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Comic Book Review – Lucas Stand #5

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Tony Black reviews Lucas Stand #5… Lucas puts himself and Cyd in danger when he kills an agent of Hell he wasn’t assigned in 1947 Hollywood. We’re racing toward conclusion now for Kurt Sutter & Catrin Kittridge’s limited run series Lucas Stand, which has been as dark and nihilistic as you might expect from Sutter […]

Movie Review – Arrival (2016)

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Arrival, 2016. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien and Tzi Ma. SYNOPSIS: Dr. Louise Banks, a celebrated linguist reeling from personal tragedy, is called in by the military to decode the language of an alien civilisation when a strange spacecraft lands in Montana… There’s a human […]

Book Review – The X-Files: Secret Agendas

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Tony Black reviews The X-Files: Secret Agendas… In the space of around eighteen months, IDW Publishing have neatly timed around the revival of 90’s TV hit The X-Files a series of compilation short stories about the weird & wonderful investigations of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder & Dana Scully, with ‘Secret Agendas’ the overarching title […]

DVD Review – Dr. Strange (1978)

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Dr. Strange, 1978. Directed by Philip DeGuere Starring Peter Hooten, Jessica Walter, Clyde Kusatsu and John Mills. SYNOPSIS: When evil being The Ancient One sends sinister sorceress Morgan LeFay to Earth to destroy the Sorcerer Supreme, the long held sorcerer must train brilliant surgeon Stephen Strange as his successor to fight the darkness… Almost as […]

Comic Book Review – The X-Files: Origins #3

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Tony Black reviews The X-Files: Origins #3… Before the FBI, before the X-Files, they were just two teenagers in search of the truth. On Martha’s Vineyard, a young Fox Mulder investigates something strange happening on the island, while in San Diego, 13-year-old Dana Scully looks into the shocking murder of her teacher. Two kids, two […]

Movie Review – The Comedian’s Guide to Survival (2016)

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The Comedian’s Guide to Survival, 2016. Directed by Mark Murphy Starring James Buckley, MyAnna Buring, Kevin Eldon, Paul Kaye and James Mullinger. SYNOPSIS: James Mullinger, entertainment journalist by day, failing stand-up comedian by night, embarks on a journey of self-discovery to figure out if he should be making people laugh after all… Not many people […]

Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 3 Review – ‘Shut Up and Dance’

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Tony Black reviews the third episode of Black Mirror season 3, ‘Shut Up and Dance’… You know those TV episodes or movies that are almost unqualified genius but you can’t ever bring yourself to watch them again? Black Mirror has given me one here with ‘Shut Up and Dance’, which might well be the most […]

Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 2 Review – ‘Playtest’

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Tony Black reviews the second episode of Black Mirror season 3… Charlie Brooker has always been a big gamer, growing up in the 80’s with the advent of the home entertainment system, through to middle age as this year we enter the realm of PlayStation VR – the true first step after Kinect & Google […]

Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 1 – ‘Nosedive’

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Tony Black reviews Black Mirror – ‘Nosedive’… We can all pretty much stop now and agree that Charlie Brooker is a genius, right? Love him or not as a personality presenting the Wipe program on the BBC or his Guardian articles/books, but Black Mirror has within two painfully short seasons on Channel 4 become The […]