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Movie Review – The Wedding Guest (2018)

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The Wedding Guest, 2018 Written and Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Dev Patel, Radhika Apte, and Jim Sarbh. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious man travels from the UK to Pakistan on a top-secret mission to attend a wedding – armed with duct tape, a shotgun, and a plan to kidnap the bride-to-be. Michael Winterbottom delivers a tense thriller with The Wedding Guest. Destined in […]

Video Game Review – Trials Rising

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Shaun Munro reviews Trials Rising… Trials Rising has been a long time coming for fans of the physics-based racing franchise, with the divisively-received Trials Fusion landing way back in the spring of 2014. And though the latest instalment makes a few peculiar design calls, it is for the most part the addictive, infuriatingly challenging blast fans will […]

Movie Review – The Drug King (2018)

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The Drug King, 2018. Directed and written by Min-ho Woo. Starring Kang-ho Song, Jung-suk Jo, and Doona Bae. SYNOPSIS: A Korean drug smuggler is initiated into the drug trade and experiences a spectacular rise and fall set against the backdrop of Korea in 1970s. Set in 1970s Korea, Kang-ho Song plays real-life drug smuggler Lee […]

Movie Review – Departures (2018)

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Departures (a.k.a. Then Came You), 2018. Directed by Peter Hutchings. Starring Asa Butterfield, Maisie Williams, Nina Dobrev, Ken Jeong, David Koechner, Tyler Hoechlin, Tituss Burgess, Margot Bingham, Peyton List, Sonya Walger, Colin Moss and Briana Venskus. SYNOPSIS: A hypochondriac working as an airport baggage handler is forced to confront his fears when a British teenager with […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Hotel Mumbai

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Hotel Mumbai, 2019. Directed by Anthony Maras. Starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Jason Isaacs, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, and Anupam Kher. SYNOPSIS: The true story of the victims and survivors of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, focusing on the residents and staff of the Taj Hotel. Some events are so abhorrent, so unspeakably horrific and off-putting to the […]

Movie Review – Climax (2019)

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Climax, 2019. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude-Emmanuelle Gajan-Maull, Giselle Palmer, Taylor Kastle, and Thea Carla Schott. SYNOPSIS:  French dancers gather in a remote, empty school building to rehearse on a wintry night. The all-night celebration morphs into a hallucinatory nightmare when they learn their sangria is laced with […]

Movie Review – Everybody Knows (2018)

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Everybody Knows, 2018. Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Penelope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Ricardo Darín, Bárbara Lennie, Ramón Barea, Inma Cuesta, Elvira Mínguez, José Ángel Egido and Carla Campra. SYNOPSIS: When a teenage girl goes missing during the frivolities of a wedding reception, family and friends discover buried secrets and unspoken turmoil as they try to […]

DVD Review – Outlaws (2017)

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Outlaws, 2017. Directed by Stephen McCallum. Starring Ryan Corr, Abbey Lee, Eddie Baroo, Simone Kessell, Matt Nable, Josh McConville and Jacqui Williams. SYNOPSIS: A biker in a gang must betray the brutal club President in order to save his brother’s life. “You’re a fake… You might as well be a male model” says Knuck (Matt […]

Doom Patrol Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘Donkey Patrol’

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Hasitha Fernando reviews the second episode of Doom Patrol… The opening scene of episode 2 finds our eponymous band of ‘super-zeroes’ in a bit of a hairy situation. To recap succinctly, the pilot of Doom Patrol concluded on a cliffhanger; albeit a rather outlandish one. It involved the appearance of an otherworldly flatulating donkey and […]