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The iconic erotic thriller Basic Instinct is the latest film to be given a new home release by Studio Canal. Once again Studio Canal shows they put a lot of effort into their re-releases. Nick Curran (Michael Douglas) is a homicide detective who is assigned a case involving the murder of a man who was […]
Based on an acclaimed play by Florian Zeller, The Father is a Franco-British production and was one of the big winners of the 2021 awards season. Anthony (Anthony Hopkins) is an elderly man who is suffering from dementia. His daughter, Anne (Olivia Colman) struggles to care for him. Anne has to prepare her father that she’s moving to […]
In a cinematic landscape of big CGI blockbusters and superheroes, the film Nobody was a wonderfully violent, small-scale offering from the action genre. Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk) is a seemingly ordinary man: he lives in the suburbs with his wife and two kids, has an office job and keeps forgetting to put the trash out. But […]
In this installment of The Best Show You Aren’t Watching, our underappreciated series once again comes from AppleTV+ (the streaming service that seems to be hitting it out of the park when it comes to unassuming and quirky shows that lack big name stars – compared to their big, flashy shows that just aren’t quite […]
Things moved along at a brisk clip in this week’s installment of Loki, giving us all the remaining exposition we need to grasp just what is happening in the series, but continuing to make its delivery wholly engaging through the use of the MCU’s newest buddy team: Mobius and Loki (yeah, I never thought that […]
Based on a novel by Andy McNab, SAS: Red Notice is the British film industry’s attempt at making an action blockbuster and trying to start a series for Sky Cinema. Tom Buckingham (Sam Heughan) is a SAS soldier who plans to propose to his girlfriend, Dr. Sophie Hart (Hannah John-Kamen) on a romantic trip to Paris. Unfortunately, their train […]
If you are going to have a series centered around a number of unlikeable people, you have to give your audience a reason to root for them (hell, even just a reason to root for one of them can be enough). In the era of Peak TV, we were shown a host of antiheroes (think […]
Based on the hit Broadway musical, In the Heights is set to be the feel-good film of the summer. In the Heights is set in Washington Heights, a Hispanic district of New York City that’s slowly being gentrified. This district has a close community with its members having different dreams. There’s Usnavi (Anthony Ramos), a man in […]
Curfew is a British action dystopia series that has a talented cast of big and emerging names. What was delivered was the TV version of a B-Movie. In the near future Britain has a nightly curfew to protect civilians from zombie-like creatures called Mooks. During the curfew is an annual race from London to Scotland. The […]
In the realm of television (well, at least Disney+ television), the MCU is currently batting .500. While WandaVision was a definite success, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier was much more uneven and left a lot to be desired.* So, now we come to Loki, a series that takes an incredibly popular (and in the […]