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The Smashing Machine (MA) – 123 minutes
Unless you follow mixed martial arts, you have probably never heard of fighters Mark Kerr and Mark Coleman. Â They were two of the...
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1 day ago2 min read
HIM (MA) – 96 minutes
A sports horror film, HIM starts out with promise and quickly descends into the catastrophic. Â As a youngster, Cameron Cade and his...
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3 days ago2 min read
Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (M) – 84 minutes
The 1984 mockumentary This is Spinal Tap, featuring Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, marked Rob Reiner’s directorial...
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Sep 292 min read
One Battle After Another (M) – 162 minutes
Writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson’s rigorous commitment to excellence in filmmaking (Magnolia) pays off again big time in One...
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Sep 282 min read
The Long Walk (MA) – 107 minutes
A walk to the death. Think The Hunger Games on the road. That is the conceit behind the dystopian psychological thriller The Long Walk. Â ...
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Sep 242 min read
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (M) – 109 minutes
An unconvincing fantasy, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey pairs two box office drawcards – Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell – who play a...
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Sep 242 min read
The Bad Guys 2 (PG) – 104 minutes
Cross and double cross are the hallmarks of this sequel to Dreamworks’ 2022 original animated feature The Bad Guys.  Fun filled, it...
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Sep 172 min read
Splitsville (MA) – 105 minutes
Splitsville lifts the bar on quirky comedic relationship breakdowns. Â Carey (Kyle Marvin) is happily married to the love of his life,...
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Sep 162 min read
Australia 3D: The Wild Continent, at IMAX - 38 minutes
Five years in the making, Australia 3D: The Wild Continent presents a stunning showcase of this country’s flora and fauna.  What we see...
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Sep 162 min read
Kangaroo (PG) - 107 minutes
In this family friendly tale, an ambitious, self-serving, 35-year-old Sydney TV weather presenter makes an unexpected sea change. Â ...
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Sep 142 min read
Honey Don't! (MA) - 89 minutes
Film noir meets dark comedy with a lesbian lens.  That is the wild ride you are in for when you front up to Honey Don’t!  It is the...
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Sep 112 min read
The Conjuring: Last Rites
The jump scares in this, the ninth entry in the Conjuring universe, are most effective. Â The fearful utterances of the young man sitting...
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Sep 93 min read
The Roses (MA) - 105 minutes
The phrase all is fair in love and war is attributed to a book on wit by English author John Lyly in 1579. Â Clearly, acerbic couple Ivy...
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Sep 92 min read
Weapons (MA) - 128 minutes
The mysterious, dastardly story unfolds via a child narrator who says the events spoken about occurred at her school two years ago. Â So,...
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Aug 303 min read
Sorry, Baby (M) – 103 minutes
Sensitive and insightful, moving, distressing and, at times, amusing, Sorry, Baby focuses on Agnes (Eva Victor) who is trying to figure...
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Aug 292 min read
Caught Stealing (MA) – 106 minutes
Caught Stealing, by the Oscar nominated director of Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky, is an adrenaline pumping ride. Â Set in 1998, it...
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Aug 282 min read
Eddington (MA) – 148 minutes
The world has gone crazy. How often did you hear those words or similar utterances during COVID-19? Â It is May 2020 and the preposterous...
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Aug 213 min read
Fight or Flight (MA) – 102 minutes
Not snakes on plane, but killers – hordes of them.  In that regard, Fight or Flight shares pedigree with Bullet Train (2022), the...
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Aug 203 min read
Together (MA) – 102 minutes
The mysterious and the unnatural collide with devastating consequences in the psychological body horror Together. Â Tim (Dave Franco) is...
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Aug 192 min read
Nobody 2 (MA) - 89 minutes
We first encountered the seemingly mild-mannered husband and father of two Hutch Mansell (Bob Odenkirk), whose life was drab and routine,...
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Aug 183 min read
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