Review: Avengers: Endgame
With such a fever sweeping the globe for the highly anticipated “endgame” of the now 22-film strong Marvel Cinematic Universe,
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Movie Review
The Lowedown on “Alita: Battle Angel” (PG-13 – Theatrical – US)
Based on a manga (not anime, fellow space travelers), I knew this was going to be a CGI fest of
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Review – Pet Sematary (2019)
The King renaissance hits a bump. There’s a sad irony in digging up and bringing back Stephen King’s horrific grief
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The Lowedown on “Captain Marvel” (PG-13 – Theatrical – US)
I have been waiting for this since Marvel first announced it was coming. After making 455 million in it’s opening
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Review – Shazam! (2019)
Big meets Superman. “The bigger they are, the harder they fall” is the old adage. Just as DC were once
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Review – What Men Want (2019)
Loosely based upon the 2000 film, What Women Want, Adam Shankman’s What Men Want continues the recent brand of gender-flipped
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Review – Us (2019)
Bonkers, dense and straight up scary. “Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to
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Review: Captain Marvel
This 2019 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Carol Danvers is the twenty-first film in the Marvel
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Review – Fighting With My Family (2019)
In what amounts to the biggest surprise of the year so far, Stephen Merchant’s Fighting With my Family is quite the delight! Even
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Review: Cold Pursuit
This 2019 American black comedy thriller is directed by Hans Petter Moland as a remake of his own native 2014
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Review – Happy Death Day 2U (2019)
Happy Death Day was a cheesy, teen horror-slasher that capitalised on the camp and thrived because of its fun premise.
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Review – Escape Room (2019)
A decade-too-late entry in the deathtrap genre. Cast your mind back to 2006, where creative, gruesome dismemberment is a sure-fire
Read moreThe Lowedown on “Aquaman” (PG-13 – Theatrical – US)
Or “No sir, I am not making fun of your CGI suit.” The DCEU’s latest installment answers the burning question…”Does
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Review – The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)
Mad Max: Fury Road on LSD. Once briefly a harmless jingle, inevitably becoming a near-perturbing earworm, 2014 was the year
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Review – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2019)
Gripping, twisted, authenticated caper. There’s a scene in Can You Ever Forgive Me?where a self-applauding prig boastfully tells fellow authors that
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Review – How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
A touching capper to an all-timer animated trilogy. Despite a jarring change to their classic pre-feature fishing reel, Dreamworks are
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Review – Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Genuine spectacle rises above the scraps. Manga has had a tricky, often unsuccessful journey to the big screen. Look at
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The Lowedown on “Bumblebee” (PG-13 – Theatrical – US)
Or, “My 17 year old self has a crush on Hailee Steinfeld” Well, fellow space travellers…here I am to bring
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Review – If Beale Street Could Talk (2019)
The streets have never felt so warm. Moonlight, a luminous, powerful look at the infliction of intersectionality on a black,
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Review – Welcome To Marwen
It happens every year: films prematurely destined for greatness eventually arrive into our cineplexes with an almighty thud, typically surrounded
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