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Movie Review – The Radleys (2024)

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The Radleys, 2024. Directed by Euros Lyn. Starring Damian Lewis, Kelly Macdonald, Bo Bragason, Harry Baxendale, Jay Lycurgo, and Shaun Parkes. SYNOPSIS: When the worst happens, the Radleys realise it’s time they let their kids in on the family secret, but can they deal with the fallout and cover up a murder at the same […]

Exclusive Interview – Exorcists Never Die writer Steve Orlando and artist Sebastián Píriz

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Rachel Bellwoar chats with Steve Orlando and Sebastián Píriz about their upcoming comic book series Exorcists Never Die… There’s nothing like a series that has its own vocabulary. What was it like getting to invent new words for Exorcists Never Die? Steve Orlando: Exciting! To be fair, I think part of working fiction, especially science […]

Movie Review – Nocebo (2022)

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Nocebo, 2022. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Eva Green, Chai Fonacier, Mark Strong, and Billie Gadsdon. SYNOPSIS: Unable to figure out the cause behind her recent health problems, Christine accepts a nanny’s help despite not remembering that she hired her. Christine (Eva Green) is in the middle of a fashion show for her new line […]

Blu-ray Review – Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 80s Kadokawa Years

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews the Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 80s Kadokawa Years box set… When talking about Nobuhiko Obayashi (at least in the US) it’s almost a given that any conversation about his work will start by mentioning House (1977), and for good reason. House is a one-of-a-kind movie – a film that garners recognition – yet, given […]

Book Review – Charles Boyer: The French Lover

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews Charles Boyer: The French Lover… According to the flap copy, John Baxter’s Charles Boyer: The French Lover “is the first biography of Boyer (1899-1978) to exist in English in almost forty years.” The last one, as cited in Baxter’s bibliography, would appear to be Larry Swindell’s The Reluctant Lover: Charles Boyer, which was […]

DVD Review – Britannia Series III

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews series three of Britannia… Girl gets declared the Chosen One. Girl denies her destiny. Girl changes her mind and prepares to go on a quest. If series three of Britannia sounds a lot like the Lord of the Rings, that’s because it is — especially after episode three, when Cait (Eleanor Worthington-Cox) […]

Book Review – Seconds by Jez Conolly and Emma Westwood

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews Seconds by Jez Conolly and Emma Westwood… Seconds isn’t the first film to create suspense around the appearance of a person whose face is covered in bandages. The Invisible Man did it. So did Eyes Without a Face and Dark Passage. Never are these films content to let the bandages stay on, […]

Book Review – Mean… Moody… Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews Mean… Moody… Magnificent!: Jane Russell and the Marketing of a Hollywood Legend… Ever have that experience where you watch a movie starring an actor you really never paid much attention to before and suddenly all you want to do is find out more about them? For me, that’s what happened after watching […]

DVD Review – Deutschland 83, 86, & 89 Complete Box Set   

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews the complete box set of Deutschland 83, 86, & 89… Spies don’t come much more reluctant than Martin Rauch (Jonas Nay). It’s Martin, though, who’s the subject of Anna and Jörg Winger’s Cold War drama, Deutschland 83, and its sequels – Deutschland 86 and Deutschland 89. Much like the series itself, which […]