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Movie Review – JT LeRoy (2018)

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JT LeRoy, 2018. Directed by Justin Kelly. Starring Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Diane Kruger, Jim Sturgess, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Courtney Love. SYNOPSIS: The true story of the literary phenomenon, who was actually not a troubled young man, but a middle-aged woman working with the aid of her partner’s androgynous sister. The story of JT […]

Book Review – Star Wars: Thrawn – Treason

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Thrawn – Treason… Timothy Zahn’s return to the galaxy far, far away with his latest novel, Star Wars: Thrawn – Treason, tells a fairly compelling tale involving the Grand Admiral that serves as a close to the trilogy of new Thrawn books. Zahn’s characters are interesting as he presents a unique mystery […]

Video Game Review – We Happy Few: They Came From Below & Lightbearer DLC

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Jo Craig reviews We Happy Few’s They Came From Below & Lightbearer DLC… Despite the less than satisfactory reviews, Compulsion Games have extended the psychedelic madness of their 2018 action-adventure, survival horror with a DLC trio, available via season pass. With first episode, They Came From Below, being a success back in April, their second […]

Video Review – Good Boys (2019)

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Good Boys, 2019. Directed by Gene Stupnitsky. Starring Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon, Molly Gordon, Midora Francis, Will Forte, Sam Richardson, Stephen Merchant, Lil Rey Howery, and Retta. This week sees the release of Good Boys, a new film from producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. In the video below, Flickering Myth critic […]

Blu-ray Review – From the Earth to the Moon

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From Earth to the Moon Directed by David Frankel, David Carson, Sally Field, Gary Fleder, Tom Hanks, Frank Marshall, Jonathan Mostow, Jon Turteltaub, Graham Yost, Lili Fini Zanuck Starring: Tom Hanks, Nick Searcy, Lane Smith, David Andrews, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Stephen Root, David Clyde Carr, Tim Daly, Steve Hofvendahl, Conor O’Farrell, Brett Cullen, Cary Elwes, […]

Blu-ray Review – American Gods Season 2

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Martin Carr reviews the second season of American Gods… Trying to breakdown this second season into component parts is impossible. There are so many tangents, segues and narrative diversions that a simple explanation would represent an injustice. For the most part that invention which comes thick and fast with little consideration for audience participation kicks […]

Sundance London 2019 Review – The Last Tree

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The Last Tree, 2019. Directed by Shola Amoo. Starring Sam Adewumni, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Demmy Ladipo, Ruthxjiah Bellenea, Tai Golding, Denise Black and Nicholas Pinnock. SYNOPSIS: A Nigerian-British boy is taken from a comfortable rural foster home to live with his biological mother in the city, bringing about an identity crisis that reverberates into his teenage […]

Preacher Season 4 Episode 3 Review – ‘Deviant’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Preacher season 4… Rarely do you get four minute fight scenes with classical backing tracks which segue into swing guitar, before pulling back to reveal bodies piled high and slow motion bloodletting aplenty. Neither is it common for an automated meat slicer with foreskin removal adaptions to set […]

Movie Review – The VelociPastor (2019)

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The VelociPastor, 2019. Written and directed by Brendan Steere. Starring Gregory James Cohan, Alyssa Kempinski, Claire Hsu, Daniel Steere, Yang Jiechang, Jesse Turits, Fernando Pacheco de Castro, and Aurelio Voltaire. SYNOPSIS: After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At […]