The Ballad of Wallis Island sees the rather eccentric Charles Heath (Tim Key – Mickey 17) – and the biggest fan of former folk rock group McGwyer Mortimer’s Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden – Man Vs …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of ECHO VALLEY on APPLE TV+!
Echo Valley finds divorced Kate Garretson (Julianne Moore – Sirens) with fiduciary issues, needing $9000 for a new roof on her stable, and having to ask ex-husband Richard (Kyle MacLachlan, sadly in just the one …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of BALLERINA!
Ballerina…. “From The World Of John Wick“, just to hammer home to casual cinemagoers of this film’s origins, just so no-one thinks this is a two-hour movie about ballet. After a situation right at the …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of SHARDLAKE on ITV!
Shardlake… Matthew Shardlake… Sounds like another awful modern cop drama, but it’s England, 1536. Henry VIII has broken away from the Catholic church, while powerful monstaries are going against reform… Good, they’re a joke party! …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of KARATE KID LEGENDS! (inc. Mid-Credits Scene breakdown)
Karate Kid Legends starts off with a legacy scene of Daniel and Miyagi (Pat Morita having passed away in 2005), from The Karate Kid Part II, stating it’s 1986, even though while that film was …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of THE RITUAL!
The Ritual is proof that if you’re going to make any sort of film about an exorcism, then stop: It was done best in 1973, with The Exorcist, especially in its Director’s Cut form. This …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of HALLOW ROAD!
Hallow Road opens with concerned parents Maddie (Rosamund Pike – Saltburn) and Frank (Matthew Rhys – Saturday Night) receiving an anxious call from their daughter, Alice (Megan McDonnell), who’s in her car, thinks she might’ve …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DANGEROUS ANIMALS!
Dangerous Animals is a thriller, in which we see an unhinged Bruce Tucker (Jai Courtney) taking holidaygoers swimming with sharks, in a metal cage… the people are in the cage, not the sharks, of course. …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of STICK on APPLE TV+!
Stick centres around Owen Wilson (Bliss) as Pryce Cahill, a former pro-golfer, whose career went off the rails 20 years ago, now leaving him selling expensive golf gear, while living from one paycheque to the …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DOCTOR WHO: THE REALITY WAR (Season 2 Episode 8)
The Reality War is the eighth and final episode of Doctor Who Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45. Although the cinema screening I attended featured both Wish World and the finale, before …
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