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Book Review – Black Canary: Breaking Silence

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Erika Hardison reviews Black Canary: Breaking Silence… The DC Comics Icon series are young adult novels that give readers a more thorough origin story of DC Comics characters. To date, the Icon Series has five books: Superman: Dawnbreaker, Batman: Nightcrawler, Catwoman: Soulstealer, Wonder Woman: Warbringer and now Black Canary: Breaking Silence. I have to admit, […]

Marvel’s What If…? – Season 1 Episode 1 Review

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Martin Carr review the premiere episode of Marvel’s What If…? Breaking new ground on your first animated series is one thing, shaping it around a preposition which offers infinite possibilities with no concrete resolutions is quite another. However, that is the route Marvel has decided to take with the new series Marvel’s What If…?. That […]

Movie Review – Beckett (2021)

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Beckett, 2021. Directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino. Starring John David Washington, Alicia Vikander, Vicky Krieps, Boyd Holbrook, Daphne Alexander, Panos Koronis, Leonardo Thimo, Yorgos Pirpassopoulos, Marc Marder, Andreas Marianos, and Maria Votti. SYNOPSIS: Following a tragic car accident in Greece, Beckett, an American tourist, finds himself at the center of a dangerous political conspiracy and […]

TV Review – Chapelwaite

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Martin Carr reviews the Epix original series Chapelwaite…. If Merchant Ivory had made Salem’s Lot, this might have been the end result – a heady mix of gothic horror, small town gossip and people looking peaky, whilst being awfully polite. This prequel to King’s horror classic, based on the short story Jerusalem’s Lot, bides its time […]

Movie Review – Jungle Cruise (2021)

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Jungle Cruise, 2021. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramírez, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, Paul Giamatti, Dani Rovira, Sulem Calderon, Veronica Falcón, Andy Nyman, Raphael Alejandro, and Quim Gutiérrez. SYNOPSIS: Based on Disneyland’s theme park ride where a small riverboat takes a group of travelers through a jungle filled with dangerous […]

Movie Review – The Suicide Squad (2021)

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The Suicide Squad, 2021. Written and Directed by James Gunn. Starring Margot Robbie, Idris Elba, John Cena, Joel Kinnaman, Sylvester Stallone, Viola Davis, Jai Courtney, Peter Capaldi, David Dastmalchian, Daniela Melchior, Michael Rooker, Alice Braga, Pete Davidson, Nathan Fillion, Sean Gunn, Flula Borg, Mayling Ng, Storm Reid, Steve Agee, Jennifer Holland, Juan Diego Botto, Joaquín […]

Movie Review – Crime Story (2021)

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Crime Story, 2021. Written and Directed by Adam Lipsius. Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Mira Sorvino, D.W. Moffett, Cress Williams, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Derek Russo, Haviland Stillwell, Andrea Frankle, Alejandra Rivera Flaviá, Tye Claybrook Jr., and Kevin Holloway-Harris. SYNOPSIS: When ex-mob boss Ben Myers is targeted in a home robbery, he goes on a deadly rampage of […]

Movie Review – Respect (2021)

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Respect, 2021. Directed by Liesl Tommy. Starring Jennifer Hudson, Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, Audra McDonald, Mary J. Blige, Marc Maron, Tituss Burgess, Saycon Sengbloh, Hailey Kilgore, Tate Donovan, Skye Dakota Turner, Heather Headley, Leroy McClain, Lodric D. Collins, Brenda Nicole Moorer, Kimberly Scott, Albert Jones, Beau Scheier, Myk Watford, David Simpson, William J. Simmons, Gilbert […]

Video Review – Free Guy can’t rise above being just another typical Ryan Reynolds comedy

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EJ Moreno with a video review of Ryan Reynolds’ new film Free Guy… Ryan Reynolds is back, and this time he’s looking to pander to the gamers. Free Guy is a video game-infused film where Reynolds stars as Guy, an NPC who decided to move from the background to the hero of this story. Critic […]