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Comic Book Review – Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #8

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Villordsutch reviews Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #8… Sally runs afoul of Hugo Friedkin and must rely on Dirk to come to her rescue! At the end of Issue #7 of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency we left “Big-haired” Dirk and Sally at the wrong end of Corporal Friedkin’s gun, as both delved further […]

Movie Review – Churchill (2017)

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Churchill, 2017. Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky. Starring Brian Cox, Miranda Richardson, John Slattery, James Purefoy, Julian Wadham, Danny Webb, Richard Durden and Ella Purnell. SYNOPSIS: Exhausted by years of war, the Allied forces plan an invasion of Normandy, but British Prime Minister Winston Churchill is not convinced! In the days leading up to the invasion […]

Movie Review – The Handmaiden (2016)

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The Handmaiden, 2016. Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha, and Jin-woong Jo. SYNOPSIS: Japanese heiress Hideko employs a new handmaiden, Sook-hee, but what she doesn’t know is that the girl is a pickpocket.  She’s been recruited by a con artist who aims to marry her mistress and swindle her out […]

Movie Review – Dying Laughing (2016)

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Dying Laughing, 2016. Directed by Lloyd Stanton and Paul Toogood. SYNOPSIS : A documentary film looking in detail at the highs and lows of being a stand-up comedian. Being a stand-up is bloody hard work. That’s the message that comes through loud and clear in this insightful documentary from British directors Lloyd Stanton and Paul Toogood. […]

Blu-ray Review – Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith (2016)

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Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith, 2016. Directed by Stuart A. Staples. Music by Tindersticks with Thomas Belhom and Christine Ott. SYNOPSIS: A 55 minute journey through the work of pioneering naturalist, inventor and filmmaker F. Percy Smith sound-tracked with a new contemporary score. A meditative and blissfully soothing piece of art […]

American Gods Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘A Prayer for Mad Sweeney’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of American Gods… Narrated by an erudite mortician with a talent for finely tailored calligraphy, American Gods unfurls like a genteel acid trip without the paranoia and better dialogue. Naturally nuanced and inventively old-fashioned, ‘A Prayer for Mad Sweeney’ does away with tricks in favour of solid storylines built […]

Movie Review – Nails (2017)

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Nails, 2017. Directed by Dennis Bartok. Starring Shauna Macdonald, Ross Noble, Steve Wall, Charlotte Bradley, Leah McNamara, and Richard Foster-King. SYNOPSIS: A recently paralysed woman struggles to retain her own sanity as the vengeful spirit of a former nurse begins to haunt her hospital room. If for, whatever reason, you’ve been looking for the very […]

Blu-ray Review – Madhouse (1981)

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Madhouse, 1981. Directed by Ovidio G. Assonitis. Starring Trish Everly, Michael MacRae, Dennis Robertson, Allison Biggers, Morgan Most, Edith Ivey, and Jerry Fujikawa. SYNOPSIS: Julia is approaching her 25th birthday but unfortunately her estranged twin sister Mary sees this as an opportunity to escape from her hospital bed and torment her just like when they […]

DVD Review – Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)

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Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, 2016. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. Starring Milla Jovovich, Iain Glen, Ali Larter, Shawn Roberts, Eoin Macken, Fraser James, Ruby Rose, William Levy, and Ever Anderson. SYNOPSIS: In the supposed final instalment of the video game-based movie franchise, Alice returns to The Hive in Raccoon City to face off against […]