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Movie Review – Why Don’t You Just Die! (2018)

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Why Don’t You Just Die!, 2018. Directed by Kirill Sokolov. Starring Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Michael Gor, Elena Shevchenko, and Igor Grabuzov. SYNOPSIS: Andrey, a detective and the world’s most horrible father brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop. […]

Video Game Review – The Complex

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Shaun Munro reviews The Complex… Wales Interactive, the outfit behind the BAFTA-winning interactive movie/video game Late Shift, returns to the experimental genre with their promising new sci-fi outing The Complex. Yet despite offering up a ripped-from-the-headlines tale riffing on both chemical warfare and corporate subterfuge – and being penned by The Handmaid’s Tale‘s Lynn Renee Maxcy, […]

Movie Review – The Beast (2019)

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The Beast, 2019. Directed by Jung-Ho Lee. Starring Sung-min Lee, Jae-myung Yoo, Jeon Hye-jin, and Daniel Choi. SYNOPSIS: A pair of detectives find themselves in competition with each other as they race to solve the brutal murder of a schoolgirl. Thanks to the runaway success of Bong Joon Ho’s awards magnet Parasite, it seems that […]

Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7 Episode 6 Review – ‘Deal No Deal’

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Ricky Church reviews the sixth episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7… Ahsoka Tano’s journey into the underworld of Coruscant took a pretty interesting turn as she travelled offworld with Trace and Rafa on a big scheme hatched by the elder sister. For an episode that didn’t feature any action, ‘Deal No Deal’ […]

Movie Review – Vivarium (2019)

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Vivarium, 2019. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Jonathan Aris, Senan Jennings, and Eanna Hardwicke. SYNOPSIS: A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. Can someone please check on Lorcan Finnegan? Vivarium is as subtle as the asteroid’s intentions in Armageddon. […]

Star Trek: Picard Season 1 Finale Review – ‘Et in Arcadia – Part II’

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Martin Carr reviews the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Picard… Beyond the battles this season one finale carries weight, imbues pathos and carries a universal message more valuable now than ever. Character moments, dramatic resolution and nail biting scenarios become the secondary window dressing for something more resonant. A universal understanding which transcends cultural […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers vs. Terminator #1

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers vs. Terminator #1… A new Transformers crossover has begun and this time the Transformers are facing down another set of popular sci-fi robotic villains in Transformers vs. Terminator #1. The idea of Autobots and Decepticons fighting T-800s and Skynet is rife with potential that writers John Barber and David Mariotte not only fulfill, […]

Movie Review – Vivarium (2019)

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Vivarium, 2019. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Eanna Hardwicke, Jonathan Aris, and Senan Jennings. SYNOPSIS: A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses. Maybe the American dream is a nightmare in disguise. That seems to be the point Vivarium (directed […]

Movie Review – Vivarium (2019)

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Vivarium, 2019. Directed by Lorcan Finnegan. Starring Imogen Poots, Jesse Eisenberg, Senan Jennings, Jonathan Aris and Eanna Hardwicke. SYNOPSIS: When a couple visits a strange, suburban housing development, they find themselves trapped within the confines of its eerily silent, identical streets. The notion of setting a twisted satire in the American suburbs is, by now, […]