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Movie Review – Christopher Robin (2018)

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Christopher Robin, 2018. Directed by Marc Forster. Starring Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Mark Gatiss, Oliver Ford Davies, Ronke Adekoluejo, Adrian Scarborough, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ken Nwosu, John Dagleish, Amanda Lawrence, Orton O’Brien, Paul Chahidi, and featuring the voice talents of Jim Cummings, Brad Garrett, Toby Jones, Nick Mohammed, Peter Capaldi, Sophie Okonedo, and Sara […]

Blu-ray Review – Apprentice to Murder (1988)

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Apprentice to Murder, 1988. Directed by Ralph L. Thomas. Starring Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe, Mia Sara, Rutanya Alda, Eddie Jones, Adrian Sparks, and Knut Husebø. SYNOPSIS: A young man living in rural Pennsylvania in the 1920s falls under the spell of the local preacher/medicine man. Religion has always played a part in horror, both in […]

Exclusive Interview: Paul Kyriazi on Forbidden Power

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david j. moore chats with filmmaker Paul Kyriazi on Forbidden Power… In the heyday of the grindhouse era, it was quite common for filmmakers to use action, sex, and thrills to spice up their genre jambalayas, and filmmaker Paul Kyriazi came up during that period, with cult classics like Death Machines (1976), The Weapons of […]

Movie Review – Inhumanity (2018)

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Inhumanity, 2018. Directed by Joe McReynolds. Starring Darcel Danielle, Diana Rose, Ford Austin, and Leviticus Wolfe. SYNOPSIS: A deranged serial killer becomes enmeshed in a secret government conspiracy as he is pursued by one of his former victims. Inhumanity is difficult to even categorize. Probably the least misleading thing to say it is broadly a […]

Second Opinion – The Meg (2018)

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The Meg, 2018. Directed by Jon Turteltaub. Starring Jason Statham, Li Bingbing, Rainn Wilson, Ruby Rose, Winston Chao, Page Kennedy, Jessica McNamee, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Robert Taylor, Sophia Shuya Cai, Masi Oka, and Cliff Curtis. SYNOPSIS: After escaping an attack by what he claims was a 70-foot shark, Jonas Taylor must confront his fears to […]

Why You Should Watch Mindhunter

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Martin Carr on why you should watch Netflix’s Mindhunter… Released in 2017 to a muted fanfare Mindhunter represents another singularly personal project from David Fincher. This article was originally conceived as a series overview but has since morphed into something else entirely. My contention is that Fincher never set out to make a show with […]

Exclusive Interview – Samantha Mathis on her new film Boarding School

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david j. moore chats with Boarding School star Samantha Mathis… With an impressive list of on-screen credits that got kick-started with the teen films Pump Up the Volume and the period-set coming of age drama This is My Life from Nora Ephron, making her filmmaking debut, actress Samantha Mathis has been a steady presence in features […]

Exclusive Interview – Director Boaz Yakin on his new film Boarding School

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david j. moore chats with filmmaker Boaz Yakin… Writer / director Boaz Yakin’s filmography shows that he’s a true journeyman of genres, with the urban coming of age drama Fresh (1994), the inspirational sports film Remember the Titans (2000), the comedy Uptown Girls (2003), the gritty Jason Statham action picture Safe (2012), and scripts for the […]

Movie Review – The Darkest Minds (2018)

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The Darkest Minds, 2018. Directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson. Starring Amandla Stenberg, Mandy Moore, Gwendoline Christie, Bradley Whitford, Harris Dickinson, and Patrick Gibson. SYNOPSIS: After a disease wipes out 98% of the world’s children those that remain have incredible gifts they must learn to control them in order to save themselves. The Darkest Minds marks […]