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69th Cannes Film Festival Review – Cafe Society (2016)

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Café Society, 2016. Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Parker Posey, Paul Schneider, Corey Stoll, Blake Lively and Anna Camp. SYNOPSIS: A 1930s-inspired comedy about a native New Yorker who transfers to glamorous Hollywood and finds himself in a love triangle with a secretary and a powerful married man. The […]

DVD Review – Nina Forever (2015)

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Nina Forever, 2015. Directed by Ben Blaine & Chris Blaine. Starring Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Abigail Hardingham, Cian Barry, David Troughton, Lee Nicolas Harris and Elizabeth Elvin. SYNOPSIS: A man is haunted by the restless ghost of his dead girlfriend after he finds a new love. Having lost his girlfriend Nina (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) in a car accident, […]

Comic Book Review – The Fix #2

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Emma Withington reviews The Fix #2… From the creators of The Superior Foes of Spider-Man (Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber), comes a story of the crooked cops, scheming mobsters, and corrupt politicians that run things—and the sex toy that can bring them all down. Oh, and the hero is a drug-sniffing beagle named Pretzels. Bad people […]

DVD Review – Assassin (2015)

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Assassin, 2015. Directed by J.K. Amalou. Starring Danny Dyer, Anouska Mond, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Holly Weston and Eddie Webber. SYNOPSIS: A hitman falls for a beautiful exotic dancer before discovering that his last hit was her dodgy businessman father, forcing him to turn against his ruthless employers to try and save her life. Is […]

Book Review – Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong

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Michelle Herbert reviews Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits by David Wong… David Wong is mainly known for his first novel, John Dies at the End, and although there are similarities in his writing style, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits is a more coherent story set in a whole new world, where zany events happen and […]

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 Episode 12 Review – ‘Who You Really Are’

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Matthew Spencer-Skeen reviews the twelfth episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D season 2.… In my review of episode 11 of this series I made it clear that it was clearly just catching us up on what happened and was only setting us up for bigger things. Luckily bigger things started happening straight away. The return of […]

Movie Review – Swiss Army Man (2016)

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Swiss Army Man, 2016. Written and Directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. Starring Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. SYNOPSIS: A hopeless man stranded in the wilderness befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home. Not even five minutes into Swiss Army Man (the first […]

Fantasia International Film Festival Review – Don’t Breathe (2016)

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Don’t Breathe, 2016. Directed by Fede Alvarez. Starring Jane Levy, Stephen Lang, Dylan Millette and Daniel Zovatto. SYNOPSIS: Rocky, a young woman wanting to start a better life for her and her sister, agrees to take part in the robbery of a house owned by a wealthy blind man with her boyfriend Money and their […]

Movie Review – Still Alice (2014)

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Still Alice, 2014. Directed by Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland Starring Julianne Moore, Alec Baldwin, Kristen Stewart, Kate Bosworth, Hunter Parrish and Stephen Kunken. SYNOPSIS: Mother, wife and linguistics professor Alice Howland faces a battle to hold on to her livelihood after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s disease.   Julianne Moore recently won an Oscar for […]