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Video Review – Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, 2019. Directed by David Leitch. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Ryan Reynolds, Rob Delaney, Eiza González, Helen Mirren, Eddie Marsan and Roman Reigns. This week sees the release of the new Fast and Furious spin-off, Hobbs & Shaw. In the video below, Flickering Myth […]

Movie Review – Photograph (2019)

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Photograph, 2019. Directed by Ritesh Batra. Starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sanya Malhotra and Farrukh Jaffar. SYNOPSIS: A Mumbai street photographer asks a customer to pose as his fiancée when his over-bearing grandmother comes to visit. Humble is very much the word to describe Ritesh Batra’s Photograph. It’s a humble, unassuming movie about humble, unassuming people, set […]

The Boys Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Good for the Soul’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of The Boys season 1… Things were never going to improve for anyone. Whether enhanced or otherwise this situation is messed up and groundwork is being laid for things to get considerably worse. Whether we are talking evangelical crowdfunded retreats, bible bashing brow beatings or messianic figureheads losing perspective […]

The Boys Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘The Female of the Species’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of The Boys season 1… Feral females, human trafficking and aquatic pornography is present and correct as The Boys keeps inviting you into all kinds of wrong. Congressional subterfuge, a superhuman military task force and no oversight is coming closer. Meanwhile therapy sessions for certain members of this elite […]

Movie Review – She’s Just a Shadow (2019)

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She’s Just a Shadow, 2019. Directed by Adam Sherman. Starring Tao Okamoto, Haruka Abe, Kihiro, Kentez Asaka, Mercedes Maxwell, and Marcus Johnson. SYNOPSIS: A Tokyo crime ring addicted to gun fights, kinky sex, and drug-filled parties is targeted by a vicious, sexist serial killer. Adam Sherman has crafted an energetic if derivative neo-noir set in […]

Movie Review – Eaten By Lions (2018)

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Eaten By Lions, 2018. Directed by Jason Wingard. Starring Antonio Aakeel, Jack Carroll, Asim Chaudhry, Johnny Vegas. SYNOPSIS: After the death of their beloved Gran, stepbrothers Omar and Pete swap Bradford for Blackpool in search of Omar’s biological father. Depending on how hungry you’ve been for the weekend of hefty feline visual feasting we’ve just […]

Movie Review – My Friend the Polish Girl (2018)

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My Friend the Polish Girl, 2018. Directed by Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek. Starring Aneta Piotrowska, Emma Friedman-Cohen, Daniel Barry, Max Davis and Darren Ross. SYNOPSIS: A documentary filmmaker becomes involved in the life of a Polish immigrant to the UK, as she attempts to pursue an acting career. My Friend the Polish Girl is […]

Krypton Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘Zods and Monsters’

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Ricky Church reviews the seventh episode of Krypton season 2… After a fairly quiet episode, Krypton‘s ‘Zods and Monsters’ delivered another somewhat quiet installment of its second season while progressing its story in some significant ways. It was a pretty good balance between scenes focusing on the drama and those on story with more solid performances […]