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Movie Review – Kindergarten Cop 2 (2016)

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Kindergarten Cop 2, 2016. Directed by Don Michael Paul. Starring Dolph Lundgren, Fiona Vroom, Aleks Paunovic, Andre Tricoteux, Bill Bellamy and Sarah Strange. SYNOPSIS: Assigned to recover sensitive stolen data, a gruff FBI agent goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher, but the school’s liberal, politically correct environment is more than he bargained for. “It’s not […]

Movie Review – K-Shop (2016)

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K-Shop, 2016. Directed by Dan Pringle. Starring: Ziad Abaza, Reece Noi, Scot Williams and Ewen MacIntosh. SYNOPSIS: Student Salah loses his father after an altercation with a gang of drunken customers. Overcome with grief, the pressure of his studies and his father’s failing business, Salah, in a modern Sweeney Todd tale, wages war against the […]

Blu-Ray Review – The Last Command (1928)

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The Last Command, 1928. Directed by Josef von Sternberg. Starring Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell and Jack Raymond. SYNOPSIS: A former imperial Russian general, and a cousin to the fallen Tsar, ekes out a living as a Hollywood extra, and lands a role in a movie that, unbeknownst to him, is being directed by a […]

69th Cannes Film Festival Review – The BFG (2016)

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The BFG. 2016 Directed by Steven Spielberg Starring Ruby Barnhill, Mark Rylance, Bill Hader, Jemaine Clement, Penelope Wilton, Rebecca Hall and Rafe Spall SYNOPSIS: Sophie, a young orphan, encounters the Big Friendly Giant who takes her to his magical homeland. But as the duo bond, Sophie’s life – and the fate of other children – […]

69th Cannes Film Festival Review – Toni Erdmann (2016)

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Toni Erdmann, 2016. Directed by Maren Ade. Starring Peter Simonischek, Sandra Hüller, Thomas Loibl, Trystan Puetter and Hadewych Minis. SYNOPSIS: A bittersweet German comedy about a prankster father who disguises himself as a man named ‘Toni Erdmann’ in a bid to get the attention of his serious, business executive daughter. Parents and adult children struggling to […]

Movie Review – Toni Erdmann (2016)

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Toni Erdmann, 2016. Directed by Maren Ade Starring Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek, Michael Wittenborn and Ingrid Bisu SYNOPSIS: In order to reconnect with his business driven daughter, a father creates an alter ego pretending to be a high-flying life coach. Sometimes a story is so outlandish, so obscure that you think this has to be […]

Movie Review – Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens, 2015. Directed by J.J. Abrams. Starring Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Kenny Baker, Peter Mayhew, Tim Rose, Adam Driver, Oscar Isaac, Andy Serkis, Domhnall Gleeson, John Boyega, Daisy Ridley, Gwendoline Christie, Lupita Nyong’o, Ken Leung, Miltos Yerolemou, Max von Sydow, Jessica Henwick, Christina Chong, Simon Pegg, Billie […]

Second Opinion – The Big Short (2015)

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The Big Short, 2015. Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Finn Wittrock, Max Greenfield, Melissa Leo, Rafe Spall, Hamish Linklater, Tracy Letts, John Magaro, Jeremy Strong, Marissa Tomei, Karen Gillan, Stanley Wong, Byron Mann, Margot Robbie, and Selena Gomez.   SYNOPSIS: Four denizens of the world of high-finance […]

Comic Book Review – Black Road #2

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Zeb Larson reviews Black Road #2… The Viking North is an occupied war zone and Magnus the Black is the fixer for Papal Rome. Something about this issue of Black Road didn’t grab me. The first issue had a certain austere bleakness that was appropriate, but it also had the power of the tension between […]