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Movie Review – Flay (2019)

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Flay, 2019. Directed by Eric Pham. Starring Elle LaMont, Dalton E. Gray, A. Michael Baldwin, Johnny Walter, Violett Beane, and Jordan LeuVoy. SYNOPSIS: Following her mother’s death, an estranged daughter struggles to save her brother and others from Flay, an evil Native American spirit that is definitely not the Slender Man. Where do we begin […]

Movie Review – The White Crow (2018)

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The White Crow, 2018. Directed by Ralph Fiennes. Starring Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Louis Hofmann, Chulpan Khamatova, Sergei Polunin, Raphaël Personnaz, Aleksey Morozov, Nebojsa Dugalic, Anna Urban and Anastasiya Meskova. SYNOPSIS: The story of Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West. The White Crow is a well-crafted piece, from writer David Hare and director […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers #1

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers #1… For the first time in nearly 15 years, IDW has begun a new continuity for its Transformers comic book franchise. Beginning in the pre-war days of Cybertron, Brian Ruckely sets out to examine the start of the conflict between Autobots and Decepticons with fresh eyes in both a literal and figurative sense. […]

Movie Review – Triple Frontier (2019)

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Triple Frontier, 2019. Directed by J.C. Chandor Starring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund, Adria Arjona, Sheila Vand and Reynaldo Gallegos. SYNOPSIS: A group of ex-soldiers team-up to take down a Latin drug lord and plan to take his money but numerous complications soon arise. Director J.C. Chandor and actor Oscar […]

Star Wars Resistance Season 1 Episode 20 Review – ‘No Escape, Part I’

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Ricky Church reviews the twentieth episode of Star Wars Resistance season 1… With Kaz and Neeku on the run, Yeager and Tam captured and the Colossus on a full-lock down as it remains submerged, the first part of Star Wars Resistance‘s finale was already quite high in tension. However, ‘No Escape: Part One’ wasn’t quite as […]

Second Opinion – Ben is Back (2018)

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Ben is Back, 2018. Directed by Peter Hedges. Starring Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Kathryn Newton, Courtney B. Vance, Michael Esper, David Zaldivar and Rachel Bay Jones. SYNOPSIS: A mother welcomes her drug addict son home early from rehab when he drops by on Christmas Eve, until the family dog disappears… Throughout the early part of […]

SXSW 2019 Review – The Peanut Butter Falcon

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The Peanut Butter Falcon, 2019. Directed by Tyler Nilson and Mike Schwartz. Starring Zack Gottsagen, Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern, John Hawkes, Jon Bernthal, Thomas Haden Church, Yelawolf, Jake Roberts, and Mick Foley. SYNOPSIS: A man with Down syndrome and a passion for wrestling escapes from a nursing home and joins a man on […]

Movie Review – The Aftermath (2019)

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The Aftermath, 2019. Directed by James Kent. Starring Keira Knightley, Alexander Skarsgård, Jason Clarke, Jannik Schümann, Kate Phillips, and Martin Compston. SYNOPSIS: Post World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German who previously owned the house. The Aftermath […]

Movie Review – Book of Monsters (2019)

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Book Of Monsters, 2019. Directed by Stewart Sparke. Starring Lyndsey Craine, Michaela Longden, Lizzie Aaryn-Stanton, Anna Dawson, Rose Muirhead, Steph Mossman, Nicholas Vince, Arron Dennis, and Daniel Thrace. SYNOPSIS: Six kickass women must fight off a horde of terrifying monsters at an 18th birthday party. Stewart Sparke’s Book of Monsters is the horror equivalent of a […]