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Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (2015)

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Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, 2015. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Jeremy Renner, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Sean Harris and Alec Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: Ethan and team take on their most impossible mission yet, eradicating the Syndicate – an International rogue organization as highly skilled as they are, committed to destroying the […]

The Flash Season 2 Episode 21 Review – ‘The Runaway Dinosaur’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-first episode of The Flash season 2… Snooch-to the-Naga-Nooch! Yep, this is the “one Kevin Smith directed.” If you’re not a fan, don’t let that scare you off; and if you are a huge fan, you won’t notice much of a difference from business as usual. That being said, this was […]

Movie Review – The Neon Demon (2016)

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The Neon Demon, 2016. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Abbey Lee, Karl Glusman, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Desmond Harrington and Keanu Reeves. SYNOPSIS: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means […]

Movie Review – The Neon Demon (2016)

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The Neon Demon 2016 Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn Starring Elle Fanning, Karl Glusman, Jena Malone, Abbey Lee, Bella Heathcoate, Desmond Harrington, Christina Hendricks, and Keanu Reeves SYNOPSIS: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to […]

Movie Review – The Neon Demon (2016)

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The Neon Demon, 2016. Directed by Nicolas Winding-Refn. Starring Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Desmond Harrington, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee and Keanu Reeves. SYNOPSIS: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get […]

Movie Review – Florence Foster Jenkins (2016)

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Florence Foster Jenkins, 2016. Directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg and Rebecca Ferguson. SYNOPSIS: The story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer, despite having a terrible singing voice. Are we to laugh with, or laugh at Florence Foster Jenkins, a question […]

Movie Review – The Shallows (2016)

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The Shallows, 2016. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Blake Lively. SYNOPSIS: A mere 200 yards from shore, surfer Nancy is attacked by a great white shark, with her short journey to safety becoming the ultimate contest of wills. The Shallows director Jaume Collet-Serra isn’t a well-known name to mainstream audiences, but he is beginning to slowly […]

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 on a deserted island befriends a dead body and together they go on a surreal journey to get home. Just a quick disclaimer – everything described in this […]

Person of Interest Season 5 Episode 2 Review – ‘SNAFU’

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Ricky Church reviews the second episode of Person of Interest season 5… Given the dire nature the POI team has found themselves in, especially after the events of the season 5 premiere ‘B.S.O.D.’, you’d expect the follow up episode to build off the suspense. Instead, ‘SNAFU’ was perhaps the lightest episode of Person of Interest […]