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The Good Place Season 4 Episode 4 Review – ‘Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy’

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Liam Hoofe reviews the fourth episode of The Good Place season 4…The latest episode of The Good Place wasted absolutely zero-time in answering the question posed by the cliffhanger at the end of the previous episode. As it turns out, the hooded figure headed towards The Good Place was Glenn, one of Shawn’s demon assistants […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 23 – Dreamscape (1984)

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Dreamscape, 1984.Directed by Joseph Ruben. Starring Dennis Quaid, Kate Capshaw, Max Von Sydow, David Patrick Kelly, Eddie Albert and Christopher Plummer.SYNOPSIS:Alex Gardner, a psychic, is recruited by a secret government programme in which, with the aid of technology, they can enter and influence people’s dreams in the hopes of helping the dreamers overcome their psychological […]

The Flash Season 6 Episode 3 Review – ‘Dead Man Running’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the third episode of The Flash season 6…It appears our season long villain is starting to take shape. In tonight’s episode, following an opening villain attack montage where our hulking brute effused with dark energy slaughters his former gang to find more, Team Flash (more specifically Barry and Frost) recruit Dr. Rosso […]

Movie Review – The Lighthouse (2019)

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The Lighthouse, 2019.Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Robert Pattinson, Willem Dafoe..SYNOPSIS:The hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.Very rarely does an absolutely perfect movie come along. These films are few and far between and seem to follow no specific formula for success. Robert […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 22 – The Fog (1980)

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The Fog, 1980.Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Adrienne Barbeau, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Atkins, Janet Leigh, and Hal Holbrook.SYNOPSIS:A small fishing town is enveloped by a mysterious fog, bringing with it the vengeful spirits of the mariners killed in a shipwreck 100 years prior.After omitting him from last year’s October Horrors, we’re returning to the […]

Supergirl Season 5 Episode 3 Review – ‘Blurred Lines’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Supergirl season 5…There is indecision which predominates episode three as relationships either personal or professional are neither black nor white. Much like life circumstances and outcomes are determined by multiple factors. Whether that might be an overly amorous partner, guilt ridden sibling or manipulated confidant nothing is ever […]

October Horrors 2019 Day 21 – Hereditary (2018)

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Hereditary, 2018.Directed by Ari Aster. Starring Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd and Gabriel Byrne.SYNOPSIS:After the death of her secretive mother, Annie Graham and her family are subjected to a series of increasingly horrific events that threaten destroy her and her family.The relationship between a mother and her children is often thought of […]

Batwoman Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Down Down Down’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the third episode of Batwoman…So, episode three of Batwoman and let’s take stock of where we are. Cool costume, check. Badass main star, check. Extremely overloaded cast of support characters, check. Love interest, check. Deep, layered past, check. Okay, it’s only taken Batwoman 3 episodes to pile in the mini-van of the […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers #13

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers #13…If there was any indication needed that Brian Ruckley is inching closer and closer to all-out war on Cybertron, Transformers #13 is it. Featuring a great balance of plot progression, character development and exposition, the latest issue of IDW’s reboot is nicely focused on the growing Ascenticon movement (sporting the classic Decepticon symbol) […]