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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 […]

Movie Review – Dark Night (2016)

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Dark Night, 2016. Directed by Tim Sutton. Starring Robert Jumper, Anna Rose Hopkins, Aaron Purvis, Eddie Cacciola and Conor A. Murphy. SYNOPSIS: The lives of six strangers intersect at a suburban Cineplex where a massacre occurs. Based upon the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado where lone gunman James Eagan Holmes opened fire on a midnight screening of The Dark Knight, this Sundance Film […]

Movie Review – The Last Word (2017)

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The Last Word, 2017. Directed by Mark Pellington. Starring Shirley MacLaine, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Heche and Ann’Jewel Lee. SYNOPSIS: A wealthy retired businesswoman decides that her life story should be told her way and employs a local journalist to write her obituary in advance – and under her supervision.  But the journalist won’t follow the script […]

Comic Book Review – Batman by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso

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Ricky Church reviews Batman by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso… This deluxe edition hardcover from the award-winning team of writer Brian Azzarello and artist Eduardo Risso collects the six-issue Batman epic “Broken City,” an examination of the Dark Knight and the city he protects. While hunting the murderer of a small boy’s parents, Batman is caught […]

Movie Review – Baby Driver (2017)

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Baby Driver, 2017. Directed by Edgar Wright. Starring Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Jon Hamm, Lily James, Jon Bernthal, Eiza Gonzalez, CJ Jones and Jamie Foxx. SYNOPSIS: After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail. To say that Baby Driver is […]

Second Opinion – Alien: Covenant (2017)

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Alien: Covenant, 2017. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Michael Fassbender, Katherine Waterston, Billy Crudup, Danny McBride, Demián Bichir, Carmen Ejogo, Jussie Smollett, Callie Hernandez, Amy Seimetz, Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce, and James Franco. SYNOPSIS: The crew of a colony ship, bound for a remote planet, discover an uncharted paradise with a threat beyond their imagination, and […]