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Movie Review – Get Gone (2020)

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Get Gone. 2020. Directed by Michael Thomas Daniel. Starring Lin Shaye, Robert Miano, Rico E. Anderson, Weston Cage Coppola, Bailey Coppola, and Cory Crouser. SYNOPSIS: A hoax busting group goes on a team-building retreat to Whiskey Flats, OR and runs into trouble as they cross paths with an invasive drilling company that is warring with […]

Movie Review – The Grudge (2020)

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The Grudge, 2020. Directed by Nicolas Pesce. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Lin Shaye, Jacki Weaver, Betty Gilpin, William Sadler, Frankie Faison, Nancy Sorel, Tara Westwood, and Joel Garland. SYNOPSIS: A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Horror reboots engender sceptical expectations […]

DVD Review – Leatherface (2017)

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Leatherface, 2017. Directed by Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury. Starring Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor, Sam Strike, Vanessa Grasse, Sam Coleman, James Bloor, Christopher Adamson, Jessica Madsen, and Dimo Alexiev. SYNOPSIS: Prequel to Tobe Hooper’s classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, detailing how demented killer Leatherface came to be… again. Of all the major horror franchises, […]

Book Review – A Guide to ZX Spectrum Games 1982 to 1984

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Villordsutch reviews A Guide to ZX Spectrum Games 1982 to 1984…. There’s an increase in love for all things retrogaming emerging across the globe, and at the same time there is also appearing a large number of books chronicling the history of the machines and the games of the past.  Of course the greatest machine to […]

Video Game Review – The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

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Shaun Munro reviews The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners… It’s fair to say that truly AAA VR experiences are frustratingly few-and-far-between even with VR now being a well-established tangent to traditional “flat” gaming. The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is the latest title to promise a full-fat VR experience and, mercifully, one of the few […]

Comic Book Review – Best of 2000 AD #1

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews Best of 2000 AD #1… It’s been said about the Big 2, DC and Marvel, and it’s been said about Britain’s 2000 AD. All three publishers have been telling stories for decades. Find a character amongst their titles that you like and numerous possibilities for further reading emerge. Too many options can […]

Movie Review – Zombi Child (2020)

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Zombi Child. 2020. Directed by Bertrand Bonello. Starring Louise Labeque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Milfort, Mackenson Bijou, Adilé David, Ninon François, Mathilde Riu, Ginite Popote, and Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey. SYNOPSIS: Haiti, 1962. A man is brought back from the dead to work in the hell of sugar cane plantations. 55 years later, a Haitian teenager tells her […]

Movie Review – The Last Full Measure (2020)

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The Last Full Measure, 2020. Written and Directed by Todd Robinson Starring Sebastian Stan, Christopher Plummer, William Hurt, Ed Harris, Samuel L. Jackson, Jeremy Irvine, Peter Fonda, Bradley Whitford, Alison Sudol, John Savage, Diane Ladd, Linus Roache, Max Gail, Byron Mann, Michael Imperioli, Zach Roerig, Amy Madigan, LisaGay Hamilton, Cody Walker, Ser’Darius Blain, Dale Dye, […]

Movie Review – The Turning (2020)

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The Turning, 2020. Directed by Floria Sigismondi Starring Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Mark Huberman, Niall Greig Fulton, Barbara Marten, Denna Thomsen, and Karen Egan SYNOPSIS: A young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after their parents’ deaths. A modern take on Henry James’ […]

Movie Review – The Grudge (2020)

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The Grudge, 2020. Directed by Nicolas Pesce. Starring Andrea Riseborough, Demián Bichir, John Cho, Lin Shaye, Jacki Weaver, Betty Gilpin, William Sadler, Frankie Faison, Nancy Sorel, Tara Westwood, and Joel Garland. SYNOPSIS: A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death. Within the first 10 minutes […]