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Arrow Season 6 Episode 1 Review – ‘Fallout’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the season six premiere episode of Arrow… Who Survived the Explosion on Lian Yu? Surprise! Everyone! (except William’s mom, which, you know, story) Arrow opens up and without us really noticing, picks up right where it left off, with all characters pretty much continuing where they were before the whole island blew […]

Gotham Season 4 Episode 4 Review – ‘The Demon’s Head’

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Gotham season 4… Sacrificial knife inscriptions, steamy liaisons with criminal femme fatales and an immortal foe with a man dog from the afterlife are just a few things which feature in ‘The Demon’s Head’. Couple that with an absent minded Riddler, overly paranoid kingpin Penguin and an irate […]

53rd Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Princess Cyd (2017)

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Directed by Chicago based filmmaker Stephen Cone (Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party), Princess Cyd is at once genuine and inauthentic. As previously seen in his evergrowing portfolio of indie character studies, Cone presents humans with a deep aura of grace. Truthfully, there is no better word to use; working from the mismatched familial duo concept, it should be […]

Movie Review – School Life (2016)

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School Life, 2016. Directed by Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane. SYNOPSIS: Feature documentary based at a stately home turned boarding school where long careers in teaching are drawing to a close for Amanda and John Leyden. Closely examining a year in the life of the Headfort School in Ireland, School Life is a charming […]

October Horrors 2017 Day 13 – Alien 3 (1992)

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Alien 3, 1992. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Charles Dance, Charles S. Dutton, Brian Glover, and Lance Henriksen. SYNOPSIS: An escape pod containing Ripley, Newt and Hicks crash lands on a wind-battered prison planet, with Ripley being the sole survivor. Finding herself trapped on a planet whose entirely male population consists of murderers […]

53rd Chicago International Film Festival Review – Marshall (2017)

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Marshall, 2017. Directed by Reginald Hudlin. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Josh Gad, Sterling K. Brown, Kate Hudson, Dan Stevens, Keesha Sharp, John Magaro, Roger Guenveur Smith, Jussie Smollett, Derrick Baskin, Barrett Doss, Ahna O’Reilly, Rozonda ‘Chilli’ Thomas, Andra Day, Marina Squerciati, and James Cromwell. SYNOPSIS: A young Thurgood Marshall battles through one of his career-defining cases. Chadwick […]

61st London Film Festival Review – The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

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The Killing of a Sacred Deer, 2017. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Starring Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan, Raffey Cassidy, Sunny Suljic, Bob Camp, and Alicia Silverstone. SYNOPSIS: A highly successful surgeon takes a teenage boy under his wing. But the boy’s behaviour turns sinister and the surgeon’s life starts to fall apart. Beware, as […]

Movie Review – Loving Vincent (2017)

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Loving Vincent, 2017. Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman. Featuring the Voice Talents of Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Saoirse Ronan, Chris O’Dowd, Helen McRory, Holly Earl, Aidan Turner, Josh Burdett, Eleanor Tomlinson, John Sessions, James Greene, Martin Herdman, Bill Thomas, and Robert Gulaczyk. SYNOPSIS: A feature film about the life and mysterious death of Vincent […]

Video Game Review – Pankapu

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Shaun Munro reviews Pankapu… With more than a dozen new Nintendo Switch games landing on the eShop every week as of late, it can be tough to separate the wheat from the chaff, and moreover, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for retro-style platformers in particular to differentiate themselves in such a crowded market. Pankapu, a love-letter to […]