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Movie Review – Cry of the City (1948)

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Cry of the City, 1948 Directed by Robert Siodmak. Starring Richard Conte, Victor Mature, Berry Kroeger, Shelley Winters and Debra Paget. SYNOPSIS: Adapted from the novel The Chair for Martin Rome by Henry Edward Helseth, the film tells the story of a charismatic criminal and his nemesis, Lieutenant Candella… Remember Barzini? The old-crone who was taken out on the […]

Movie Review – Unfriended (2015)

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Unfriended, 2015. Directed by Levan Gabriadze. Starring Shelley Hennig, Moses Jacob Storm, Renee Olstead, Will Peltz, Jacob Wysocki, Courtney Halverson and Heather Sossaman. SYNOPSIS: A group of online chat room friends find themselves haunted by a mysterious, supernatural force using the account of their dead friend. Do you like gimmicks in your movies? How about […]

Daredevil Episode 9: “Speak of the Devil” – Review

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Luke Owen reviews episode nine of Daredevil… If there is one thing to be said about “Speak of the Devil” (and there is a lot to say), it’s that it doesn’t hold back. Kicking you in the face from the moment the Netflix logo disappears, “Speak of the Devil” is a violent, violent episode and can […]

Movie Review – Last Knights (2015)

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Last Knights, 2015. Directed by Kazuaki Kiriya. Starring Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman, Aksel Hennie, Cliff Curtis, Dave Legeno and Ayelet Zurer. SYNOPSIS: Academy Award Nominee Clive Owen delivers an electrifying performance as a fallen warrior who rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master, Academy Award Winner Morgan Freeman  in this […]

Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt – Season One Review

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Kirsty Capes reviews Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt… Upon first glance, Netflix’s latest comedy original Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, looks like an unemployed twenty-something’s dream. Set in New York, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt follows the delightful Kimmy, who has recently escaped a fifteen year-long incarceration in an underground bunker, held captive by Don Draper in a weird sex cult before being liberated and […]

Movie Review – German Concentration Camps Factual Survey

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German Concentration Camps Factual Survey Directed by Sidney Bernstein Edited by Stewart McAllister, Peter Tanner and Marcel Cohen with treatment advice by Alfred Hitchcock SYNOPSIS: An official documentary about German atrocities and the concentration camps compiled with footage shot by combat and newsreel cameramen accompanying troops as they liberated occupied Europe Last year, Night Will […]

Daredevil Episode 8: “Shadows in the Glass” – Review

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Luke Owen reviews the eighth episode of Daredevil… We’ve seen Matt as a child and we’ve seen how and why he became the Man Without Fear, but now it’s time for us to see just why Wilson Fisk is the way he is. It’s time to visit Fisk’s childhood. There is an argument (a rather solid […]

Movie Review – The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

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The Town That Dreaded Sundown, 2014 Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Starring Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright, Anthony Anderson, Gary Cole, Joshua Leonard and Ed Lauter.   SYNOPSIS: 65 years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, the so-called ‘moonlight murders’ begin again. Is it a copycat or something even more sinister? A lonely […]