Steve Stebbing

Breaking down all things pop culture

New Releases: Napoleon – An epic that details the checkered rise and fall of French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and his relentless journey to power through the prism of his addictive, volatile relationship with his wife, Josephine. Expectations: In what seems like a biopic that was a long time coming, Ridley Scott finally gets his take on …

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New Releases: The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes – The story of Coriolanus Snow, years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem. He is handsome and charming, and though the Snow family has fallen on hard times, Coriolanus sees a chance for a change in his fortunes when he is chosen …

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New Releases: The Marvels – Carol Danvers AKA Captain Marvel has reclaimed her identity from the tyrannical Kree and taken revenge on the Supreme Intelligence. But unintended consequences see Carol shouldering the burden of a destabilized universe. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with …

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New Releases: Priscilla – When teenage Priscilla Beaulieu meets Elvis Presley at a party, the man who is already a meteoric rock-and-roll superstar becomes someone entirely unexpected in private moments: a thrilling crush, an ally in loneliness, a vulnerable best friend. Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in …

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Okay, this is a weird one out of the blue, everybody, but October was a stressful month beyond the awesome Vancouver International Film Festival. Afterwards, my usual spooky time of the year, a personal favorite, consisted of packing up my entire existence and moving across town for the remaining three weeks of the month, including …

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New Releases: Expend4bles – A new generation of stars joins the world’s top action stars for an adrenaline-fueled adventure in Expend4bles. Reuniting as the team of elite mercenaries, Jason Statham, Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, and Sylvester Stallone are joined for the first time by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Megan Fox, Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Jacob …

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New Releases: A Haunting In Venice – In post-World War II Venice, Poirot, now retired and living in his own exile, reluctantly attends a seance. But when one of the guests is murdered, it is up to the former detective to uncover the killer again. Expectations: Kenneth Branagh returns both behind the camera and in …

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New Releases: My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 – After travelling to Greece for a family reunion, a woman attempts to locate her deceased father’s childhood friends. Expectations: After the release of The Equalizer 3 last week, September continues to be the month of unnecessary sequels with a double shot this week, kicking off with this film …

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New Releases: The Equalizer 3 – Since giving up his life as a government assassin, Robert McCall (Denzel Washington) has struggled to reconcile the horrific things he’s done in the past and finds a strange solace in serving justice on behalf of the oppressed. Finding himself surprisingly at home in Southern Italy, he discovers his …

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New Releases: Gran Turismo – Based on the true story of Jann Mardenborough, the film is the ultimate wish-fulfillment tale of a teenage Gran Turismo player whose gaming skills won a series of Nissan competitions to become an actual professional racecar driver. Expectations: Sony Playstation rolls out their second feature film based on one of their …

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