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Movie Review – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

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Can You Ever Forgive Me?, 2018. Directed by Marielle Heller. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Gregory Korostishevsky, Jane Curtin, Stephen Spinella, Christian Navarro, Anna Deavere Smith, and Kevin Carolan. SYNOPSIS: Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) is a biographer who has fallen on hard times. Cantankerous, talented but defensive she hides behind […]

The Flash Season 5 Episode 12 Review – ‘Memorabilia’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the twelfth episode of The Flash season 5… It’s family therapy time… inside a little girls’ memories The Good: Tonight focused on my new favorite character in all of Arrowverse, Nora West Allen. Her deep dark secret, that she’s working with Thawne, becomes dangerously close to being revealed to her parents in […]

Movie Review – Second Act (2018)

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Second Act, 2018. Directed by Peter Segal. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini, Treat Williams, Freddie Stroma, Charlyne Yi, Annaleigh Ashford, Milo Ventimiglia and Larry Miller. SYNOPSIS: A woman in her forties gets a new start in her career when a fake social media profile lands her a high-flying job at a cosmetics firm. […]

Star Wars Resistance Season 1 Episode 14 Review – ‘The Doza Dilemma’

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Ricky Church reviews the fourteenth episode of Star Wars Resistance… After getting some pretty light episodes that didn’t have much impact on the main story, Star Wars Resistance delivered one of, if not the best, episode of the season so far with ‘The Doza Dilemma’. The focus on Kaz trying to rescue Torra, Synara’s conflicted feelings and […]

Black Lightning Season 2 Episode 11 Review – ‘The Book of Secrets: Chapter One: Prodigal Son’

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Red Stewart reviews the eleventh episode of Black Lightning season 2… A new chapter has begun in the Black Lightning saga- by brutally assaulting Khalil, Tobias has not only humiliated Freeland’s poor justice system, he’s also personally attacked Jefferson and his family. Khalil was someone dear to the Pierces’s, and his near-fatal injuries hang over “Prodigal Son” […]

Movie Review – Border (2018)

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Border, 2018. Directed by Ali Abbasi. Starring Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson and Sten Ljunggren. SYNOPSIS: A border guard with an unusual ability to smell when people are guilty is drawn into investigating a child pornography ring, while she also meets someone who may share her gifts. Imagine The Shape of Water, but nastier […]

TV Review – I Am the Night

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Matt Rodgers reviews I Am the Night… The television landscape is something of a battleground at the moment; Game of Thrones is looming over the horizon, and True Detective has just made a triumphant return to form with a slice of Missouri macabre. With networks jostling for position alongside the likes of Amazon (Homecoming) and […]

Supergirl Season 4 Episode 11 Review – ‘Blood Memory’

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Martin Carr reviews the eleventh episode of Supergirl season 4… This might not be Tranamerica but Blood Memory does represent a milestone for television in its inclusion of a transgender character. Nia Nal as portrayed by Nicole Maines is given backstory, dramatic purpose and moments of tangible regret throughout episode eleven, which go some way […]

Movie 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, Nik Dodani, Tyler Labine and Yorick van Wageningen. SYNOPSIS: A group of unconnected people are invited to a uniquely immersive escape room experience, but soon realise that the stakes are legitimately life and death. I’ve never been to […]