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SXSW 2019 Review – The Peanut Butter Falcon

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The Peanut Butter Falcon, 2019. Directed by Tyler Nilson and Mike Schwartz. Starring Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes, Jon Bernthal, Thomas Haden Church, Yelawolf, Jake Roberts, and Mick Foley. SYNOPSIS: A man with Down syndrome and a passion for wrestling escapes from a nursing home and joins a man on […]

Movie Review – The Aftermath (2019)

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The Aftermath, 2019. Directed by James Kent. Starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke, Jannik Schümann, Kate Phillips, and Martin Compston. SYNOPSIS: Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house. The Aftermath […]

Movie Review – Book of Monsters (2019)

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Book Of Monsters, 2019. Directed by Stewart Sparke. Starring Lyndsey Craine, Michaela Longden, Lizzie Aaryn-Stanton, Anna Dawson, Rose Muirhead, Steph Mossman, Nicholas Vince, Arron Dennis, and Daniel Thrace. SYNOPSIS: Six kickass women must fight off a horde of terrifying monsters at an 18th birthday party. Stewart Sparke’s Book of Monsters is the horror equivalent of a […]

Movie Review – Triple Frontier (2019)

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Triple Frontier, 2019. Directed by J.C. Chandor. Starring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund, Adria Arjona, Sheila Vand and Reynaldo Gallegos. SYNOPSIS: Struggling to make ends meet, former special ops soldiers reunite for a high-stakes heist: stealing $75 million from a South American drug lord. The fourth film from J.C. Chandor (All […]

SXSW 2019 Review – Stuber

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Stuber, 2019. Directed by Michael Dowse. Starring Dave Bautista, Kumail Nanjiani, Karen Gillan, Betty Gilpin, Iko Uwais, Mira Sorvino and Natalie Morales. SYNOPSIS: A detective recruits his Uber driver into an unexpected night of adventure. It is not a great sign where the director and stars of your film have to repeat that the print […]

Black Lightning Season 2 Episode 15 Review – ‘The Book of the Apocalypse: Chapter One: The Alpha’

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Red Stewart reviews the fifteenth episode of Black Lightning season 2… This week, Black Lightning hit a series low in terms of views, which is saying something considering the second season tends to be the peak of a superhero television serials’ viewership, at least as far as The CW is concerned. Now granted, Nielsen ratings are an […]

Movie Review – Blood Craft (2019)

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Blood Craft, 2019. Directed by James Cullen Bressack. Starring Madeleine Wade, Augie Duke, Michael Welch, and Dominique Swain. SYNOPSIS: Two sister reunite to summon the spirit of their recently deceased father and seek revenge for the years of abuse he subjected them to. As an enthusiast of low-budget horror, James Cullen Bressack was applauded at […]

Movie Review – The Prodigy (2019)

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The Prodigy, 2019. Directed by Nicholas McCarthy. Starring Taylor Schilling, Jackson Robert Scott, Peter Mooney, Paul Fauteux, Colm Feore and Brittany Allen. SYNOPSIS: The parents of a young boy begin to suspect something supernatural might be happening when their child develops seriously violent tendencies. I can’t say I expected much from The Prodigy when I […]

Blu-ray Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, 2018. Directed by David Yates. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz, William Nadylam, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, David Sakurai, Brontis Jodorowsky, Kevin Guthrie, Victoria Yeates, Derek Riddell, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Cornell S. John, Alfie […]