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Movie Review – Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Animation

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Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Animation, 2018.Dear BasketballDirected by Glen Keane. Starring Kobe Bryant.You needn’t be crazy about basketball to get something out of this ethereal adaptation of Kobe Bryant’s retirement letter to The Players’ Tribune, which is rendered via watercolour while accompanied by Bryant himself narrating his own letter.There’s plenty of controversy surrounding Bryant even […]

Movie Review – Still/Born (2018)

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Still/Born. 2018.Directed by Brandon Christensen. Starring Christie Burke, Jesse Moss, Rebecca Olson, Michael Ironside.SYNOPSIS:Mary, a new mother, gives birth to twins, but only one of them is alive. While taking care of her living child, Adam, she suspects that something, a supernatural entity, has chosen him and will stop at nothing to take him from her.For […]

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 and Andy Serkis.SYNOPSIS:T’Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed to the throne […]

Movie Review – Fifty Shades Freed (2018)

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Fifty Shades Freed. 2018.Directed by James Foley. Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Luke Grimes, Rita Ora, Max Martini, Marcia Gay Harden.SYNOPSIS:Anastasia and Christian get married, but Jack Hyde continues to threaten their relationship.It’s over. After four sexually explicit (eh, softcore) years, Fucking White People: The Thriller Fifty Shades Freed marks my […]

Video Game Review – Descenders (Early Access)

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Lewy Buck reviews Descenders on Early Access…As an avid skateboarder any game of the extreme sports variety usually gets me pretty excited but with relatively average releases such as Steep last year I feel as if that excitement had dwindled but after watching the development and growth of descenders it looked as if things were […]

Movie Review – A Fantastic Woman (2017)

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A Fantastic Woman, 2017.Directed by Sebastian Lelio. Starring Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco, Aline Küppenheim, Nicolás Saavedra, Amparo Noguera, Trinidad González, Nestor Cantillana, and Antonia Zegers.SYNOPSIS:Marina, a waitress who moonlights as a nightclub singer, is bowled over by the death of her older boyfriend.A Fantastic Woman follows the mournful and sorrow filled journey of […]

Movie Review – The Ballad of Lefty Brown (2017)

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The Ballad of Lefty Brown, 2017.Written and Directed by Jared Moshe. Starring Bill Pullman, Diego Josef, Tommy Flanagan, Jim Caviezel, Kathy Baker, Adam O’Byrne, Joe Anderson, Michael Spears, and Peter Fonda.SYNOPSIS:A coming-of-age Western for a 65-year-old man.A24 continues to be full of surprises, as there isn’t any other well-known distributor that would scoop up a […]

Movie Review – The Scent of Rain and Lightning (2017)

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The Scent of Rain and Lightning, 2017.Directed by Blake Robbins. Starring Maika Monroe, Maggie Grace, Bonnie Bedelia, Mark Webber, and Justin Chatwin.SYNOPSIS:When news reaches Jody Linder (Maika Monroe) that her parents’ killer is being released it causes a domino effect. Long buried secrets and family feuds are uncovered, proving fouler things than dead bodies lurk […]

Movie Review – The 15:17 to Paris (2018)

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The 15:17 to Paris, 2018.Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, Anthony Sadler, Jenna Fischer, Judy Greer, Bryce Ghelsar, Cole Eichenberger, William Jennings, Mark Moogalian, Isabelle Risacher Moogalian, P.J. Byrne, Jaleel White, Tony Hale, Ray Corasani, Paul-Mikel Williams, and Thomas Lennon.SYNOPSIS:Three Americans discover a terrorist plot aboard a train while in France.Depending on […]