Hellboy: The Crooked Man Movie Review
Joining the fun is a new actor playing the big guy by the name of Jack Kesy who has the swagger and world-weary chat down pat. He is joined on the journey by scientist Bobbie Jo Song (Adeline Rudolph) and a Junior G-Man who is dispensed with almost immediately. When their monster in a box escapes, they end up wandering through the local lands trying to find it.
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The film is roughly split into two parts: the wandering part and the battle against the devil and his ...
The Black Mass Movie Review
Bundy was one of the US’s most prolific serial killers and the true number of his victims will never be known after his execution by electrocution in 1989 in a Florida State Prison at the age of 42. His intelligence and good looks were advantages to him in securing his victims but this film plays against that perception.
The Bundy character (called Patrick in this work) is played by Jeremy London as an awkward and socially inept person. His attempts at human connection always come up ...
My Old Ass Movie Review
Elliott (Maisy Stella of the TV show Nashville) is a girl in transition. She is finding her way in the world and many things remain undecided. Her sexuality is fluid as is her comfort to the life laid out in front of her. She dreams of leaving her hometown and bristles under the direction and limited opportunities afforded by its small population.
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Into this mix of conflicting emotions comes a night like no other. While tripping on mushrooms with her two best gal ...
2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Gloria! Movie Review
Teresa (Galatéa Bellugi) is a young servant girl at a musical school for orphans. She is mute but seems to love music, she also appears to be suffering from some sort of trauma. When she discovers a brand new pianoforte in a storeroom that was gifted to the school, she sits down and begins to tickle the ivories.
Teresa has real musical skills but they come out in a most peculiar way (for the times). When four other students hear her playing in the middle of the night they join forces to ...
2024 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival – Comandante Movie Review
Salvatore Todaro (Pierfrancesco Favino - World War Z and Angels & Demons) was a real-life World War II veteran, who even though he was saddled with a severe back injury continued to serve in the Italian army. He was given command of the submarine Comandante Cappellini and asked to join the Battle of the Atlantic.
That battle, which was the longest continuous military campaign of the War was a horrendous campaign and led to an unimaginable number of casualties both civilian and ...
The Wild Robot Movie Review
Her software allows her to learn and eventually understand and communicate with the native fauna. After accidentally destroying a family's bird nest she becomes the sole protector of Brightbill (Kit Connor) and also befriends an outcast fox named Fink (Pedro Pascal). She remains an outcast herself and this creates a bond between the three.
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It speaks to the quality of the writing that these computer-generated characters are imbued with such emotional resonance that ...
Speak No Evil Movie Review
The Daltons’ family unit, which also includes daughter Agnes (Alix West Lefler) are strangely drawn to Paddy, his partner Ciara (Aisling Franciosi) and their son Ant (Dan Hough). Louise is hesitant but Ben sees a free spirit in Paddy that he misses in himself and is willing to look past the eccentricities that Paddy has in overabundance. After the Italian holiday finishes, they are invited to join their new friends at their home in England.
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What starts as a ...
Hinckley – I Shot The President Movie Review
John Warnock Hinckley Jr. was born to a wealthy family in Ardmore, Oklahoma and enjoyed that privilege to live a pleasant and incident-free childhood but under that facade of normalcy lay a fragile psyche. That he lived in a country that didn’t prioritise mental health and made guns as easy to buy as the local paper set him on a course of impending trouble.
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Hinckley wandered through life until obsession took over his thought process. The 1976 Martin Scorsese ...
A Million Days Movie Review
Anderson (Simon Merrells) is an astronaut on the eve of a space mission. His mind is clouded by an obsession with finding out the circumstances behind the tragic loss of a female comrade who was lost out in space during a mission. He is hard-wired to think only in facts but the night before launch will have an indelible effect on that state of mind.
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He lives in relative isolation with his partner Sam (Kemi-Bo Jacobs). She is an expert on AI and helped design a ...
Blink Twice Movie Review
Frida (Naomi Ackie) and her gal pal Jess (Alia Shawkat) are two young ladies trying to make ends meet. When they get a job hostessing at a fundraising gala they come in contact with Slater King (Channing Tatum). The tech billionaire is fighting the cancel culture after a transgression that is never fully explained and the fundraiser is part of his road back. After their paths cross, King invites them to his island for a weekend of excess.
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Once on the island, things seem too ...
