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The Penguin Episode 7 Review – ‘Top Hat’

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Chris Connor reviews the seventh episode of The Penguin… The Penguin’s previous episode ended on a tense cliffhanger with Vic and Oz’s mother Frances in Sofia’s view as she and Sal continue their quest for vengeance against Oz. Instead of tackling this upfront, the penultimate episode spends its first ten minutes filling us in on […]

4K Ultra HD Review – The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982)

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The Sword and the Sorcerer, 1982. Directed by Albert Pyun. Starring Lee Horsley, Kathleen Beller, Simon MacCorkindale, Richard Lynch, Richard Moll, and Nina van Pallandt. SYNOPSIS: A mercenary with a three-bladed sword is recruited to help a princess foil the designs of a brutal tyrant and a powerful sorcerer in conquering a land. You know […]

4K Ultra HD Review – The 4:30 Movie (2024)

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The 4:30 Movie, 2024. Directed by Kevin Smith. Starring Austin Zajur, Nicholas Cirillo, Reed Northrup, Siena Agudong, and Ken Jeong. SYNOPSIS: Kevin Smith’s latest, the nostalgia-filled Gen X crowd pleaser The 4:30 Movie, arrives on 4K Ultra HD in a nice Steelbook-plus-slipcover package meant, of course, to evoke an old VHS rental tape. It’s a […]

Movie Review – Strange Darling (2024)

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Strange Darling, 2024. Directed by JT Mollner. Starring Willa Fitzgerald, Kyle Gallner, Jason Patric, Giovanni Ribisi, Ed Begley Jr., Barbara Hershey, Steven Michael Quezada, Madisen Beaty, Denise Grayson, Eugenia Kuzmina, Bianca A. Santos, Sheri Foster, Duke Mollner, Andrew John Segal, and Robert Craighead. SYNOPSIS: Nothing is what it seems when a twisted one-night stand spirals […]

Movie Review – Escape (2023)

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Escape, 2023. Directed by Howard J. Ford. Starring Sarah Alexander Marks, Sophie Rankin, Sean Cronin, Louis James, Angela Dixon, Glenn Salvage, Jon-Paul Gates ,Ksenia Islamova, Tiffany Hannam-Daniels, and Anthony Ofogebu. SYNOPSIS: When best friends Karla (Marks) and Lucy (Rankin) take a luxury getaway on a remote island resort, it’s not long before their heaven turns […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Zodiac (2007)

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Zodiac, 2007. Directed by David Fincher. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox, Elias Koteas, Donal Logue, John Carroll Lynch, and Dermot Mulroney. SYNOPSIS: David Fincher’s 2007 classic Zodiac makes its 4K Ultra HD debut in a new edition from Paramount that also includes the two Blu-ray discs that comprised […]

Movie Review – Here (2024)

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Here, 2024. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly, Michelle Dockery, Gwilym Lee, Ophelia Lovibond, David Fynn, Leslie Zemeckis, Jonathan Aris, Albie Salter, Lilly Aspell, Lauren McQueen, Billie Gadsdon, Harry Marcus, Ben Wiggins, Joel Oulette, Dannie McCallum, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Mohammed George, Dexter Sol Ansell, Zsa Zsa Zemeckis, Cache Vanderpuye, […]

Movie Review – The Gutter (2024)

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The Gutter, 2024. Directed by Isaiah Lester and Yassir Lester. Starring Shameik Moore, D’Arcy Carden, Susan Sarandon, Paul Reiser, Jay Ellis, Langston Kerman, Kim Fields, Jackée Harry, Paul Scheer, Kathy Ann Wittes, Tony Baker, Rell Battle, Adam Brody, Nelson Franklin, Carissa Kosta, Monique Lea-Gall, Jay Light, Kourosh Parsapour, and Adam Pally. SYNOPSIS: Walt lands work […]

Movie Review – A Real Pain (2024)

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A Real Pain, 2024. Written and Directed by Jesse Eisenberg. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Will Sharpe, Jennifer Grey, Kurt Egyiawan, Ellora Torchia, Liza Sadovy, and Daniel Oreskes. SYNOPSIS: Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair’s old tensions […]

Movie Review – The Apprentice (2024)

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The Apprentice, 2024. Directed by Ali Abbasi. Starring Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Strong, Maria Bakalova, Emily Mitchell, Martin Donovan, Patch Darragh, Stuart Hughes, Eoin Duffy, Chloe Madison, Ben Sullivan, Mark Rendall, Joe Pingue, Catherine McNally, Charlie Carrick, Jim Monaco, Bruce Beaton, Ian D. Clark, Valerie O’Connor, James Madge, Ron Lea, Edie Inksetter, Jai Jai Jones, Tom […]