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Preacher Season 4 Episode 8 Review – ‘Fear of the Lord’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Preacher season 4… Retribution, recriminations and unmitigated amounts of wrath are rained down in an episode which administers pain like no other. People burn, others lose body parts while the humiliation which accompanies it all is palpable. Flashbacks, dream sequences and unorthodox methods of storytelling are in full […]

Movie Review – Once Upon a Time in Deadwood (2019)

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Once Upon a Time in Deadwood, 2019. Directed by Rene Perez. Starring Robert Bronzi, Michael Pare, Karin Brauns and Lauren Compton. SYNOPSIS: A notorious gunslinger is slipped a slow-acting poison by an heiress and told he has three days to track down and rescue her sister, who has been kidnapped by a gang of hoodlums […]

Netflix Review – Mindhunter Season 2

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Hasitha Fernando reviews the second season of Mindhunter… Ever since I concluded watching season one of Mindhunter, I was fraught with impatience to return to its twisted sepulchral world, populated with depraved serial killers and the heinous deeds they commit. So, after twenty-two painstaking months of waiting and speculating, here we are. And now the […]

Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Review – Joker

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Joker, 2019. Directed by Todd Phillips. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Robert De Niro, Marc Maron and Brett Cullen. SYNOPSIS: Joker centres around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone story not seen before on the big screen. The exploration of Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a man disregarded by society, is […]

Toronto International Film Festival 2019 Review – Lucy in the Sky

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Lucy in the Sky, 2019 Directed by Noah Hawley Starring Natalie Portman, Dan Stevens, Jon Hamm, Zazie Beetz, Colman Domingo, Ellen Burstyn, Nick Offerman, Tig Notaro, Pearl Amanda Dickson and Jeffrey Donovan SYNOPSIS After returning to earth, an obsessive astronaut (Natalie Portman) begins to question her place in the universe — including her relationships with […]

Video Review – Hustlers (2019)

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Hustlers, 2019. Directed by Lorene Scafaria. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Constance Wu, Julia Stiles, Keke Palmer, Lili Reinhart, Cardi B, Lizzo, Madeline Brewer, Mette Towley, and Trace Lysette. This week sees the release of Hustlers, a comedic drama about a group of strippers and the scam they pull on Wall Street men. In the video below, Flickering […]

Video Review – Ad Astra (2019)

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Ad Astra, 2019. Directed by James Gray. Starring Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, and Donald Sutherland. This week sees the release of Ad Astra, the newest directional effort from James Gray. In the video below, Flickering Myth critic EJ Moreno discusses the movie, lead actor Brad Pitt and his understated performance; […]

Movie Review – Downton Abbey (2019)

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Downton Abbey, 2019. Directed by Michael Engler. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, Laura Carmichael, Allen Leech, Rob James-Collier, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Joanne Froggatt, Lesley Nicol, Sophie McShera, Simon Jones, Geraldine James, Imelda Staunton, Stephen Campbell Moore and Tuppence Middleton. SYNOPSIS: In 1927, the residents of Downton – both upstairs and downstairs – […]

Movie Review – The Laundromat (2019)

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The Laundromat, 2019. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, Nonso Anozie, Matthias Schoenaerts, Melissa Rauch, Sharon Stone, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Rosalind Chao. SYNOPSIS: When a woman suffers an insurance injustice, she begins to investigate the shady law firm Mossack Fonseca, who would eventually become the subject of the […]