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Daredevil: Season One

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Review by CJ

Daredevil

Director:
Phil Abraham, Adam Kane, Ken Girotti, Farren Blackburn, Guy Ferland, Brad Turner, Stephen Surjik, Nelson McCormack, Nick Gomez, Euros Lyn, Stephen S. DeKnight

Starring:
Charlie Cox, Elden Henson, Deborah Ann Woll, Vincent D’Onofrio, Toby Leonard Moore, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Bob Gunton, Ayelet Zurer

Other notable appearances:
Rosario Dawson

Running time:
Approx 55 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
13

 

Lawyer Matt Murdock (Cox) was blinded by a chemical spill as a child. By day he fights crime in the courtroom with partner Foggy Nelson (Henson) and their secretary Karen Page (Woll). By night he fights crime in the streets as the masked man, using his other heightened senses to see the world around him.

When the majority of crime in Murdock’s turf, Hell’s Kitchen, leads back to the mysterious Wilson Fisk (D’Onofrio) the masked man takes it upon himself to uncover Fisk’s plans. Will the Daredevil succeed or will he come crashing down to Earth?

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Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! (2015)

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Sharknado 3

Director:
Anthony C. Ferrante

Starring:
Ian Ziering, Tara Reid, Cassie Scerbo, Frankie Muniz, Ryan Newman

Other notable appearances:
David Hasselhoff, Bo Derek, Ne-Yo, Chris Jericho, Mark McGrath, Michael Winslow, Christopher Judge, Grant Imahara, Lou Ferrigno, Jackie Collins, Cindy Margolis, Penn Jillette, Teller, Kendra Wilkinson, Holly Madison, Bobak Ferdowsi, Maryse Ouellet Mizanin, Jerry Springer, Ray J, George R.R. Martin, Jared Fogle … so, so, SO many more

Running time:
93 sharktastic minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Sharknado, Sharknado 2: The Second One, Zombeavers, Arachnoquake

 

Fin Shepard (Ziering) stops off at the White House to accept a medal of honour from the President on the way to meet his pregnant ex-ex-wife now wife April (Reid), daughter (Newman) and mother-in-law (Derek) in Orlando. While he’s at the White House, a sharknado hits and Fin saves the President.

On the way to meet his family, Fin encounters yet another sharknado. This time he is saved by his old friend Nova (Scerbo) and her new friend Lucas (Muniz). They trio team up and head to Orlando where it will be up to the Shepard family and their allies to save the world from a super sharknado.

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Disney Movie Stars Film Festival 2016: Frozen (2013)

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Director:
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

Starring:
Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santina Fontana

Other notable appearances:
Alan Tudyk, Robert Pine

Running time:
102 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Tangled, The Princess and the Frog, The Emperor’s New Groove

 

Queen Elsa (Menzel) has kept her ice powers a secret since an accident that nearly killed her sister Anna (Bell) as a child. Yet when Anna announces her engagement to Prince Hans (Fontana) and pushes Elsa to accept it, Elsa unwittingly reveals her powers to the kingdom, its allies and her sister.

Elsa flees the kingdom without realising she has plunged it into an eternal winter. It is up to Princess Anna and her new friends Kristoff (Groff), Sven and Olaf (Gad) to save Arendelle.

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10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

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10 Cloverfield Lane

Director:
Dan Trachtenberg

Starring:
John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr

Other notable appearances:
Bradley Cooper

Running time:
105 minutes

 

Michelle (Winstead) awakens after a car accident to find herself locked in a doomsday bunker with Emmett (Gallagher) and Howard (Goodman). Both men claim that a disaster of some sort has occurred outside. With no way of telling what has happened to the rest of the world, Michelle must work out if either of the men are as they seem.

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Godzilla (1998)

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Godzilla (1998)

Director:
Roland Emmerich

Starring:
Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno, Maria Pitillo, Hank Azaria

Other notable appearances:
Harry Shearer, Kevin Dunn, Nancy Cartwright, Michael Lerner

Tag line:
Size does matter

Running time:
139 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Independence Day, Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Godzilla (2014)

 

Everyone’s favourite giant radioactive lizard returns in his first reboot. Godzilla makes his way to Manhattan to start a family. It’s up to biologist Nick Tatopoulos (Broderick), French agent Philippe Roaché and the national guard to stop him.

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