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Movie Review – To Dust (2018)

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To Dust, 2018. Directed by Shawn Snyder. Starring Geza Rohrig and Matthew Broderick. SYNOPSIS: Grief stricken by the recent loss of his wife hasidic candor Shmuel (Geza Rohrig) is experiencing night terrors and concerns about how her rate of decomposition. Unable to find solace amongst the Jewish community and feeling pressured to move on, Shmuel […]

Comic Book Review – Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying #4

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Calum Petrie reviews Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying #4… The final issue in the Undying series has the two titular characters facing off against a ghost from their past. Not only does the fate of the ever faithful man servant lie in the balance, but so too does the fate of every person who has […]

Movie Review – Cold Pursuit (2019)

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Cold Pursuit. 2019. Directed by Hans Petter Moland. Starring Liam Neeson, Emmy Rossum, Julia Jones, Laura Dern, Tom Bateman, William Forsythe, Domenick Lombardozzi, Tom Jackson, and John Doman. SYNOPSIS:  A snowplow driver seeks revenge against the drug dealers he thinks killed his son. Liam Neeson’s latest special-set-of-skills warpath is an icy tale of Coloradoan drug […]

Movie Review – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

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Can You Ever Forgive Me?, 2018. Directed by Marielle Heller. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Richard E. Grant, Dolly Wells, Ben Falcone, Gregory Korostishevsky, Jane Curtin, Stephen Spinella, Christian Navarro, Anna Deavere Smith, and Kevin Carolan. SYNOPSIS: Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) is a biographer who has fallen on hard times. Cantankerous, talented but defensive she hides behind […]

The Flash Season 5 Episode 12 Review – ‘Memorabilia’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the twelfth episode of The Flash season 5… It’s family therapy time… inside a little girls’ memories The Good: Tonight focused on my new favorite character in all of Arrowverse, Nora West Allen. Her deep dark secret, that she’s working with Thawne, becomes dangerously close to being revealed to her parents in […]

Movie Review – Second Act (2018)

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Second Act, 2018. Directed by Peter Segal. Starring Jennifer Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini, Treat Williams, Freddie Stroma, Charlyne Yi, Annaleigh Ashford, Milo Ventimiglia and Larry Miller. SYNOPSIS: A woman in her forties gets a new start in her career when a fake social media profile lands her a high-flying job at a cosmetics firm. […]

Star Wars Resistance Season 1 Episode 14 Review – ‘The Doza Dilemma’

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Ricky Church reviews the fourteenth episode of Star Wars Resistance… After getting some pretty light episodes that didn’t have much impact on the main story, Star Wars Resistance delivered one of, if not the best, episode of the season so far with ‘The Doza Dilemma’. The focus on Kaz trying to rescue Torra, Synara’s conflicted feelings and […]

Black Lightning Season 2 Episode 11 Review – ‘The Book of Secrets: Chapter One: Prodigal Son’

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Red Stewart reviews the eleventh episode of Black Lightning season 2… A new chapter has begun in the Black Lightning saga- by brutally assaulting Khalil, Tobias has not only humiliated Freeland’s poor justice system, he’s also personally attacked Jefferson and his family. Khalil was someone dear to the Pierces’s, and his near-fatal injuries hang over “Prodigal Son” […]

Movie Review – Border (2018)

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Border, 2018. Directed by Ali Abbasi. Starring Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson and Sten Ljunggren. SYNOPSIS: A border guard with an unusual ability to smell when people are guilty is drawn into investigating a child pornography ring, while she also meets someone who may share her gifts. Imagine The Shape of Water, but nastier […]