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Blu-ray Review – Scalpel (1977)

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Scalpel, 1977.Directed by John Grissmer. Starring Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, and Sandy Martin.SYNOPSIS:A psychopathic plastic surgeon tries to claim a huge inheritance by transforming the face of an accident victim into that of his missing daughter.John Grissmer’s debut feature Scalpel is an odd one. Odd because, on the surface, the […]

Movie Review – Rogers Park (2018)

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Rogers Park, 2018.Directed by Kyle Henry. Starring Sara Sevigny, Antoine McKay, Jonny Mars, Christine Horn, and Carlos Trevino.SYNOPSIS:Two Chicago couples struggle to keep their love alive when secrets and long-simmering resentments rise to the surface.Setting the stage for what’s to come, in an elementary school classroom a young boy and a girl began fighting over […]

Waco Episode 4 Review – ‘Of Milk and Men’

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Red Stewart reviews the fourth episode of Waco…One of the most interesting parts of the fourth episode of Waco involves a broadcast by a conservative radio host. In it, he talks to a preacher about the definition of a cult and whether or not Koresh and the Branch Davidians classify as such. The preacher points out that […]

Movie Review – Black Panther (2018)

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Black Panther, 2018.Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker, Sterling K. Brown, Florence Kasumba, John Kani, and Andy Serkis.SYNOPSIS:T’Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced […]

Movie Review – Loveless (2017)

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Loveless, 2017.Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. Starring Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, and Matvey Novikov.SYNOPSIS:A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments.Loveless issues two stark warnings to its audience: don’t let your resentment for another render you without love for anyone, and don’t […]

Movie Review – Half Magic (2018)

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Half Magic, 2018.Written and Directed by Heather Graham Starring Heather Graham, Angela Kinsey, Stephanie Beatriz, Chris D’Elia, Thomas Lennon, Luke Arnold, Molly Shannon, Jason Lewis, Rhea Perlman, and Johnny KnoxvilleSYNOPSIS:Explores themes of female empowerment through sex, work, and friendship. These women are able to come together through their frustration over male dominance and in fact […]

Second Opinion – Red Sparrow (2018)

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Red Sparrow, 2018.Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, and Joely Richardson.SYNOPSIS:Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. But her first mission, targeting a CIA agent, threatens […]

Movie Review – Red Sparrow (2018)

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Red Sparrow, 2018.Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Bill Camp, Joely Richardson, Kristof Konrad, Douglas Hodge, Sergei Polunin, Sakina Jaffrey, Nicole O’Neill, David Z. Miller, Makar Zaporozhskiy, Sasha Frolova, Joel de la Fuente, Thekla Reuten, Sergej Onopko, and Jeremy IronsSYNOPSIS:Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited […]

Movie Review – The Shape of Water (2017)

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The Shape of Water, 2017.Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nick Searcy, and David Hewlett.SYNOPSIS:Mute orphan Elisa lives her life on the edges in Baltimore in 1962, until her job working nights as a cleaner at a secret US government facility brings her […]

Comic Book Review – Dark Nights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1

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Ricky Church reviews Dark Nights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1…With big, epic comic book events, tie-in comics are not anything unheard of. Sometimes its a bit tedious to have to collect tie-in issues, especially if so many bear actual consequences on the main event itself. Fortunately most of the tie-ins for DC’s Dark Nights: Metal have told […]