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The Get Down – Dirty Dancing meets Black Dynamite in this new original Netflix series
Brace yourself folks, you're in for one hell of a ride. Netflix original series 'The Get Down' is out today (August 12th 2016). This is the first look at The Get Down from creator Baz Luhrmann's music-driven drama that blends disco, punk and hip-hop to tell the story of a group of kids in New York in the late 1970s.The series stars Shameik...
Nerve Review
It’s not very often when a film actually ties your stomach in knots and makes you feel every last second of what’s playing out in front of you. Nerve ticks both those boxes. It, without a doubt, lives up to its name. Nerve is based on a hugely popular young-adult novel by Jeanne Ryan and captures the very essence of...
Black Review
In 2014, we were graced with a gritty street drama in Girlhood; it created a massive buzz and a huge amount of praise from critics all over. Two years later, Black burst into the Toronto Film Festival in a blaze of glory. Another street drama, this time from Belgium and not France, which saw it pick up the Discovery...
In The Heart of the Sea Review – A Less Than Epic Adventure Which Lacks Any Real Heart
If you’re looking for a version of Moby Dick you won’t find it in In The Heart of the Sea, this action adventure, based on the bestselling book from Nathaniel Philbrick’s true tale of the journey of the Essex in 1820 is only the foundation that paved the way for the classic tale. Narration is a big part of In...
Daddy’s Home Review – Entertaining but Lacking in Originality
Lacking any real originality, Daddy’s Home isn’t your classic Christmas comedy blockbuster release that will go down in history but it isn’t all bad. Daddy's Home is a moderately funny story of two fathers, a stepfather and biological father, fight to win the love of the kids stars Will Ferrell as Brad Taggart, a mild-mannered pushover of a man who...
The Colony Review
1973 saw Chile in the midst of a Chilean Coup; under the leadership of the fascist regime of General Pinochet, the Chilean People were ready to take a stand. The Colony, which is based on true events, sets itself smack bang in the middle of this uprising with horrendous outcomes but does it try just a little too hard? The...
Army of Thieves Review
Zack Snyder’s follow-up, or shall we say prequel, to Netflix’s summer zombie hit Army of the Dead is less zombie and more heist movie. And while hitting the entirely familiar genre troupes there is a safe fall of fun and endearing capers to make this an enjoyable Friday night watch.Set 6 years before Army of the Dead, the action...
Scream (2022) Review
“Do you like scary movies?” Those infamous words have become an iconic line in movie history since the first iteration of the Scream franchise graced us some 26 years ago. Now returning for its fifth feature and bringing along with it some of its legacy characters it might just be time to pack away that ghost face mask and...
Marvel’s Iron Fist Review
Another day, another piece of the puzzle to add to the ever-expanding Marvel Cinematic Universe. Iron Fist joins the likes of Daredevil, Jessica Jones, and Luke Cage as the next Netflix series for the studio, facing an opponent of grand proportions: expectation. Marvel projects have a buzz around them like no other, and with the aforementioned Netflix series’ being...
Paranoid DVD Review
Bill Gallagher’s Paranoid aims to reach higher than the local ‘whodunnit’ of British detective dramas and focuses instead on treachery and deception on a global scale; Whether this works for the better is a case to be argued. Following the theme of the title, paranoia looms large and threads itself throughout the narrative, linking to a big message that never...