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THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS (2016)
A scientist and a teacher living in a dystopian future embark on a journey of survival with a special young girl named Melanie.
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EARLY MURNAU: FIVE FILMS (1921-1925)
Having already released his later masterpieces on Blu-ray—City Girl (1930), Sunrise (1927) and Tabu (1931) amongst them—this Early Murnau box set arrives from Eureka Video’s Masters of Cinema strand. The five films included vary in quality, style, and content, but taken as a whole they offer a portrait of Murnau’s gradual development as a filmmaker.…
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BRIDGET JONES’S BABY (2016)
British publishing executive Bridget Jones enters her forties, pregnant with the father’s identity a mystery…
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PATHS OF GLORY (1957)
After refusing to attack an enemy position, a general accuses the soldiers of cowardice and their commanding officer must defend them.
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MR. ROBOT, 2.11 – ‘eps2.9_pyth0n-pt1.p7z’
I know it can seem like I’m obsessed by the debt the second season of Mr. Robot owes to the work of David Lynch, but given how this penultimate instalment took Lynchian homage to its most extreme form… I feel justified. We can’t beat them but we don’t have to lose to them either. There’s…
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HALT AND CATCH FIRE, 3.5 – ‘Yerba Buena’
Halfway through Halt and Catch Fire’s third season, and things are starting to come together slightly. The show’s split between the ‘Mutineers’ and ‘MacMillanites’, as each group of characters appear to be edging towards a career-changing breakthrough. Joe (Lee Pace) has already tasted huge success, but it seems like he’s onto bigger things with his…
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BLAIR WITCH (2016)
When new footage of the original Blair Witch documentary appears, the brother of one of its infamous filmmakers joins a group of friends to discover what happened to his sister…
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THE FLASH – Season Two
If there’s one thing to blame for the unevenness of recent seasons of both The Flash and Arrow, it’s The CW’s latest spin-off DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Undoubtedly, The Flash remains one of the most confident and entertaining comic-book shows on television. But its storytelling throughout season 2 is inconsistent; especially in the first half,…
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MATINEE (1993)
A small-time film director releases a kitschy horror film during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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MR. ROBOT, 2.10 – ‘eps2.8_h1dden-pr0cess.axx’
“It’s a long way from getting high and watching Back To The Future II.” It certainly is, my friends. With only two more hours to go, Sam Esmail really ratcheted up the tension in “h1dden-pr0cess.axx”, ensuring that my nerves were jangling by the end. Is Darlene (Carly Chaikin) dead? On any other show, I’d say…
