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Blu-ray Review – Don’t Torture A Duckling (1972)

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Don’t Torture a Duckling, 1972. Directed by Lucio Fulci. Starring Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas, and Marc Porel. SYNOPSIS: A rural Italian village is plagued by child murders and the finger of suspicion points to several of its locals. Set in rural Southern Italy, Don’t Torture a Duckling followed in the wake […]

Movie Review – Woodshock (2017)

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Woodshock, 2017. Written and Directed by Kate and Laura Mulleavy Starring Kirsten Dunst, Joe Cole, Jack Kilmer, Susan Traylor, and Pilou Asbæk SYNOPSIS: A woman falls deeper into paranoia after taking a deadly drug. Woodshock is an exercise in sensory filmmaking that rarely stimulates the mind, rendering it quite the boring view. There is certainly talent […]

Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams – The Impossible Planet Review

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Villordsutch reviews Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams: The Impossible Planet… Episode two of Philip K. Dick’s Electric Dreams is titled The Impossible Planet.  Originally published back in 1953 within the American Science Fiction and Fantasy magazine Imagination, this latest iteration is delivered by David Farr (The Night Manager, Hanna, McMafia) who is handling both writing and […]

Movie Review – Goodbye Christopher Robin (2017)

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Goodbye Christopher Robin, 2017. Directed by Simon Curtis. Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Kelly Macdonald, Will Tilston, Stephen Campbell Moore, and Alex Lawther. SYNOPSIS: The story behind Winnie the Pooh.  Inspired by his son’s toys, author A. A. Milne creates a magical series of books that become an international success.  But for the young Christopher […]

Movie Review – Stronger (2017)

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Stronger, 2017. Directed by David Gordon Green. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tatiana Maslany, Miranda Richardson, Clancy Brown, Carlos Sanz, and Lenny Clarke. SYNOPSIS: Stronger is the inspiring real life story of Jeff Bauman, an ordinary man who captured the hearts of his city and the world to become a symbol of hope following the infamous 2013 […]

Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Willow Lake’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Mr. Mercedes… Harry Treadaway lurks under the bed of your collective unconscious hacking into those thoughts we prefer people keep to themselves. Brady Hartsfield is the culmination of sexual congress, incestuous transgressions and borderline foster care upbringing. Blessed with a high IQ, limited social skills and a psychotic […]

The Orville Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘About a Girl’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of The Orville… Online entertainment sites seem more concerned with the impact of Thursday night football on The Orville than anything else. Fox also re-launched Gotham against the Star Trek pastiche which is another reason why ratings may have bottomed out for MacFarlane’s creation. Whatever their arguments for moving […]

Movie Review – Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict

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Memoirs of a Spectrum Addict Directed by Andy Remic. SYNOPSIS: A documentary feature film based on Andy Remic’s memoirs growing up with the ZX Spectrum; part cinema drama, part interviews, part nostalgic journey. The ZX Spectrum back in the 1980’s was one of the computers to have in your home. Forget your Nintendos and your […]

Movie Review – Friend Request (2016)

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Friend Request, 2016. Directed by Simon Verhoeven. Starring Alycia Debnam-Carey, Liesl Ahlers, William Moseley, Connor Paolo, Brit Morgan, Brooke Markham, Sean Marquette, and Lee Raviv. SYNOPSIS: A popular college student graciously accepts a social outcast’s online friend request, but soon finds herself fighting a demonic presence that wants to make her lonely by killing her […]