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Blu-ray Review – Def-Con 4 (1985)

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Def-Con 4, 1985. Directed by Paul Donovan, Digby C. Cook & Tony Randel. Starring Lenore Zann, Maury Chaykin, Kate Lynch, Tim Choate, and Kevin King. SYNOPSIS: During World War III a satellite containing three astronauts crashes to Earth where they become the target of gangs of diseased humans. The 1980s was a creative and productive […]

Blu-ray Review – Escape Room (2019)

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Escape Room, 2019. Directed by Adam Robitel. Starring Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, and Kenneth Fok. SYNOPSIS: Six strangers find themselves trapped in a building where they must solve puzzles in able to move onto the next room before the inevitable traps kick in. So in Escape Room we […]

Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Striking Vipers’

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Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Striking Vipers… Charlie Brooker might be frenetic, prone to tangential leaps of inspiration and talking a mile a minute, but there is no way you could call the man boring. Video games, virtual reality and gender politics might seem like strange bedfellows, but somehow he draws it all together whilst […]

Movie Review – The Child Remains (2019)

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The Child Remains, 2019. Directed by Michael Melski. Starring Suzanne Clément, Allan Hawco, Shelley Thompson, and Géza Kovács. SYNOPSIS: An expectant couple’s intimate weekend turns to terror as they discover their secluded country inn is a haunted maternity home where infants and mothers were murdered. Canadian horror joint The Child Remains is an outrageous, messy […]

Black Mirror Season 5 Review – ‘Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too’

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Martin Carr reviews Black Mirror’s Rachel, Jack and Ashley, Too… Apart from the syntactic call back to a sweet natured provincial sex comedy worked into that title, this episode focuses on grief and how we process it. Similar thematically to Smithereens, Brooker explores the coping mechanisms we all employ and what comes from that. He […]

Movie Review – Hi-Death (2018)

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Hi-Death, 2018. Directed by Brad Sykes, Anthony Catanese, Tim Ritter, Amanda Payton and Todd Sheets. Starring Kristen Adams, Kate Durocher, Jensen Jacobs, Craig Kelly, Todd Martin, Thomas Kindler, Christopher Preyer, Fabiana Formica, Julia Vally, Jay Sosnicki, Nick Randol and Eve Smith. SYNOPSIS: A collection of five low-budget horror shorts, linked by a pair of young […]

Movie Review – Gloria Bell (2019)

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Gloria Bell, 2019. Directed by Sebastián Lelio. Starring Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Michael Cera and Alanna Ubach. SYNOPSIS:  A free-spirited woman in her 50s seeks out love at L.A. dance clubs. English-language remakes of hit foreign films rarely go over well, and usually for good reason, but it’s a different case altogether when the original filmmaker […]

Movie Review – X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019)

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X-Men: Dark Phoenix, 2019. Directed by Simon Kinberg. Starring Sophie Turner, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Jessica Chastain, Tye Sheridan, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Evan Peters and Alexandra Shipp. SYNOPSIS: Jean Grey begins to develop incredible powers that corrupt and turn her into a Dark Phoenix. Now the X-Men will have to decide if […]

Movie Review – After We Leave (2019)

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After We Leave, 2019. Directed by Aleem Hossain Starring Brian Silverman, Clay Wilcox, Anslem Richardson, Anita Leeman Torres, James Black, Naomi Salamon SYNOPSIS: A near future earth, ravaged by human abuse, offers people the chance to emigrate to off-planet habitats. When Jack (Brian Silverman) is awarded his couples travel VISA, he must navigate his past, […]