The Roses Movie Review
Their coming together was storybook and instantaneous, their tip into separation and animosities slow and grinding. Theo, through a building project disaster, loses his job and reputation and retires to raise their two children. At the same time, Ivy scales the heights, running a restaurant that becomes wildly successful and expands to become a thriving chain of locations.
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The animosity that builds between the couple is played mostly for laughs, but the vitriol that ...
Fight or Flight Movie Review
Ex-Secret Service agent Lucas Reyes (Josh Hartnett) is having a very bad day. He’s been on the run for over two years after being cast aside by the agency for going rogue, and now the person who caused his exit, Katherine Brunt (Katee Sackhoff), has contacted him for a chance at redemption.
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While this set-up isn’t the most unique scenario, the way it plays out is anything but normal. The film’s sense of humour will challenge you to put aside your aversions to ...
Caught Stealing Movie Review
Hank Thompson (Austin Butler) is just a dude tasked with looking after his neighbour’s cat, Bud. Said resident, Russ (Doctor Who's Matt Smith), is a mohawked punk rocker who has to travel back to England to visit his ailing father. Hank is completely unprepared for the shite show that is coming his way from this bit of neighbourly assistance.
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Thrown into a world inhabited by crazy Russian Mobsters, coke-snorting barkeeps and two absolutely bonkers Hasidic ...
The Naked Gun Movie Review
The new Frank Drebin (this time the son), played by Liam Neeson, gets almost all the nuances correct, even the deadpan look when a joke bombs (intentionally or not). The Priscilla Presley character is played by Pamela Anderson this time, and she gets the mix of naivety and gumption right as well. Paul Walter Hauser also successfully stars as the old Police Chief’s son
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All that is needed now is a silly plot to contain all the shenanigans, and this one is cobbled ...
Relay Movie Review
Sarah is a biochemist who works for a big tech company and is on the run because of becoming aware of a falsified report on an experimental wheat crop and becoming a whistleblower. It turns out the crop can be damaging to humans. Through a contact with a lawyer who can not help her she gets Ash’s contact details and her plight draws him in.
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The impact on Sarah’s life is so great, all she wants to do is give back the document she stole and get her life back. ...
Eddington Movie Review
A lot of your enjoyment of Eddington will be based on how much you’ve recovered from that undeniably bleak period of time. The film successfully ties in so many elements of the wildness that swept the world then. These include conspiracy theories, government over governance and the big bad that lurks behind all unexplained plot points in films such as this. It’s an intoxicating medley.
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Set in a small, downwardly mobile town in New Mexico, Eddington has seen ...
Nobody 2 Movie Review
Staying true to the law of diminishing returns, part two trades those rewarding elements of surprise for a supercharged bad guy (or girl in this case) and even more extreme carnage. It’s not as much of a stand-out as part one, but it is still a lot of fun. The fun this time is provided by Sharon Stone as Lendina and her gang of deadly malcontents. She almost vibrates with ramped-up energy and neurosis.
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Revolving around a much-needed family vacation, the Mansells ...
Weapons Movie Review
Julia Garner plays Justine Gandy, a grade school teacher who arrives at her class one day to find all of her students (except one) mysteriously missing. You are given no clues at first and Ms Gandy becomes the brunt of the towns anger and suspicion. It turns her life upside down.
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As you discover the townspeople’s lives (secret and otherwise) you are drip feed clues to the ultimate circumstance of the missing children's lives. Then when Gladys Lilly (Amy Madigan) ...
All Souls Movie Review
One of her films that is worth watching is All Souls. This comment on the excessive use by police in forcing unwilling participants into becoming informants at great risk to themselves and their families' lives is a measured adventure that never eases up on the tension. Its ability to keep you on the edge of your seat until the final frame is outstanding.
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River (Madison) is a young single mother who is forced by the police into becoming an informant to help catch ...
The Fantastic Four: First Steps Movie Review
The story arc revolves around the foursome’s reverent acceptance into the current society at large that is almost complete. This general consensus is, however, challenged when the Earth comes under attack from an alien presence and they make a personal decision that defies the common good. In a nod to the geniality of this fantasy land, they are not openly attacked; however, the press still has a field day.
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Having the story so character-driven only works because ...
