Steve Stebbing

Breaking down all things pop culture

We’re still in that beginning-of-the-year movie lull, I talk about the most important film of 2023, a biopic starring two of the best character actors in the industry today, William Oldroyd’s long-awaited follow-up to Lady Macbeth, and much more. This week also marks the debut of a father-daughter team as my daughter Chloe has joined …

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This week I give my full thoughts on Wonka, Five Nights At Freddy’s is on 4K, a Chinese epic sci-fi that completely outdoes anything Roland Emmerich can come up with, a handful of remastered films from the 90s and more. Also, where is your bar set for Aquaman?

For this episode, I join Shane for some Mutant Mayhem as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles newest adventure lands on 4K and Blu-Ray, along with Gareth Edwards’ new sci-fi epic The Creator and the Aussie thriller Mercy Road. I give my thoughts on the new Chicken Run, landing on Netflix twenty-three years after the original …

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New Releases: Silent Night – A gritty revenge tale of a tormented father who witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang’s crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life’s mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge …

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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 Release: The Creator – From writer/director Gareth Edwards (“Rogue One,” “Godzilla”) comes an epic sci-fi action thriller set amidst a future war between the human race and the forces of artificial intelligence. Joshua (John David Washington, “Tenet”), a hardened ex-special forces agent grieving the disappearance of his wife (Gemma Chan, “Eternals”), is recruited to …

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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: The Last Voyage Of The Demeter – Based on a single chapter, the Captain’s Log, from Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel Dracula, the story is set aboard the Russian schooner Demeter, which was chartered to carry private cargo – twenty-four unmarked wooden crates – from Carpathia to London. The film will detail the strange …

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New Releases: Asteroid City – Following a writer on his world-famous fictional play about a grieving father, who travels with his tech-obsessed family to the small rural town of Asteroid City, to compete in a stargazing event. Only to have his worldview disrupted forever. Expectations: Wes Anderson returns for what looks like one of his most, uh, …

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