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Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Capsule Review – First Reformed

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Hope and despair is the equivalent to the metaphorically persuasive angel and the devil on the shoulders of one of God’s lonely souls, a pastor at the titular First Reformed church. The establishment is about to celebrate its 250th anniversary regardless of the fact that attendance has gone the way of the dodo (among other […]

Second Opinion – Revenge (2018)

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Revenge, 2018. Directed by Coralie Fargeat. Starring Matilda Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Guillaume Boudeche, and Vincent Colombe. SYNOPSIS: Jen (Matilda Lutz) has a romantic weekend away with boyfriend Richard (Kevin Janssens) disrupted by a couple of his friends, who’ve arrived early for a hunting trip. Things go from bad to worse and, after a vicious attack, […]

Movie Review – Revenge (2018)

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Revenge, 2018. Directed by Coralie Fargeat. Starring Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz, Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombe, and Guillaume Bouchède. SYNOPSIS: Never take your mistress on an annual guys’ getaway, especially one devoted to hunting – a violent lesson for three wealthy married men. At first glance, Coralie Fargeat’s Revenge serviceably checks every distasteful-if-mishandled box of “rape revenge” […]

Lucifer Season 3 Episode 23 Review – ‘Quintessential Deckerstar’

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Tori Brazier reviews the twenty-third episode of Lucifer season 3… It’s the penultimate episode of the third season of Lucifer and – it seems – the producers have finally given the go ahead for Stuff. To. Happen. Read no further if you’re avoiding spoilers! Despite not following the common pattern of a two-parter finale, ‘Quintessential […]

Second Opinion – Entebbe (2018)

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Entebbe, 2018. Directed by Jose Padilha. Starring Daniel Bruhl, Rosamund Pike, Eddie Marsan, Denis Menochet, Ben Schnetzer and Lior Ashkenazi. SYNOPSIS: Over 200 passengers on an Air France flight are held hostage over seven days in the summer of 1976.  Nearly half of them are either Israeli or Jewish.  The plane lands at Entebbe in Uganda, […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through The Mirror #2

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through The Mirror #2… SEE ALSO: Check out the preview for Through the Mirror #2 here This issue follows on from last week’s “Through the Mirror” in which we discovered our Mirror Universe crew pilfering resources from the Federation Mining Facility Naia IV.  Unbeknownst to them however, their […]

The Flash Season 4 Episode 21 Review – ‘Harry and the Harrisons’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-first episode of The Flash season 4… We tackle another DeVoe-less week and instead get more ammunition to deal with his all-knowingness. The idea this week is that Amunet Black (the always bubbly Katie Sackhoff) isn’t affected by dark matter so they decide to track her down and get her to […]

Movie Review – Anon (2018)

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Anon, 2018. Directed by Andrew Niccol. Starring Clive Owen, Amanda Seyfried, Colm Ferore, Mark O’Brien, Sonya Walger and Iddo Goldberg. SYNOPSIS: In the near future, cop Sal (Clive Owen) is working on a series of unsolved murders – a rarity because this is a world where there’s no privacy or anonymity and crime is almost […]

Krypton Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Transformation’

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Ricky Church reviews the seventh episode of Krypton… Since passing the midway point of its inaugural season, Krypton has been firing on all cylinders. ‘Transformation’ upped the stakes even more as Brainiac’s presence became known to all the characters as he made a gigantic play for control of Kandor. The episode was action packed with the focus […]