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Movie Review – The Hole in the Ground (2019)

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The Hole in the Ground, 2019. Directed by Lee Cronin. Starring Seána Kerslake, James Cosmo, Simone Kirby, Steve Wall, and James Quinn Markey. SYNOPSIS: A boy disappears one night after venturing out into the woods behind their secluded home where a mysterious hole in the ground is located. After a short while, he returns but […]

Comic Book Review – Fantastic Four #7

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Allen Christian reviews Fantastic Four #7… Fantastic Four is a book steeped in history. Responsible for laying the foundations for the Marvel universe, both cosmically and terrestrially, it’s a book that comes with heavy expectations, and decades of baggage. Dan Slott insists on being here every month, and that counts for something. This is meat and […]

2019 Glasgow Film Festival Review – Beats

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Beats, 2019. Directed by Brian Welsh. Starring Cristian Ortega, Lorn Macdonald, Laura Fraser and Brian Ferguson. SYNOPSIS: It’s Scotland, 1994. Two young friends in West Lothian with a love for techno head for one last night together, before life sends them their separate ways. For all its horrific, stillborn visage and unforgiving portrait of drug culture, Trainspotting […]

Video Game Review – ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove

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Shaun Munro reviews ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove… There are few video games more emblematic of the 1990s than Mega Drive cult classic ToeJam & Earl, an early entry into the roguelike genre which dropped players into the sneakers of two alien rappers after they crash-land on Earth. This Kickstarter-funded “sequel”, effectively a re-imagining […]

Gotham Season 5 Episode 8 Review – ‘Nothing’s Shocking’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Gotham season 5… Chameleons with an identity crisis, fumbled police cases and precincts in lock down feature quite heavily this week as Gotham gains momentum. For the moment interchangeable alliances and comedic asides take an all important back seat, as Gordon digs into Bullock’s seedy past.Ventriloquism also features […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – The Public

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The Public, 2018. Directed by Emilio Estevez. Starring Emilio Estevez, Alec Baldwin, Jena Malone, Taylor Schilling, Christian Slater, Gabrielle Union, Jeffrey Wright, Michael K. Williams, Che ‘Rhymefest’ Smith, and Jacob Vargas. SYNOPSIS: For his 6th feature behind the camera, Emilio Estevez explores homelessness on the coldest night of the year in Cincinnati, Ohio. Playing public […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Eighth Grade

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Eighth Grade, 2018. Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson and Jake Ryan. SYNOPSIS: With one week of eighth grade left, an introverted 13-year-old girl tries to make it to the end. 1986’s Stand By Me sees four young boys on a cross-country hike to find a dead body. The story […]

Movie Review – We Are Boats (2019)

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We Are Boats, 2019. Directed by James Bird. Starring Luke Hemsworth, Angela Sarafyan, Graham Greene, Jack Falahee, Amanda Plummer, Gaia Weiss, Booboo Stewart, and Uzo Aduba. SYNOPSIS: Francesca travels through the world of the living, encountering many strangers along the way. She either sends them on a path towards happiness or towards a tragic end. All of […]

Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Under the Silver Lake

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Under the Silver Lake, 2018. Directed by David Robert Mitchell. Starring Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough, Topher Grace, Grace Van Patten and Jimmi Simpson. SYNOPSIS:  Sam, a layabout, shaggy no-user, finds himself chained to the charm of a mysterious stranger after she goes missing. Through various puzzles and bizarre locations in Los Angeles, he stumbles on a […]