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Second Opinion – Yardie (2018)

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Yardie, 2018. Directed by Idris Elba Starring Aml Ameen, Shantol Jackson, Sheldon Shepherd, Calvin Demba, Stephen Graham, Everaldo Creary SYNOPSIS: From 70’s Kingston to 80’s Hackney, Yardie chronicles the life and strife of a young Jamaican man named D (Aml Ameen), whose path is laid out before him at a young age, and for whom tragedy dictates […]

Movie Review – Let the Corpses Tan (2018)

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Let The Corpses Tan, 2018. Directed by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani. Starring Elina Löwensohn, Stéphane Ferrara, Bernie Bonvoisin, Michelangelo Marchese, Marc Barbé, Marine Sainsily, Hervé Sogne, and Pierre Nisse. SYNOPSIS: A gang of thieves with over 250kg of gold try to hide out in a French island retreat. However, there are all sorts of complications; a love triangle with the writer who […]

Video Game Review – Strange Brigade

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Scott Watson reviews Strange Brigade… Ah, Strange Brigade, I’ve been waiting for you to arrive for what seems like an eternity!  Now you’re here, you’re pretty much everything I hoped and dreamed you would become having played you at EGX last September.  Wonderfully over the top storyline, gloriously gorgeous to look at, some of the […]

Arrow Video FrightFest Review – Climax (2018)

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Climax, 2018. Directed by Gaspar Noé. Starring Sofia Boutella, Romain Guillermic, Souheila Yacoub, Kiddy Smile, Claude Gajan Maull, Giselle Palmer, and Taylor Kastle. SYNOPSIS: When a contemporary dance troupe have wrapped rehearsal for their 90s infused choreographed set-piece, they decide to throw a party to celebrate. What they don’t know is that someone has spiked the […]

Movie Review – Apocalypse Rising (2018)

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Apocalypse Rising, 2018 Directed by Richard Lowry Starring Shane Samples, Hunter Parker, Johanna Rae, Dennis Marin, Justin LeBrun. SYNOPSIS: Mia is an extrasensory teenage girl living on the planet Rathe, a world besieged by the undead. After a violent last stand, Mia and her warrior friends escape their world in a spacecraft. From just the opening credits […]

Movie Review – The Happytime Murders (2018)

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The Happytime Murders, 2018. Directed by Brian Henson. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Bill Barretta, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Leslie David Baker, Joel McHale, Michael McDonald, Ben Falcone, Dorien Davies, Cynthy Wu, Mitch Silpa, Hemky Madera, Ryan Tran, Fortune Feimster, Brekkan Spens, Benjamin Cole Royer, Jimmy O. Yang, Ryan Gaul, Jim Palmer, Dennis Keiffer, Michael Croner, Brett […]

Arrow Video Frightfest Review – He’s Out There (2018)

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He’s Out There, 2018. Directed by Quinn Lasher. Starring Yvonne Strahovski, Justin Bruening, Abigail Pniowsky, Anna Pniowsky, and Julian Bailey. SYNOPSIS: On holiday at a remote Canadian lake house, a mother and her two young daughters must fight for survival after falling into a terrifying and bizarre nightmare conceived by a psychopath. For ‘John’ has […]

Movie Review – BlacKkKlansman (2018)

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BlacKkKlansman, 2018. Directed by Spike Lee. Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Japser Pääkkönen, Ryan Eggold, Paul Walter Hauser, Topher Grace, Alec Baldwin and Harry Belafonte. SYNOPSIS: Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer from Colorado, successfully manages to infiltrate the local Ku Klux Klan with the help of a white surrogate, who eventually […]

Arrow Video Frightfest Review – The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot (2018)

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The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot, 2018. Directed by Robert D. Krzykowski. Starring Sam Elliott, Aidan Turner, Ron Livingston, Caitlin FitzGerald, and Larry Miller. SYNOPSIS: Decades after ending World War II by assassinating Adolf Hitler in an undercover operation so covert it never existed, unsung American hero Calvin Barr is called upon […]