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Comic Book Review – Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #3

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Tony Black reviews Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #3… “Sinestro’s Law” part three! Pushed to his limits, Hal Jordan must fight his way through a squad of Sinestro Corps members—but he risks losing himself to the power he now wields as his battle with Sinestro nears. The great battle against the imperious forces […]

Movie Review – Mechanic: Resurrection (2016)

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Mechanic: Resurrection, 2016 Directed by Dennis Gansel. Starring Jason Statham, Jessica Alba, Michelle Yeoh, Sam Hazeldine and Tommy Lee Jones. SYNOPSIS: Believed dead ‘mechanic’ Arthur Bishop, one of the world’s best mercenary assassins, is dragged back into his old life by a wealthy arms dealer and a damsel in distress… So you remember The Mechanic […]

Comic Book Review – Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Vol. 2 – Fractures

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Tony Black reviews Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Vol. 2 – Fractures… After their adventures in India, the Doctor and Clara return to her present – but danger is slipping through the cracks between universes, and London (and UNIT!) have no defence against the Fractures! Will the Doctor risk all of reality to reunite a […]

Movie Review – Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four (2015)

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Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four, 2015. Directed by Marty Langford. Starring Roger Corman, Alex Hyde-White, Joseph Culp and Oley Sassone. SYNOPSIS: In 1994, Roger Corman produced a movie adaptation of Marvel’s first ever comic-book, The Fantastic Four, a low budget picture destined never to be released. This is its fascinating story… […]

Comic Book Review – Justice League #3

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Tony Black reviews Justice League #3… “The Extinction Machine” part three! The hive-mind entities known as the Awakened take their vendetta against the Justice League to the next level by changing ordinary people into grotesque monsters bent on hunting down super-humans all over the world. Meanwhile, Superman journeys to the center of the earth to […]

Movie Review – David Brent: Life on the Road (2016)

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David Brent: Life on the Road, 2016. Directed by Ricky Gervais. Starring Ricky Gervais, Jo Hartley, Doc Brown, Tom Bennett and Mandeep Dhillon.   SYNOPSIS: Clueless sales representative David Brent, famed for 2000’s documentary The Office, returns as he self-funds his own rock star tour with band Foregone Conclusion… In the vein a few years […]

Comic Book Review – Suicide Squad #1

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Tony Black reviews Suicide Squad #1… “The Black Vault” part one! When a mysterious and definitely super-important cosmic item falls out of the heavens and into enemy hands, America has only one option: Task Force X, Amanda Waller’s strike team of incarcerated super-criminals. A one-stop-shop for plausibly deniable espionage and ultra- violence, this “Suicide Squad” […]

Comic Book Review – Green Lanterns #5

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Tony Black reviews Green Lanterns #5… “Red Planet” part five! Bad goes to worse as Atrocitus, leader of the Red Lanterns, comes to Earth to begin the final stages of his plan to turn Earth into a new central battery for his Corps! Without doubt, the so-far excellent opening Rebirth arc of Green Lanterns, ‘Rage […]

DVD Review – Tank 432 (2016)

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Tank 432, 2016. Directed by Nick Gillespie Starring Rupert Evans, Deirdre Mullins, Steve Garry, Gordon Kennedy and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: A group of British mercenaries transporting human cargo through the countryside come under attack from a strange enemy, forcing them to hide inside a old, abandoned tank… After watching Tank 432 aka Belly of the […]