This Entire Two-Hour Exercise Has Been Rendered Moot: Our Review of ‘The Kissing Booth 2’ on Netflix

Movies, Netflix, What's Streaming? ‐ July 28, 2020
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This Entire Two-Hour Exercise Has Been Rendered Moot: Our Review of ‘The Kissing Booth 2’ on Netflix
  • Release Date: 7/28/2020

Elle Evans (Joey King) is back, baby! So too is most of the colourful gang like best friend Lee (Joel Courtney), his belle Rachel (Meganne Young), and fan favourite background character Tuppen (Joshua Daniel Eady). The Kissing Booth is open business…again. I think it’s safe to say that in a couple of weeks Netflix will […]

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007 Cinema Dossier: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

Blog, Blu-Ray/DVD, Movies, What's Streaming? ‐ July 27, 2020
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007 Cinema Dossier: Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
  • Release Date: 12/12/1997

“I never believe what I read in the press anyway.” Pierce Brosnan makes a second outing as Ian Fleming’s James Bond, 007, in the 1997 film, Tomorrow Never Dies. With a successful entry into the series with GoldenEye, the production on Tomorrow Never Dies feels more confident and self-assured. And an argument could be made […]

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Time Pleasantly Spent: Our Review of ‘Red Dwarf: The Promised Land’

Britbox, Movies, TV, What's Streaming? ‐ July 27, 2020
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Time Pleasantly Spent: Our Review of ‘Red Dwarf: The Promised Land’
  • Release Date: 7/26/2020

British media is inherently fascinating to me, in that the Brits have been doing what will eventually become the future of prestige television for years. BBC literary adaptations are notable for being two- or three-part multi-hour episodes. Jane Eyre 7 is three hour and a half episode, and stars several British thespians you’ve never heard […]

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Missing All The Warning Signs: Our Review of ‘Impetigore’ on Shudder

Movies, Shudder, What's Streaming? ‐ July 26, 2020
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Missing All The Warning Signs: Our Review of ‘Impetigore’ on Shudder
  • Release Date: 7/23/2020

Look, I get that horror movie characters aren’t especially known for their intellect but Jesus Christ, the characters in Impetigore take things to new levels of stupidity. The latest from Indonesian genre-auteur Joko Anwar arrived hotly anticipated this week on Shudder, following up the streaming service’s success with his previous international horror smash Satan’s Slaves, […]

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Big Hot Mess: ‘The Kissing Booth’ Updates ‘Gilda’ For the 21st Century

“But as the narrative progresses she falls in love with the main male protagonist and becomes his property, losing her outward glamorous characteristics, her generalised sexuality, her show-girl connotations; her eroticism is subjected to the male star alone. By means of identification with him, through participation in his power, the spectator can indirectly possess her […]

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Dark Secrets: Our Review of ‘Ash’

Movies, VOD/iTunes/DigitalDownload, What's Streaming? ‐ July 24, 2020
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Dark Secrets: Our Review of ‘Ash’
  • Release Date: 7/24/2020

As a film, Andrew Huculiak’s Ash has its share of mood setting elements. Cue the scenes of British Columbia’s forest that it sets to synth music. But there are moments of mundane realism as it depicts a local journalist Stan (Tim Guinee), working in Peachland, a town in British Columbia. He mostly covers the forest […]

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Canadian True Crime: Our Review of ‘Target Number One’

Movies, Theatrical ‐ July 23, 2020
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Canadian True Crime: Our Review of ‘Target Number One’
  • Release Date: 7/17/2020

The universe usually doesn’t restart with a bang, but rather with a whimper… Believe it or not, here in Canada (at least in B.C and Quebec) there are actually movies opening in the THEATRES.  Based on a true story, Target Number One is based on something that happened on our own soil and it makes […]

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The Pantheon Of Trash: Our Review of ‘The Dallas Connection’ on Blu-Ray

Blu-Ray/DVD, Movies ‐ July 21, 2020
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When you are planning to enjoy some ‘fromage’ sometimes you’ve just gotta go as stinky as humanly possible in this inaugural edition of “The Pantheon of Trash” where we take the usual rules and turn them on their head…what’s good is bad and more importantly what’s bad…is oh so very good. As we dive head […]

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007 Cinema Dossier: GoldenEye (1995)

Blog, Movies, VOD/iTunes/DigitalDownload, What's Streaming? ‐ July 20, 2020
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“Beg your pardon. Forgot to knock.” The film began with Eric Serra’s moody synth take on a James Bond score. Composer John Altman came aboard for one sequence, listed on the soundtrack as A Pleasant Drive In St. Petersburg. This music plays more familiarly for the audience. Nonetheless, it’s obvious that James Bond’s return to the […]

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Water-Logged: Our Review of ‘Lake of Death’ on Shudder

Movies, Shudder, What's Streaming? ‐ July 19, 2020
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Water-Logged: Our Review of ‘Lake of Death’ on Shudder
  • Release Date: 7/16/2020

Every horror movie cliché in the book is unimaginatively trotted out in Lake of Death, a ponderingly straight-faced Norwegian production making its North American debut on Shudder. Nevertheless, Lake of Death does come armed with some cachet. Known in its native language as De dødes tjern, it’s an adaptation of a 1942 novel by Norwegian […]

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