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Candyman - 4k UHD Review

Details: Published: 27 August 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Candyman. Do you dare say it? We’re coming up on 30 years since the hook-handed killer – known affectionately as the Candyman – haunted the honeycombed halls of the Cabrini-Green housing project in 1992’s Candyman. And now he’s back to paint those same corridors red in a ...

Black Widow - 4K UHD Review

Details: Published: 11 July 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Marvel does Bourne! With plenty of globe-hopping and mouth-dropping action sequences, Black Widow finally arrives in theaters after an over yearlong delay due to Covid-19 and reminds us of why we absolutely love the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its many characters. With heart ...

Stillwater - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 30 July 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What are you willing to sacrifice to protect your family? Would you give up your freedom? Are you prepared to unequivocally accept the consequences of your singular actions? Does your answer change if you are in a foreign country? ...

Jungle Cruise - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 31 July 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Not much has changed since 1955 when the Jungle River Cruise ride was introduced. The romance of the swashbuckling adventure yarn returns courtesy of the chemistry between Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in Jungle Cruise. Is it perfect? Nope. But watching them come together in ...

Achoura - Movie Review

Details: Published: 29 November 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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The children are disappearing again. The Arab world has some truly terrifying tales to tell. Look no further than director Talal Selhami’s thought-provoking Achoura for proof of this truth as four friends are brought back together when one of them reappears after being missing for a quarter of a ...

Night Has A Thousand Eyes (1948) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 November 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Think it’s just the rainy day blues that has this mind reader down in the dumps? Think again. Based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, Night Has A Thousand Eyes might be classic B-movie material (due to its supernatural sources), but the film is both poetic and engaging as one mind reader ...

King Richard - Movie Review

Details: Published: 26 November 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Achieving the impossible is easy. All one needs is a clear vision, a lofty dream, and a brazen plan to make it come true, right? At least that’s what Richard Williams would have us believe. After all, Williams – father of tennis greats Venus and Serena – had a vision in the late ‘70s that two ...

Scream, Pretty Peggy (1973) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 November 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Leave this house now! Peggy (Sian Barbara Allen, Billy Two Hats) never should have taken the housekeeping job at the Elliot Estate. She knows this now that its deadly mysteries have been unearthed. Of course, it might be too late for her, but it is not too late for us. You’ve been ...

Hot Saturday (1932) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 November 2021; Written by Emily Strong

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“Immoral women shouldn't work in banks, you know. They might corrupt the young dollar bills.” Small towns can be so wonderful, can’t they? Everybody knows one another so well. It can be like having one giant family with the sense of comfort and love gushing from the community. Well, why ...

Moving in 2008 - Movie Review

Details: Published: 21 November 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Heartbreak sounds like this. Engaging from beginning to end, Moving in 2008 is not an easy film to watch. In fact, it is truly heartbreaking as one family faces a number of crises during the recession of 2008. The film is engaging and elegant, but its truthfulness will leave you shredded and drenched ...