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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. […]

Movie Review – Triple Frontier (2019)

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Triple Frontier, 2019. Directed by J.C. Chandor Starring Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Pedro Pascal, Garrett Hedlund, Adria Arjona, Sheila Vand and Reynaldo Gallegos. SYNOPSIS: A group of ex-soldiers team-up to take down a Latin drug lord and plan to take his money but numerous complications soon arise. Director J.C. Chandor and actor Oscar […]

Star Wars Resistance Season 1 Episode 20 Review – ‘No Escape, Part I’

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Ricky Church reviews the twentieth episode of Star Wars Resistance season 1… With Kaz and Neeku on the run, Yeager and Tam captured and the Colossus on a full-lock down as it remains submerged, the first part of Star Wars Resistance‘s finale was already quite high in tension. However, ‘No Escape: Part One’ wasn’t quite as […]