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Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Dragged Across Concrete

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Dragged Across Concrete, 2019. Directed by S. Craig Zahler. Starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden, Fred Melamed, Thomas Kretschmann, and Don Johnson. SYNOPSIS:  When two cops are suspended after a leaked video of their strong-arm tactics spreads in the media, they descend into the criminal underworld to […]

Happy Death Day 2U resurrects the dying slasher genre

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EJ Moreno on Happy Death Day 2U and the slasher genre… It might sound a little hyperbolic, but Happy Death Day and its new sequel Happy Death Day 2U are bringing new life into a tired genre like slashers. And this is coming from someone who loves everything from Sleepaway Camp to the classic Halloween. […]

Video Game Review – The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia

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Red Stewart reviews The Textorcist: The Story of Ray Bibbia… The Textorcist was one of those video games I wanted to play solely because of the title. I’ve never been huge into shmups or even 8-bit games, but sometimes a developer comes up with such a unique name for their project that it warrants being experienced […]

Movie Review – Abduction 101 (2018)

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Abduction 101, 2018. Directed by Robin Entreinger. Starring Brianna Shewbert Rouse, Nixi Oblivion, Adrienne Stone, Luna Labelle and Kayla Kilby. SYNOPSIS: We all know the story: three women find a strange house within the woods. But what the women discover inside is only the beginning of a heinous nightmare. “Show, don’t tell.” That’s the first phrase that […]

Star Wars Resistance Season 1 Episode 17 Review – ‘The Core Problem’

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Ricky Church reviews the seventeenth episode of Star Wars Resistance… ‘The Core Problem’ took a very interesting leap forward for Star Wars Resistance. Not only was it an intriguing episode on its own as Kaz and Poe Dameron investigated some strange First Order activity, but we can now say we have crossed over into The Force Awakens territory. […]

Movie Review – Capernaum (2018)

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Capernaum, 2018. Directed by Nadine Labaki. Starring Zain Al Rafeea, Yordanos Shiferaw, Kawthar Al Haddad, Fadi Kamel Youssef, Nour el Husseini, Alaa Chouchnieh and Boluwatife Treasure Bankole. SYNOPSIS: A 12-year-old boy decides to sue his parents for giving birth to him, in the wake of his incarceration for a violent assault. When translated into English, […]

Gotham Season 5 Episode 6 Review – ’13 Stitches’

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Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Gotham season 5… Denizens are crawling from beneath the city dragging their underbellies towards a light which is getting further away. Smog coated, derelict and beyond redemption Gotham sits on the precipice of damnation, as principal players continue teaming up in increasingly insane ways. Madness for everyone is […]

Doom Patrol Season 1 Episode 1 Review

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Hasitha Fernando reviews the first episode of Doom Patrol… Doom Patrol first made their comic book debut on the summer of 1963. Co-created by writers Arnold Drake and Bob Haney with artist Bruno Premiani, it was published by DC Comics in the same period Marvel Comics launched X-Men. Suffering a premature death in the next […]