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Movie Review – Midnighters (2018)

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Midnighters, 2018. Directed by Julius Ramsay, Starring Alex Essoe, Dylan McTee, Ward Horton, and Perla Haney-Jardine. SYNOPSIS: Midnight, New Year’s Eve: when all the hopes of new beginnings come to life – except for Lindsey and Jeff Pittman, whose strained marriage faces the ultimate test after they cover up a terrible crime and find themselves […]

Movie Review – Napping Princess (2017)

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Napping Princess, 2017. Directed by Kenji Kamiyama. Featuring the voice talents of Mitsuki Takahata, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Tomoya Maeno, Rie Kugimiya, Arata Furuta, and Hideki Takahashi. SYNOPSIS: Kokone has had dreams of a strange fantasy land full of pirates and machinery since she was a child. However, now in high school, she can’t seem to stop […]

Second Opinion – Mute (2018)

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Mute, 2018. Directed by Duncan Jones. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Seyneb Saleh, Noel Clarke, Robert Sheehan, Sam Rockwell and Robert Kazinsky. SYNOPSIS: A mute bartender goes up against his city’s gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner. Filmmakers should really stop saying how it took them […]

Movie Review – The Cured (2018)

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The Cured, 2018. Directed by David Freyne. Starring Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Stuart Graham, Hilda Fay, and Paula Malcolmson. SYNOPSIS: A disease that turns people into zombies has been cured. The once-infected zombies are discriminated against by society and their own families, which causes social issues to arise. This leads to militant government […]

Waco Episode 5 Review – ‘Stalling for Time’

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Red Stewart reviews the fifth episode of Waco… “History’s not going to be on your side with this one Mitch.” “I’ll take the other side of that bet.” So ends a conversation between FBI negotiator Gary Noesner and tactical agent Mitch Decker, one of many that the two have along with Waco Siege head Tony […]

Second Opinion – Game Night (2018)

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Game Night, 2018. Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Starring Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Billy Magnussen, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C. Hall, Danny Huston, and Chelsea Peretti. SYNOPSIS: A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights finds themselves trying to solve a murder mystery. […]

Movie Review – Mute (2018)

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Mute, 2018. Directed by Duncan Jones. Starring Alexander Skarsgård, Paul Rudd, Justin Theroux, Seyneb Saleh, Noel Clarke, Robert Sheehan, Sam Rockwell and Robert Kazinsky. SYNOPSIS: A mute bartender goes up against his city’s gangsters in an effort to find out what happened to his missing partner. There’s an understandable amount of hype for Duncan Jones’ (Moon, Source […]

Star Wars Rebels Season 4 Episode 10 Review – ‘Jedi Night’

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Chris Cooper reviews the tenth episode of Star Wars Rebels season 4… Note – I’d love to steer clear of it, but this review is going to contain pretty hefty spoilers. This late in the game it’s nigh-on impossible to talk about the episode without spoiling something. I’d rather give you some fully fledged thoughts […]

Movie Review – Game Night (2018)

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Game Night, 2018. Directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Starring Jason Bateman, Rachel McAdams, Kyle Chandler, Sharon Horgan, Billy Magnussen, Lamorne Morris, Kylie Bunbury, Jesse Plemons, Michael C. Hall, Danny Huston, and Chelsea Peretti. SYNOPSIS:  A group of friends who meet regularly for game nights find themselves trying to solve a murder mystery. […]