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Netflix’s gripping documentary Titan: The OceanGate Disaster about the doomed submersible, peels back the layers of innovation, ego, and oversight that led to one of the most haunting maritime tragedies of the modern age. 

Through exclusive interviews, real-time footage, expert analysis, and chilling reconstructions, the film doesn’t just chronicle the ill-fated descent to the Titanic wreck — it exposes a deeper story of blind ambition, ignored warnings, and the seductive pull of legacy. 

As the world watched the search unfold in real time, this documentary forces viewers to confront...

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Join DMR as we delve into Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025), where Ethan Hunt faces a formidable rogue AI threatening global stability. 

Featuring insights on Tom Cruise’s performance, the film’s high-octane stunts, and its place in the franchise’s legacy.

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Hollywood's perfect storm has arrived in the form of Disney's live-action Snow White remake, a film that may go down in history as one of the studio's most spectacular failures. With a staggering production and marketing budgets,  this reimagining of the 1937 classic is projected to loose eye watering amounts of money.

At the heart of this catastrophe lies a fundamental disconnect between filmmakers and audience expectations. The original Snow White wasn't just any film – it was Walt Disney's revolutionary gamble that changed animation forever. Disney mortgaged his family home to complete wha...

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As I review the latest kids movie taking the world by storm:

"Welcome to the world of Minecraft, where creativity doesn't just help you craft, it's essential to one's survival! Four misfits--Garrett "The Garbage Man" Garrison (Jason Momoa), Henry (Sebastian Eugene Hansen), Natalie (Emma Myers) and Dawn (Danielle Brooks)--find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. 

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Ahhhhhh man this one stings....Val Kilmer....has sadly passed away at age 65, just take a look at some of the roles he played:

Iceman - Top Gun - 1986

Jim Morrison - The Doors - 1991 

Doc Holiday - Tombstone - 1993

Batman/Bruce Waye - Batman Forever - 1995

Chris - Heat - 1995

This guy threw everything inot his craft and was a huge part of my childhood seeing Batman in 1995 as a ten year old.

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Welcome back to DMR, as i review yet another solid Apple TV exclusive film, called The Gorge:

Two highly-trained operatives (Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy) are appointed to posts in guard towers on opposite sides of a vast and highly classified gorge, protecting the world from an undisclosed, mysterious evil that lurks within. They bond from a distance while trying to stay vigilant in defending against an unseen enemy. When the cataclysmic threat to humanity is revealed to them, they must work together in a test of both their physical and...

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Its been a hot minute since I have launched an episode, however giving you some bang for your buck, discussing five topics:

Severence Season 2 (2025) Review 

Disney's Snow White (2025) First Reviews are In....

New Starship Troopers Movie Rumors

The Twister: Caught in The Storm (2025) Netflix Documentary Review

The Day of The Jackle (2024) Season 1 Review

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Happy New Year from DMR - All the best for 2025!

Join me as I review one of the most anticipated vampire remakes, over 100 years in the making.  NOSFERATU directed by Robert Eggers, starring Lilly-Rose Depp, Nicholas Hoult, Bill Skarsgard & Willem Dafoe:

"Robert Eggers' NOSFERATU is a gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake."

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As we have reched the end of yet another year in film, this year was massive in terms of the solid movies that hit the silver screen.

I have done something different this year, as opposed to a video, I have done a podcast episode instead, so you can listen to an indepth take on how I selected my top ten films

Again this list is just my opinion, you will have your own list no doubt, thank you for all your support...

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Welcome back to DMR as I review one of the most outrageuos movies Ive ever seen, The Substance, starring Demi Moore, Margaret Qualley & Dennis Quaid.

"Have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself? You, only better in every way. You should try this new product, it's called The Substance. IT CHANGED MY LIFE. With The Substance, you can generate another you: younger, more beautiful, more perfect. You just have to share time -- one week for one...

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Welcome back to DMR as I review the second installment in what is now the Gladiator franchise, directed by Ridley Scott, starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washintong & Pedro Pascal to name a few. 

"Years after witnessing the death of Maximus at the hands of his uncle, Lucius must enter the Colosseum after the powerful emperors of Rome conquer his home. With rage in his heart and the future of the empire at stake, he looks to the past to find the strength and honor needed to re...

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As I review the much anticpated second installment in Tim Burton's horror/comdey franchise:

"Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. 

With trouble brewing in both realms, it's only a matter of time until someone says B...

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“We’re on an express elevator to hell, going down!” 

(RIP Bill Paxton AKA Private Hudson)

Welcome back to DMR, as I review the 7th installment in the Alien franchise, Alien Romulus (2024), directed by Fede Alvarez & produced by Ridley Scott, starring Cailee Spaney, as Rain the main character. 

While scavenging the deep ends of a derelict space station, a group of young space colonizers come face to face with the most terrifying life form in the universe.

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As I review the stand alone reboot Twisters, which in my opinion is not a sequel to the brillant orignal film Twister that came out in 1996.

Join me as I compare the two films side by side, which one I feel is superior and how blockbusters have changed dramtically from the 90's until now.

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As I review not one but three series + a doco that have recently come out this year:

The Boys Season 4 (Prime Video)
Baby Riendeer (Netflix)
Dirty Pop - The Boy Band Scam (Netflix Doco)
The Acolyte - Star Wars (Disney)

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As we are into the new centruty with Ep 101, felt fitting to review an Aussie movie being the latest from George Miller; Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga.

Snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, young Furiosa falls into the hands of a great biker horde led by the warlord Dementus. Sweeping through the Wasteland, they come across the Citadel, presided over by the Immortan Joe. As the two tyrants fight for dominance, Furiosa soon finds herself in a nonstop battle to make her way...

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We made it people  - 100 Episodes - So, in celebration of this, I felt it was necassry to review my number one movie of  all time, the cult classic; Fight Club (1999)!

A depressed man (Edward Norton) suffering from insomnia meets a strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and soon finds himself living in his squalid house after his perfect apartment is destroyed. 

The two bored men form an underground club with strict rules and fight other men who are fed up wit...

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As I review not one but two Tom Ripley related movies/series:

1999 - The Talented Mr Ripley - Movie

2024 - Ripley - Series on Netflix

The movie is one of my favorite films and I have seen it many times; so how did the series stack up that has come out recently?

Warning: I will be discussing some spoliers in this review. 

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As I review that much anticipated sequel to Dune being Part 2 in the series. 

The film explores the mythical journey of Paul Atreides as he unites with Chani and the Fremen while on a warpath of revenge against the conspirators who destroyed his family. Facing a choice between the love of his life and the fate of the known universe, he endeavors to prevent a terrible future only he can foresee. 

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Thank you to Saban Films for providing DMR with an early screening of their latest thriller Knox Goes Away, starring/directed by Michael Keaton & Al Pacino.

When a contract killer has a rapidly evolving form of dementia, he is offered an opportunity to redeem himself by saving the life of the adult son with whom he had been estranged. Due out in cinemas 15th March 2024, this film was a fanstastic watch! 

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I am concerned about where this frnachinse is heading, with the American versions and show.

38 films in total, Godzilla is an iconice movie character, however after the second trailer for the latest film due out this year, I fear it is heading down a Marvel movie route or Fast and The Furious debarkal.

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I haven't done a general/mixed episode for a good while; so here you go! In this ep I discuss:

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Where do we apply the breaks here!???

In this episode I discuss where movie franchises have come over the last few decades and why directors feel the need to just...keep.... going with films:

Lord of The Rings
Jurassic Park/World
Terminator 
Fast & The Furious 

Series wise I discuss the same:

The Sopranos 
Game of Thrones
Succession 
The Walking Dead

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This show is a wild ride!

Presenting vintage Poe stories filtered through Mike Flanagan's deliciously dark lens, The Fall of the House of Usher will get a rise out of horror fans.

This show is very addictive, now streaming on Netflix.

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Where does one start with one of the most controversial films of the century...An Amazon Prime exclusive.

"Academy Award winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) brings us a beautifully wicked tale of privilege and desire. 

Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton (Jacob Elordi), who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never to be forgotten."

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First film for 2024 - Cult Killer staring Antonio Banderas & Alice Eve Thank you to Harpoon Productions & Saban Films for the opportunity and early screening! 


#cultkiller #movie #movies #movietok #moviereview #filmtok #fyp #reel #reels #instgram #instagood #discover #film

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We have reached the grand finale, the top ten movies for 2023; of course this is just my opinion and no doubt you’ll have your own list! There are some brilliant films that have been released this year, of course I didn’t get to catch them all.

Honourable Mentions:

Extraction 2
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant 
Scream 6
Butchers Crossing 
Leave the World Behind
Asteroid City

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Leave the World Behind is a 2023 American apocalyptic psychological thriller film produced, written, and directed by Sam Esmail. It is based on the 2020 novel by Rumaan Alam.

The film stars Julia Roberts, Mahershala Ali, Ethan Hawke,

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 As I review one of the most anticipated films of 2023 being Napoleon starring Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby & directed by Ridley Scott. 

A look at the military commander’s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine. 

 A must to watch on big screen! A four-hour version will be available on Apple TV, damn!

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As I review David Finchers latest film exclusive to Netflix being The Killer starring Michael Fassbender.

After a fateful near-miss, an assassin battles his employers and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn't personal.

This will be a treat for Fincher fans, myself being one of them with Fight Club being my favorite film.

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As I review Nicholas Cages latest western film, Butchers Crossing. A mysterious frontiersman leads a group of men on a treacherous buffalo hunt in the Old West. They soon find themselves in a fight for survival as the harsh elements start to test their resolve and sanity.

Nic Cage is one of my favorite actors; he and the rest of the cast are in fine form in this film; westerns are making a comeback and the cinematography and acting here is brilliant. Thank you to F...

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 As I review Martin Scorsese's latest and one of the most anticipated films of 2023.
 
 Killers of the Flower Moon is a American epic western crime drama film, set in 1920s Oklahoma, it focuses on a series of murders of Osage members and relations in the Osage Nation after oil was being produced on tribal land. Tribal members had retained mineral rights on their reservation, and whites sought to gain their wealth.

Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro and Lily Gladstone lead an ensemble cast, that...

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As I review the fourth instalment into everyone’s favorite/wanted assassin John Wick! 

With the price on his head ever increasing, legendary hit man John Wick takes his fight against the High Table global as he seeks out the most powerful players in the underworld, from New York to Paris to Japan to Berlin. 

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As I review the latest MI movie starring Tom Cruise.

Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. 

With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to consider t...

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 Painkiller is an American drama limited series made for Netflix.

 The six-episode series, which is based on Patrick Radden Keefe's New Yorker article "The Family That Built an Empire of Pain" and Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic by Barry Meier, focuses on the birth of the opioid crisis, with an emphasis on Purdue Pharma, a company owned by Richard Sackler and his family that was the manufacturer of OxyContin.
 
The Sackler family have been described as t...

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As I review the latest film from one of my favorite directors being M. Night Shyamalan's Knock at The Cabin. 

While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost.

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I am pretty fair with a lot of movies and series; however I had to give it my number 5 rating: Its Crap!

After a nervous breakdown derailed Jocelyn’s last tour, she’s determined to claim her rightful status as the greatest and sexiest pop star in America. Her passions are reignited by Tedros, a nightclub impresario with a sordid past. Will her romantic awakening take her to glorious new heights or the deepest and darkest depths of her soul?

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During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world’s first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.

Christopher Nolan’s latest WW2 epic is a must watch for war enthusiasts, however, do not go into this film expecting what we have seen from this director in t...

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 This will be a real treat for movie lovers; I recently interviewed Zoe Tan, Senior Vice President of a company called Neon Global, that has been in existence since the 1950’s.

Neon specialises in unique exhibitions that they showcase worldwide; with major movie brands and historical artifacts, featuring the following but not limited to:

Avatar

Jurassic World 

Avengers Station (Marvel)

Transformers

Harry Potter (Coming Soon)

Ramses The Great & The Gold of The Pharaohs

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Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (or simply The Covenant) is a 2023 American action thriller film co-written, produced and directed by Guy Ritchie.

The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Dar Salim. Its plot follows John Kinley, a U.S. Army special operations sergeant, and Ahmed, his Afghan interpreter, fighting the Taliban.

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