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Movie Review – Suburbicon (2017)

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Suburbicon, 2017. Directed by George Clooney. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, Glenn Fleshler, Gary Basaraba, Karimah Westbrook, Tony Espinosa, Megan Ferguson, and Oscar Isaac. SYNOPSIS: A home invasion rattles a quiet family town. At this point, we must accept that George Clooney is a much better actor than director, or at the very […]

Movie Review – Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

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Thor: Ragnarok, 2017. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hiddleston, Mark Ruffalo, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tessa Thompson, Jeff Goldblum, Taika Waititi, Idris Elba, Karl Urban, Anthony Hopkins, Clancy Brown, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Rachel House, Tadanobu Asano, Luke Hemsworth, Taylor Hemsworth, Sam Neill, Charlotte Nicdao, and Matt Damon. SYNOPSIS: Imprisoned, the mighty […]

Movie Review – The Beguiled (2017)

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The Beguiled, 2017. Directed by Sofia Coppola. Starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Colin Farrell, Elle Fanning, Oona Laurence, Angourie Rice, Addison Riecke and Emma Howard. SYNOPSIS: The unexpected arrival of a wounded Union soldier at a girls’ school in Virginia during the American Civil War leads to jealousy and betrayal. Having not seen the original […]

Movie Review – Scribe (2016)

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Scribe, 2016. Directed by Thomas Kruithof. Starring Francois Cluzet, Denis Polyades, Sami Bouajila, Simon Abkarian and Alba Rohrwacher. SYNOPSIS: A burn-out leaves Duval (Francois Cluzet) recovering from alcoholism and unemployable.  Seemingly out of the blue, he receives a job offer, transcribing recorded telephone conversations.  He has no choice but to take it but quickly discovers […]

Second Opinion – Dunkirk (2017)

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Dunkirk, 2017. Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, and Tom Glynn-Carney. SYNOPSIS: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War […]

Comic Book Review – The X-Files #16

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Tony Black reviews The X-Files #16… “Resistance,” Part 3 (of 4): With Scully under arrest, Mulder must partner with a hated enemy in order to bring down a corrupt official. Tensions are building to an absolute knife edge in the penultimate issue of The X-Files continuation run, part three of ‘Resistance’, as Joe Harris front […]

Movie Review – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)

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Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, 2017 Written and Directed by Luc Besson Starring Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne, Clive Owen, Rihanna, Ethan Hawke, Herbie Hancock, Kris Wu, Rutger Hauer, Sam Spruell, Alain Chabat, Elizabeth Debicki, and John Goodman SYNOPSIS: A dark force threatens Alpha, a vast metropolis and home to species from a […]

Movie Review – Dunkirk (2017)

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Dunkirk, 2017. Written and Directed by Christopher Nolan. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Hardy, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, Jack Lowden, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, and Tom Glynn-Carney. SYNOPSIS: Allied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire and France are surrounded by the German army and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War […]

Movie Review – The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)

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The Hitman’s Bodyguard, 2017. Directed by Patrick Hughes. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, Elodie Yung, Salma Hayek, and Gary Oldman. SYNOPSIS: The world’s top bodyguard gets a new client, a hit man who must testify at the International Court of Justice. They must put their differences aside and work together to make it to […]

Second Opinion – The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)

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The Hitman’s Bodyguard, 2017. Directed by Patrick Hughes. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Elodie Yung, Joaquim De Almeida, Kirsty Mitchell, and Richard E. Grant. SYNOPSIS: A top-rated bodyguard struggling to rebuild his reputation after a calamitous mistake, is forced to help deliver an infamous hitman to testify at the trial […]