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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of INSIDIOUS 6: OUT OF THE FURTHER
Insidious 6: Out Of The Further opens in Pittsburg, 1999, where Gemma comes home from school, her mum goes mad and offs herself in the bathroom… 20 years on, and Gemma (Amelia Eve – The …
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How People Found New Music Back in the 1980s Before Streaming
How People Found New Music Back in the 1980s Before Streaming In the 1980s, finding fresh music – such as Duran Duran, Thompson Twins or Spandau Ballet – was not as simple as pushing a …
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The Sting Named the Best Bang-for-Buck Casino Movie Ever Made: Ranked by Box Office, Budget and IMDb Score
The Sting Named the Best Bang-for-Buck Casino Movie Ever Made: Ranked by Box Office, Budget and IMDb Score A budget of $5.5 million wasn’t much of a Hollywood stake, even in 1973. Somehow, The Sting …
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Why Full Swing Is Better When Victory Takes Its Time
Why Full Swing Is Better When Victory Takes Its Time Netflix could have built this season of Full Swing around trophies. Rory McIlroy completed the career Grand Slam. Scottie Scheffler won two majors. Europe retained …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of DE GAULLE: LIBERTÉ
De Gaulle: Liberté is the second of this two-part saga – after De Gaulle: Resistance – picking up not too long after the first film ended, first taking the story on to 1943 Libya, where …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of A DIFFERENT WORLD (2026) on NETFLIX!
A Different World (2026) reboots Lisa Bonet’s sitcom, which spawned from The Cosby Show, back from when Bill Cosby was still popular and not… well, everyone knows that story. I’d forgotten about any other characters …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of RUNNER!
Runner centers around former army chap and ex-alcoholic Hank Malone (Alan Ritchson – Reacher). The title should surely be Courier, since that’s his job, as he’s currently transporting a human organ from A to B, …
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My BRUTALLY HONEST REVIEW of RESIDENT EVIL (2026)!
Resident Evil (2026) reboots the videogame-as-movie franchise, after six hugely successful films from Milla Jovovich and Paul WS Anderson – most of which I’ve seen, and I particularly loved the last two in 3D, including …
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Croupier Is the Only Casino Film That Is Actually About Work
Croupier Is the Only Casino Film That Is Actually About Work Every film in this genre picks the same character. The gambler. The man with the system, the debt, the streak, the last hand. We …
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