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Comic Book Review – Once & Future #18

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Calum Petrie reviews Once & Future #18… The final issue in Once & Future’s third arc throws us right into the middle of the fray, where Merlin has been hatching a long running plan. Bridgette, Duncan and everyone else appear to be nothing more than pawns on the board at any given moment. The threat […]

Movie Review – Separation (2021)

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Separation, 2021. Directed by William Brent Bell. Starring Rupert Friend, Madeleine Brewer, Brian Cox, Violet McGraw, Troy James, Simon Quarterman, and Mamie Gummer. SYNOPSIS: A young girl finds solace in her artist father and the ghost of her dead mother. In a verbally explosive argument during 2019’s Marriage Story that has been memed to death, […]

Movie Review – Things Heard & Seen (2021)

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Things Heard & Seen, 2021. Written and Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. Starring Amanda Seyfried, Karen Allen, James Norton, Natalia Dyer, Rhea Seehorn, Alex Neustaedter, James Urbaniak, Michael Abbott Jr., Jack Gore, Ana Sophia Heger, Cotter Smith, Kelcy Griffin, Emily Dorsch, Jill Dalton, Elliot Frances Flynn, Joe Lanza, Olivia Boreham-Wing, and F. […]

Comic Book Review – Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word #1

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Calum Petrie reviews Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word #1… Night City is an extremely complicated place, a city ruled by corporations and gangs, and police barely get a say in the running of things. The city is a living organism that is fuelled by economy, civilisation and crime, which is a good thing that […]

Movie Review – Tamara Drewe (2010)

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Tamara Drewe, 2010. Directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Gemma Arterton, Dominic Cooper, Roger Allam, Luke Evans and Tamsin Greig. SYNOPSIS: A glamorous newspaper journalist returns to the scene of her adolescence as her family home is put up for sale, only to cause a stir among the locals. Consensus = broad unanimity; general or widespread […]

Movie Review – Four Good Days (2021)

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Four Good Days, 2021. Directed by Rodrigo Garcia. Starring Mila Kunis, Glenn Close, Stephen Root, Joshua Leonard, Rebecca Field, Chad Lindberg, Michael Hyatt, and Sam Hennings. SYNOPSIS: A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse. Played by a disheveled and strung-out looking Mila Kunis in Four Good Days […]

Movie Review – Sleight (2016)

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Sleight, 2016. Directed by J.D. Dillard. Starring Jacob Latimore, Seychelle Gabriel, Dulé Hill, Storm Reid, Sasheer Zamata, Brandon Johnson, Cameron Esposito, and Frank Clem. SYNOPSIS: A young street magician (Jacob Latimore) is left to care for his little sister after their parents passing, and turns to illegal activities to keep a roof over their heads. […]

Movie Review – Sabotage (2014)

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Sabotage, 2014. Directed by David Ayer. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Terence Howard, Joe Manganiello, Josh Holloway, Max Martini, Harold Perrineau and Mireille Enos. SYNOPSIS: Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s post political return […]

Movie Review – Cop Out (2010)

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Cop Out, 2010. Directed by Kevin Smith. Starring Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan, Sean William-Scott and Adam Brody. SYNOPSIS: When a veteran NYPD cop’s rare baseball card – his only hope to pay for his daughter’s upcoming wedding – is stolen, he recruits his partner to track down the thief, a memorabilia-obsessed gangster. Two buddies and […]