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REVIEW: Proxima (2019)

July 5, 2020July 5, 2020 Grant Watson

Sarah (Eva Green) is a French astronaut in training for a lengthy stay aboard the International Space Station – a final test before a multi-national expedition lands humans on Mars. Accepting the mission – the dream of a lifetime – … Continue reading REVIEW: Proxima (2019)

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REVIEW: Revenge (2017)

March 23, 2020 Grant Watson

Jen (Matilda Lutz) is a spoiled socialite taken out to a luxury villa in the middle of a desert by her rich – and married – boyfriend Richard (Kevin Janssens). What begins as a sex-filled dirty weekend is soon disrupted … Continue reading REVIEW: Revenge (2017)

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REVIEW: The Mystery of Henri Pick (2018)

March 1, 2020March 9, 2021 Grant Watson

An editor for a French publishing company uncovers an abandoned and unpublished manuscript by small-town pizza chef Henri Pick – now dead for two years. When the published book becomes a literary sensation, all of France is enamoured with the … Continue reading REVIEW: The Mystery of Henri Pick (2018)

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REVIEW: La Belle Époque (2019)

February 27, 2020 Grant Watson

Victor (Daniel Auteuil) is a retired comic book creator in his 60s. When his wife (Fanny Ardant) demands a divorce, he takes up the offer to participate in an exclusive performative experience in which a team of technicians and actors … Continue reading REVIEW: La Belle Époque (2019)

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REVIEW: The Wolf’s Call (2019)

February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 Grant Watson

Chanteraide (François Civil) is a sonar specialist assigned to a French submarine. After a near-contact reveals an unidentified submarine of Russian design, he risks his career and criminal arrest in an attempt to properly identify the new vehicle. Meanwhile Russian … Continue reading REVIEW: The Wolf’s Call (2019)

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REVIEW: Martyrs (2008)

February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 Grant Watson

15 years after escaping from a place of unexplained and unsolved torture, Lucie (Mylène Jampanoï) storms into the home of a suburban family with a shotgun and massacres them in cold blood – believing them to be the people who … Continue reading REVIEW: Martyrs (2008)

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REVIEW: Inside (2007)

February 2, 2020February 2, 2020 Grant Watson

After surviving a car accident that kills her husband, a grieving and heavily pregnant Sarah (Alysson Paradis) spends Christmas Eve alone in her house, located in a French suburb rife with rioting youths. When a mysterious woman (Beatrice Dalle) arrives … Continue reading REVIEW: Inside (2007)

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REVIEW: Assassin’s Creed (2016)

September 3, 2019 Grant Watson

Death row prisoner Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) is kidnapped after a faked execution and wakes up in a secret facility in Madrid. There he is plugged into “the Animus” – a cutting edge technology that allows people to experience the … Continue reading REVIEW: Assassin’s Creed (2016)

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REVIEW: Bacurau (2019)

August 15, 2019August 16, 2019 Grant Watson

In Brazil’s near-future, the tiny village of Bacurau finds itself closed off from the outside world. It no longer appears on any online maps, mobile phones cannot get any signal, and it is running out of food and water. It … Continue reading REVIEW: Bacurau (2019)

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REVIEW: Les Misérables (2019)

August 11, 2019 Grant Watson

Stéphane (Damien Bonnard) kicks off his first day as a member of a Parisian street crime unit with fellow officer Gwada (Djibril Zonga) and arrogant commanding officer Chris (Alexis Manenti). They are tasked with patrolling the community of the notorious … Continue reading REVIEW: Les Misérables (2019)

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