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Movie Review – Wine Country (2019)

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Wine Country, 2019. Directed by Amy Poehler Starring Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, Jason Schwartzman and Tina Fey. SYNOPSIS: When a group of longtime girlfriends goes to Napa for the weekend to celebrate their friend’s 50th birthday, tensions from the past boil over. Though Netflix’s self-branded slate of “Originals” continues […]

Second Opinion – The Hustle (2019)

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The Hustle, 2019. Directed by Chris Addison. Starring Anne Hathaway, Rebel Wilson, Tim Blake Nelson, Alex Sharp, Dean Norris, Emma Davies and Ingrid Oliver. SYNOPSIS: A glamorous female con artist takes on a more small-time crook as her protégé, targeting men who underestimate women. There’s something delightful about a well-executed con movie, with all of […]

Movie Review – Destination Wedding (2018)

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Destination Wedding, 2018. Directed by Victor Levin. Starring Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Dj Dallenbach and Ted Dubost. SYNOPSIS: Two misanthropic singletons bond over their mutual dislike for each other at an opulent wedding in an idyllic paradise. Cinema loves a good dose of misanthropic sniping, with memorable characters littered throughout decades of cinema who enjoy […]

Movie Review – Pokemon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

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Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, 2019. Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, and Suki Waterhouse. SYNOPSIS: In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who seeks to be a detective. When a friend asked me to […]

Doom Patrol Season 1 Episode 12 Review – ‘Cyborg Patrol’

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Hasitha Fernando reviews the twelfth episode of Doom Patrol… Cyborg is being held prisoner in the Bureau of Normalcys’ secret underground facility- the infamous Ant Farm-where he’s subjected to various experiments. Meanwhile, spearheaded by Silas Stone our zany band of misfits hatch a desperate plan to rescue Victor from his captors…before it’s too late. The […]

Movie Review – Where Hands Touch (2018)

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Where Hands Touch, 2018. Directed by Amma Asante. Starring Amandla Stenberg, George MacKay, Abbie Cornish, Christopher Eccleston and Tom Sweet. SYNOPSIS: A biracial German girl is persecuted for the colour of her skin during the Second World War, but begins a romance with a Hitler Youth boy in the final years of the conflict. With […]

Supergirl Season 4 Episode 20 Review – ‘Will The Real Miss Tessmacher Please Stand Up?’

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Martin Carr reviews the twentieth episode of Supergirl season 4… Conspiracies, double dealing and government moles are now the order of things in National City. Lex Luthor is not only a genius level intellect with nefarious methods of villainy at his disposal but also sports invulnerability like a summer jacket. His web continues spinning as […]

Movie Review – Amazing Grace (2018)

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Amazing Grace, 2018. Directed by Sydney Pollack and Alan Elliott. Featuring Aretha Franklin and James Cleveland. SYNOPSIS: A documentary recorded at the 1972 taping of the titular Aretha Franklin album – the highest selling live gospel release of all time. Aretha Franklin has one of the most goosebump-inducing voices in the history of music. That […]

The Flash Season 5 Episode 21 Review – ‘The Girl with the Red Lightning’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-first episode of The Flash season 5… I don’t have a lot of positivity for tonight’s episode. As we build up to the finale for this season of the Flash, we’re neck deep in the Cicada storyline. She was front and center here tonight, along with Orel back from the dead […]