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Movie Review – Mercury in Retrograde (2018)

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Mercury in Retrograde, 2018. Written and Directed by Michael Glover Smith. Starring Najarra Townsend, Alana Arenas, Roxane Mesquida, Shane Simmons, Kevin Wehby, Jack C. Newell, and Andrew Sensenig. SYNOPSIS: Three couples from Chicago vacation for a weekend at a lakeside cabin in Michigan. Over the course of three days in this relationship drama, hidden tensions […]

Movie Review – Jupiter’s Moon (2017)

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Jupiter’s Moon, 2017. Directed by Kornel Mundruczo. Starring Merab Ninidze, Zsombor Jeger, and Gyorgy Cserhalmi. SYNOPSIS: A group of Syrian refugees arrive at the Hungarian border but are shot at by the military.  Of those that escape onto dry land, some are killed while others are captured and sent to a container camp.  One of […]

Movie Review – Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2022)

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Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 2022. Directed by Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre. Starring Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell, Matthew Duckett, Joely Richardson, Ella Hunt, Faye Marsay, Nicholas Bishop, Anthony Brophy, Eugene O’Hare, Rachel Andrews, Jonah Russell, Sandra Huggett, Ellie Piercy, Rachel Pedley, Zoé Wallon, Marianne McIvor, Holly Dennis, and Christopher Jordan. SYNOPSIS: An unhappily married aristocrat begins a torrid […]

Comic Book Review – WWE #11

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Liam Hoofe reviews WWE #11… The Boom! Studios WWE series has been fairly consistent in recent months, so it was a shame when last month’s WWE #10 failed to continue their impressive streak, delivering a rather pointless entry into their canon. Thankfully, WWE #11 gets things back on track with an amusing, if not slightly silly […]

Comic Book Review – WWE WrestleMania 2018 Special

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Liam Hoofe reviews the WWE WrestleMania 2018 Special… The Boom! Studios specials for the big 4 PPVs have, for the most part, been a resounding success. The most recent entry, The Royal Rumble special was arguably the best in the series yet and featured the comic book debut of current WWE champion AJ Styles. There […]

53rd Chicago International Film Festival Capsule Review – Princess Cyd (2017)

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Directed by Chicago based filmmaker Stephen Cone (Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party), Princess Cyd is at once genuine and inauthentic. As previously seen in his evergrowing portfolio of indie character studies, Cone presents humans with a deep aura of grace. Truthfully, there is no better word to use; working from the mismatched familial duo concept, it should be […]

First Impressions – Mantis Burn Racing on the Nintendo Switch

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Emma Withington gets hands on with Mantis Burn Racing on the Nintendo Switch… Mantis Burn Racing fits the Nintendo Switch like a glove, as you instantaneously pick-up-and-play and zoom around the tracks with relative ease. Mantis Burn Racing has a broad appeal and naturally lends itself to the Switch audience with its focus on social, localised […]

Comic Book Review – WWE SummerSlam Special 2017

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Liam Hoofe reviews Boom! Studios’ WWE SummerSlam Special 2017… WWE SummerSlam is one of the company’s biggest PPV’s and it has a long and storied history spanning back 29 years. The latest WWE special, SummerSlam 2017, from Boom! Studios gives us four stories based on historical moments and matches from the show, lovingly recreating them […]

Blu-ray Review – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 50th Anniversary Special Edition (1966)

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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: 50th Anniversary Special Edition, 1966. Directed by Sergio Leone. Starring Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Eli Wallach. SYNOPSIS: Okay, it’s been 51 years since The Good, the Bad and the Ugly was released, but who’s counting? This new 50th Anniversary Special Edition from Kino Lorber pulls out […]