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Movie Review – Attraction (2017)

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Attraction, 2017. Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. Starring Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov, and Oleg Menshikov. SYNOPSIS: After an alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who saw it and the occupants start to question their own existence while there are those who demand the aliens leave Earth. Russian cinema has been the source of some of the […]

Movie Review – The Cured (2017)

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The Cured, 2017. Directed by David Freyne. Starring Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughn-Lawlor, and Paula Malcolmson. SYNOPSIS: In a sub-genre that has swallowed up contemporary culture in a way that nobody saw coming when George A. Romero’s groundbreaking films captured the Vietnam or consumerist zeitgeist of their respective eras, David Freyne’s contribution to the […]

Movie Review – Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure, 2018. Directed by Wes Ball. Starring Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie Sangster, Will Poulter, Giancarlo Esposito, Patricia Clarkson, Barry Pepper, Ki Hong Lee, Dexter Darden, Kaya Scodelario and Rosa Salazar. SYNOPSIS: In the third and final adventure for Thomas and the Gladers, they search to find a cure for the deadly […]

Comic Book Review – Gears of War: The Rise of RAAM #1

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Calum Petrie reviews Gears of War: The Rise of RAAM #1… In this spin off series from the hugely popular Gears of War franchise, we see the series’ most iconic villain before he became the boogeyman to humanity. The events in issue one bring the Locust Horde into a new light – it strangely humanises the […]

Second Opinion – The Misguided (2017)

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The Misguided, 2017. Written and directed by Shannon Alexander. Starring Steven J. Mihaljevich, Jasmine Nibali, Caleb Galati, and Katherine Langford. SYNOPSIS: After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation. The last thing I expected to think about while watching The […]

Movie Review – A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)

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A Futile and Stupid Gesture, 2018. Directed by David Wain. Starring Will Forte, Domhnall Gleeson, Martin Mull, Joel McHale, Thomas Lennon, Josh Gemberling, Matt Walsh, Rick Glassman, Jon Daly, and Seth Green. SYNOPSIS: In the 1970s and ’80s, National Lampoon’s success and influence creates a new media empire overseen in part by the brilliant and […]

Movie Review – Hostiles (2018)

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Hostiles. 2018. Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Jonathan Majors, Rory Cochrane, Scott Shepherd, David Midthunder, Stephen Lang, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons, Timothée Chalamet, Adam Beach, Scott Wilson, Q’orianka Kilcher, Tanaya Beatty, Ryan Bingham. SYNOPSIS: In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his […]

Movie Review – Early Man (2018)

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Early Man, 2018. Directed by Nick Park. Featuring the voice talents of Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hiddleston, Maisie Williams, Timothy Spall, Rob Brydon, Miriam Margolyes, Richard Ayoade, Mark Williams, and Johnny Vegas. SYNOPSIS: Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, Early Man tells the story of Dug, along […]

Movie Review – Last Flag Flying (2017)

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Last Flag Flying, 2017. Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston, Laurence Fishburne, J. Quinton Johnson, Deanna Reed-Foster, Yul Vasquez, Graham Wolfe, Jeff Monahan, and Cicely Tyson. SYNOPSIS: Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry “Doc” Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and […]