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DVD Review – Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016)

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Score: A Film Music Documentary, 2016. Directed by Matt Schrader. Featuring Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, James Cameron, Trent Reznor, Quincy Jones, and Howard Shore. SYNOPSIS: A documentary detailing the role of the film score and the people who create them. Reviewing a documentary can often be a futile exercise, more often than not […]

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 15 Review – ‘Rise and Shine’

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Danny Hale reviews the fifteenth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5…   ‘Rise and Shine’ took us 28 years into General Hale’s past, shedding light on her training and education among HYDRA’s finest while also giving us an early look at some of the big HYDRA names in the MCU. This was a […]

Comic Book Review – Doomsday Clock #4

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Ricky Church reviews Doomsday Clock #4… Its been a long couple of months since Doomsday Clock switched to a bi-monthly schedule, but the latest issue of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s series has arrived. While Doomsday Clock #4 didn’t contain a whole lot of action or answers to what’s going on in the DC universe, this issue was a […]

Second Opinion – Ghost Stories (2017)

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Ghost Stories, 2017. Directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. Starring Andy Nyman, Martin Freeman, Paul Whitehouse, and Alex Lawther. SYNOPSIS: Arch sceptic Professor Phillip Goodman embarks upon a terror-filled quest when he stumbles across a long-lost file containing details of three cases of inexplicable ‘hauntings’. I have a real soft spot for anthology horror […]

Movie Review – Midnight Sun (2018)

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Midnight Sun, 2018. Directed by Scott Speer. Starring Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Quinn Shephard, Ken Tremblett, and Rob Riggle. SYNOPSIS: A 17-year-old girl suffers from a condition that prevents her from being out in the sunlight. Realistically speaking, myself and probably all critics are not the target demographic for an unapologetically melodramatic romance involving teenagers […]

Movie Review – Duck Duck Goose (2018)

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Duck Duck Goose, 2018. Directed by Christopher Jenkins. Starring Jim Gaffigan, Zendaya, Lance Lim, Greg Proops, Natasha Leggero, Stephen Fry, Craig Ferguson and Carl Reiner. SYNOPSIS: A bachelor goose must form a bond with two lost ducklings as they journey south. When a movie’s opening minute features a poo joke, a butthole joke and a Twitter […]

Young Sheldon Season 1 Episode 16 Review – ‘Killer Asteroids, Oklahoma, and a Frizzy Hair Machine’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixteenth episode of Young Sheldon… Versatility in a comedy actor is essential but few are ever given the opportunity to showcase that talent ironically. However just such a thing occurs this week in an episode which is both whimsical, emotive and situationally comedic. Rumour has it that Iain Armitage might well […]

Gotham Season 4 Episode 16 Review – ‘One of My Three Soups’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixteenth episode of Gotham season 4… Jim Gordon is fast developing a legacy of wrong doing for the right reasons in Gotham. A millstone of questionable choices, criminal allegiances and circumstantial petty felonies haunt his every step. Kept in check by a morally flexible partner with the goods on him Gordon […]

Movie Review – Ready Player One (2018)

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Ready Player One, 2018. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenna Grace, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, and Philip Zhao. SYNOPSIS: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he […]