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Second Opinion – Office Christmas Party (2016)

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Office Christmas Party, 2016. Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Olivia Munn, Vanessa Bayer, Courtney B. Vance, Jillian Bell, Jamie Chung, Rob Corddry, Abbey Lee, Kate McKinnon, Karan Soni, and Matt Walsh. SYNOPSIS: When the CEO (Jennifer Aniston) tries to close her hard-partying brother’s branch, he (T.J. […]

Movie Review – Manchester by the Sea (2016)

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Manchester by the Sea, 2016. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Tate Donovan, C.J Wilson, Gretchen Mol, Kara Hayward, Josh Hamilton, Anna Baryshnikov, and Matthew Broderick SYNOPSIS: An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. “I can’t beat it” – Those […]

Movie Review – A Monster Calls (2016)

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A Monster Calls, 2016. Directed by J.A Bayona. Starring Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell and Liam Neeson. SYNOPSIS: A boy seeks the help of a Tree monster to help his mother with her terminal illness. A Monster Calls is a truly tragic coming of age story, a 12-year-old boy Conor (Lewis MacDougall) dealing […]

Comic Book Review – Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #3

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Villordsutch reviews Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #3… Plagued by nightmares about a childhood he never had, Dirk Gently discovers that a holistic detective can have more than one past, and his adventures have only just begun… The universe of Dirk Gently is anything but boring, as has been proven over the previous two […]

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘The Chicago Way’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the eighth episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 2… Big-Brother Super-Hero Fight….. For the Legends mid-season finale, we go to “Che-Cawgo!” as we say around my house, to the time of Al Capone as our deadly duo of Dahrk and Thawne becomes a terrible trio to include Malcolm Merlyn. The idea is […]

Movie Review – It Watches (2016)

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It Watches, 2016. Directed by Dave Parker. Starring Ivan Djurovic, Rick Irwin, Sanny van Heteren and James Duval. SYNOPSIS: Following a serious accident, Andre (Djurovic) takes on a house-sitting job from a friend deep in the hills of sunny Los Angeles, but soon finds the rather creepy little house in question comes complete with something […]

Second Opinion – Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016). Directed by Gareth Edwards. Starring Felicity Jones, Diego Luna, Alan Tudyk, Donnie Yen, Jiang Wen, Ben Mendelsohn, Forest Whitaker, Riz Ahmed and Mads Mikkelsen. SYNOPSIS: In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s […]

Movie Review – The Edge of Seventeen (2016)

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The Edge of Seventeen, 2016. Written and Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Blake Jenner, Haley Lu Richardson, Hayden Szeto, and Kyra Sedgwick. SYNOPSIS: High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother. Since the halcyon days of John Hughes thirty years […]

Movie Review – Chi-Raq (2015)

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Chi-Raq, 2015. Directed by Spike Lee. Starring Nick Cannon, Teyonah Parris, Wesley Snipes, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson. SYNOPSIS: A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago. Evidently, Chi-Raq – a loose adaptation of the ancient Greek play […]