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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the crash, boar hut and crazy bosses of "Send Help"!

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Send Help

Send Help 4 outta 5 Send Help is a thriller that is darkly funny as it follows two characters going increasingly bonkers. It has a cascading series of unfortunate events as the audience’s sympathie…

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February 3, 2026 at 8:20 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the aliens, time loops and live, die, repeat of "All You Need Is Kill"

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All You Need is Kill

All You Need is Kill 4 outta 5 All You Need is Kill is an anime adaption of the Japanese comic book which was previously adapted as the 2014 Tom Cruise starring film Edge of Tomorrow. Since it is a…

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January 24, 2026 at 5:53 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! Flashback! My 2014 review of the aliens, time loops and live, die, repeat of "Edge of Tomorrow"!

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Edge of Tomorrow (2014 review)

Edge of Tomorrow (2014 review) 4 outta 5 Edge of Tomorrow is a fantastically zippy film which is quite an accomplishment since the story loops back in on itself yet finding something new each time.…

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January 24, 2026 at 4:44 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the Alpha, Jimmy and Infected carnage of "28 Years Later: The Bone Temple"

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28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple 5 outta 5 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the weirdest entry in the 28 Days/Weeks/Years series, and considering how weird this series gets, that is saying somethi…

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January 20, 2026 at 6:55 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the snakes, Black & Rudd and legacy sequel remake of "Anaconda"!

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Anaconda

Anaconda 3 outta 5 Anaconda is a decently funny meta take on the corny 1997 Anaconda film. In this movie the characters have a reverence for the original film and debate if they are making a remake…

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January 16, 2026 at 7:02 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! Feel free to share! Lotsa horror! Clones! Surfer! Ping-Pong! Miracles! Fascists! Maybe aliens! Reanimated corpses! Witches! Bomb Devil! Vampires! My Best of 2025 Films!

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Best of 2025 Films

Best of 2025 Films Honourable Mentions: KPop Demon Hunters, 28 Years Later, A Minecraft Movie, Thunderbolts*, The Naked Gun, Predator: Badlands, Superman, Black Bag, John Candy: I Like Me, Companio…

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January 3, 2026 at 6:30 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! Blog post! The 4 and a half hrs of Kill Bill, colour carnage and Fortnite &"Whole Bloody Affair Musings"

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Blog: Whole Bloody Affair musings

Blog: Whole Bloody Affair Musings Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair was basically an unseen cinematic legend, only shown a few times at Quentin Tarantino’s personal theatre, until the entire four-…

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December 23, 2025 at 9:39 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the anguish, "To Be or Not to Be" and Shakespeare in Love of "Hamnet"

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Hamnet

Hamnet 4 outta 5 Hamnet is sort of a version of Shakespeare in Love but with only a dash of love at the start and then a whole lot of anguish, obsession, mourning with intense closeups of sadness a…

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December 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the blue aliens, Spider and fire love of "Avatar: Fire and Ash"

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Avatar: Fire and Ash

Avatar: Fire and Ash 4 outta 5 With the third Avatar movie, director James Cameron once again delivers a spectacular visual journey into the world of humans and Na’vi. The films have gotten a littl…

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December 22, 2025 at 7:56 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! Archive! My 2022 review of blue aliens, space whales and war of "Avatar: The Way of Water"

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Avatar: The Way of Water (2022 review)

Avatar: The Way of Water(2022 review) 4 outta 5 After more than a decade, the sequel to the highest grossing movie of all time arrives with Avatar: The Way of Water. The length of time in between i…

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December 22, 2025 at 7:52 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! Flashback! My 2009 review of blue aliens, betrayal and body hopping of "Avatar"

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Avatar (2009 review)

Avatar (2009 review) 4 out of 5 After a more than a decade, James Cameron returns to fiction filmmaking with Avatar. There is the inevitable comparison to Aliens because it’s a Cameron film a…

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December 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the killer robots, Wayne Knight and emo moping of "Five Nights at Freddy's 2"

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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 2 outta 5 Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is a limp entry in the film adaptation of the videogame series. Both films are overtly mopey emo slogs in a series that really sh…

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December 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the Blanc, murder and religion of "Wake Up Dead Man"!

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Wake Up Dead Man

Wake Up Dead Man 5 outta 5 With the third Knives Out Mystery, writer/director Rian Johnson once again jumps genres, defies expectations, and has a great mystery with Wake Up Dead Man. While the 2nd…

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November 28, 2025 at 8:09 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! Flashback! My 2022 review of the Blanc, murder and mystery of "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery"

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Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (’22 review)

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (’22 review) 5 outta 5 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is a fantastic sequel to the fantastic original movie, Knives Out. This doesn’t simply repeat the mu…

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November 26, 2025 at 7:10 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! Flashback! My 2019 review of the Blanc, murder and mystery of "Knives Out"

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Knives Out (’19 review)

Knives Out (’19 review) 5 outta 5 Writer and director Rian Johnson (Brick, The Last Jedi) returns with the peppy and hilarious murder mystery Knives Out. Like all his work, this takes a few g…

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November 26, 2025 at 7:06 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the chaotic constant action, truck vs planes and Stephen Lang of "Sisu: Road to Revenge"

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Sisu: Road to Revenge

Sisu: Road to Revenge 4 outta 5 Sisu: Road to Revenge is fun theatrical counter-programing to Wicked for Good. It is probably accurate that Sisu features more bloody mutilations and gunfire. …

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November 26, 2025 at 6:54 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the Hunters, billion dollars and chaos of "The Running Man"!

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The Running Man

The Running Man 4 outta 5 The Running Man is the 2nd adaptation of a Stephen King novel about a dystopian game released in the last few months, the first being The Long Walk, and both novels were p…

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November 20, 2025 at 7:49 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the monsters & android carnage, bioweapons and Yautja of "Predator: Badlands"!

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Predator: Badlands

Predator: Badlands 4 outta 5 Predator films have been going through many installments, with the latest Predator: Badlands taking the series into the future and featuring some light crossover with t…

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November 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM

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Definitely a lot of monster and robots gore in Predator Badlands but since they're not humans and nobody swears, MPAA in the States rubber stamps it PG-13. Ontario has it 14A like a lot of PG / R movies.

Anyway best line "I've never been thrown before. What a thrill!"

November 8, 2025 at 3:19 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the bad accents, Hungry Ghosts and degenerate gambling of "Ballad of a Small Player"!

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Ballad of a Small Player

Ballad of a Small Player 3 outta 5 Ballad of a Small Player seems to be about a degenerate gambler, lost in a nation that isn’t his own but then it starts throwing out ghosts and so forth. But anot…

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October 31, 2025 at 6:28 AM

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Shameless self promotion time! My review of the bonkers anime, minimal Power and Bomb Devil love of "Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc"

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