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Blu-ray Review – Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith (2016)

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Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith, 2016. Directed by Stuart A. Staples. Music by Tindersticks with Thomas Belhom and Christine Ott. SYNOPSIS: A 55 minute journey through the work of pioneering naturalist, inventor and filmmaker F. Percy Smith sound-tracked with a new contemporary score. A meditative and blissfully soothing piece of art […]

Movie Review – Norman (2016)

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Norman, 2016. Directed by Joseph Cedar. Starring Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi, Michael Sheen, Dan Stevens, Steve Buscemi, and Charlotte Gainsbourg. SYNOPSIS: From the outside, Norman Oppenheim (Richard Gere) looks like an eccentric businessman.  But the truth is that he dreams up schemes that come to nothing, so he tries to be everybody’s friend, and doesn’t […]

Video Game Review – The Town of Light

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Emma Withington reviews The Town of Light… In present day Italy, you stand before the gates of the ‘Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra’. Abandoned and decrepit, Volterra Asylum looms into view. The Charcot building is imposing, oppressive, and just so happens to be where you were processed…in 1942. Whispers of the past rustle through the trees and […]

Comic Book Review – The Flash #22

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Ricky Church reviews The Flash #22… “THE BUTTON” part four! The cataclysmic events of DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH #1 continue here! The Dark Knight and The Fastest Man Alive, the two greatest detectives on any world, unite to explore the mystery behind a certain blood-stained smiley button embedded in the Batcave wall. What starts as a […]

Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #69

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Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #69… “Desperate Measures,” Part 3! Old Hob and the TMNT work together to save the Mutanimals, but Bishop still has some tricks up his sleeve! Missed last month’s review? Check out Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #68 here. I think I can you tell you all now, I’ve seen […]

Sci-Fi London 2017 Review – Unspeakable Horrors: The Plan 9 Conspiracy (2016)

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Unspeakable Horrors: The Plan 9 Conspiracy, 2016 Written and directed by Jose Prendes SYNOPSIS: An in-depth look at the hidden meanings and blistering truth buried within Ed Wood’s PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE, which has long been considered the worst movie ever made. A couple of year ago, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher brought us Room 237, a […]

Movie Review – Sleepless (2017)

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Sleepless, 2017. Directed by Baran bo Odar. Starring Jamie Foxx, Michelle Monaghan, Scoot McNairy, Dermot Mulroney and David Harbour. SYNOPSIS: When a Las Vegas cop is involved in a drugs heist that goes spectacularly wrong, his teenage son is kidnapped by the mobster who owns the merchandise.  Rescuing the boy is a tough call because […]

TV Review: Code of a Killer

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews the miniseries Code of a Killer… When Alec Jeffreys invented the probe that made DNA testing a readable, genetic fingerprint he didn’t consider its applications for criminal justice. DCS David Baker sought him out, after reading about the test’s success in paternity and immigration cases. Two teenage girls from the same town […]

Movie Review – The Hatton Garden Job (2017)

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The Hatton Garden Job, 2017. Directed by Ronnie Thompson Starring Matthew Goode, Larry Lamb, Phil Daniels, David Calder, Joely Richardson, and Stephen Moyer. SYNOPSIS: Over the Easter weekend in 2015, a small team of experienced burglars broke into the basement vaults at The Hatton Garden Safe Deposit Company and stole millions of pounds in gold, […]