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Movie Review – Booksmart (2019)

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Booksmart, 2019. Directed by Olivia Wilde. Starring Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Billie Lourd, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte and Jason Sudeikis. SYNOPSIS: On the eve of their high school graduation, two academic superstars and best friends realise they should have worked less and played more. Determined not to fall short of their peers, the […]

Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 4 Review – ‘The Last of the Starks’

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Eammon Jacobs reviews the fourth episode of Game of Thrones season 8… *Spoiler Warning* The Great War might be over, but the Last War is coming. The fight for the Throne waits for no one this week as we very briefly see a sombre scene after Winterfell has recovered from the battle with the Night King. […]

Movie Review – The Curse of La Llorona (2019)

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The Curse of La Llorona, 2019. Directed by Michael Chaves. Starring Linda Cardellini, Raymond Cruz, Marisol Ramirez, Patricia Velasquez, Roman Christou, Jaynee-Lynne Kinchen, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Tony Amendola. SYNOPSIS: When a social worker (Linda Cardellini) visits the home of a troubled mother suspected of child neglect, she puts her own family at risk by […]

Line of Duty Series 5 Episode 6 Review

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Eammon Jacobs reviews the sixth episode of Line of Duty Series 5… After the penultimate episode piled on the evidence that the stoic Superintendent Hastings was the leader of a corrupt network of Police officers. In the series finale, the situation we’ve thoroughly enjoyed time and time again has been turned back onto AC-12 as […]

Blu-ray Review – The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot

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The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then The Bigfoot, 2018. Directed by Robert D. Krzykowski. Starring Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner, Sean Bridgers, Caitlin FitzGerald, Larry Miller, Kelley Curran. SYNOPSIS: A man kills Hitler and then later in later life kills the Bigfoot. No, really… Every so often a movie comes along that just connects; you […]

Movie Review – Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)

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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, 2019. Directed by Joe Berlinger. Starring Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Kaya Scodelario, Jim Parsons, John Malkovich and Haley Joel Osment. SYNOPSIS: Through the eyes of his long-term girlfriend, we see the net close in on serial killer Ted Bundy, after years of getting away with his violent murders. For […]

Movie Review – Eyes and Prize (2018)

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Eyes and Prize, 2018. Written and directed by Oliver Cane. Starring Jackson Bews, Gerard McDermott, Nick Blakeley, and Alanna Flynn. SYNOPSIS: Four people are invited to take part in a reality television show. Soon the gravity of their decision becomes apparent beginning a domino effect which does nothing but gather momentum. This premise is simple […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers #4

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers #4… We’re another chapter into IDW’s Transformers reboot, but with four issues it doesn’t feel like the story has advanced in any meaningful way since the reboot began. Brian Ruckley continues to extensively explore this new version of Cybertron, but it comes at the expense of the murder mystery as well as even […]

Movie Review – Tolkien (2019)

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Tolkien, 2019. Directed by Dome Karukoski. Starring Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins, Anthony Boyle, Patrick Gibson, Tom Glynn-Carney, Derek Jacobi, Colm Meaney, Pam Ferris and Craig Roberts. SYNOPSIS: The story of J. R. R. Tolkien during his university years, and the wartime experiences that would shape his Lord of the Rings novels. There seems to be […]