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Movie Review – Finding Your Feet (2018)

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Finding Your Feet, 2018. Directed by Richard Loncraine. Starring Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Timothy Spall, Joanna Lumley, David Hayman, John Sessions and Josie Lawrence. SYNOPSIS: Sandra’s upper middle class world falls apart when she discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend.  With nowhere else to go, she turns up at her […]

Comic Book Review – Dishonored: The Peeress and the Price

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Calum Petrie reviews Dishonored: The Peeress and the Price… After playing the first Dishonored back in 2012, I thought the game overall was enjoyable but needed refined. More than anything though, I wanted an expansion on the lore and more of the world that game is set within. I got taste of what I wanted with […]

Blu-ray Review – Jigsaw (2017)

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Jigsaw, 2017. Directed by Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig. Starring Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Clé Bennett, Laura Vandervoort, Brittany Allen, Josiah Black, and Mandela Van Peebles. SYNOPSIS: A series of grisly murders point to Jigsaw killer John Kramer as the suspect but he has been dead for 10 years… hasn’t he? So […]

Movie Review – I, Tonya (2017)

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I, Tonya, 2017. Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, Sebastian Stan, Paul Walter Hauser, Caitlin Carver, Bobby Cannavale, and Julianne Nicholson. SYNOPSIS: The true story of Tonya Harding, who was the world’s best female figure skater despite a deprived background. She found her career derailed after she was implicated in a brutal […]

Movie Review – Dark River (2018)

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Dark River, 2018. Written and directed by Clio Barnard. Starring Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley and Sean Bean. SYNOPSIS: After the death of their father, two siblings engage in a power struggle for control of the dilapidated farm their parent left behind. The first two features from Yorkshire-born filmmaker Clio Barnard marked her out as a […]

DVD Review – Beyond the Woods (2018)

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Beyond the Woods, 2018. Directed by Sean Breathnach. Starring John Ryan Howard, Mark Lawrence, Sean McGillicuddy, Ross Mac Mahon, Claire J. Loy, Alan Riordan, and Irene Kelleher. SYNOPSIS: Seven people stay in a secluded holiday cottage near where a sinkhole has opened up, unleashing evil forces into the area. The first full-length feature for writer/director […]

Movie Review – The Shape of Water (2017)

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The Shape of Water, 2017. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nick Searcy, and David Hewlett. SYNOPSIS: At a top-secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. The […]

Blu-ray Review – Scalpel (1977)

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Scalpel, 1977. Directed by John Grissmer. Starring Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, and Sandy Martin. SYNOPSIS: A psychopathic plastic surgeon tries to claim a huge inheritance by transforming the face of an accident victim into that of his missing daughter. John Grissmer’s debut feature Scalpel is an odd one. Odd because, […]

Movie Review – Rogers Park (2018)

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Rogers Park, 2018. Directed by Kyle Henry. Starring Sara Sevigny, Antoine McKay, Jonny Mars, Christine Horn, and Carlos Trevino. SYNOPSIS: Two Chicago couples struggle to keep their love alive when secrets and long-simmering resentments rise to the surface. Setting the stage for what’s to come, in an elementary school classroom a young boy and a […]

Waco Episode 4 Review – ‘Of Milk and Men’

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Red Stewart reviews the fourth episode of Waco… One of the most interesting parts of the fourth episode of Waco involves a broadcast by a conservative radio host. In it, he talks to a preacher about the definition of a cult and whether or not Koresh and the Branch Davidians classify as such. The preacher points out […]