Ryan Goodyear
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Movie Review: Zachary Levi stars in DC Comics Superhero Comedy, SHAZAM!
Read more: Movie Review: Zachary Levi stars in DC Comics Superhero Comedy, SHAZAM!As I sit in room #5 of the maternity ward waiting for my partners’ induction to kick-in, I’m reminded of the overriding theme in SHAZAM!… family. Admittedly, I probably shouldn’t be thinking of teenage friendly superhero movies when my partner is in labour but, you know, it’s a long process and you can tell when…
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Film Review: VERMILION starring Jennifer Ward-Lealand
Read more: Film Review: VERMILION starring Jennifer Ward-LealandVermilion is the intimate story of Darcy (played by Jennifer Ward-Lealand), a composer and mother, and how she, with friends and family, tackles a summer of big changes and decisions. Made with investment from the New Zealand Film Commission, the majority female cast and 85% female production team make for a refreshingly progressive project that…
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Movie Review: Bad Times at the El Royale
Read more: Movie Review: Bad Times at the El RoyaleDrew Goddard (The Cabin in the Woods, The Martian, World War Z) writes and directs, for the second time, to bring us ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’; a movie about bad people doing bad things in a bad place. From the very beginning, ‘Bad Times at the El Royale’ lays out what it is…
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Movie Review: The Old Man & The Gun starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, and Casey Affleck
Read more: Movie Review: The Old Man & The Gun starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, and Casey AffleckMovie Review: The Old Man & The Gun starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, and Casey Affleck… Starring Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, Casey Affleck and with two excellent rounds of support from Tom Waits and Donald Glover, ’The Old Man & The Gun’ is a gentle, sedately paced film based on the life of career criminal…
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Film Review: Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy star in The Bookshop
Read more: Film Review: Emily Mortimer and Bill Nighy star in The Bookshop‘The Bookshop’ follows Florence Green (Emily Mortimer) and her struggles to open a bookshop in the small seaside town of Hardborough, Suffolk. The film is adapted from the Penelope Fitzgerald book of the same name and stays true to the source material. Mortimer is joined by Bill Nighy and Patricia Clarkson, among others, in an…
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Film Review: Chappaquiddick, the story of Teddy Kennedy
Read more: Film Review: Chappaquiddick, the story of Teddy KennedyChappaquiddick is the story of Senator Edward ’Teddy’ Kennedy and his struggles with the recent loss of two illustrious brothers and the familial strain and life-changing effects this has wrought. The film centres on one night in 1969, a key incident and the aftermath that ensues. Played carefully by Jason Clarke (Lawless, Zero Dark Thirty,…