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Review: ‘Trouble Is My Business’ (the final word in film noir)

Posted on October 16, 2017 by

“Passion. Murder. Betrayal. Just another day on the job.” Full disclosure: the reviewer rolled the dice and gambled a contribution to help fund this independent production. Private investigator Roland Drake (Tom Konkle) faces eviction from his office and his career … Continue reading →

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Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ (Do Androids Dream of Electric Storks)

Posted on October 6, 2017 by

Is cribbing from “Orphan Black” a Philip K. Dick move? Not necessarily. Synthetic beings are still a thing in the future of 2049, and the ones who hunt the dangerous among them are still called Blade Runners. Essentially a noir … Continue reading →

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Review: ‘It’ (Just look at this clown)

Posted on September 7, 2017 by

If The Dark Tower was the underwhelming studio-trimmed Cliff’s Notes YA version of that Stephen King story, It is the R-rated unabridged directors-cut vision of this one. In October of 1988, children begin to go missing in the sleepy town … Continue reading →

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Review: ‘The Dark Tower’ (Enjoy the Apocalypse)

Posted on August 5, 2017 by

Dumbing down story complexities isn’t always the best idea… especially with your target audience in mind. Jake Chambers (Tom Taylor) has been having nightmares since the death of his father… but he knows they’re not nightmares. No one believes in … Continue reading →

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Review: ‘Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets’ (and Laureline, too)

Posted on July 23, 2017 by

A family friendly procedural space opera fantasy adventure — yeah. After procuring a unique creature from a transdimensional flea market, 28th-century human agents Valerian (Dane DeHaan) and Laureline (Cara Delevingne) are summoned to Alpha, an amalgamous space station that has … Continue reading →

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Review: ‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ (this is how you MCU)

Posted on July 7, 2017 by

Keaton does for the Vulture what Molina did for Doc Ock — ’nuff said. After accepting an internship from Tony “Iron Man” Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) — a cover for being recruited for Team Stark during Captain America: Civil War … Continue reading →

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Review: ‘Anti Matter’ (the worm turns)

Posted on July 5, 2017 by

Doing science can be cruel… especially when you don’t know what you’re doing. Ana (Yaiza Figueroa) is an Oxford PhD student doing research into the effects of EMP on battery electrolytes when she stumbles onto an anomaly: the tested electron … Continue reading →

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