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Movie Review – The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

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The Trial of the Chicago 7, 2020. Written and Directed by Aaron Sorkin. Starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Sacha Baron Cohen, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Keaton, Frank Langella, John Carroll Lynch, Eddie Redmayne, Mark Rylance, Alex Sharp, Jeremy Strong, Daniel Flaherty, and Noah Robbins. SYNOPSIS: The story of seven people on trial stemming from various charges surrounding […]

Video Game Review – Serious Sam 4

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Shaun Munro reviews Serious Sam 4… Like so many young PC gamers growing up in the early 2000s, Serious Sam was a major component of my formative FPS education, a glorious exercise in low-fuss, high-mayhem entertainment; taking down Scythian Witch-Harpies by the bucket-load with extreme prejudice. The question arises, then, as to how returning developers […]

Video Game Review – WWE 2K Battlegrounds

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Shaun Munro reviews WWE 2K Battlegrounds… Many fans of the WWE 2K franchise had been hoping it would take a year off following the release of last year’s shambolic WWE 2K20, and between the game’s poor reception and the realities of developing a new video game in 2020, the planned WWE 2K21 was indeed eventually […]

Movie Review – The Devil All the Time (2020)

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The Devil All the Time, 2020. Directed by Antonio Campos. Starring Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, and Harry Melling. SYNOPSIS: Sinister characters converge around a young man devoted to protecting those he loves in a postwar backwoods town teeming with corruption and […]

Video Game Review – Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2

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Shaun Munro reviews Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2… The commodification of nostalgia has and probably always will be lucrative, but in recent years it’s taken on an altogether more cynical tenor across entertainment media. In the gaming sphere this has materialised in the form of soulless, dubiously-motivated remakes and remasters largely attempting to […]

Arrow Video Frightfest 2020 Review – The Swerve

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The Swerve, 2018. Written and directed by Dean Kapsalis. Starring Azura Skye, Bryce Pinkham, Ashley Bell, and Zach Rand. SYNOPSIS: The dark secrets of Holly’s seemingly perfect life are exposed when an unwanted intruder spins her life out of control forever. Dean Kapsalis’ shattering debut scarcely qualifies as horror in the traditional sense, tackling instead […]

Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Dark Stories

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Dark Stories, 2020. Directed by François Descraques and Guillaume Lubrano. Starring Kristanna Loken, Michelle Ryan, Dominique Pinon, Delphine Chaneac, John Robinson,Tiphaine Daviot, Sebastien Lalanne, Dorylia Calmel, Slimane Baptiste Berhoun, Loup Denis Elion, Julien Pestel, Florent Dorin, and Thierry Fremont. SYNOPSIS: Five short horror films about ghouls, E.T., haunted dolls, zombies and more. True consistency is […]

Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Av: The Hunt

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Av: The Hunt, 2020. Directed by Emre Akay. Starring Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Baki Kaymaz, Yagizcan Konyah, and Billur Melis Koç. SYNOPSIS: After being caught with her lover, a woman becomes hunted by her own relatives who want to kill her for their family’s honour. As modern Hollywood seems insistent on shoving Hallmark truisms about the […]

Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Blinders

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Blinders, 2020. Directed by Tyler Savage. Starring Christine Ko, Vincent Van Horn, Michael Lee Joplin, and Dusty Sorg. SYNOPSIS: A young man’s budding romance is threatened when he befriends an unstable ride-share driver. The Cable Guy gets a grisly millennial update in Tyler Savage’s (Inheritance) sophomore feature Blinders, fleshing out a potentially over-familiar stalker thriller with […]