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Movie Review – Destination Wedding (2018)

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Destination Wedding, 2018. Directed by Victor Levin. Starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Dj Dallenbach and Ted Dubost. SYNOPSIS: Two misanthropic singletons bond over their mutual dislike for each other at an opulent wedding in an idyllic paradise. Cinema loves a good dose of misanthropic sniping, with memorable characters littered throughout decades of cinema who enjoy […]

Movie Review – Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

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Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, 2019. Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, and Suki Waterhouse. SYNOPSIS: In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective. When a friend asked me to […]

Doom Patrol Season 1 Episode 12 Review – ‘Cyborg Patrol’

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Hasitha Fernando reviews the twelfth episode of Doom Patrol… Cyborg is being held prisoner in the Bureau of Normalcys’ secret underground facility- the infamous Ant Farm-where he’s subjected to various experiments. Meanwhile, spearheaded by Silas Stone our zany band of misfits hatch a desperate plan to rescue Victor from his captors…before it’s too late. The […]

Movie Review – Where Hands Touch (2018)

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Where Hands Touch, 2018. Directed by Amma Asante. Starring Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston and Tom Sweet. SYNOPSIS: A biracial German girl is persecuted for the colour of her skin during the Second World War, but begins a romance with a Hitler Youth boy in the final years of the conflict. With […]

Supergirl Season 4 Episode 20 Review – ‘Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up?’

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Martin Carr reviews the twentieth episode of Supergirl season 4… Conspiracies, double dealing and government moles are now the order of things in National City. Lex Luthor is not only a genius level intellect with nefarious methods of villainy at his disposal but also sports invulnerability like a summer jacket. His web continues spinning as […]

Movie Review – Amazing Grace (2018)

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Amazing Grace, 2018. Directed by Sydney Pollack and Alan Elliott. Featuring Aretha Franklin and James Cleveland. SYNOPSIS: A documentary recorded at the 1972 taping of the titular Aretha Franklin album – the highest selling live gospel release of all time. Aretha Franklin has one of the most goosebump-inducing voices in the history of music. That […]

The Flash Season 5 Episode 21 Review – ‘The Girl with the Red Lightning’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-first episode of The Flash season 5… I don’t have a lot of positivity for tonight’s episode. As we build up to the finale for this season of the Flash, we’re neck deep in the Cicada storyline. She was front and center here tonight, along with Orel back from the dead […]

Blu-ray Review – The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, 2019. Directed by Mike Mitchell. Featuring the voice talents of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Tiffany Haddish, Stephanie Beatriz, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Charlie Day, Margot Robbie, Jason Momoa, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Cobie Smulders, Arturo Castro, Jadon Sand, Brooklynn Prince, Ben Schwartz, Noel Fielding, Ike Barinholtz, […]

Video Review – Pokemon: Detective Pikachu

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Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, 2019. Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, and Suki Waterhouse. This Friday sees the release of Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, the first ever live-action adaptation of the hugely popular Pokemon franchise. Join our critic EJ Moreno as he breaks down the good […]