Daughter Movie Review
We find Sister (Vivien Ngô) held against her will in a random garage. We are not privy to the how and why she came to be in that situation. She soon meets Father (Casper Van Dien) who instructs her on how to behave to secure her eventual release. Against her will, she becomes a member of the family.
Mother (Elyse Dinh) and Brother (Ian Alexander) also inhabit the house. Their demeanour suggests that they too are there through malfeasance. Father rules the house with an iron fist and ...
Fisherman’s Friends 2: One and All Movie Review
The album went gold selling over 150,000 copies and in these days of streaming that is an impressive number. With that surprise success, media attention and a film based on their story was inevitable. The first film did well and now part two gets a release. The first version was a feel-good story and the second continues with that momentum.
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The story that has been built around the facts feels very contrived but that does little to dull the joy. Who doesn’t love ...
Cocaine Bear Movie Review
Based ever so loosely on an actual event when drug runners lost a load of the white powder in the hills of Tennessee. This ultimately led to the overdose death of a 79-kilogram American Black Bear after it ingested copious amounts of the drug. In a scenario that could only happen in America, the deceased bear was then stuffed and now resides in a shopping mall in Kentucky.
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Director Elizabeth Banks’ has a sure hand on the tiller and uses her extensive knowledge ...
As Good As Dead Movie Review
Oscar (Luca Oriel) is a young Mexican man trying to live a life on the right side of the law and distance himself from the gang life that has insnared his brother Hector (Guillermo Iván). He is befriended by Bryant (Michael Jai White), a man with a past who mentors him in martial arts. When a video is taken of Oscar in a fight, the techniques taught him send a signal to the wrong people.
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When Sonny Kilbane (Tom Berenger), a criminal kingpin running his empire ...
Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania Movie Review
Paul Rudd has always been that anomaly in the Marvel catalogue in that it is easier to see him as a comic presence rather than a heroic one and that continues this time around. That circumstance makes for the film’s most charming moments. Once things drop into the world of zeros and ones, it’s just a matter of business as usual.
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The Ant-Man films have lived mostly outside the Avengers’ based chapters and Quantumania feels amongst the most separate. There are ...
Women Talking Movie Review
A veterinarian from a neighbouring colony supplied some of the men in Manitoba with a spay anaesthetic which they used to sedate entire houses and then proceeded to rape the women in those households. The age of the victims ranged from 3 years old to 65.
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In the film, the perpetrators are imprisoned temporarily and the women in the community get together to decide what to do before the men are released. This leads to an in-depth examination of their beliefs and ...
The Whale Movie Review
This film is never tranquil in its intent or its execution. It’s based on a play of the same name written by Samuel D. Hunter (who also penned the screenplay). It tells the story of Charlie a morbidly obese man who is so damaged by losing the one he loved, he is eating himself to death.
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In his mind, his fate is sealed and in the last moments of his life, he tries to make a connection with his daughter Ellie, played with venomous intensity by Sadie Sink. She is ...
Magic Mike’s Last Dance Movie Review
Mike (Channing Tatum) hooks up with Max as she rebounds from a messy separation from her mega-rich husband and she carts him away to London for a mysterious job. The employment turns out to be revitalising a theatre that said husband used to own but that now belongs to Max. The night of passion with Mike has ignited feelings inside her not known before.
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Once the film arrives in the United Kingdom. it shifts to being a theatre piece with all the bureaucratic ...
Stick Men – Tentacles EP Review
Tentacles lives up to its name with a riff that wraps around you without ever really resolving. This keeps you invested until the final soundscape coda gives you the blessed relief the preceding has denied you.
Ringtone lock steps you into a new sensation with bold power chords and an insistent note pattern not unlike eighties-era Crim. Pat Mastelotto’s percussive output is stellar and grounds the groove.
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Company Of Ghosts starts with a purposive funk groove ...
Spoiler Alert Movie Review
The film is based on the memoir, Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies by Television Journalist Michael Ausiello. It chronicles his 13-year relationship with photographer Kit Cowan. It follows their meeting, falling in love and Kit’s eventual death in 2015 from a rare form of cancer.
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Their partnership is presented as far from perfect and realistically portrays two souls that come together but struggle to fully unite. The serious subject matter is softened by the inject...
