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Movie Review – Braven (2018)

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Braven. 2018.Directed by Lin Oeding. Starring Jason Momoa, Jill Wagner, Garret Dillahunt, Zahn McClarnon, Stephen Lang, Brendan Fletcher, Teach Grant, and Sasha Rossof.SYNOPSIS: A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.Lin Oeding’s Braven is the kind of 90s punch-in-the-mouth action flick us genre fans fight tooth-and-nail to find nowadays. A deliciously junkfood […]

Supergirl Season 3 Episode 12 Review – ‘For Good’

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Martin Carr reviews the twelfth episode of Supergirl season 3…Episode twelve might not be the most progressive but still ticks along by backtracking on numerous plot points. Old adversaries come out of the wood work, divert our attention and keep that run time packed with decent performances. Morgan Edge and a certain maternal figure come […]

Movie Review – Acts of Vengeance (2017)

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Acts Of Vengeance, 2017.Directed by Isaac Florentine. Starring Antonio Banderas, Karl Urban, Paz Vega, and Robert Forster.SYNOPSIS:A fast-talking lawyer transforms his body and takes a vow of silence, not to be broken until he finds out who killed his wife and daughter and has his revenge.Looking at the cast list and director for Acts Of Vengeance […]

Movie Review – Padmaavat (2017)

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Padmaavat, 2017.Directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. Starring  Deepika Padukone, Shahid Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, and Jim Sarbh.SYNOPSIS:Set in medieval Rajasthan, Queen Padmavati is married to a noble king and they live in a prosperous fortress with their subjects until an ambitious Sultan hears of Padmavati’s beauty and forms an obsessive love for the Queen of Mewar.Have […]

Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 13 Review – ‘What’s Past is Prologue’

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Alex Moreland reviews the thirteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery season one…“Your lack of vision continues to disappoint me.”In the AV Club’s review of this week’s Star Trek: Discovery, there’s some discussion about what exactly the show is actually about. Certainly, the show doesn’t quite have the same clear premise as its predecessors; there’s no […]

Blu-ray Review – The Cat O’Nine Tails (1971)

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The Cat O’Nine Tails, 1971.Directed by Dario Argento. Starring James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Horst Frank, Pier Paolo Capponi, and Cinzia De Carolis.SYNOPSIS:A blind man and an investigative reporter team up to get to the bottom of a murder mystery connected to a pharmaceutical company.Continuing their trawl through their catalogue of Dario Argento titles […]

DVD Review – WWE: Bayley & Sasha Banks Iconic Matches

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WWE: Bayley Iconic Matches/WWE: Sasha Banks Iconic MatchesStarring Bayley, Sasha Banks, Charlotte Flair, Becky Lynch, Nia Jax and Dana Brooke. SYNOPSIS:Three matches each featuring two of the biggest female stars in WWE today, charting their rise from NXT to the top of the tree on the main roster.In the era of the WWE Network providing […]

DVD Review – The Hero (2017)

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The Hero, 2017.Directed by Brett Haley. Starring Sam Elliott, Laura Prepon, Nick Offerman, Krysten Ritter, and Katherine Ross.SYNOPSIS:With his glory days far behind him, a fading movie star is forced to confront his past and his own mortality.It’s one of the most distinctive voices in the movies.  Sam Elliott’s gravelly tones have been his fortune […]

Waco Episode 1 Review – ‘Visions and Omens’

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Red Stewart reviews the first episode of Waco…I remember first learning about the Waco Siege during the Bundy Standoff in 2014. Many news outlets at the time were making comparisons between the two, leading me to look it up on Wikipedia. I don’t remember much about it, and I’ve refrained from revisiting that article to […]