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2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Cold Case Hammarskjöld

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Cold Case Hammarskjöld, 2019.Directed by Mads Brügger. Starring Mads Brügger and Göran Björkdahl.SYNOPSIS:Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.Documentary filmmakers en masse have […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers #12

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers #12…After Transformers #11‘s Decepticon-heavy development, Brian Ruckley takes another break from the series’ main story to take us back a little bit in time and more fully introduce his version of Nautica and other bots who have been missing in the series up until now. It was a fun one-off tale showcasing […]

Video Review – Joker (2019)

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Joker, 2019.Directed by Todd Phillips. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy and Robert De Niro.The Clown Prince of Crime returns to the big screen this week as Warner Bros. and DC Films releases director Todd Phillips’ Joker, which sees Joaquin Phoenix taking on the role of the iconic Batman villain for this standalone origin […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Synchronic

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Synchronic, 2019.Directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Ally Ioannides, Katie Aselton, Bill Oberst Jr., Sam Malone, Shane Brady and Betsy Holt.SYNOPSIS:Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.Synchronic is an odd meld of […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Nocturnal

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Nocturnal, 2019.Directed by Nathalie Biancheri. Starring Cosmo Jarvis, Lauren Coe, and Sadie Frost.SYNOPSIS:Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds and nurtures a secret friendship with Pete, an older man who’s apparently obsessed with her.Nathalie Biancheri makes a bold and distinctive narrative feature debut with a tricky relationship drama which holds viewers in a state of perplexed anxiety […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers/Ghostbusters #5

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers/Ghostbusters #5…As Transformers and Ghostbusters continue their 35th anniversary celebrations, IDW’s crossover Transformers/Ghostbusters series comes to an end as Optimus Prime, Ectotron and the Ghostbusters worked together to stop the ghostly forces of Megatron and his Decepticons. There was a lot of potential for this crossover which writer Eric Burnham definitely met, making a pretty entertaining send off […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 3 – The Amityville Horror (1979)

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The Amityville Horror, 1979.Directed by Stuart Rosenberg. Starring James Brolin, Margot Kidder, Rod Steiger, Don Stroud and Murray Hamilton.SYNOPSIS:The Lutz family move into what looks to be their dream home in Amityville, Long Island. The family’s stay soon becomes a terrifying ordeal as supernatural forces from the houses dark past seek to drive them out.In […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival 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 the run to […]

Movie Review – Werewolf (2018)

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Werewolf, 2018.Directed by Adrian Panek. Starring Nicolas Przygoda, Kamil Polnisiak, Sonia Mietielica, Werner Daehn and Danuta Stenka.SYNOPSIS:When a group of kids escape a Nazi concentration camp and hole up in an abandoned orphanage, they find themselves stalked by wolfhounds circling the building.Cinema just loves the Second World War. It seems like every year yields several […]