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Movie Review – American Animals (2018)

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American Animals, 2018. Directed by Bart Layton. Starring Evan Peters, Barry Keoghan, Blake Jenner, Jared Abramson, Udo Kier, Ann Dowd, Spencer Reinhard, Warren Lipka, Chas Allen and Eric Borsuk. SYNOPSIS: Four young men mistake their lives for a movie and attempt one of the most audacious heists in U.S. history. Bart Layton follows up his mesmerising […]

Movie Review – The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)

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The Strangers: Prey at Night, 2018. Directed by Johannes Roberts. Starring Christina Hendricks, Martin Henderson, Bailee Madison, Lewis Pullman, Emma Bellomy, and Damian Maffei. SYNOPSIS: A family staying in a trailer park are stalked by three masked assailants. 2008s The Strangers seemingly came out of nowhere and proved to be something of a commercial success, […]

Blu-ray Review – Tag (2018)

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Tag, 2018. Directed by Jeff Tomsic. Starring Ed Helms, Jon Hamm, Jake Johnson, Jeremy Renner, Annabelle Wallis, Hannibal Buress, Isla Fisher, Rashida Jones, Leslie Bibb, Brian Dennehy, Nora Dunn, Steve Berg, Lil Rel Howery, and Thomas Middleditch. SYNOPSIS: A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to […]

The Pseudo-Intellectualism of Gaspar Noé’s Climax

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The following is partly a review of Climax and partly an exploration of what makes a film a good piece of cinema… Climax, 2018. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Giselle Palmer. SYNOPSIS: A young dance troupe rehearse for an upcoming American tour in a dingy school assembly […]

Comic Book Review – Fearscape #1

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews Fearscape #1… There are unreliable narrators and there’s Henry Henry. The name of Fearscape’s self-professed tragic hero isn’t a typo but it could be a lie, and that’s what makes writer, Ryan O’Sullivan, and illustrator, Andrea Mutti’s, new series so beguiling. Form matters. In fact, the opening page is all about how […]

Movie Review – Final Score (2018)

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Final Score, 2018. Directed by Scott Mann. Starring Dave Bautista, Lara Peake, Ray Stevenson, Amit Shah, Alexandra Dinu and Pierce Brosnan. SYNOPSIS: An army veteran must defend 35,000 people whose lives are at risk when terrorists take over West Ham football ground Upton Park on the hunt for a former revolutionary leader, who is hiding […]

Arrow Video FrightFest Review – Perfect Skin (2018)

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Perfect Skin, 2018. Directed by Kevin Chicken. Starring Richard Brake, Jo Woodcock, Natalia Kostrzewa, and Tom Ashley. SYNOPSIS: A young Polish girl Katia (Natalia Kostrzewa) meets American tattoo artist Bob Reid (Richard Brake) while traveling in London. While Katia is enamored by his mysterious aura and insane body modifications, Bob hides some dark and twisted secrets. […]

Second Opinion – Yardie (2018)

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Yardie, 2018. Directed by Idris Elba Starring Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Sheldon Shepherd, Calvin Demba, Stephen Graham, Everaldo Creary SYNOPSIS: From 70’s Kingston to 80’s Hackney, Yardie chronicles the life and strife of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen), whose path is laid out before him at a young age, and for whom tragedy dictates […]

Movie Review – Let the Corpses Tan (2018)

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Let The Corpses Tan, 2018. Directed by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani. Starring Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin, Michelangelo Marchese, Marc Barbé, Marine Sainsily, Hervé Sogne, and Pierre Nisse. SYNOPSIS: A gang of thieves with over 250kg of gold try to hide out in a French island retreat. However, there are all sorts of complications; a love triangle with the writer who […]