Steve Stebbing

Breaking down all things pop culture

It’s a mixed bag this week to kick it all off, as the long gestated reboot of The Crow completely offended this uber fan of the original 1994 film! We correct course as both Chloe and I have nothing but big love and amazement for the new horror thriller, Strange Darling, a film Chloe says …

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Blu-Ray: Just Mercy – Short Term 12 director Destin Daniel Cretin returns to form after The Glass Castle with this well-acted true story about civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson, a Harvard law school graduate who moved from Delaware to Alabama to give death row inmates proper legal representation, played in this film by Michael B. …

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New Releases: 1917 – Now a Golden Globe winner for Best Picture and Best Director, we finally get the chance to check out this World War I epic from director Sam Mendes, shot by one of the greatest cinematographers ever to get behind the camera, Roger Deakins. The story follows two young British soldiers who …

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Parasite – What a great way to start out my coverage of this year’s Vancouver International Film Festival, some great Korean cinema from one of the masters, Bong Joon-Ho. In his return to all Korean film, he tells the story of a family of con artists who grift their way into a rich families lives …

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