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Dark Phoenix Review

Dark Phoenix Video Review

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Managing Editor Jason Gorber reviews Dark Phoenix – Does it raise the X-Men franchise from the ashes of Apocalypse or is it a First Class failure?

Home Entertainment Review: Filth

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Filth (Jon S. Baird, 2014) – It’s possible that Irvine Welsh’s novel Filth  might have been unfilmable, but that certainly didn’t stop writer and director Jon S. Baird from trying. It’s an admirable attempt to encapsulate a decent into abject madness and abasement at the hands of one of Welsh’s most memorably misanthropic creations, if […]

Filth Review

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Despite some good moments and an exceptional high wire performance from James McAvoy in the lead, the Irvine Welsh adaptation Filth is too scattershot to succeed.

X-Men: Days of Future Past Review

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Somewhere between a natural continuation of the story arc kicked off by the previous ”proper” entry of a franchise and a complete and total retconning of the same lies X-Men: Days of Future Past. It’s a stronger film than its immediate and proper predecessor, but thanks to some time travelling and convenient plotting, it essentially undoes most of the plot elements that didn’t work the last time out.

TIFF 2013: The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby Special Presentation Director: Ned Benson Told in two parts and from two different perspectives (which can be switched around for different exhibitions), Benson follows the marriage between Conor (James McAvoy), and Eleanor (Jessica Chastain) as their marriage of seven years falls apart. With each day worse than the last, their […]

Blu-Ray Round-Up: 8/5/13

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This week at the video store we check out new Blu-Rays for recent releases Trance , To the Wonder , Oblivion , and Olympus Has Fallen , and two new Criterion releases for The Devil's Backbone and Lord of the Flies .

Trance Review

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Trance is more of a return to basics and the beginning of his career for director Danny Boyle, but it's in service of far lesser material than he should be taking on at this point.
X-Men: First Class - Beast

X-Men: First Class Review

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It was a big rush when the X-Men films finally hit the screen, all my most beloved characters expanding from the page to the screen. Then X-Men: The Last Stand came along and not only did the shit hit the fan, but it was set to high, and it splattered back in our faces many times over. X-Men: First Class is a chance for redemption, and is aimed at the diehards, while also attempting to attract some new viewers.