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Review: Stopmotion (2024)

 New to DVD and Blu-ray in the UK is the British live-action/animated horror, Stopmotion. The film – directed and co-written by Robert Morgan – stars Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, and Tom York, and tells the story of an animator who brings her creations to life. In the movie, Ella Blake is a would-be animator pulling double duties…

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Review: Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)

 In Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, it has been 40 years since Detective Axel Foley traveled to Beverly Hills to hunt down a murderer. In that time, Axel has had further work-related jaunts to the Hills, including one in 1987 and another in 1994, but for the most part he has been working hard in his home city of Detroit.…

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Review: Beverly Hills Cop III (1994)

 In Beverly Hills Cop III, Detective Axel Foley is working on a new case involving car theft. A number of vehicles have been stolen in Detroit and are being taken to a chop shop. Axel has plans to raid the chop shop at night, and arrest all those involved. However, minutes before he arrives at the…

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Review: Beverly Hills Cop II (1987)

 In Beverly Hills Cop II, a few years have passed since Detective Axel Foley’s investigation in Beverly Hills, and he is back in Detroit working on a case involving credit card fraud. Meanwhile, Axel’s friends in Beverly Hills, Captain Bogomil, Detective Rosewood, and Sergeant Taggart, are tied up with a case of their own – a…

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Review: Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

 In Beverly Hills Cop, Axel Foley is a smart-talking plain clothes detective working in the city of Detroit. Axel is good at his job and gets results, but he uses unconventional methods, and regularly butts heads with his superior officer, Inspector Todd. One night, after a shift at work, Axel returns home to find his childhood…

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Review: A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

 In director Michael Sarnoski’s A Quiet Place: Day One, it is a seemingly ordinary day as terminally ill patient, Samira leaves the hospice and heads off to Manhattan. She gets off the bus, attends a marionette theatre show, and becomes lost in a performance of puppetry. When the show is over, Sam heads back into the…

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Review: The Bikeriders (2024)

 Currently on general release in the UK and the US is the period drama, The Bikeriders. The movie – written and directed by Jeff Nichols – stars Jodie Comer, Austin Butler, Tom Hardy, Michael Shannon, Mike Faist, and Norman Reedus, and follows the story of a young woman named Kathy and her encounter with a biker…

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Review: Night of the Eagle (1962) – Blu-ray release

 New to Blu-ray and DVD in the UK from today is the British black-and-white horror movie, Night of the Eagle. Directed by Sidney Hayers, and based on the novel, Conjure Wife by Fritz Leiber, the film stars Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, and Margaret Johnston, and tells the story of a man whose life is turned upside down because…

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Review: The Watchers (2024)

 Currently playing in UK and US cinemas, and heading to video on demand platforms shorty is the horror-thriller, The Watchers. Written and directed by Ishana Night Shyamalan, and based on the novel of the same name by A. M. Shine, The Watchers stars Dakota Fanning, Georgina Campbell, Olwen Fouere, and Oliver Finnegan, and follows the story of a…

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