Search results for: “what if”
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Indie Movie Review – Greatland
What to make of Greatland… Hmmm… well, I’m sure that there’s a message in there somewhere,, but I’m not sure what it is. Is it supposed to be a dystopian vision of what would happen if the beliefs and ideals of the far left came to pass? Well, if the far right’s idea of what would…
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Movie Review – Freaky
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What a fun movie! I can’t remember the last time I walked out of the theater having had so much fun. Let’s face it, when it comes to horror movies it’s all pretty much been done. When I saw Freaky was a Blumhouse production, though, I got excited. They are great at what they do.…
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Indie Movie Review – They Reach
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They Reach starts off with Dr Mark Quinnley (Damian Vines) and his son Alex (Taylor Bartle), driving along to do… hmm… who knows? Are they ghostbusters, exorcists, psychic investigators…? It isn’t properly explained. But, as I said, the opening scene is of the two of them driving along, and the son is looking for batteries…
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Indie Movie Review – Emily and the Magical Journey
I have to admit to feeling a bit like Groucho Marx over this film… “Why, a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.” It’s a family film aimed at feisty, imaginative young girls, and I am far from being…
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Indie Movie Review – All Joking Aside
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A few weeks ago I reviewed a documentary about a female comedian trying to make it as a stand up in the comedy clubs of New York City called Funny Pains and used my E.B. White quote, “Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it,” so…
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Indie Movie Review – Last Call
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in DramaI wasn’t 100% sure what to expect from Last Call. When the tag line on the poster is pushing the fact that it’s “real time, split screen, one single take,” then you do tend to wonder, “Is that it? Nothing else?” It’s a bit like if a car advert just concentrated on the number of…
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First View Movie Review – Murder on the Orient Express (No Spoilers)
I very much enjoyed 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express. As an avid mystery book reader, I’d heard of the 1934 novel in question, of the writer Agatha Christie, and even knew bits and pieces about her recurring eccentric detective Hercule Poirot. (It’s the kind of name that sticks with you.) But that is ALL.…
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Movie Review – Let Him Go
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Let Him Go took my heart, ripped it out of my chest, and let a stampede of horses crush it until it was unidentifiable as anything human. As I was sitting through the credits, my mind was reeling with emotions that were so carnal and brutal that it took me a moment to realize,…
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TV Series Pilot Review – Piss Off, I Love You
A bit of a change of direction in that Piss Off, I Love You isn’t a film, but a TV series…and here we go! Here we have a “fish out of water” sitcom. The fish being the writer, director, producer, and star Jessie McCormack, as an American presenter brought over to London to present a…