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Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Ray & Liz

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Ray & Liz, 2018. Directed by Richard Billingham. Starring Ella Smith, Justin Salinger, Patrick Romer, and Tony Way. SYNOPSIS: Just outside of Birmingham, Ray and Liz struggle to survive and raise their sons, including future photographer Richard Billingham. Richard and his brother Dean do all they can to fend for themselves, despite their situational poverty […]

Video Game Review – Dick Wilde 2

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Shaun Munro reviews Dick Wilde 2… You’d be forgiven for missing southern fried VR shooting gallery Dick Wilde when it launched back in mid-2017 (and you can find our review here). The inauspiciously-monikered shooter was nevertheless an instant cult classic, and remains one of the most impressive uses of PSVR’s Aim controller. Just less than two years later, […]

Star Wars Resistance Season 1 Episode 18 Review – ‘The Disappeared’

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Ricky Church reviews the eighteenth episode of Star Wars Resistance… As we build towards the season finale of Star Wars Resistance, its latest episode was fairly good but mostly involved a lot of set-up for the final couple episodes. ‘The Disappeared’ increased the threat of the First Order and their hold on the Colossus even as […]

Video Game Review – Stellaris: Console Edition

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Andy Naylor reviews Stellaris: Console Edition… Since I made the full-time switch from PC gaming to console gaming around 15 years ago there is only one genre that I have truly missed, that has never translated as well without the use of a mouse and keyboard, that has never truly grasped the console world; strategy […]

Blu-ray Review – Class of 1984 (1982)

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Class of 1984, 1982. Directed by Mark L. Lester. Starring Perry King, Merrie Lynn Ross, Timothy Van Patten, Roddy McDowall, Lisa Langlois, Erin Noble, Michael J. Fox, and Stefan Arngrim. SYNOPSIS: A new teacher at a violent inner city school goes up against a gang of vicious punks. In a month that also sees director […]

The Orville Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘Identity, Part 1’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of The Orville season 2… Drawing heavily from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis Seth MacFarlane introduces us to Kaylon this week as Isaac’s shut down forces an interplanetary visit. On the surface everything is clean lines, polished metal spires and automaton construction, stripped of emotion and driven by logic. Using the […]

Second Opinion – Paddleton (2019)

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Paddleton, 2019. Directed by Alex Lehmann. Starring Mark Duplass and Ray Romano. SYNOPSIS: An unlikely friendship between two misfit neighbours becomes an unexpectedly emotional journey when the younger man is diagnosed with terminal cancer. 2019 has thus far served up mixed results for Netflix’s avalanche of movies released under their Originals label, but mumblecore icon […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Dragged Across Concrete

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Dragged Across Concrete, 2019. Directed by S. Craig Zahler. Starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden, Fred Melamed, Thomas Kretschmann, and Don Johnson. SYNOPSIS:  When two cops are suspended after a leaked video of their strong-arm tactics spreads in the media, they descend into the criminal underworld to […]

Happy Death Day 2U resurrects the dying slasher genre

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EJ Moreno on Happy Death Day 2U and the slasher genre… It might sound a little hyperbolic, but Happy Death Day and its new sequel Happy Death Day 2U are bringing new life into a tired genre like slashers. And this is coming from someone who loves everything from Sleepaway Camp to the classic Halloween. […]