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It’s all led to this. The final episode of The Mandalorian Season Two is here in ‘Chapter 16: The Rescue’ and director Peyton Reed returns to direct in a show-stopping series finale that finds the Mandalorian,Din Djarin, hunting down Moff Gideon to rescue his son. And this one takes the concept of both Star Wars […]

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‘Wonder Woman 1984’ – Review

December 17, 2020 Samuel Hames

2020 has been a year for the history books, and it’s been some time since we’ve had the energy, fun and enjoyment of big-screen, blockbuster entertainment. But now Patty Jenkins and her amazing cast including Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig and Pedro Pascal are ready to bring the rush of blockbuster entertainment back to […]

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‘The Dry’ – Review

December 15, 2020 Samuel Hames

Eric Bana has been absent from the big screen for some time, but in The Dry, which is adapted from the best selling book by Jane Harper, Bana makes a solid return to the big screen. And here he delivers am impeccable performance in a solid detective story that reels audiences in with its twisting […]

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‘Blithe Spirit’ – Review

December 13, 2020 Samuel Hames

Noël Coward’s classic comedy work, Blithe Spirit, finds new life in its ghoulishly funny tale of why tampering with the spirit world isn’t always a great idea, and audiences are in for plenty of light-hearted fun with this one. A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writer’s block but accidentally summons […]

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‘Words On Bathroom Walls’ – Review

December 13, 2020 Samuel Hames

Teenage-romance angst movies? We’ve seen a lot of them. They follow a standard formula and we always know where they’re going to land. Words On Bathroom Walls is the exception. This is something completely different and audiences won’t see where this one is heading in a narrative which is thoroughly powerful and wraps your emotions up […]

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‘The Mandalorian’ – Season Two – ‘The Believer’ – Review

December 12, 2020 Samuel Hames

This latest episode of The Mandalorian, ‘Chapter 15: The Believer’ was kept short and sweet, with high energy and intensity and gave audiences a story that really tackled the line between good and evil. Following the kidnapping of Grogu by the forces of Moff Gideon (Giancarlo Esposito), the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal), Cara Dune (Gina Carano), […]

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