We Missed You, 2019. Directed by Ken Loach. Starring Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor and Ross Brewster. SYNOPSIS: A family is driven to severe hardship by the manipulative machinations of the modern gig economy. Ken Loach is arguably Britain’s most prominent cinematic polemicist. Three years ago, he won his second Palme […]

Video Game Review – Call of Duty: Modern Warfare

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Shaun Munro reviews Call of Duty: Modern Warfare… Call of Duty: Modern Warfare is a game built on huge foundational contradictions. On one hand it expresses a clear desire to return to the series’ roots following increasingly adventurous – and divisive – departures from the Michael Bay-inspired military fetishism of prior installments. But on the […]

The Flash Season 6 Episode 4 Review – ‘There Will be Blood’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the fourth episode of The Flash season 6… A fantastic movie and a clever line encapsulates this week’s episode as, despite it being dark black, blood was everywhere. Dr. Raymond Rosso continues to try and cure his HLH but is frustrated beyond belief at his work meeting dead ends. When after a […]

Video Game Review – Afterparty

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Shaun Munro reviews Afterparty… Oxenfree developers Night School Studio return with another disarmingly existential – yet decidedly more hilarious – sophomore effort, a contemporary riff on Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 classic film The Seventh Seal, but with a lot more binge-drinking. Afterparty revolves around two recently deceased, too-cool-for-school young adults, Milo and Lola, who upon arriving […]

Movie Review – Red Letter Day (2019)

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Red Letter Day. 2019. Directed by Cameron Macgowan. Starring Dawn Van de Schoot, Hailey Foss, Kaeleb Zain Gartner, Roger LeBlanc, Arielle Rombough, Michael Tan, and Peter Strand Rumpel. SYNOPSIS: While adjusting to a new life in a quiet suburban community, a recently divorced mother and her two teens receive mysterious red letters instructing them each […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 29 – Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

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Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, 1994. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, Miko Huges and John Saxon. SYNOPSIS: When tragedy strikes, actress Heather Langenkamp is reluctantly forced to confront the legacy of her most famous role; Nancy Thompson to defeat an entity that has taken on the form of her former on-screen nemesis; […]

Movie Review – Running With The Devil (2019)

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Running with the Devil, 2019. Directed by Jason Cabell. Starring Nicolas Cage, Laurence Fishburne, Barry Pepper, Adam Goldberg, Leslie Bibb, Peter Facinelli, Clifton Collins Jr., Natalia Reyes, Christian Tappan, and Cole Hauser. SYNOPSIS: When his cocaine shipment is intercepted, The Boss wants to know why. Two of his best are sent in to ensure this […]

Movie Review – Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)

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Brittany Runs a Marathon, 2019. Directed by Paul Downs Colaizzo Starring Jillian Bell, Jennifer Dundas, Alice Lee, Michaela Watkins, Mikey Day, Lil Rel Howery, Kate Arrington, Beth Malone, Patch Darragh, Erica Herdnandez SYNOPSIS: When Brittany (Jillian Bell) decides that her party-hard, responsibility-free lifestyle is hurting those around her, as well as herself, she decides to […]

Supergirl Season 5 Episode 4 Review – ‘In Plain Sight’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Supergirl season 5… Things finally ramp up this week as certain people reveal their true colours, home town reunions bring about some soul searching and alien threats are neutralised. Thankfully there was little time for navel gazing as the Legion came up trumps and supported each other through […]