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Raindance Film Festival 2019 Review – Homeless Ashes

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Homeless Ashes, 2019. Directed by Marc Zammit. Starring Marc Zammit, Lew Temple, Jason Flemyng, Angela Dixon, Maria Howell, Jessica-Jane Stafford, Jamey May and Ike Leo. SYNOPSIS: A traumatic event in childhood leaves Frankie spending his life sleeping rough on the streets. Homelessness is certainly an important issue in British society. In November 2018, the housing […]

Raindance Film Festival 2019 Review – Coureur

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Coureur, 2019. Directed by Kenneth Mercken Starring Niels Willaerts, Koen De Graeve, Karlijn Sileghem, Fortunato Cerlino, Günther Lesage, Vladislav Prigunov, Anton Petrov, Nicola Rignanese SYNOPSIS: A young boy grows up idolising his cyclist father, and then follows in his footsteps by pushing his body and the laws to the limit in order to achieve greatness […]

American Horror Story: 1984 Episode 1 Review – ‘Camp Redwood’

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EJ Moreno on the season premiere of American Horror Story: 1984… 1980’s nostalgia will never go out of style. From the clothes to the iconic music, people love looking back at one of the strangest times in pop culture. American Horror Story is just the latest to join the 80’s madness, with their new slasher-inspired […]

Movie Review – Ad Astra (2019)

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Ad Astra, 2019. Directed by James Gray. Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, John Ortiz, Greg Bryk, Kimberly Elise, Loren Dean, John Finn, Donnie Kershawarz, Justin Dray, Sasha Compère and Natasha Lyonne. SYNOPSIS: Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find […]

Movie Review – Killer Sofa (2019)

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Killer Sofa. 2019. Directed by Bernie Rao. Starring Piimio Mei, Nathalie Morris, Harley Neville, Stacey King, Jed Brophy, Jim Baltaxe, and Grant Kereama. SYNOPSIS: A killer reclining chair becomes enchanted by a girl and starts committing crimes of passion. Bernie Rao’s Killer Sofa is the “Zombeavers of inanimate object horror” in that title and concept […]

Video Game Review – Groundhog Day: Like Father, Like Son

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Shaun Munro reviews Groundhog Day: Like Father, Like Son… Video games based on movies historically have a wonky rep, and rightly so. When you throw the challenges of VR gaming into the mix too, along with the complexity of timey-wimey source material, it has so much potential for disrespectful disaster. But thankfully with Tequila Works […]

Movie Review – 3 From Hell (2019)

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3 From Hell, 2019. Directed by Rob Zombie. Starring Sheri Moon Zombie, Richard Brake, Bill Moseley, Jeff Daniel Phillips, Dee Wallace, Emilio Rivera, and Sid Haig. SYNOPSIS: The Firefly Family breaks free from prison and unleashes their signature style of horror on the world. Fourteen years after seemingly closing the book on this torture-filled story, […]

Movie Review – Corporate Animals (2019)

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Corporate Animals, 2019. Directed by Patrick Brice. Directed by Demi Moore, Ed Helms, Jessica Williams, Karan Soni, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Martha Kelly, Dan Bakkedahl, Calum Worthy, Jennifer Kim, and Nasim Pedrad. SYNOPSIS: Lucy (Demi Moore) is the egotistical megalomaniac CEO of Incredible Edibles, America’s premier provider of edible cutlery. In her infinite wisdom, Lucy leads […]

Comic Book Review – Batman: Damned

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Gary Collinson reviews Batman: Damned… The inaugural offering from DC’s Black Label, a new imprint designed to give creators the opportunity to explore the iconic characters of the DC universe with mature, standalone stories free of the constraints of continuity, Batman: Damned reunites writer Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo, the creative team behind 2008’s Joker, […]