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2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – The Last Black Man in San Francisco

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The Last Black Man in San Francisco, 2019. Directed by Joe Talbot. Starring Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Rob Morgan, Tichina Arnold, Danny Glover, Mike Epps, Mari Kearney, Tonya Glanz, Thora Birch, and Finn Wittrock. SYNOPSIS: A young man searches for home in the changing city that seems to have left him behind. The prospect of […]

TV Review – RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Series 1 Episode 1

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EJ Moreno reviews the premiere episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK… One of the most beautiful times of the year is the start of a new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. As a fan of the original version, it’s become tiresome with so many seasons back-to-back, though. Thankfully the UK version of the show is […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Cold Case Hammarskjöld

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Cold Case Hammarskjöld, 2019. Directed by Mads Brügger. Starring Mads Brügger and Göran Björkdahl. SYNOPSIS: Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Documentary […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers #12

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers #12… After Transformers #11‘s Decepticon-heavy development, Brian Ruckley takes another break from the series’ main story to take us back a little bit in time and more fully introduce his version of Nautica and other bots who have been missing in the series up until now. It was a fun one-off tale […]

Video Review – Joker (2019)

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Joker, 2019. Directed by Todd Phillips. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy and Robert De Niro. The Clown Prince of Crime returns to the big screen this week as Warner Bros. and DC Films releases director Todd Phillips’ Joker, which sees Joaquin Phoenix taking on the role of the iconic Batman villain for this […]

Movie Review – Semper Fi (2019)

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Semper Fi, 2019 Directed by Henry-Alex Rubin Starring Jai Courtney, Nat Wolff, Finn Wittrock, Leighton Meester, Beau Knapp, and Arturo Castro SYNOPSIS: A police officer who serves in the Marine Corps Reserves is faced with an ethical dilemma when it comes to helping his brother in prison. Allow me to clarify one thing before speaking, […]

2019 BFI London Film Festival Review – Synchronic

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Synchronic, 2019. Directed by Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead. Starring Anthony Mackie, Jamie Dornan, Ally Ioannides, Katie Aselton, Bill Oberst Jr., Sam Malone, Shane Brady and Betsy Holt. SYNOPSIS: Two New Orleans paramedics’ lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects. Synchronic is […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers/Ghostbusters #5

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers/Ghostbusters #5… As Transformers and Ghostbusters continue their 35th anniversary celebrations, IDW’s crossover Transformers/Ghostbusters series comes to an end as Optimus Prime, Ectotron and the Ghostbusters worked together to stop the ghostly forces of Megatron and his Decepticons. There was a lot of potential for this crossover which writer Eric Burnham definitely met, making a pretty entertaining send […]