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Blu-ray Review – The Villainess (2017)

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The Villainess, 2017. Directed by Byung-gil Jung. Starring Ok-bin Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Jun Sung, and Seo-hyeong Kim. SYNOPSIS: A female assassin seeks revenge on the man that killed her father, unaware of the consequences that await her. Opening with possibly the greatest five minutes of first-person action ever filmed, The Villainess follows in the tradition […]

Blu-ray Review – Demons of the Mind (1972)

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Demons of the Mind, 1972. Directed by Peter Sykes. Starring Paul Jones, Robert Hardy, Shane Briant, Gillian Hills, Yvonne Mitchell, Patrick Magee, Robert Brown, and Michael Hordern. SYNOPSIS: A physician discovers a web of sex, incest and Satanism in the house of a wealthy Baron. Coming at a time when Hammer Films badly needed a […]

Blu-ray Review – Willard/Ben Limited Edition Box Set

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Willard/Ben Limited Edition Box Set Directed by Daniel Mann/Phil Karlson. Starring Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Sondra Locke, Michael Dante, Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O’Connell, and Meredith Baxter. SYNOPSIS: Box set containing two cult classics about killer rats from the early 1970s. Something of a ‘lost’ cult film from 1971, Willard is often cited as […]

Marvel’s Inhumans Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Gentleman’s Name Is Gorgon’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… Whoever keeps coming up with these taglines needs reprimanding. Gorgon is not even the central focus of this episode and in fact gets less screen time than he deserves. That the writers have seen fit to bless him with a slightly expanded backstory does nothing to […]

The Orville Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Majority Rule’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of The Orville… Written by Seth MacFarlane this episode has more in common with Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror than anything else. Referencing ‘Nosedive’ from season three The Orville passes comment on our smartphone driven way of life, without lessening the impact with levity. Taking a cue from the feature […]

Supergirl Season 3 Episode 3 Review – ‘Far from the Tree’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Supergirl season 3… A lesbian wedding shower might be a first for American network television but that is just a smoke screen for something more contentious. As the tagline suggests family plays a big part either through reconciliation, repressed prejudice or shared memories, as Supergirl taps into emotional […]

Blu-ray Review – The Thing (1982)

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The Thing, 1982. Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Masur, Charles Hallahan, and Joel Polis. SYNOPSIS: A group of researchers in Antarctica fall foul of an alien organism that can mimic anything it comes into contact with, resulting in paranoia as the trust between the […]

Marvel’s Inhumans Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Something Inhuman This Way Comes’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Marvel’s Inhumans… It has taken five weeks for Inhumans to amount to more than a fragmented mess of scenes, effects and paper-thin character arcs. Thankfully after trawling through the mire of irrelevance, wasted opportunity and needless segues we reach something positive worth mentioning. This episode has pace, broadens […]

Movie Review – Geostorm (2017)

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Geostorm, 2017. Directed by Dean Devlin. Starring Gerard Butler, Katheryn Winnick, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Andy Garcia, Zazie Beetz, and Ed Harris. SYNOPSIS: When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate start to attack Earth, it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out […]