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Movie Review – Sherlock Gnomes (2018)

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Sherlock Gnomes, 2018. Directed by John Stevenson. Featuring the voice talents of  James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Johnny Depp, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Mary J. Blige, Jamie Demetriou, Ashley Jensen and Matt Lucas. SYNOPSIS: When all of their friends are kidnapped right out of the garden, Gnomeo and Juliet join forces with a backyard-based […]

Second Opinion – Terminal (2018)

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Terminal, 2018. Directed by Vaughn Stein. Starring Margot Robbie, Mike Myers, Simon Pegg, Max Irons, Dexter Fletcher, Matthew Lewis, and Katarina Cas. SYNOPSIS: In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, TERMINAL follows the twisting tales of two assassins carrying out a sinister mission, a teacher battling a fatal illness, an enigmatic janitor and […]

Arrow Season 6 Episode 22 Review – ‘The Ties That Binds’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-second episode of Arrow season 6… So, in our penultimate episode before the finale, things come together and start to fall apart. Diaz puts in motion his final plan: to just kill Queen and all his compatriots. He invades their homes, finds them wherever they are and sends his goons after […]

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, […]