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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 21 Review – ‘The Force of Gravity’

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Danny Hale reviews the twenty first episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5… SPOILER WARNING FOR AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR ‘The Force of Gravity’ was a superb penultimate episode and provided great action, an appropriate amount of fan service and effectively positioned our players for the big finale next week. I was a little confused […]

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Review – Beast

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Beast, 2018. Written and Directed by Michael Pearce. Starring Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Trystan Gravelle, Shannon Tarbet, Emily Taaffe, Hattie Gotobed, Tim Woodward, and Geraldine James. SYNOPSIS: A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a […]

Blu-ray Review – Black Panther (2018)

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Black Panther, 2018. Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, and Andy Serkis. SYNOPSIS: The Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps chugging along with Black Panther, which has arrived on Blu-ray […]

Movie Review – Breaking In (2018)

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Breaking In, 2018. Directed by James McTeigue. Starring Gabrielle Union, Seth Carr, Ajiona Alexus, Christa Miller, Jason George, Billy Burke, Richard Cabral, Levi Meaden and Damien Leake. SYNOPSIS: A woman fights to protect her family during a home invasion. Bless Gabrielle Union for the thoroughly undeserved commitment she lends to this fundamentally naff yet mildly efficient home invasion thriller. […]

Movie Review – Sherlock Gnomes (2018)

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Sherlock Gnomes, 2018. Directed by John Stevenson. Featuring the voice talents of  James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Johnny Depp, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Mary J. Blige, Jamie Demetriou, Ashley Jensen and Matt Lucas. SYNOPSIS: When all of their friends are kidnapped right out of the garden, Gnomeo and Juliet join forces with a backyard-based […]

Second Opinion – Terminal (2018)

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Terminal, 2018. Directed by Vaughn Stein. Starring Margot Robbie, Mike Myers, Simon Pegg, Max Irons, Dexter Fletcher, Matthew Lewis, and Katarina Cas. SYNOPSIS: In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, TERMINAL follows the twisting tales of two assassins carrying out a sinister mission, a teacher battling a fatal illness, an enigmatic janitor and […]

Arrow Season 6 Episode 22 Review – ‘The Ties That Binds’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-second episode of Arrow season 6… So, in our penultimate episode before the finale, things come together and start to fall apart. Diaz puts in motion his final plan: to just kill Queen and all his compatriots. He invades their homes, finds them wherever they are and sends his goons after […]

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Capsule Review – First Reformed

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Hope and despair is the equivalent to the metaphorically persuasive angel and the devil on the shoulders of one of God’s lonely souls, a pastor at the titular First Reformed church. The establishment is about to celebrate its 250th anniversary regardless of the fact that attendance has gone the way of the dodo (among other […]