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Movie Review – Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)

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Roman J. Israel, Esq., 2017. Written and Directed by Dan Gilroy. Starring Denzel Washington, Colin Farrell, Carmen Ejogo, Shelley Hennig, Amanda Warren, Niles Fitch, Nazneen Contractor, James Paxton, DeRon Horton, Brittany Ishibashi, and Tony Plana. SYNOPSIS: Denzel Washington stars as Roman Israel, a driven, idealistic defense attorney who, through a tumultuous series of events, finds […]

Movie Review – It (2017)

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It, 2017. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Nicholas Hamilton, and Bill Skarsgard. SYNOPSIS: A group of bullied kids band together when a monster, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children. After the appalling adaptation of The Dark […]

Comic Book Review – Demi-God #1

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Calum Petrie reviews Demi-God #1… There are many different genres of comics – far too many to list on this review. Though if you were to go to the less serious side, somewhere near the satirical, this is where you would find Demi-God. The story is told from the perspective of the lead character, Jason […]

Comic Book Reviews – The Waterbringer and The Shattered

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews the first two Eimurian Tales… There’s a certain pleasure to going into a series blind and M.D. Penman’s Eimurian Tales are exactly what you hope to uncover. A dark fantasy web-comic, the first two volumes standalone but leave an opening for the stories to intersect down the line.ar Penman is their writer, artist, […]

Second Opinion – It (2017)

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It, 2017. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring Bill Skarsgard, Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Nicholas Hamilton, Jack Dylan Grazer, Stephen Bogaert, Jackson Robert Scott, Chosen Jacobs, Wyatt Oleff, Jake Sim, Owen Teague, Stuart Hughes, Logan Thompson, Geoffrey Pounsett, Pip Dwyer, and Javier Botet SYNOPSIS: In the late 1980s in the small […]

Movie Review – Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast (2017)

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Dennis Skinner: Nature of the Beast, 2017. Directed by Daniel Draper. SYNOPSIS : A documentary taking an in-depth look at the life and work of committed socialist, trade unionist and Labour politician Dennis Skinner. The committed socialist and Labour MP for Bolsover Dennis Skinner is shown a far softer side to his nature in this […]

Movie Review – The Oath (2016)

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The Oath, 2016. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur. Starring Baltasar Kormákur, Hera Hilmar, Gísli Örn Garðarsson, Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson, and Þorsteinn Bachmann. SYNOPSIS: Icelandic auteur Baltasar Kormákur (Contraband, 2 Guns, Everest) directs and stars in this psychological thriller about a father who tries to pull his daughter out of her world of drugs and petty crime, […]

East End Film Festival Movie Review – Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts (2018)

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Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts, 2018. Directed by Mouly Surya. Starring Marsha Timothy, Dea Panedra, Egy Fedley, Yoga Pratama, and Haydar Salishz. SYNOPSIS: When Marlina (Marsha Timothy) is confronted with the prospect of a horrific assault by a man named Markus (Egy Fedley) and his gang, the widower takes action into her own hands, […]

Arrow Season 6 Episode 18 Review – ‘Fundamentals’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the eighteenth episode of Arrow season 6… Ok, ok, holy sh…(Gary, can we cuss on here?)….okay, f*** it, holy shit, “Fundamentals” is everything. It’s just everything. What this episode does, besides take Oliver down a psycho-guilt trip caused by dangerous hallucinogenics is put things back in perspective. The “b” team leaves earlier […]