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Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 5 Review – ‘Eastwatch’

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Villordsutch reviews Game of Thrones Season 7 Episode 5 – ‘Eastwatch’… Written – Dave Hill Directed – Matt Shakman Cersei Lannister – Dead men, dragons, and Dragon Queens… Whatever stands in our way, we will defeat it. After last week’s “The Spoils of War”, Game of Thrones this week has a pretty high bar to […]

Blu-ray Review – Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)

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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, 2017. Written and Directed by James Gunn. Starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan, Sean Gunn, Sylvester Stallone, and Kurt Russell. SYNOPSIS: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 continues the adventures of the intergalactic team […]

Blu-ray Review – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 50th Anniversary Special Edition (1966)

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 50th Anniversary Special Edition, 1966. Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach. SYNOPSIS: Okay, it’s been 51 years since The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was released, but who’s counting? This new 50th Anniversary Special Edition from Kino Lorber pulls out […]

Rick and Morty Season 3 Episode 4 Review – ‘Vindicators 3: The Return of the Worldender’

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Liam Hoofe reviews the fourth episode of Rick and Morty season three, Vindicators 3: Return of the Worldender… Ever since Rick and Morty returned to our screens two weeks ago, the show has been very heavy on pop culture parodies. The first episode Rickmancing the Stone was a parody of the Mad Max franchise and […]

The Strain Season 4 Episode 5 Review – ‘Belly of the Beast’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of The Strain season 4… Solid character scenes, period drama flashbacks and a moment or two of hard-core hand to hand atop moving vehicles, make this mid-season waypoint one of the best thus far. Moody camera colourisation and moments of a blossoming relationship in Edwardian London, hark back to […]

Movie Review – Final Portrait (2017)

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Final Portrait, 2017 Directed by Stanley Tucci Starring Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clemence Poesy, Sylvie Testud and Tony Shalhoub. SYNOPSIS: American writer and art-lover James Lord pays a visit to Paris in 1964 and is asked by his friend, artist Alberto Giacometti, to sit for a portrait.  It should only take a few days so the […]

Movie Review – Good Time (2017)

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Good Time, 2017. Written and Directed by Josh and Benny Safdie Starring Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Buddy Duress, Taliah Webster, Barkhad Abdi, and Jennifer Jason Leigh. SYNOPSIS: A bank robber finds himself unable to evade those who are looking for him. Sometimes, rooting for the bad guy is fun. Let’s face it, we have all […]

Movie Review – Anti Matter (2016)

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Anti Matter, 2016. Written and Directed by Keir Burrows. Starring Yaiza Figueroa, Philippa Carson, Tom Barber-Duffy, and Noah Maxwell Clarke. SYNOPSIS: Ana, an Oxford PhD student finds herself unable to build new memories following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find […]

Blu-ray Review – Ronin (1998)

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Ronin, 1998. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Sean Bean, Michael Lonsdale, Jonathan Pryce, Stellan Skarsgård, and Skipp Sudduth. SYNOPSIS: A group of mercenaries are hired by Irish terrorists to retrieve a case to stop it falling into Russian hands. In case you didn’t know, ronin are Samurai warriors whose […]