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Bad Santa 2 Review

Fuelled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Chris...

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them Review

“Beware the prequel curse!” That’s what they told me. STAR WARS fans fell ill to it; some say LORD OF THE RINGS devotees too. Would HARRY POTTER enthu...

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Arrival Review

Twelve enormous spacecraft arrive at a dozen different locations around planet Earth. Governments do not know who is inside, nor what mission the ship...

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The Neon Demon Review

Jesse (Elle Fanning) is recently arrived in Los Angeles. She is sixteen-years-old and aspires to be a model. Her agent Roberta (Christina Hendricks) a...

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The Light Between Oceans Review

Set largely on a remote island off Western Australia (yet filmed in New Zealand and Tasmania), THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS tells a somewhat depressing po...

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Hacksaw Ridge Review

Desmond Doss and his brother are raised in rural Virginia. When the Second World War begins, both the Doss boys enlist, much to the chagrin of their f...

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Hell or High Water Review

Toby Howard and Tanner Howard are two down-on-their-luck brothers living in West Texas. They were born into poverty and recently their mother died, le...

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Doctor Strange Review

Stephen Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) is a gifted neurosurgeon who is involved in a serious car accident that damages both his hands. Unable to work ...

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Keeping Up with the Joneses Review

Jeff and Karen Gaffney live in a lovely middle-class Atlanta suburb. Their two sons have just left for summer camp and for the first time in more than...

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Ouija: Origin of Evil

Ouija: Origin of Evil is the prequel to the 2014 surprise hit also called Ouija. It happens to be the only “horror” movie released this Oc...

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Inferno Review

INFERNO is one of the few Dan Brown books I haven’t read (I guess Brown’s formula was wearing thin on me by the fourth instalment in the Robert Langdo...

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The Girl on the Train Review

The Girl on the Train novel was released in 2015 and became one of the best selling novels of the year in a matter of weeks. With such popularity it w...

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Deepwater Horizon Review

Inspired by the true story of an oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, DEEPWATER HORIZON chronicles the courage of those who worked on the r...

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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

Sixteen-year-old Jacob Portman (Asa Butterfield) travels to a Welsh island called Cairnholm in the aftermath of his grandfather Abe’s death. The two w...

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The Magnificent Seven Review

The farming community of Rose Creek is under siege. It 1879, we’re in the Old West and industrialist scumbag Bartholomew Bogue (Peter Sarsgaard) has s...

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Snowden Review

American system administrator and computer professional Edward Snowden (Joseph Gordon Levitt) is contracted to the National Security Agency to work in...

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Blair Witch

The “direct” sequel to The Blair Witch Project has been released almost two decades after the first one terrified audiences.The story igno...

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Spin Out Review

Billy (Xavier Samuel) and Lucy (Morgan Griifn) are close friends who have grown up together in a small country town. They are a pair of ute muster cha...

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Captain Fantastic Review

In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to lea...

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Sully Review

On January 15th 2009, US Airways Flight 1549 took off from LaGuardia Airport. In less three minutes, the plane hit a flock of geese, resulting in mult...