Director W.D. Richter Starring Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin Rated PG Score 6/6 Adventurer, brain surgeon, rock musician Buckaroo Banzai and his crime-fighting team, the Hong Kong Cavaliers, must stop evil alien invaders from the eighth dimension who are planning to conquer Earth. I’m not sure but I might have heard about The Adventures…
Movie Reviews
My Dinner with Hervé
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Director Sacha Gevasi Starring Peter Dinklage, Jamie Dornan, Frida Munting Rated M Score 6/6 A look at the life of French actor Hervé Villechaize, co-star of the hit ’70s TV series “Fantasy Island”, who took his own life in 1993 at the age of 50. I’m not entirely sure why I decided to watch this…
A Star is Born
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Director Bradley Cooper Starring Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Sam Elliott Rated M Score 5/6 A musician helps a young singer find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral. Yeah, yeah I know. I get it I should have caught this one at this cinema. But in my defence,…
Overlord
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Director Julius Avery Starring Jovan Adepo, Wyatt Russell, Mathilde Ollivier Rated MA Score 3/6 A small group of American soldiers find horror behind enemy lines on the eve of D-Day. I’m a little conflicted about Overlord. As a World War 2 Overlord is a watchable movie, However, as a zombie movie struggles to better then…
Locusts
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Director Heath Davis Starring Ben Geurens, Jessica McNamee, Steve Le Marquand, Peter Phelps, Damian Hill Rated 15+ Score 4.5/6 When tech entrepreneur Ryan Black returns to his remote hometown for his father’s funeral, old family tensions are reignited as he’s reunited with his wise-cracking ex-con brother. But when Ryan becomes the target of a deadly…
Mortal Engines
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Director Christian Rivers Starring Hera Hilmar, Robert Sheehan, Hugo Weaving Rated M Score 3.5/6 A mysterious young woman, Hester Shaw, emerges as the only one who can stop a giant, predator city on wheels devouring everything in its path. Feral, and fiercely driven by the memory of her mother, Hester joins forces with Tom Natsworthy,…
The Club
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Directed Bruce Beresford Starring Jack Thompson, Graham Kennedy, Frank Wilson Rated M Score 6/6 Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club. For those of you who might not know The Club was based on a play of the same name from 1977 written by Australian playwright David…
Modesty Blaise (1966)
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Director Joseph Losey Starring Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde Score 5/6 Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up…
The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day
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Directed by Troy Duff Starring Sean Patrick Flanery, Norman Reedus, Billy Connolly, Julie Benz & Clifton Collins Jr Rated MA Score 5.5/6 The MacManus brothers are living a quiet life in Ireland with their father, but when they learn a beloved priest has been killed by the Mafia, the duo return to Boston to bring…
White Tiger
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Director Karen Shakhnazarov Starring Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko Rated M Score 4.5/6 After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction. The White Tiger was based on the novel Tankist, ili “Belyy tigr” (The Tank Crewman, Tanker or The White Tiger)…