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‘Inspector Sun And The Curse Of The Black Widow’ Review – A Stale Murder Mystery Bursting With Antiquated CGI Animation

September 14, 2023

Distributed by Viva Pictures, the animation studio responsible for The Amazing Maurice and Monkey King: Hero is Back. Inspector Sun and the Curse of the Black Widow follows the story of a seven-legged huntsman ...

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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘Lovely, Dark, And Deep’ Review – A Baffling Labyrinth Of The Subconscious

Chris Sawin

September 5, 2023

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Writer Teresa Sutherland (Midnight Mass, The Wind) jumps into the director’s chair for the first time with the horror film Lovely, Dark, and Deep. Lennon, played by Georgina Campbell (Barbarian) is a new back-c...

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‘The Equalizer 3’ Review: Antoine Fuqua Takes The Franchise Back To Its Roots

Jacob Smith

September 4, 2023

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Believe it or not, Denzel Washington is almost 70 years old which means that his time playing an action star is rapidly diminishing. Robert McCall (DENZEL WASHINGTON) leaves the farm in Sicily with what he ...

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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘Blackout’ Review – Curse Of The Lone Wolf

Chris Sawin

September 1, 2023

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Writer and director Larry Fessenden has been exploring his take on the Universal monsters for decades. In 1995, he released Habit; a modern vampire tale. With 2019’s The Depraved, the filmmaker also delivered a...

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‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ Review: Truly A Dracula Lost At Sea

JB Augustine

August 29, 2023

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You probably knew this was coming to a theater near you, but you probably won’t notice as The Last Voyage of the Demeter departs theaters like a ghost ship into the fog of obscurity. I saw it, admittedly not ri...

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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘#Manhole’ Review – Simplicity Blossoms Into Full Blown Horror

Chris Sawin

August 24, 2023

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Directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri and written by Michitaka Okada, #Manhole is a Japanese dramatic thriller starring Yûto Nakajima. It’s the night before Shunsuke Kawamura’s (Nakajima) wedding and his co-workers de...

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Fantasia Film Festival 2023 ‘New Life’ Review – Chasing The End Of The World

Chris Sawin

August 24, 2023

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A woman (Hayley Erin) is on the run. Wearing a hoodie to hopefully blend in and covered in blood, she’s near the border to a mysterious location. A fixer named Elsa Gray (Sonya Walger) is struggling with early ...

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‘Blue Beetle’ Review: A Bit Iron Man, A Lot Ant-Man, But All DC

JB Augustine

August 22, 2023

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Blue Beetle was always going to be a longshot whether at the theater or in any format with the shape DC and Warner Bros. are in. The same goes for Hollywood and superhero movies in general right now. There is a...

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Fantasia Film Festival ‘Mad Fate’ Review – Cleansing The Urge To Murder

Chris Sawin

August 15, 2023

Movie Reviews, Movies

Directed by Soi Cheang (The Monkey King films), written by Yau Nai-hoi (Drug War) and Melvin Li, and produced by Johnnie To (director of Drug War and Fulltime Killer), Mad Fate is a crazy Hong Kong mystery thri...

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‘Meg 2: The Trench’ Review – Big Dumb Shark Movie Is Good Old Dumb Fun

JB Augustine

August 15, 2023

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It took five years for the makers of The Meg to make it unsafe to go back in the water, and for them to convince Jason Statham — a former pro diver — to go swimming with sharks again. I and many others can’t he...