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Movie Review – Beneath the Leaves (2019)

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Beneath the Leaves, 2019. Directed by Adam Marino. Starring Mira Sorvino, Kristoffer Polaha, Doug Jones, Christopher Masterson, Melora Walters, and Paul Sorvino. SYNOPSIS: James Whitley, a deranged, warm-eyed psychopath, kidnaps four small-town boys. But his grotesque pursuit to reunite orphaned children with their deceased birth parents is gridlocked when the boys escape and he is […]

Second Opinion – Velvet Buzzsaw (2019)

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Velvet Buzzsaw, 2019. Written and directed by Dan Gilroy. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, Toni Collette, Zawe Ashton, Tom Sturridge, Natalia Dyer, Daveed Diggs, Billy Magnussen and John Malkovich. SYNOPSIS: A previously unknown painter is discovered by greedy, shallow art entrepreneurs and takes revenge in a satire/horror thriller of the art world. Jake Gyllenhaal is […]

Second Opinion – Alita: Battle Angel (2019)

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Alita: Battle Angel, 2019. Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Starring Rosa Salazar, Mahershala Ali, Jennifer Connelly, Michelle Rodriguez, Ed Skrein, Christoph Waltz, Jackie Earle Haley, Keean Johnson, and Edward Norton. SYNOPSIS: An action-packed story of one young woman’s journey to discover the truth of who she is and her fight to change the world. Robert Rodriguez’s […]

Video Game Review – A Fisherman’s Tale

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Shaun Munro reviews A Fisherman’s Tale… PSVR’s 2019 gets off to a surging start with the one-two punch of Ace Combat 7‘s delirious VR suite and now A Fisherman’s Tale, a delightfully disorientating puzzler from Innerspace VR (Firebird: La Peri) that in many ways pushes the boundaries of precisely what VR gaming can be. The player controls Bob, a […]

Movie Review – Hunter (2018)

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Hunter, 2018. Directed by David Tarleton. Starring Nick Searcy, Shannon Brown, Adria Dawn, Rachel Cerda and Jason Kellerman. SYNOPSIS: Revered cage fighter Hunter (Jason Kellerman) is sleeping rough. Haunted by the murder of his mother and daughter he searches for solace, searches for answers and finds help in Danni (Rachel Cerda) counsellor at a nearby […]

Movie Review – Vice (2018)

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Vice, 2018. Written and Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell, Jesse Plemons, Alison Pill, Lily Rabe, Tyler Perry, Justin Kirk, LisaGay Hamilton, Shea Whigham, Eddie Marsan, Fay Masterson, Bill Camp, Don McManus, Bob Stephenson, Jillian Armenante, Abigail Marlowe, and Jamie Bernadette. SYNOPSIS: The story of Dick Cheney, an […]

Sundance Film Festival 2019 Review – The Farewell

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The Farewell, 2019. Directed by Lulu Wang. Starring Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, Zhao Shuzhen, Lu Hong, Jiang Yongbo, Chen Han, Aoi Mizuhara, Chen Hanwei, and Li Xiang. SYNOPSIS: A Chinese family discover their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to […]

Comic Book Review – Justice League Vol. 1: The Totality

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Ricky Church reviews Justice League Vol. 1: The Totality… The Justice League has been off on some fairly crazy adventures the last couple of years thanks to Scott Snyder and they’re off on even more wild and cosmic quests in the first volume of Snyder’s tale, Justice League Vol. 1: The Totality. Spinning out from the events […]

Movie Review – Serenity (2019)

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Serenity, 2019. Directed by Steven Knight. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Diane Lane, Jason Clarke, and Djimon Hounsou. SYNOPSIS: A down-on-his-luck war veteran is offered a tempting offer to solve his money troubles by his ex-wife to kill her husband but not everything is at it appears in this slick mystery film. Serenity for the […]