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A Monster Calls Blu-ray review
Anton van Beek  |  Jul 14, 2017  |  0 comments

Late one night, 12-year-old Conor O'Malley (Lewis MacDougal) is visited by a giant tree-like Monster (voiced by Liam Neeson), who tells the boy that he will recount three true stories, but after that Conor must tell him a story about the terrible truth that haunts his nightmares. For his part, Conor becomes convinced that the Monster has been summoned to save his mother (Rogue One… star Felicity Jones), who is undergoing treatment for cancer.

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Kong: Skull Island Blu-ray review
Anton van Beek  |  Jul 14, 2017  |  0 comments

At the height of World War II, a pair of fighter pilots – one American, the other Japanese – crash on an island in the South Pacific. The duo quickly resume their fight on the ground, only to be interrupted by a massive ape-like creature.

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Passengers Blu-ray review
Anton van Beek  |  Jul 13, 2017  |  0 comments

During its 120-year journey to the planet Homestead II, the colony ship Avalon encounters an asteroid field and suffers a system failure. This results in one of the spacecraft's 5,000 passengers, mechanical engineer Jim Preston (Chris Pratt), being awoken from his hibernation pod 90 years ahead of schedule.

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Home Cinema Choice 275 on sale now!
Anton van Beek  |  Jul 13, 2017  |  0 comments

Issue #275 of Home Cinema Choice is on sale today – and as usual it's packed with AV goodness...

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Sully: Miracle on the Hudson Blu-ray review
Anton van Beek  |  Jul 12, 2017  |  0 comments

Based on true events, Clint Eastwood's latest directorial outing stars Tom Hanks as US Airways pilot Chesley 'Sully' Sullenberger, who famously landed his plane on New York's Hudson river in 2009.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story Blu-ray review
Mark Craven & Jon Thompson  |  Jul 11, 2017  |  0 comments

The reborn Star Wars movie universe continues in exhilarating fashion with this adventure that gives the main Luke/Leia narrative a swerve and feels all the better for it. While 2015's The Force Awakens got somewhat bogged down in rehashing old Star Wars plots and bringing back old cast members, Rogue One always feels fresh and is populated by (mostly) new characters.

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King Kong: Premium Collection Blu-ray review
Anton van Beek  |  Jul 10, 2017  |  0 comments

In an age of effects-led cinema appearing to prioritise spectacle over emotional involvement, it's a treat to revisit director Merian C. Cooper's classic monster movie; this 1933 fantasy proves it's perfectly possible to give audiences the best of both worlds.

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Lone Wolf and Cub (Criterion Collection) Blu-ray review
Anton van Beek  |  Jul 09, 2017  |  0 comments

Stripped of his role as official executioner after being falsely accused of wishing for the Shogun's death, Ogami Itto (Tomisaburo Wakayama) opts to spend the rest of his life wandering Japan as an assassin for hire, accompanied by his young son Daigoro (Tomikawa Akihiro) in a tooled-up baby cart.

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Doctor Who: The Power of the Daleks Blu-ray review
Anton van Beek  |  Jul 08, 2017  |  0 comments

Arriving on the planet Vulcan in the distant future the freshly regenerated Doctor (Patrick Troughton) finds himself struggling to convince a colony of humans that the Daleks they recovered from an ancient space capsule trapped in a mercury pool are not the benevolent robotic servants the pretend to be, but actually galaxy-conquering alien killers.

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Pieces: Limited Edition Blu-ray review
Anton van Beek  |  Jul 07, 2017  |  0 comments

When a young boy's mother freaks out after catching him doing a jigsaw of a naked lady, he responds by hacking mummy to pieces with an axe. Flash forward several decades and a chainsaw-wielding maniac is slicing his way through the female students at a Boston college. Could these events be linked?

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