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Movie Review – Bliss (2021)

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Bliss, 2021. Directed by Mike Cahill. Starring Owen Wilson, Salma Hayek, Nesta Cooper, Jorge Lendeborg Jr. and Ronny Chieng. SYNOPSIS: A recently divorced man loses his job and subsequently bumps into a woman who claims that the world in which he lives is actually a simulation. The Matrix, but with Owen Wilson. That’s essentially the […]

Movie Review – Two of Us (2019)

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Two of Us, 2019. Directed by Filippo Meneghetti. Starring Barbara Sukowa, Martine Chevallier, Léa Drucker, Muriel Bénazéraf, Jérôme Varanfrain and Augustin Reynes. SYNOPSIS: A lesbian couple who have kept their relationship a secret from family face a new challenge in the wake of a medical emergency, which leaves one of them non-verbal and confined to […]

Movie Review – Twist (2021)

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Twist, 2021. Directed by Martin Owen. Starring Raff Law, Rita Ora, Franz Drameh, Sophie Simnett, Michael Caine, Lena Headey, David Walliams, Noel Clarke and Leigh Francis. SYNOPSIS: A modern day heist thriller set on the streets of London, based very loosely on the characters of Charles Dickens’s iconic novel. Really? We’re doing Oliver Twist again? […]

Movie Review – The Queen of Black Magic (2019)

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The Queen of Black Magic, 2019. Directed by Kimo Stamboel. Starring Ario Bayu, Hannah Al Rashid, Adhisty Zara, Ade Firman Hakim, Sheila Dara Aisha, Tanta Ginting, Salvita Decorte, Imelda Therinne, Miller Khan and Shenina Cinnamon. SYNOPSIS: When a group of friends reunite at the orphanage where they grew up, they discover that they may have […]

Movie Review – Baby Done (2020)

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Baby Done, 2020. Directed by Curtis Vowell. Starring Rose Matafeo, Matthew Lewis, Emily Barclay, Matenga Ashby, Fasitua Amosa, Loren Taylor, Olivia Tennet, Rachel House and Nic Sampson. SYNOPSIS: An adventurous woman finds her risk-taking life challenged when she discovers that she has fallen pregnant. Anyone who is currently childless in their 20s and 30s will […]

Movie Review – Dark Whispers Vol. 1 (2019)

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Dark Whispers Vol. 1, 2019. Directed by Megan Riakos, Angie Black, Kaitlin Tinker, Isabel Peppard, Briony Kidd, Jub Clerc, Marion Pilowsky, Katrina Irawati Graham, Lucy Gouldthorpe, Madeleine Purdy and Janine Hewitt. Starring Asher Keddie, Anthony LaPaglia, Andrea Demetriades and Bree Desborough. SYNOPSIS: A series of horror tales, linked together via their presence in a mysterious […]

Movie Review – French Exit (2020)

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French Exit, 2020. Directed by Azazel Jacobs. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Valerie Mahaffey, Imogen Poots, Danielle Macdonald, Susan Coyne and Tracy Letts. SYNOPSIS: A previously wealthy widow and her son travel to Paris with the last of their money, and the cat whose body she claims her husband occupies. Highbrow quirk is an interesting […]

Movie Review – Synchronic (2019)

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Synchronic, 2019. Directed by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Ally Ioannides, Katie Aselton and Ramiz Monsef. SYNOPSIS: Two paramedics find themselves embroiled in the chaos of a new “designer drug”, which has been linked to several gruesome deaths. Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are among the leading modern proponents of […]

Movie Review – Blithe Spirit (2020)

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Blithe Spirit, 2020. Directed by Edward Hall. Starring Dan Stevens, Isla Fisher, Leslie Mann, Judi Dench, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Emilia Fox. SYNOPSIS: A struggling crime novelist experiments with a séance in search of inspiration, only to unwittingly summon the ghost of his deceased ex-wife. Writer’s block is a very real problem. Certainly, anyone of a […]

Movie Review – Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)

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Wonder Woman 1984, 2020. Directed by Patty Jenkins. Starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Robin Wright and Connie Nielsen. SYNOPSIS: In the 1980s, Wonder Woman clashes with an evil businessman and a museum co-worker with ambitions to be both fierce and… furry. If there was pressure on Wonder Woman to prove that […]