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TIFF 2016 Review – All I See Is You (2016)

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All I See Is You, 2016. Directed by Marc Forster. Starring Blake Lively, Jason Clarke, Ahna O’Reilly, Miguel Fernandez, Danny Huston and Yvonne Strahovski. SYNOPSIS: A blind woman’s relationship with her husband changes when she regains her sight and discovers disturbing details about themselves. Ever since last year’s Age of Adeline, Blake Lively has had […]

Movie Review – Christine (2016)

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Christine, 2016. Directed by Antonio Campos. Starring Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts, Maria Dizzia, Timothy Simons, J. Smith-Cameron and Kim Shaw. SYNOPSIS: The story of Christine Chubbuck, a 1970s TV reporter struggling with depression and professional frustrations as she tries to advance her career. On July 15th 1974, Christine Chubbuck – a newsreader […]

Second Opinion – Inferno (2016)

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Inferno, 2016. Directed by Ron Howard. Starring Tom Hanks, Felicity Jones, Ben Foster, Omar Sy, Sidse Babbett Knudsen and Irrfan Khan.   SYNOPSIS: When Robert Langdon wakes up in an Italian hospital with amnesia, he teams up with Dr. Sienna Brooks, and together they must race across Europe against the clock to foil a deadly […]

Comic Book Review – 2000AD Prog 1998

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Mark Allen reviews 2000AD Prog 1998… This week’s prog brings us five stories of betrayal, subterfuge and violence – perfect for those midweek blues when you want to blow everything up! In Judge Dredd, the character’s creators John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra conclude their latest story, Ladykiller, with the eponymous lawman chasing down a cross-dressing terrorist […]

American Horror Story Season 6 Episode 1 Review

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Kirsty Capes reviews the first episode of American Horror Story season 6… It’s finally back. After months of teasing and misdirection, the highly anticipated sixth season of American Horror Story has returned to our screens, with its first episode airing last night. Unlike previous seasons of the anthology series, creators Bryan Falchuk and Ryan Murphy […]

Second Opinion – Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016)

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Hunt for the Wilderpeople, 2016. Directed by Taika Waititi. Starring Sam Neill, Julian Dennison, Rima Te Wiata, Rachel House, Tioreore Ngatai-Melbourne, Oscar Knightley and Rhys Darby. SYNOPSIS: A national manhunt is ordered for a rebellious kid and his foster uncle who go missing in the wild New Zealand bush. Hunt for the Wilderpeople occupies a strange place, that purgatory […]

Red Dwarf XI Episode 1 Review – ‘Twentica’

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Villordsutch reviews Red Dwarf  XI Episode 1 – “Twentica”… Rimmer – “We’re picking up a ship heading straight for us in an unmapped region of deep space.” Lister – “Where?” Rimmer – “Nearing region: Uncharted, Sector: No Name, Quadrant: Nameless.” The boys from the JMC are back! Along with the Cat and the Mechanoid… they’re […]

TIFF 2016 Review – Without Name (2016)

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Without Name, 2016 Directed by Lorcan Finnegan Starring Alan McKenna, Niamh Algar, James Browne, Olga Wehrly SYNOPSIS: A land surveyor discovers a dark secret deep within a dense forest, in this eco-horror thriller from first-time Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan. For his debut feature film, director Lorcan Finnegan presents an intriguing psychological horror that relies on […]

Movie Review – Bridget Jones’s Baby (2016)

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Bridget Jones’s Baby, 2016. Directed by Sharon Maguire. Starring Renée Zellweger, Colin Firth, Patrick Dempsey, Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones and Emma Thompson. SYNOPSIS: Bridget’s focus on single life and her career is interrupted when she finds herself pregnant, but with one hitch … she can only be fifty percent sure of the identity of her […]