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Comic Book Review – Transformers vs. Terminator #1

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers vs. Terminator #1… A new Transformers crossover has begun and this time the Transformers are facing down another set of popular sci-fi robotic villains in Transformers vs. Terminator #1. The idea of Autobots and Decepticons fighting T-800s and Skynet is rife with potential that writers John Barber and David Mariotte not only fulfill, […]

Movie Review – Acceleration (2019)

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Acceleration, 2019. Directed by Michael Merino and Daniel Zirilli. Starring Natalie Burn, Dolph Lundgren, Sean Patrick Flanery, Danny Trejo and Chuck Liddell. SYNOPSIS: A mom has one night to do some tasks in LA requiring a gun, if she wants to see her son alive. He’s held by a mob boss. I’m a sucker for […]

Movie Review – Vivarium (2019)

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Vivarium, 2019. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Eanna Hardwicke, Jonathan Aris, and Senan Jennings. SYNOPSIS: A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. Maybe the American dream is a nightmare in disguise. That seems to be the point Vivarium (directed […]

Movie Review – Vivarium (2019)

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Vivarium, 2019. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Senan Jennings, Jonathan Aris and Eanna Hardwicke. SYNOPSIS: When a couple visits a strange, suburban housing development, they find themselves trapped within the confines of its eerily silent, identical streets. The notion of setting a twisted satire in the American suburbs is, by now, […]

Movie Review – Resistance (2020)

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Resistance, 2020. Written and Directed by Jonathan Jakubowicz. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Edgar Ramírez, Clémence Poésy, Matthias Schweighöfer, Bella Ramsey, Géza Röhrig, Karl Markovics, Alicia von Rittberg, Vica Kerekes, and Ed Harris. SYNOPSIS: The story of a group of Jewish Boy Scouts who worked with the French Resistance to save the lives of ten thousand orphans […]

Movie Review – End of the Century (2019)

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End of the Century, 2019. Directed by Lucio Castro. Starring Juan Barberini, Ramon Pujol and Mía Maestro. SYNOPSIS: After hooking up with a handsome stranger in Barcelona, a man realises they’ve actually met before – 20 years previously. Memory is an odd thing. Sometimes we sugar-coat the past for our own benefit, whether it’s to […]

Movie Review – Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (2019)

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Dogs Don’t Wear Pants, 2019. Directed by J-P Valkeapää. Starring Pekka Strang, Krista Kosonen, Ilona Huhta, Oona Airola and Jani Volanen. SYNOPSIS: A bereaved father finds that he is able to move through his grief via the world of erotic asphyxiation. The world of BDSM doesn’t have a great deal of representation on the big […]

Movie Review – Saint Maud (2020)

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Saint Maud. 2020. Directed by Rose Glass. Starring Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Knight, Lily Frazer, Turlough Convery, Rosie Sansom, and Marcus Hutton. SYNOPSIS: Follows a pious nurse who becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient. To say A24 has a “type” when it comes to their horror stable is treading […]