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Stargirl – Film Review
Leo Borlock (Graham Verchere) is an average student at Mica High School. He gets decent grades, is a member of the school’s marching band and has always been content flying under the radar. But all that changes when he meets Stargirl Caraway (Grace VanderWaal), a confident and colorful new student with a penchant for the…
- 2025
Lost Girls – Film Review
Determined to find her missing daughter, a desperate woman named Mari Gilbert (Amy Ryan) launches a personal investigation that leads police to the unsolved cases of murdered sex workers. Based on the novel Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery by Robert Kolker, this feature film adaptation directed by Liz Garbus is an admirable effort and can…
- 2025
The Postcard Killings – Film Review
The world of a New York detective, Jacob Kanon, (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is destroyed when his daughter and son-in-law are brutally murdered in London. Unable to sit idly by and do nothing, Jacob travels to London to get the answers he needs. As he learns of similar heinous murders happening across Europe – each preceded…
- 2025
The Hunt – Film Review
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don’t know where they are — or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted, Crystal…
- 2025
Ride Like a Girl – Film Review
As a little girl, Michelle Payne (Teresa Palmer) dreams of the impossible: winning the Melbourne Cup – horse-racing’s toughest two-mile race. The youngest of 10 children, Michelle is raised by single father Paddy (Sam Neill). She leaves school at 15 to become a jockey and after early failures she finds her feet, but a family…
- 2025
Bloodshot – Film Review
After he and his wife are murdered, marine Ray Garrison (Vin Diesel) is resurrected by a team of scientists. Enhanced with nanotechnology, he becomes a superhuman, biotech killing machine – Bloodshot. As Ray first trains with fellow super-soldiers, he cannot recall anything from his former life. But when his memories flood back and he remembers…
- 2025