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Shane J Alliew Running at 133 minutes, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find them in a prequel to the Harry Potter Series; directed by David Yates based on J K Rowling’s book of the same name. Incidentally Rowling is also the producer of the film marking her screenwriting debut too.Continue Reading

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Shane J. Alliew The one vital question you may ask yourself at the end of 115 minutes of Scott Derrickson’s Doctor Strange is whether one likes Benedict Cumberbatch as Dr. Stephen Strange or would you rather like him more as Sherlock (BBC Series). The verdict is split; my favourite beingContinue Reading

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Shane J. Alliew “Heav’n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn’d, Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn’d,” William Congreve, The Mourning Bride (Act III Scene 2). Sometimes I am tempted to compare popular Bollywood so-called feminist based cinema to films like The Dressmaker; yet I refrain fromContinue Reading

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Shane J. Alliew Post Angels and Demons, Dan Brown churning out similar thrillers, not only for the sake of bestselling but also, most importantly the multi-million dollar film translation, comes as no surprise with Inferno. The Three Investigators, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys hooked teenagers and Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks)Continue Reading

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Shane J Alliew “You have been gone away too long Alice”. Oops, sorry I almost thought that I was writing a review for Producer Tim Burton’s Through the Looking Glass, when actually I am writing for Director Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. You see, I sometimes getContinue Reading

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By : Shane J Alliew Have you ever taken a train ride? Twice a day, from no where to no where? I have. Several of them. And each time, I pass through the town, I wonder what actually goes on in those houses that border the edge of the fields,Continue Reading