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Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 18 Review – ‘All Roads Lead…’

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Danny Hale reviews the eighteenth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5… Well, that was certainly nerveracking; ‘All Roads Lead…’ saw the culmination of Ruby’s increasing arrogance as the Destroyer of Worlds is finally completed while Talbot struggles with his own inner demons and HYDRA brainwashing. The opening sequence did an incredible job of […]

Movie Review – Rampage (2018)

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Rampage, 2018. Directed by Brad Peyton. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lacy, Joe Manganiello, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, P.J. Byrne, Marley Shelton, Breanne Hill, Jack Quaid, Matt Gerald, Jason Liles, Demetrius Grosse, and Will Yun Lee. SYNOPSIS: When three different animals become infected with a dangerous pathogen, a primatologist and a geneticist team […]

Movie Review – Ghost Stories (2017)

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Ghost Stories, 2017. Directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. Starring Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, and Alex Lawther. SYNOPSIS: An academic and arch-sceptic is drawn into a quest to disprove the reality of three inexplicable cases of supernatural activity. Adapted from a successful stage play that first toured the UK in 2010, Ghost Stories is […]

Movie Review – Super Troopers 2 (2017)

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Super Troopers 2, 2018. Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar Starring Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Lynda Carter, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Marisa Coughlan, Tyler Labine, Hayes MacArthur, Will Sasso, Paul Walter Houser, Rob Lowe, Brian Cox, Seann William Scott, Damon Wayans Jr., Jim Gaffigan, and Fred Savage SYNOPSIS: When a border dispute arises […]

TV Review – The Sinner

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Liam Hoofe reviews The Sinner… American audiences will already be very acquainted with The Sinner. The show, adapted from the novel of the same name by Petra Hammesfahr, was a ratings success on the USA Network, and as a result has been streamed internationally by Netflix, with the full season hitting our shores last week. And, […]

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Capsule Review – Revenge

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The comically but altogether disgustingly unrealistic amounts of blood dripping from characters both male and female, soaked into the walls of a remote mountainous getaway vacation home and the vast desert landscapes that occupy the surroundings, are absolutely sure to be a major talking point for Revenge (the feature-length debut from French writer and director Coralie Fargeat), but this is rape vengeance with […]

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Capsule Review – American Animals

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The turning point where American Animals finally won me over and will for anyone else not entirely sold, boils down to a third act reveal that makes clear why writer and director Bart Layton has chosen to include documentary-style cutaway interviews to the real-life subjects of the Transylvania University art heist incident (now middle-aged, and if my […]

Movie Review – Happy End (2017)

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Happy End, 2017. Written and Directed by Michael Haneke. Starring Isabelle Huppert, Fantine Harduin, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mathieu Kassovitz, Laura Verlinden, Franz Rogowski, Aurélia Petit, and Toby Jones. SYNOPSIS: A drama about a family set in Calais with the European refugee crisis as the backdrop. There is a lot going on in Happy End, the latest […]

Movie Review – Loveless (2017)

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Loveless, 2017. Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. Starring Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Varvara Shmykova, Matvey Novikov, Daria Pisareva, and Yanina Hope. SYNOPSIS: A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments. Loveless is detached and bleak, a window into the lives of a couple […]