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Movie Review – Batman Ninja (2018)

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Batman Ninja, 2018. Directed by Junpei Mizusaki Featuring the voice talents of Roger Craig Smith, Yuri Lowenthal, Adam Croasdell, Will Friedle, Grey Griffin, Tony Hale, Tara Strong, Eric Bauza, Tom Kenny, and Fred Tatasciore. SYNOPSIS: Batman, along with a number of his allies and adversaries, finds himself transplanted from modern Gotham City to feudal Japan. For […]

Supergirl Season 3 Episode 18 Review – ‘Shelter from the Storm’

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Martin Carr reviews the eighteenth episode of Supergirl season 3… There are no Dylanesque overtones to this episode whatever that tagline might suggest. For the occupants of National City there will be no ‘Shelter from the Storm’ as Reign goes on a rampage looking for that final shred of humanity keeping Sam alive. However beneath […]

Video Game Review – Laser League

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Shaun Munro reviews Laser League… While calling any multiplayer sports title “the next Rocket League” is clearly intended as a term of endearment by fans and critics alike, it can have the unfortunate consequence of dooming a game to fall short of lofty, misplaced expectations (case in point, last year’s solid-but-already-forgotten Disc Jam). Though Laser League perhaps invites […]

Movie Review – On Chesil Beach (2017)

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On Chesil Beach (2017) Directed by Dominic Cooke Starring Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Sam West, Emily Watson, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough and Bebe Cave. SYNOPSIS: It’s the early 1960s and newly-married couple, Florence and Edward, have arrived to spend their first night together at a hotel near Chesil Beach in Dorset.  Their first attempt at […]

Movie Review – Island Zero (2017)

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Island Zero, 2017. Directed by Josh Gerritsen. Starring Laila Robins, Adam Wade McLaughlin, Terri Reeves, Matthew Wilkas, and Elaine Landry. SYNOPSIS : A remote island off the coast of Maine, USA, finds itself cut off from the mainland when communications fail, and the ferry fails to appear. Then people start to disappear too, and the […]

Blu-ray Review – Rawhead Rex (1986)

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Rawhead Rex, 1986. Directed by George Pavlou. Starring David Dukes, Kelly Piper, Hugh O’Conor, Ronan Wilmot, John Olohan, and Heinrich von Schellendorf. SYNOPSIS: A farmer unleashes a demon known as Rawhead Rex, who proceeds to go on the rampage across rural Ireland. There is an unwritten rule in horror filmmaking that you don’t reveal your […]

Young Sheldon Season 1 Finale Review – ‘Vanilla Ice-Cream, Gentleman Callers, and a Dinette’

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Martin Carr reviews the season finale of Young Sheldon… Taking quirky up a notch by focusing on the dessert choices of physicist Richard Fineman before seguing into courtship rituals amongst Texan widows, Young Sheldon maintains its batting average. Employing off beat character moments there is unintentional humour by way of intellectual awkwardness and an emotional […]

Blu-ray Review – The Bloodthirsty Trilogy

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The Bloodthirsty Trilogy Box Set Directed by Michio Yamamoto. Starring Kayo Matsuo, Akira Nakao, Atsuo Nakamura, Shin Kishida, Midori Fujita, Chôei Takahashi, Sanae Emi, Toshio Kurosawa, and Yukiko Kobayashi. SYNOPSIS: Blu-ray box set of three Hammer-inspired Japanese vampire movies from the 1970s. Made by Japan’s legendary Toho Studios – the company responsible for, amongst others, […]

Book Review – Bonfire by Krysten Ritter

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Michelle Herbert reviews Bonfire by Krysten Ritter… Bonfire starts with Abby returning to her hometown of Barrens. Abby is now working for an environmental advocacy firm and is returning to Barrens to see if the town’s main employer, Optimal, is polluting the town’s water. Abby is still dealing with a lot of trauma from her […]