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Movie Review – Loro (2018)

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Loro, 2018. Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Starring Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Kasia Smutniak, Alice Pagani and Fabrizio Bentivoglio. SYNOPSIS: The epic and unauthorised tale of Silvio Berlusconi – Italy’s most infamous politician and party boy. A lengthy legal disclaimer at the start of Paolo Sorrentino’s epic Silvio Berlusconi biopic – released in […]

Movie Review – Justice League vs. The Fatal Five (2019)

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Justice League vs The Fatal Five, 2019. Directed by Sam Liu. Featuring the voice talents of Kevin Conroy, Diane Guerrero, Kevin Michael Richardson, Susan Eisenberg, George Newman, Daniela Bobadilla. SYNOPSIS: A group of supervillains and a lone hero from the future are hurled back to the present day where the Justice League must figure out […]

Blu-ray Review – Terra Formars (2016)

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Terra Formars, 2016. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring Rinko Kikuchi, Rila Fukushima, Shun Oguri, Emi Takei, Kane Kosugi, and Hideaki Itô. SYNOPSIS: In the 24th century a group of social misfits are sent to Mars on a mission to destroy cockroaches sent there years before, only the roaches have evolved slightly. Based on the manga […]

Star Wars Resistance Season 2 Premiere Review

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Ricky Church reviews the season 2 premiere of Star Wars Resistance… On the final day of Star Wars Celebration, fans of the latest animated series Star Wars Resistance got a real treat at the end of the show’s panel. After discussing several elements from the first season and teasing what is to come for the second season, we were expecting […]

Movie Review – The Silence (2019)

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The Silence, 2019. Directed by John R. Leonetti. Starring Kiernan Shipka, Stanley Tucci, Miranda Otto, Kate Trotter, Kyle Breitkopf, John Corbett, and Billy MacLellan. SYNOPSIS: When the world is under attack from terrifying creatures who hunt their human prey by sound, 16-year old Ally Andrews, who lost her hearing at 13, and her family seek […]

Movie Review – Yamasong: March of the Hollows (2017)

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Yamasong: March of the Hollows, 2017. Directed by Sam Koji Hale. Starring Nathan Fillion, Abigail Breslin, Whoopi Goldberg, Freida Pinto, Peter Weller, Malcolm McDowell, George Takei, Ed Asner, and Bruce Davison. SYNOPSIS: When the Hollows escape their prison it’s up to Nani (Abigail Breslin) to stop her mother from destroying Yamasong. A prison moon is […]

American Gods Season 2 Episode 6 Review – ‘Donar the Great’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of American Gods season 2… Aside from a chuck away reference to Fredrick Nietzsche there is little of philosophical depth in Donar the Great. Flashback heavy and no more obscure than normal this vaudevillian segue into music hall politics with Velvet Underground undertones shows much but achieves little. Narrative […]

Movie Review – Greta (2019)

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Greta, 2019. Directed by Neil Jordan Starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert, Maika Monroe, Colm Feore, and Stephen Rea. SYNOPSIS: After finding a handbag left in a Subway car, a young woman befriends the bag’s older owner, but finds it increasingly difficult to end the relationship when Greta gets a little too close for comfort. […]