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DVD Review – Annabelle: Creation (2017)

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Annabelle: Creation, 2017. Directed by David F. Sandberg. Starring Anthony LaPaglia, Samara Lee, Miranda Otto, Stephanie Sigman, Mark Bramhall, Brad Greenquist, and Lulu Wilson. SYNOPSIS: Yet another prequel from The Conjuring universe detailing how the creepy Annabelle doll came to be. Having now established that there is a ‘universe’ based around James Wan’s 2013 hit […]

Movie Review – Una (2017)

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Una, 2017. Directed by Benedict Andrews. Starring Rooney Mara, Ben Mendelsohn, Ruby Stokes, Riz Ahmed, Tobias Menzies, Natasha Little, and Tara Fitzgerald. SYNOPSIS: A woman confronts an older man, her former neighbor, to find out why he abandoned her after they had a sexual relationship. The premise of Una is enough on its own to […]

Blu-ray Review – Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D (1991)

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day 3D, 1991. Directed by James Cameron. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Edward Furlong, Joe Morton, and Robert Patrick. SYNOPSIS: Years after Sarah Connor was stalked by a Terminator, a machine sent from a future where an AI has subjugated humanity, she must now prevent another, more powerful Terminator from killing her […]

Blu-ray Review – American Gods: Season One

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Ricky Church reviews American Gods season one… For many years, Neil Gaiman’s novel American Gods was thought to be unfilmable. It was felt the novel was too grandiose for the big screen, with too many characters and too much story to fit into one 2-hour or 2-hour plus film. Almost 20 years later, Michael Green and Bryan […]

The Orville Season 1 Episode 11 Review – ‘New Dimensions’

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Martin Carr reviews the eleventh episode of The Orville… This could be the episode season one is remembered for. Discussions about quantum physics, landmark publications from the 1880s and dramatic tension mixed with measured humour define episode eleven. Bridge side banter and sight gags are present and correct but New Dimensions deals with more intellectual […]

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episodes 1 & 2 Review – ‘Orientation’

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Danny Hale reviews the season 5 premiere of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D…. Since the finale of season 4 we have known that Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would be venturing beyond the stars for their next adventure and while we’ve had months to postulate on what this could mean for our characters I am so happy to […]

Young Sheldon Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘A Patch, a Modem and a Zantac’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Young Sheldon… Young Sheldon continues to bring in the audiences, rack up the ratings and combine with Big Bang to destroy all comers. Touchstones for this week are numerous, endearing, funny and in line with content to date. Armitage, Perry and Barber do the heavy lifting while Potts […]

53rd Chicago International Film Festival Review – The Shape of Water (2017)

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Publish December 3rd The Shape of Water, 2017. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nick Searcy, David Hewlett, and Octavia Spencer. SYNOPSIS: An otherworldly fairy tale, set against the backdrop of Cold War era America circa 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, […]

Movie Review – The Pirates of Somalia (2017)

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The Pirates of Somalia, 2017. Written and Directed by Bryan Buckley. Starring Evan Peters, Barkhad Abdi, Melanie Griffith, Russell Posner, Mohamed Mohamud Hossein, Mohamed Abdikadir, Mohamed Abdi Mohamed, Abdi Sidow Farah, Mohamed Osmail Ibrahim, Sabrina Hassan, Mohamed Barre, and Al Pacino SYNOPSIS: In 2008, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur forms a half-baked plan to embed himself among […]