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The Orville Season 2 Finale Review – ‘The Road Not Taken’

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Martin Carr reviews The Orville’s season 2 finale… Something happens this week which fundamentally challenges audience expectations, alters dramatic intention and makes season two a benchmark. Impossibly we are introduced to a whole new show that feels unlike anything The Orville has done before. Somehow the gloss has been removed, somehow these actors have not […]

Second Opinion – Avengers: Endgame (2019)

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Avengers: Endgame, 2019. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Bradley Cooper, and Josh Brolin. SYNOPSIS: After the devastating events of Avengers: Infinity War, the universe is in ruins. With the help […]

Movie Review – Eighth Grade (2018)

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Eighth Grade, 2018. Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Josh Hamilton, Daniel Zolghadri, Elsie Fisher, and Emily Robinson. SYNOPSIS: A teenager tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth-grade year before leaving to start high school. Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade earns a place at the kiddie’s table with Felix Thompson’s King Jack. Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ The Kings Of […]

Movie Review – Ash Is Purest White (2018)

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Ash Is Purest White, 2018. Written and Directed by Jia Zhangke. Starring Tao Zhao and Liao Fan. SYNOPSIS: ASH IS PUREST WHITE follows the journey of Qiao (Tao Zhao), the moll of a local mob boss who has fallen from grace… Director Jia Zhangke has steadily risen to become a leading figure in the ‘Sixth-generation’ […]

Blu-ray Review – Howard the Duck (1986)

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Howard the Duck, 1986. Directed by Willard Huyck. Starring Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, and Chip Zien. SYNOPSIS: A walking talking and very sarcastic duck from outer space arrives on Earth thanks to a scientific accident that brings other beings to our planet. Unfortunately he’s not the only thing to be brought […]

Movie Review – Scary Stories (2019)

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Scary Stories, 2019. Directed by Cody Meirick. Featuring R.L. Stine, Amelia Cotter, Bruce Coville and Q.L. Pearce. SYNOPSIS: A documentary examining the impact of the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series of books. It looks at the influence it had on an entire generation of children as well as discussing the series with […]

Comic Book Review – The Forgotten Queen #3

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews The Forgotten Queen #3… While she hasn’t been able to shake the label “witch,” yet, The Forgotten Queen #3 is more concerned with Vexana’s immortality, and what that does to her perception of time. Every series will tell you something different about witches – what they look like, how their magic works […]

The Flash Season 5 Episode 19 Review – ‘Snow Pack’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the nineteenth episode of The Flash season 5… After last week’s power punch of an episode, focused on Nora’s lie being exposed and Barry’s fairly harsh reaction to it, this week, we get a mish-mash of multiple storylines going on at once, making “Snow Pack” a clunky mess. There’s a lot of […]

Video Review – Avengers: Endgame (2019)

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Avengers: Endgame, 2019 Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Bradley Cooper, and Josh Brolin. The biggest Marvel Studios film to-date is here, and our critic EJ Moreno is here to dive […]