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Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Fighting With My Family

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Fighting With My Family, 2019. Directed by Stephen Merchant. Starring Florence Pugh, Jack Lowden, Nick Frost, Lena Headey, Vince Vaughn, Dwayne Johnson, Kim Matula, Aqueela Zoll, Ellie Gonsalves, Thea Trinidad and Stephen Merchant. SYNOPSIS:  The true story of Paige, a WWE superstar who rose from the rags of Norwich to the riches of professional wrestling. […]

Movie Review – Greta (2019)

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Greta. 2019. Directed by Neil Jordan. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Colm Feore, and Zawe Ashton. SYNOPSIS: A young woman befriends a lonely widow who’s harboring a dark and deadly agenda towards her. Neil Jordan’s Greta pushes a singular anomaly in The Prodigy closer towards 2019 “certifiable trend” territory. Much like Nicholas […]

Movie Review – The Final Girls: We Are the Weirdos 2 (2019)

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The Final Girls: We Are the Weirdos 2, 2019. Directed by Kate Dolan, Mariama Diallo, Hanna Bergholm, Jessica Hudak, Lee Kyoung, Rebecca Culverhouse, Zandashé Brown, Sofia Carillo and Diane Michelle. SYNOPSIS: A collection of horror shorts, directed by some of the brightest new female voices in genre cinema. Last year, Blumhouse head honcho Jason Blum […]

Comic Book Review – Superman: Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 3

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Ricky Church reviews Superman: Rebirth Deluxe Edition Book 3… When it comes to superheroes known for being a hopeful figure, Superman stands at the top of that list for the inspiration he offers both to his fellow superheroes and real-life fans. Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason strike to the core of Superman’s status in Superman: Rebirth […]

Second Opinion – How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

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How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, 2019. Directed by Dean DeBlois. Featuring the voice talents of Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, F. Murray Abraham, Gerard Butler, Cate Blanchett, Craig Ferguson, Jonah Hill, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Kristen Wiig, Kit Harington, and Justin Rupple. SYNOPSIS: When Hiccup discovers Toothless isn’t the only Night Fury, he must seek “The […]

Video Game Review – Macrotis: A Mother’s Journey

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Red Stewart reviews Macrotis: A Mother’s Journey… “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore increases their sense of cleverness and security. For […]

The Orville Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘Deflectors’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of The Orville season 2… This week marks a rare example of Seth MacFarlane relinquishing writing duties to someone else. However tonal shifts are unrecognisable and The Orville manages to bring us another solid fifty minutes of television. Mixing it up between relationship concerns and melodrama it manages to […]

Movie Review – Battle Angel (1993)

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Battle Angel (a.k.a. Gunnm), 1993. Directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi. Featuring the voice talents of Miki Itō, Shunsuke Kariya, Kappei Yamagunchi, Edward Glen, Mami Koyama, and Shigeru Chiba. SYNOPSIS: In the dystopian scrap yard of the 26th century Daisuke Ido finds the head and chest of a female cyborg named Alita. Once he puts her back together […]

Supergirl Season 4 Episode 12 Review – ‘Menagerie’

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Martin Carr reviews the twelfth episode of Supergirl season 4… Symbiotes are strange things who bond with their human hosts, whisper advice, manipulate mood and make matters worse. What Supergirl seems to have this week is an issue with tone, story threads and an unnecessary desire to acknowledge Valentine’s Day. Things may hit the ground […]