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The Flash Season 5 Episode 17 Review – ‘Time Bomb’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the seventeenth episode of The Flash season 5… For some reason, I’m kinda shocked they haven’t used this episode title before… So, there are two reasons you watch this episode tonight. Let’s cover the Cicada problem first. The death of Uncle Oren. Chris Klein, while not really stretching a lot, finally got […]

SXSW 2019 Review – Booksmart

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Booksmart, 2019. Directed by Olivia Wilde. Starring Kaitlyn Dever, Beanie Feldstein, Jessica Williams, Billie Lourd, Lisa Kudrow, Will Forte and Jason Sudeikis. SYNOPSIS: Told from a wildly original, fresh and modern perspective, Booksmart is an unfiltered comedy about high school best friends and the bonds we create that last a lifetime. Capturing the spirit of […]

Video Game Review – Tom Clancy’s The Division 2

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Shaun Munro reviews Tom Clancy’s The Division 2… The “looter shooter” genre is one tailor-made to invite derision from press and players alike, if only for its stereotypical reliance on rote repetition in the pursuit of Shiny Things, while putting basic facets of gaming narrative – that is, story and character – to the back-burner. […]

Movie Review – American Poltergeist: The Curse of Lilith Ratchet (2018)

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American Poltergeist: The Curse of Lilith Ratchet, 2018. Written and Directed by Eddie Lengyel. Starring KateLynn E. Newberry, Rob Jaeger, Roger Conners and Angela Cole. SYNOPSIS: Alice and her best friend Lauren inadvertently set a hellish curse in motion after surprisingly acquiring a mysterious shrunken head. Wanting to know more about their fiendish find, they […]

Video Game Review – The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame

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Calum Petrie reviews The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame… The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame is loosely based upon the new film by Mike Mitchell and the follow-up to the massively successful The LEGO Movie. The game lets you back into the shoes of Emmett and Lucy as they are tasked with events that are nothing like […]

Doom Patrol Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Paw Patrol’

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Hasitha Fernando reviews the fifth episode of Doom Patrol season 1… Things are looking rather bleak for our rag-tag band of misfits. The Cult of the Unwritten Book succeeds in their task of unleashing the De-creator; a perpetually glowing eye which gradually disintegrates all things in existence. Cliff and Crazy Jane are trapped in the […]

Movie Review – Flay (2019)

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Flay, 2019. Directed by Eric Pham. Starring Elle LaMont, Dalton E. Gray, A. Michael Baldwin, Johnny Walter, Violett Beane, and Jordan LeuVoy. SYNOPSIS: Following her mother’s death, an estranged daughter struggles to save her brother and others from Flay, an evil Native American spirit that is definitely not the Slender Man. Where do we begin […]

Movie Review – The White Crow (2018)

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The White Crow, 2018. Directed by Ralph Fiennes. Starring Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Louis Hofmann, Chulpan Khamatova, Sergei Polunin, Raphaël Personnaz, Aleksey Morozov, Nebojsa Dugalic, Anna Urban and Anastasiya Meskova. SYNOPSIS: The story of Rudolf Nureyev’s defection to the West. The White Crow is a well-crafted piece, from writer David Hare and director […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers #1

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers #1… For the first time in nearly 15 years, IDW has begun a new continuity for its Transformers comic book franchise. Beginning in the pre-war days of Cybertron, Brian Ruckely sets out to examine the start of the conflict between Autobots and Decepticons with fresh eyes in both a literal and figurative sense. […]