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Movie Review – Black Panther (2018)

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Black Panther, 2018. Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, and Andy Serkis. SYNOPSIS: T’Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the […]

Movie Review – Loveless (2017)

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Loveless, 2017. Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. Starring Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, and Matvey Novikov. SYNOPSIS: A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments. Loveless issues two stark warnings to its audience: don’t let your resentment for another render you without love […]

Movie Review – Half Magic (2018)

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Half Magic, 2018. Written and Directed by Heather Graham Starring Heather Graham, Angela Kinsey, Stephanie Beatriz, Chris D’Elia, Thomas Lennon, Luke Arnold, Molly Shannon, Jason Lewis, Rhea Perlman, and Johnny Knoxville SYNOPSIS: Explores themes of female empowerment through sex, work, and friendship. These women are able to come together through their frustration over male dominance […]

Second Opinion – Red Sparrow (2018)

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Red Sparrow, 2018. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, and Joely Richardson. SYNOPSIS: Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. But her first mission, targeting a […]

Movie Review – Red Sparrow (2018)

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Red Sparrow, 2018. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Bill Camp, Joely Richardson, Kristof Konrad, Douglas Hodge, Sergei Polunin, Sakina Jaffrey, Nicole O’Neill, David Z. Miller, Makar Zaporozhskiy, Sasha Frolova, Joel de la Fuente, Thekla Reuten, Sergej Onopko, and Jeremy Irons SYNOPSIS: Ballerina Dominika […]

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: Mute orphan Elisa lives her life on the edges in Baltimore in 1962, until her job working nights as a cleaner at a secret US government […]

Comic Book Review – Dark Nights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1

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Ricky Church reviews Dark Nights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1… With big, epic comic book events, tie-in comics are not anything unheard of. Sometimes its a bit tedious to have to collect tie-in issues, especially if so many bear actual consequences on the main event itself. Fortunately most of the tie-ins for DC’s Dark Nights: Metal have […]

Movie Review – Father Figures (2018)

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Father Figures, 2018. Directed by Lawrence Sher. Starring Ed Helms, Owen Wilson, Glenn Close, J.K. Simmons, Harry Shearer, and Ving Rhames. SYNOPSIS: Peter (Ed Helms) and Kyle (Owen Wilson) are polar opposite twin brothers; the former is a physicist who specialises in the colon, the other a lucky lay about who got rich from being […]

Comic Book Review – Absolute Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang Volume 2

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Ricky Church reviews Absolute Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang Volume 2… DC is continuing its Wonder Woman high by releasing the next volume of Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang’s New 52 Wonder Woman in their prestigious Absolute format. Collecting the latter half of their run, Absolute Wonder Woman by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang Volume […]

Movie Review – Lady Bird (2017)

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Lady Bird, 2017. Written and Directed by Greta Gerwig. Starring Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Timothée Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Odeya Rush, Kathryn Newton, Andy Buckley, Daniel Zovatto, Jordan Rodrigues, Stephen McKinley Henderson, and Lois Smith. SYNOPSIS: In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California. There’s a dirtied, […]