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Movie Review – Downsizing (2017)

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Downsizing, 2017.Directed by Alexander Payne. Starring Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Jason Sudeikis, and Udo Kier.SYNOPSIS:A cash strapped couple discover a way to escape their financial problems – move to a brand new community.  All they have to do is undergo an irreversible operation that will shrink them down to just five […]

Blu-ray Review – Hounds of Love (2016)

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Hounds of Love, 2016.Directed by Ben Young. Starring Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Stephen Curry, Susie Porter, Damian de Montemas, and Harrison Gilbertson.SYNOPSIS:A teenage girl is kidnapped by a depraved couple and tries to play one off against the other in order to escape.Set in 1987 and based on true events, Hounds of Love is the […]

Movie Review – Mercury in Retrograde (2018)

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Mercury in Retrograde, 2018.Written and Directed by Michael Glover Smith. Starring Najarra Townsend, Alana Arenas, Roxane Mesquida, Shane Simmons, Kevin Wehby, Jack C. Newell, and Andrew Sensenig.SYNOPSIS:Three couples from Chicago vacation for a weekend at a lakeside cabin in Michigan. Over the course of three days in this relationship drama, hidden tensions and secrets slowly […]

Movie Review – Coco (2017)

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Coco, 2017.Directed by Lee Unkrich. Featuring the voice talents of Anthony González, Benjamin Bratt, Gael García Bernal, Alanna Ubach, Renee Victor, Jaime Camil, Gabriel Iglesias, Ana Ofelia Murguía, Edward James Olmos, John Ratzenberger, and Cheech Marin.SYNOPSIS:Aspiring musician Miguel, confronted with his family’s ancestral ban on music, enters the Land of the Dead to find his […]

Movie Review – Darkest Hour (2017)

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Darkest Hour, 2017.Directed by Joe Wright. Starring Gary Oldman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lily James, Ben Mendelsohn, Ronald Pickup and Stephen Dillane.SYNOPSIS:During the early days of World War II, the fate of Western Europe hangs on the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who must decide whether to negotiate with Hitler, or fight on against incredible […]

Young Sheldon Season 1 Episode 12 Review – ‘A Computer, a Plastic Pony, and a Case of Beer’

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Martin Carr reviews the twelfth episode of Young Sheldon…Marital unrest, late Eighties technology and vast amounts of alcohol form the backbone of this week’s dip into Young Sheldon. With word that The Big Bang Theory might only be airing for another year due to financial wrangling, this seems a perfect opportunity for this miniseries to […]

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 8 Review – ‘The Last Day’

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Danny Hale reviews the eighth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5…The opening minutes of ‘The Last Day’ gave us the full reunion we were looking for; bringing the rest of the team to the Zephyr on the Earth’s surface and face to face with May. Her expression when she saw Phil despite her […]

Movie Review – The Open House (2018)

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The Open House, 2018.Directed by Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote. Starring Dylan Minnette, Piercey Dalton, Sharif Atkins, and Patricia Bethune.SYNOPSIS:A teenager and his mother find themselves besieged by threatening forces when they move into a new house.Proving that January isn’t merely a dumping ground for Hollywood’s most rancid theatrical releases, Netflix’s generically-monikered The Open House – which wasn’t screened […]

Movie Review – The Misguided (2017)

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The Misguided, 2017.Directed by Shannon Alexander. Starring Katherine Langford, Anna Philp, Caleb Galati, Athan Bellos, Steven J. Mihaljevich, Clay Foster, Kirstie Francis and Jasmine Nibali.SYNOPSIS:After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation.Filmmaker Shannon Alexander makes his feature-length […]