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Movie Review – The Shelter (2015)

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The Shelter, 2015. Directed by John Fallon. Starring Michael Paré, Lauren Alexandra and Rachel G. Whittle SYNOPSIS: A homeless man named Thomas (Michael Pare) finds shelter for the night within a lavish abandoned two-story house. He eventually discovers that he is not alone and the premises won’t let him leave. When you have a body […]

Arrow Season 5 Episode 5 Review – ‘Human Target’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the fifth episode of Arrow season 5… If Team Arrow is the Backstreet Boys, then Wild Dog is definitely Howie B….. Team Arrow’s Back….Alright! Ok, enough boy band humor, Arrow this week is titled “Human Target” which I sort of just assumed was about Mayor Queen being shot and killed, quite brutally, […]

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Season 1 Episode 1 Review – “Horizons”

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Villordsutch reviews Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Season 1 Episode 1 – “Horizons”… There’s always a worry that when something is as quintessentially British, as say a Douglas Adams “Dirk Gently” novel, falls into the palms of a country called “America” and then they announce that they’re going to make a TV series out of it, […]

Blu-ray Review – Assault on Precinct 13: 40th Anniversary Edition

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Assault on Precinct 13, 1976. Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Austin Stoker, Darwin Joston, Laurie Zimmer, Charles Cyphers, Tony Burton, Nancy Loomis, Martin West. SYNOPSIS: A cop and a ragtag collection of criminals defend a closing police station against an invading gang. Often lauded as ‘the ultimate siege move’, John Carpenter’s second full-length feature Assault […]

Movie Review – The Hurricane Heist (2018)

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The Hurricane Heist, 2018. Directed by Rob Cohen. Starring Maggie Grace, Toby Kebbell, Ryan Kwanten, Ralph Ineson, Randy Couture, Melissa Bolona, and Jamie Andrew Cutler. SYNOPSIS: Thieves attempt a massive heist against the U.S. Treasury as a Category 5 hurricane approaches one of its Mint facilities. The Hurricane Heist is only a film through technicality. It’s […]

Movie Review – Paddington 2 (2017)

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Paddington 2, 2017 Directed by Paul King Starring Ben Whishaw, Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, Hugh Grant, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, Julie Walters, Imelda Staunton, Michael Gambon, Marie-France Alvarez, Jim Broadbent, Brendan Gleeson, Ben Miller, Jessica Hynes, Robbie Gee, Richard Ayoade, Sanjeev Bhaskar, and Peter Capaldi SYNOPSIS: Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and […]

Blu-ray Review – Westworld Season One: The Maze

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Ricky Church reviews Westworld Season One: The Maze… Last year HBO had a breakout series with Westworld, a loose remake of the 1973 Michael Crichton film, about a Western immersion park where androids, otherwise known as hosts, take guests on a narrative journey through the Wild West, but there is more going on with the hosts […]

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 Episode 4 Review – ‘Abominations’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the fourth episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 2… There is absolutely nothing wrong with an irrational fear of the dead rising and hunting us for our brains…. I don’t have a lot to cover this week except a broad overview of the two completely incongruent themes this week: Slavery and […]

Blu-ray Review – Doctor Strange (2016)

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Doctor Strange, 2016. Directed by Scott Derrickson Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Benedict Wong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Benjamin Bratt, Scott Adkins, Mads Mikkelsen, and Tilda Swinton. SYNOPSIS: Doctor Strange arrives on Blu-ray in a release that also includes the movie on DVD and a code for a digital copy. While the movie is a […]