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31 Mar

From Skull Island to Godzilla vs. Kong: A Complete MonsterVerse Timeline

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This feature contains Godzilla vs. Kong spoilers. Read our spoiler-free review here. Despite existing for only four movies, Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures’ MonsterVerse has become one of the densest and most colorful cinematic universes. It may not be as long (or smoothly executed) as Marvel Studios’ MCU, or as high-minded as WB’s own superhero stable, the DCEU, but the MonsterVerse has successfully crafted an interconnected world where Titans rule over all. The best we humans can do is make peace with that hard truth. In this strange, fearful vision of a primal world, enormous behemoths the size of mountains…
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14 Sep

The Third Day Review (Spoiler-Free): Weirdness Reigns in Creepy Island Miniseries

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This spoiler-free review is based on the first two episodes. There’s a Woody the Woodpecker cartoon where Woody starts to fall from a height, then double takes, flaps his wings and soars into the sky saying, ‘Hey! I forgot I was a bird!’ Every so often, TV pulls the same trick. It goes along, airing detective shows and cooking shows and superhero shows and property programmes, falling, falling, falling… and then it suddenly remembers, ‘Hey! I forgot I was Television! I’m a box of mad, uncontainable dream magic conjured by imagination wizards who send stories through the air! Hop it, Gregg Wallace. I’ve…
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08 Jun

The King of Staten Island Review

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There is something instantly familiar about The King of Staten Island, the new film from director Judd Apatow. Like earlier Apatow efforts such as Knocked Up, This is 40, and Funny People, it’s about a stunted man-child’s journey through several life situations and the emotional growth (or lack thereof) that results. But in this case, the movie is based on the life of its star, Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson, who wrote the script with his longtime friend Dave Sirus. It’s also far removed from the typical Los Angeles environs of many of his movies and is set…
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08 Jun

The King of Staten Island

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
Scott (Pete Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister (Maude Apatow) heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother (Marisa Tomei) and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guys—Oscar (Ricky Velez), Igor (Moises Arias) and Richie (Lou Wilson)—and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey (Bel Powley). But when his mother starts dating…
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17 Mar

What Lost Girls Didn’t Tell You About the Long Island Serial Killer True Story

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Netflix latest true crime drama Lost Girls tells the story of the Long Island Serial Killer – or elements of the case at least – but there is plenty more to learn about this strange and horrible series of crimes that didn’t make it into the movie. If you’ve seen Lost Girls and want to know more about the true story of the Long Island Serial Killer (aka the Craigslist Killer), here are some of the things the movie changed, omitted or chose not to focus on. This article contains spoilers for Lost Girls (but check out our spoiler free…
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13 Mar

Lost Girls Review: Netflix Takes on the Long Island Serial Killer

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Netflix feels like the right home for this compelling but low-key feature about the Long Island Serial Killer which wisely opts to focus on the families of the victims rather than the unsolved case itself. Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone) is sympathetic as Mari Gilbert, a hard-working and harassed single mother whose somewhat estranged eldest daughter Shannan goes missing after making a panicked 911 call from a gated community near Ocean Parkway, NY in the early hours of the morning. But the police take almost an hour to respond to the call, fail to request CCTV footage which might have…
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20 Feb

Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island

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In Blumhouse's new spin on Fantasy Island, the enigmatic Mr. Roarke makes the secret dreams of his lucky guests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort. But when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives. Rated: PG-13Release Date: Feb 14, 2020
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14 Feb

Fantasy Island

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
In Blumhouse's new spin on Fantasy Island, the enigmatic Mr. Roarke makes the secret dreams of his lucky guests come true at a luxurious but remote tropical resort. But when the fantasies turn into nightmares, the guests have to solve the island's mystery in order to escape with their lives. Rated: PG-13Release Date: Feb 14, 2020
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15 Apr

Archer: Danger Island Season 9

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Recommended The Show:Archer headed into its ninth season and approached the (still?) magical 100-episode mark but placing its characters into an interesting environment. Long ago Sterling Archer moved from the government espionage in a Mad Men era to the same practice in the Miami Vice 80s, to a film noir backdrop in Season Eight. In Season Nine? Well, it's different, in that it's set in the late 1930s and the only parallel I could remotely relate it to would be Raiders of the Lost Ark.In Season Nine, the characters you've grown to love play similar character but not exact ones.…
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07 Mar

Island of the Hungry Ghosts

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On an isolated island in the Indian Ocean, land crabs migrate in their millions from the jungle to the sea. The same jungle hides a high-security Australian detention centre where thousands of asylum seekers have been locked away indefinitely. Their only connection to the outside world is trauma counsellor Poh Lin Lee.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Mar 08, 2019
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24 Aug

The Island

Max SchindlerMovie reviews
News of a meteorite bound to strike the earth doesn?t have much effect on Ma Jin's everyday life; he still gets up and goes to a job where he spends his time daydreaming of a romance with his colleague Shanshan, and of winning the lottery. But when this cataclysmic event occurs during a team-building trip, he finds himself shipwrecked on an island with an odd group of coworkers? and the winning lottery ticket in his pocket. [Well Go USA]Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 10, 2018
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30 Oct

Most Beautiful Island

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
Most Beautiful Island chronicles one harrowing day in the life of Luciana (Ana Asensio), a young immigrant woman struggling to make ends meet while striving to escape her past. As Luciana's day unfolds, she is whisked, physically and emotionally, through a series of troublesome and unforeseeable extremes. Before her day is done, she inadvertently finds herself a central participant in a cruel game where lives are placed at risk, and psyches are twisted and broken for the perverse entertainment of a privileged few.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Nov 03, 2017
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12 Oct

Diamond Island

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
Bora, 18, leaves his village to work on the Diamond Island shipyards, an ultra-modern paradise project for the rich and symbol of Cambodia of the future. He became friends with other young workers, until he found his elder brother, the charismatic Solei, who had disappeared five years earlier. Solei then opens the doors of an exciting world, that of an urban youth, his daughters, his nights and his illusions.Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Oct 13, 2017
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30 Sep

The Island of Dr Moreau

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DVD Talk Collector Series Director: Don Taylor Starring: Michael York, Burt Lancaster, Barbara Carrera Year: 1977 The Island of Dr. Moreau is a film based on an H.G. Wells novel published in 1896, a sci-fi classic written by a legendary author that spawned a sci-fi classic directed by a talented filmmaker. Don Taylor oversaw more television episodes and made-for-TV movies than you can count, but he also directed films in the Planet of the Apes and Omen franchises, as well as The Final Countdown, a Kirk Douglas/Martin Sheen action/time travel flick. There's more than enough genius to go around behind…
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16 Sep

Strong Island

Max SchindlerMovie reviews,
In April 1992, on Long Island NY, William Jr., the Ford's eldest child, a black 24 year-old teacher, was killed by Mark Reilly, a white 19 year-old mechanic. Although Ford was unarmed, he became the prime suspect in his own murder. Director Yance Ford chronicles the arc of his family across history, geography and tragedy - from the racial segregation of the Jim Crow South to the promise of New York City; from the presumed safety of middle class suburbs, to the maelstrom of an unexpected, violent death. It is the story of the Ford family: Barbara Dunmore, William Ford…
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