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Comic Book Review – The Witcher: Witch’s Lament #4

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Calum Petrie reviews The Witcher: Witch’s Lament #4…Geralt’s time within Witch’s Lament is coming to a close, and the series has seen the Witcher cast doubt on past decisions while compartmentalising and then moving on with his next job, the whole time not entirely sure if he can move past the apparent regret facing him […]

Movie Review – Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms (2021)

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Mortal Kombat Legends: Battle of the Realms, 2021Directed by Ethan Spaulding Starring the voice talents of Jordan Rodrigues, Jennifer Carpenter, Joel McHale, Grey Griffin, Patrick Seitz, Fred Tatasciore, Matthew Mercer, Debra Wilson, Emily O’Brien, Ike Amadi, Matthew Yang King, Bayardo De Murguia, Dave B. Mitchell, Artt Butler, Robin Atkin Downes and Paul Nakauchi.SYNOPSIS:Our team of […]

HBO Review – Scenes from a Marriage

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Martin Carr reviews HBO’s Scenes from a Marriage…This intimate examination of long term relationships is stylistically absorbing, intrusively unsettling and genuinely engrossing. Adapted from the Ingmar Bergman original by Hagai Levi, who came to prominence on HBO through The Affair, it features some powerhouse performances from Oscar Isaac and Jessica Chastain.Playing Jonathan and Mira respectively, […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie Collection

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Star Trek: The Original 4-Movie CollectionDirected by Robert Wise, Nicholas Meyer, and Leonard Nimoy. Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Persis Khambatta, Stephen Collins, Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick, Paul Winfield, Kirstie Alley, Ricardo Montalbán, Christopher Lloyd, and Catherine Hicks.SYNOPSIS:The first four Star Trek movies […]

Movie Review – The Gateway (2021)

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The Gateway, 2021.Directed by Michele Civetta. Starring Shea Whigham, Olivia Munn, Taryn Manning, Frank Grillo, Bruce Dern, Keith David, Mark Boone Junior, Zach Avery, Alexander Wraith, Jay Hieron, Taegen Burns, Nick Daly, Richard Strauss, and Shannon Adawn.SYNOPSIS:A social worker assigned to the care of the daughter of a single mother intervenes when the dad returns […]

Movie Review – Kate (2021)

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Kate, 2021.Directed by Cedric Nicolas-Troyan. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Miku Martineau, Woody Harrelson, Tadanobu Asano, Michiel Huisman, Jun Kunimura, Miyavi, Amelia Crouch, Ava Caryofyllis, Mari Yamamoto, and Kayuza Tanabe.SYNOPSIS:A female assassin has 24 hours to get vengeance on her murderer before she dies.Already at a disadvantage for having a cookie-cutter script of Japanese crime and […]

Marvel’s What If…? Episode 4 Review

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Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Marvel’s What If…?There is something compelling about the idea of love viewed through a rose-tinted prism. That moment of compulsion which shapes us into something else, merely though the extended proximity of another. In the darkest episode yet What If…? addresses just that notion, by turning Doctor Strange into […]

Movie Review – Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, 2021.Directed by Destin Daniel Cretton. Starring Simu Liu, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Awkwafina, Meng’er Zhang, Michelle Yeoh, Ronny Chieng, Fala Chen, Florian Munteanu, Benedict Wong, Tim Roth, Jodi Long, Andy Le, Rosalind Chao, Dallas Liu, Harmonie He, and Jayden Tianyi Zhang.SYNOPSIS:Shang-Chi, the master of unarmed weaponry based Kung […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Dune (1984)

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Dune, 1984.Directed by David Lynch. Starring Francesca Annis, Leonardo Cimino, Brad Dourif, José Ferrer, Linda Hunt, Freddie Jones, Richard Jordan, Kyle MacLachlan, Virginia Madsen, Silvana Mangano, Everett McGill, Kenneth McMillan, Jack Nance, Siân Phillips, Jürgen Prochnow, Paul Smith, Patrick Stewart, Sting, Dean Stockwell, Max von Sydow, Alicia Roanne Witt, and Sean Young.SYNOPSIS:David Lynch’s cult classic […]