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Movie Review – The Emoji Movie (2017)

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The Emoji Movie, 2017. Directed by Tony Leondis. Featuring the voice talents of T.J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Sofia Vergara, Patrick Stewart, Jennifer Coolidge, Christina Aguilera, Sean Hayes, Tati Gabrielle, and Sean Giambrone. SYNOPSIS: A multi-expressional Meh emoji sets out on a quest to become a normal Meh emoji. To best understand […]

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 Beguiled (2017)

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The Beguiled, 2017. Directed by Sofia Coppola Starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, Colin Farrell and Angourie Rice. SYNOPSIS: During the American Civil War, a girl from a Confederate boarding school discovers a wounded Union soldier.  She takes him back to the school, where his wounds are looked after by the headmistress, her assistant […]

Blu-ray Review – Pulse (2001)

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Pulse, 2001. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa. Starring Haruhiko Katô, Kumiko Asô, Koyuki, and Kurume Arisaka. SYNOPSIS: After a computer programmer commits suicide his friends start to experience strange happenings through their computers. Arrow Video delve back into their vault of millennial J-horror with Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s 2001 cult favourite Pulse, a morose meditation on isolation, death […]

Film Score Review – Spider-Man: Homecoming

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Tony Black reviews the Spider-Man: Homecoming score… Michael Giacchino continues his journey to become the heir apparent to John Williams by delivering two very different, major blockbuster movie scores this month, yet both of which are distinctly Giacchino to anyone with an ear for film music. Spider-Man: Homecoming is Giacchino at play, very much in […]

Movie Review – Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

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Spider-Man: Homecoming, 2017. Directed by Jon Watts. Starring Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Michael Keaton, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Michael Barbieri, Abraham Attah, Hannibal Buress, Kenneth Choi, Angourie Rice, Michael Chernus, Michael Mando, Logan Marshall-Green, Jennifer Connelly, Gwyneth Paltrow, and […]

Second Opinion – It Comes at Night (2017)

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It Comes at Night, 2017. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. Starring Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbot, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. SYNOPSIS: Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put […]

Movie Review – The Journey (2017)

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The Journey, 2017. Directed by Nick Hamm. Starring Timothy Spall, Colm Meaney, Freddie Highmore, and John Hurt. SYNOPSIS: A fictional account of the extraordinary story of two implacable enemies in Northern Ireland – firebrand Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein politician Martin McGuinness – who are forced to take a short journey […]

Second Opinion – Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)

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Spider-Man: Homecoming, 2017. Directed by Jon Watts. Starring Tom Holland, Robert Downey Jr., Michael Keaton, Marisa Tomei, Jon Favreau, Michael Keaton, Zendaya, Donald Glover, Jacob Batalon, Laura Harrier, Tony Revolori, Bokeem Woodbine, Tyne Daly, Michael Barbieri, Abraham Attah, Hannibal Buress, Kenneth Choi, Angourie Rice, Michael Chernus, Michael Mando, Logan Marshall-Green, Jennifer Connelly, Gwyneth Paltrow, and […]

Blu-ray Review – Geostorm (2017)

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Geostorm, 2017. Directed by Dean Devlin. Starring Gerard Butler, Katheryn Winnick, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Andy Garcia, Zazie Beetz, and Ed Harris. SYNOPSIS: When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate start to attack Earth, it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out […]