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Horror Channel FrightFest Review – Death Note (2017)

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Death Note, 2017 Directed by Adam Wingard Starring Nat Wolff, Lakeith Stanfield, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, Shea Whigham SYNOPSIS: Light Turner, a bright student, stumbles across a mystical notebook that has the power to kill any person whose name he writes in it. Light decides to launch a secret crusade to rid the streets of criminals. […]

Movie Review – American Made (2017)

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American Made, 2017. Directed by Doug Liman. Starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, E. Roger Mitchell, Jesse Plemons, Lola Kirke, Alejandro Edda, Benito Martinez, Caleb Landry Jones, and Jayma Mays. SYNOPSIS: A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s. There’s an unshakeable feeling that Tom […]

Horror Channel FrightFest Review – Cult of Chucky (2017)

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Cult of Chucky, 2017 Written and directed by Don Mancini Starring Fiona Dourif, Jennifer Tilly, Brad Dourif, Alex Vincent, Elisabeth Rosen, Michael Therriault, Zak Santiago, Grace Lynn Kung SYNOPSIS: Chucky returns to terrorize his human victim, Nica. Meanwhile, the killer doll has some scores to settle with his old enemies, with the help of his former […]

Marvel’s The Defenders Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Fish in the Jailhouse’

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Ricky Church reviews the seventh episode of Marvel’s The Defenders… As we reach the penultimate episode of The Defenders with ‘Fish in the Jailhouse’, the entire group are caught in some pretty bad spots. Danny remains captured by The Hand while the cops are busy interrogating Matt, Luke and Jessica, eager to book them on […]

Movie Review – Logan Lucky (2017)

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Logan Lucky, 2017. Directed by Steven Soderbergh. Starring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Daniel Craig, Riley Keough, Katie Holmes, Seth MacFarlane, Jack Quaid, Brian Gleeson and Katherine Waterston. SYNOPSIS: Out of work and with alimony payments to keep up, Jimmy Logan comes up with a plan to make some fast money.  He and his brother Clyde will […]

Movie Review – Crown Heights (2017)

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Crown Heights, 2017. Written and Directed by Matt Ruskin Starring LaKeith Stanfield, Nnamdi Asomugha, Natalie Paul, Luke Forbes, Adriane Lenox, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Nestor Carbonell, Amari Cheatom, and Bill Camp. SYNOPSIS: When Colin Warner is wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devotes his life to proving Colin’s innocence. Those in support of […]

Movie Review – Bushwick (2017)

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Bushwick, 2017. Directed by Cary Murnion and Jonathan Milott. Starring Dave Bautista, Brittany Snow, Christian Navarro, Arturo Castro, Jeremie Harris, and Angelic Zambrana. SYNOPSIS: While Lucy (Brittany Snow) and her boyfriend are making their way to her grandmother’s house, all hell breaks loose in New York, especially the Bushwick area of Brooklyn.  Lucy has to […]

Marvel’s The Defenders Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Ashes, Ashes’

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Ricky Church reviews the sixth episode of Marvel’s The Defenders… ‘Ashes, Ashes’, the sixth episode of The Defenders, had several surprising developments to the story, but ultimately slumped a little bit. There were still some good character moments, but the episode fell back on some regular tropes of the genre, one of which was already used […]