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Movie Review – The Hate U Give (2018)

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The Hate U Give, 2018.Directed by George Tillman Jr. Starring Amandla Stenberg, Regina Hall, Russell Hornsby, Lamar Johnson, Issa Rae, Algee Smith, Sabrina Carpenter, Common, K.J. Apa, Rayven Symone Ferrell, Myles Evans, TJ Wright, Megan Lawless, Rhonda Johnson Dents, Al Mitchell, Karan Kendrick, Andrene Ward-Hammond, Drew Starkey, Kurt Yue, Susan Santiago, Brian Lafontaine, Tanya Christiansen, […]

Movie Review – Death Kiss (2018)

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Death Kiss, 2018.Directed by Rene Perez. Featuring Robert Kovacs Bronzi, Daniel Baldwin, Richard Tyson, and Eva Hamilton.SYNOPSIS:A vigilante doles out his own brand of justice.I suspect most of the people who decide to watch Death Kiss will do so out of nothing more than mild, morbid curiosity. The effort of writer-director-cinematographer-composer Rene Perez, this low-rent homage […]

Comic Book Review – Dark Nights – Metal: The Resistance

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Ricky Church reviews Dark Nights – Metal: The Resistance…Dark Nights – Metal was DC’s big event last year, headline by the former Batman duo Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo. While the story spanned across the DC multiverse as evil versions of Batman invaded, the event itself wasn’t as all encompassing as previous events with massive amounts of tie-in […]

Comic Book Review – Marvel Two in One: The Thing and the Human Torch #10

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Allen Christian reviews Marvel Two in One: The Thing and the Human Torch #10…If you’ve been following Chip Zdarsky’s brilliant run thus far on Marvel 2-in-One, you’re likely asking the same question as everyone else: “Why wasn’t he given Fantastic Four?” The short answer to that is that Dan Slott really wanted it and Dan […]

TV Review – Maniac

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Liam Hoofe reviews Netflix’s Maniac…2018 has been a bit of a hit and miss year for Netflix originals, but the streaming services has really upped its game in recent weeks with the return of some of their most popular shows including BoJack Horseman and American Vandal. Their most anticipated release this month, though, comes from […]

Movie Review – Beautiful Boy (2018)

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Beautiful Boy, 2018.Directed by Felix Van Groeningen. Starring Steve Carell, Timothee Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Kaitlyn Dever, Stefanie Scott, Kue Lawrence, Jack Dylan Grazer, Oakley Bull, Christian Convery, Julian Works, Amy Forsyth, Andre Royo, Timothy Hutton, and Amy Ryan.SYNOPSIS:Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles […]

Movie Review – Colette (2018)

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Colette, 2018.Directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Eleanor Tomlinson, Robert Pugh, Rebecca Root, Shannon Tarbet, Aiysha Hart, Ray Panthaki, and Caroline Boulton.SYNOPSIS:Colette is pushed by her husband to write novels under his name. Upon their success, she fights to make her talents known, challenging gender norms.One of the […]

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Episode 3 Review – ‘Forbidden Fruit’

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EJ Moreno reviews the third episode of American Horror Story: Apocalypse… Only three episodes into the season, and American Horror Story: Apocalypse just flipped the script. When prepping for this review, there were nearly five pages of notes to go through. With more insane moments and shocking twists than some seasons combined, the episode “Forbidden […]

Kidding Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Every Pain Needs a Name’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Kidding…Something is being done with Kidding which few if any would be brave enough to attempt. Moments of acting subtlety combine with tonal shifts, characteristic emotional transference and underlying debates over publicly private personas to make for uniquely engaging television. Public perceptions, individual identities and personal relationships provide […]

Movie Review – The Predator (2018)

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The Predator, 2018.Directed by Shane Black. Starring Boyd Holbrook, Trevante Rhodes, Jacob Tremblay, Keegan-Michael Key, Olivia Munn, Sterling K. Brown, Thomas Jane, Alfie Allen, Augusto Aguilera, Jake Busey, Yvonne Strahovski, Niall Matter, Mike Dopud and Brian A. Prince.SYNOPSIS:When a young boy accidentally triggers the universe’s most lethal hunters’ return to Earth, only a ragtag crew […]