A Netflix Original Picture, Written by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Directed by George C. Wolfe. Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom tells the story of a 1927 recording session for legendary singer Ma Rainey’s (Viola Davis) new album, and focuses on the behind the scenes struggles that grip the day, especially focusing on Levee (Chadwick Boseman) and the rest …
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A Creepshow Holiday Special (2020) – TV Review
In this festive special of the anthology series, we are presented with ‘Shapeshifters Anonymous’ where a group of shapeshifters meet to discuss their problems and end up in a fight to the death. This horror special is intentionally wacky and off the wall, and in the final act, where an army of Santa’s descend on …
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Promising Young Woman (2020) – Review
A Focus Features Picture, Written and Directed by Emerald Fennell. Some films manage to pierce their way through the zeitgeist and into peoples minds and discussions, and the only way that is done is by being something extraordinary, whether in quality, subject matter or delivery. This film is all of them and when more people …
A Christmas Carol (2020) – Review
The story of Scrooge and the ghosts who visit him on that fateful night is a tale as old as time, one which has been adapted in almost every way you could imagine and it is so engrained in society. With this in mind, if you decide to make a new version, you have to …
Nocturne (2020) – Review
An Amazon Studios Picture, Written and Directed by Zu Quirke. In the second wave of their ‘Welcome to Blumhouse’ launch, Amazon will drop the psychological horror film ‘Nocturne’, which is certainly an improvement on ‘The Lie’ but is still far from the heights we know Jason Blum’s production company can reach when it comes to …
The Lie (2020) – Review
An Amazon Studios Picture, Written and Directed By Veena Sud. ‘The Lie’ is one of the opening parts of Amazon’s hotly anticipated ‘Welcome to Blumhouse’ collection of films that launched on the streaming service this October. Despite being filmed in early 2018, the film is only just getting released and it very much feels like …
The Dark End of the Street (2020) – Review
A Transmission Films Picture, Written and Directed By Kevin Tran. This film from writer/director Kevin Tran is both incredibly low-key and also very ambitious at the same time. It may have been marketed as a horror/thriller but it is closer to a character drama with thriller elements thrown in. Instead of featuring jump scares and …
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The Future of the DCEU
The Covid-19 pandemic has swept the globe and caused chaos for everyone, and the movie studios are definitely not immune, and DC Films have already been hit by production shut downs, stars catching the virus, and delaying films. Here I factor that into account when trying to predict how the next 4/5 years of DC …
The Future of the MCU
With the Covid-19 pandemic effecting everyone right now, the Marvel Cinematic Universe is not immune and has already had to delay multiple projects. Here I will use past trends and my further predictions to guess what the timeline of MCU (Film and TV) releases May by up until the end of 2024. Some of the …
The Devil All The Time (2020) – Review
A Netflix Original Picture, Written by Antonio Campos, Paulo Campos, Directed by Antonio Campos. Boasting arguably the best, and certainly the most fascinating, ensemble of the year, and therefore ‘The Devil All the Time’ was always destined to receive a lot of attention when it dropped on Netflix. However, this is certainly not a traditional …
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