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March film releases coming to Video On Demand and DVD
We’re less than a week away from February ending. There are several films coming to video-on-demand and DVD in March 2021. Here is an update for the coming scheduled releases.
Monday, 1 March 2021
The Astrology of Pandemics, written and directed by Nicholas Snyder, comes to Amazon Prime on Monday, 1 March 2021.
The Astrology of Pandemics is a documentary film focusing on the astrology that describes previous historical pandemics and the one we are currently going through. Discover how pandemics happen when Pluto interacts with eclipses, Saturn and Jupiter.
The documentary explores the possibility of astrology helping us understand the current pandemic. …
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Films to watch over the Christmas holiday period!
John Bradshaw’s Santa’s Squad, originally titled The Santa Squad, hit television screens in the United States on Monday, 7 December 2020.
Santa’s Squad, with a story penned by Mark Valenti, revolves around unemployed art teacher Allie. Allie, after being hired at the Santa Squad, is given a special assignment.
AMERICAN NETWORK TELEVISION
Could ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ get worse?
Meat: The Legends, directed by Rachel Talalay from a story penned Matthew Maala and Morgan Faust, picks up the narrative shortly after events depicted in Ground Control to Sara Lance.
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, even though it is apparently part of the Arrowverse, is off the rails. Was the series ever on the rails?
The only thing that makes this series part of the established franchise is Caity Lotz and Dominic Purcell. Lotz and Purcell, respectively playing Sara Lance / White Canary and Mick Rory / Heat Wave, the the only OG Legends remaining on the Waverider.
The Talalay directed…
AMERICAN NETWORK TELEVISION
‘The Flash’: S07.E08-E09. “The People V. Killer Frost” and “Timeless”
The People V. Killer Frost, directed by Sudz Sutherland from an episode penned by Jonathan Butler and Gabriel Garza, saw Frost (Danielle Panabaker) taken to trial for her past crimes.
There is a lot that can be said for the Sutherland directed episode. Previously, with The One with the Nineties, we saw an episode more fitting with what we would expect of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow than The Flash. Legends, increasingly so, doesn’t feel part of the Airrowverse. This is not the direction Team Flash fans want this series to head.
Film Reviews
Daskaloff’s “Antidote” …HLN Rating: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Rarely are there films that give surprising punch as much as Antidote. Antidote, directed by Peter Daskaloff from a story co-written with screenwriter Matthew Toronto, comes to DVD and Digital on Tuesday, 11 May 2021.
Ashlynn Yennie and Louis Mandylor, playing Sharyn Berkley and Dr Aaron Hellenbach, do a good job bringing to the screen their respective characterisations. Yennie and Mandylor unquestionably bring their A-game to this production.
A woman is admitted into a hospital for an emergency surgery, but she wakes up in a bizarre medical facility where patients are treated like lab…
NETWORK TELEVISION
The Legends, after discovering the captain has been abducted by aliens, go looking for Sara
Legends of Tomorrow, with the sixth season premiere, returned to television screens Sunday, 2 May 2021. Ground Control to Sara Lance, directed by Kevin Mock from a story penned by James Eagan and Mark Bruner, is surprisingly not completely terrible. The episode wasn’t great.
The trailer for this latest season pointed us towards another possible ship wreck. Despite expectations being extremely low, with how the premiere unfolded, the story wasn’t half bad. Using David Bowie (Thomas Nicholson) to reveal Sara had been kidnapped was a nice touch. It was one of the highlights of the episode.
AMERICAN NETWORK TELEVISION
The Crows focus entirely on Batwoman’s identity
The previous episode revealed Agent Russel Tavaroff (Jesse Hutch) had acquired a blood sample that could lead directly back to Batwoman’s identity. Is it a sample from Ryan Wilder’s (Javicia Leslie) blood?
Ryan’s DNA, because of her past criminal activities, is in the system. The BatTeam, with Sophie Moore (Meagan Tandy), spends way too much time trying to figure out the obvious.
Anyone with a modicum of intelligence would have figured out the solution during the previous episode. Removing Ryan’s DNA profile from the system was the only way to go. Ryan’s criminal record has essentially been erased. …
British Network Television
“Line of Duty” fans are disappointed with sixth series finale
Line of Duty, on Sunday 2 April 2021, closed the sixth series with a surprisingly disappointing episode. The sixth series finale revealed former DSU Ian Buckells (Nigel Boyle) had been the mysterious fourth man the entire time. Line of Duty fans are clearly unhappy with the ending.
DC Chloe Bishop (Shalom Brune-Franklin), a relative newcomer to AC-12, plays a huge role in unmasking Buckells. Bishop, with evidence previously not available, manages to connect all the right dots.
The anti-police corruption drama, created Jed Mercurio, has been a stable of BBC television since 2012. There must be more to the drama…
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Films released in May 2021…
May 2021, like other months, is packed with coming film releases. Is there anything on this list that catches your eye?
Tuesday, 4 May 2021 …
Cerebrum, directed by Arvi Ragu from a story co-written with Gary D. Houk, becomes to available On Demand on Tuesday, 4 May 2021.
Tom Davis, to make ends meet, signs on as a guinea pig at a home-based lab. Later, having committed a crime he cannot remember, Tom must risk his own sanity to reveal the truth.
“The seed for Cerebrum came from our current social behaviour where all our photos, videos, shopping choices, political affiliations, financial data, and…
Film Releases
Arvi Ragu’s “Cerebrum,” starring Christian James, comes to On Demand on May 4
Cerebrum, directed by Arvi Ragu from a story co-written with Gary D. Houk, becomes to available On Demand on Tuesday, 4 May 2021.
Tom Davis, to make ends meet, signs on as a guinea pig at a home-based lab. Later, having committed a crime he cannot remember, Tom must risk his own sanity to reveal the truth.
“The seed for Cerebrum came from our current social behaviour where all our photos, videos, shopping choices, political affiliations, financial data, and all other aspects of our daily life have been digitized. …
