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Movie Review – Silence (2016)

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Silence, 2016. Directed by Martin Scorsese. Starring Andrew Garfield, Adam Driver, Liam Neeson. Tadanobu Asano, Issei Ogata, Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Yoshi Oida, Yôsuke Kubozuka, and Ciarán Hinds. SYNOPSIS: In the seventeenth century, two Jesuit priests face violence and persecution when they travel to Japan to locate their mentor and propagate Catholicism. To be honest, Martin Scorsese’s […]

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events – Season One Review

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Liam Hoofe reviews the first season of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events… ‘Look away, look away’ warns the ominous, and irritatingly catchy opening theme song of Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events. Those who’ve had the pleasure of reading Daniel Handler’s delightfully wicked series of books, which often start with similarly discouraging remarks, […]

Movie Review – Insidious: The Last Key (2018)

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Insidious: The Last Key, 2018. Directed by Adam Robitel. Starring Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, Leigh Whannell, Josh Stewart, Caitlin Gerard, Kirk Acevedo, Javier Botet, Bruce Davison, Spencer Locke, Tessa Ferrer, Ava Kolker, Hana Hayes, Marcus Henderson, Rose Byrne, and Patrick Wilson. SYNOPSIS: Parapsychologist Dr. Elise Rainier faces her most fearsome and personal haunting yet – […]

Second Opinion – The Emoji Movie (2017)

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The Emoji Movie, 2017. Directed by Tony Leondis. Starring T. J. Miller, James Corden, Anna Faris, Maya Rudolph, Steven Wright, Rob Riggle, Jennifer Coolidge, Christina Aguilera, Sofía Vergara, Sean Hayes and Patrick Stewart. SYNOPSIS: Gene, a multi-expressional emoji, sets out on a journey to become a normal emoji. By the time my viewing experience of […]

Movie Review – Patriots Day (2016)

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Patriots Day, 2016. Directed by Peter Berg. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, J.K. Simmons, Michelle Monaghan, Christopher O’Shea, Rachel Brosnahan, Alex Wolff, Themo Melikidze, Jimmy O. Yang, Jake Picking, and Melissa Benoist. SYNOPSIS: An account of Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis’s actions in the events leading up to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing […]

Movie Review – Assassin’s Creed (2016)

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Assassin’s Creed, 2016. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Michael K. Williams, Charlotte Rampling, Denis Menochet, Ariane Labed, Khalid Abdalla, Essie Davis, and Brendan Gleeson. SYNOPSIS: When Callum Lynch explores the memories of his ancestor Aguilar and gains the skills of a Master Assassin, he discovers he is a descendant of […]

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 4 Episode 9 Review – ‘Broken Promises’

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Danny Hale reviews the ninth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4… Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is back from its winter break and maybe it was that wait that had me so geared for its return but damn, this series just come back even better than before. “Broken Promises” felt like a natural follow-up to […]

Movie Review – Assassin’s Creed (2016)

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Assassin’s Creed, 2016. Directed by Justin Kurzel. Starring Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson, Michael Kenneth Williams and Charlotte Rampling. SYNOPSIS: Callum Lynch, a prisoner on Death Row, is rescued from execution by the Abstergo Foundation, who reveal he is part of an ancient brotherhood known as the Assassins, and the memories of […]

The Flash Season 3 Episode 10 Review – ‘Borrowing Problems from the Future’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the tenth episode of The Flash season 3… The Future is not fixed!! (me wishing I could back to the US Primaries and get Bernie Sanders elected) Anyways, We’re back! The Flash picks up right where it left off giving us a brooding (and shirtless) Barry Allen unable to sleep, unable to […]