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Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 5 Review – ‘The Bells’

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Eammon Jacobs reviews the fifth episode of Game of Thrones season 8… *Spoiler Warning* The Great War may have been won, but the Last War is here – and it’s no longer a fight of good versus evil. It’s always been said that Game of Thrones would have a bittersweet ending and the penultimate episode just […]

Movie Review – What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2018)

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What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, 2018 Directed by Ira Steven Behr and David Zappone Featuring Nana Visitor, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Terry Farrell, Michael Dorn, Colm Meaney, Cirroc Lofton, and Armin Shimerman Deep Space Nine is considered the “dark Star Trek.” Ask most any Trek fan and you’ll […]

Movie Review – Arctic (2018)

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Arctic, 2018. Directed by Joe Penna. Starring Mads Mikkelsen, María Thelma and Tintrinai Thikhasuk. SYNOPSIS: A man stranded in the Arctic after a helicopter crash must decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his makeshift camp or to embark on a deadly trek through the unknown. Extreme survival stories are nothing new when […]

Blu-ray Review – Yakuza Law (1969)

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Yakuza Law, 1969. Directed by Teruo Ishii. Starring Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Bunta Sugawara, Minoru Ôki, and Renji Ishibashi. SYNOPSIS: Three short stories detailing how the Yakuza dealt with those who broke the rules during different eras of Japanese history. According to one character in Yakuza Law there are two essential rules that Yakuza warriors live by […]

Video Game Review – World of Warships: Legends

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Andrew Newton reviews World of Warships: Legends… World of Tanks has been a phenomenal success on consoles and gained millions of fans so it seems only natural that Wargaming’s World of Warships has also sailed onto the Xbox One and PS4.  Naval combat games are in short supply and with a variety of different classes […]

Movie Review – The Hustle (2019)

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The Hustle, 2019. Directed by Chris Addison. Starring Rebel Wilson, Anne Hathaway, Tim Blake Nelson, Alex Sharp, Ingrid Oliver, and Emma Davies. SYNOPSIS: Two scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, team up to take down the dirty rotten men who have wronged them. Of all the “gender-flipped” movies released recently, The Hustle […]

Movie Review – Crisis Hotline (2019)

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Crisis Hotline, 2019. Directed by Mark Schwab. Starring Mike Mizwicki, Pano Tsaklas, Corey Jackson, August Browning, Christopher Fung, Christian Gabriel, and Michael Champlin. SYNOPSIS: An employee at a LGBT crisis hotline receives a disturbing phone call from a man who is claiming he is going to commit suicide after he has told his story of […]

Movie Review – Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)

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Pokémon: Detective Pikachu, 2019. Directed by Rob Letterman. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Justice Smith, Kathryn Newton, Bill Nighy, Ken Watanabe, Chris Geere, Suki Waterhouse, Josette Simon, Rita Ora, Karan Soni, Diplo, Omar Chaparro, and Rob Delaney. SYNOPSIS: In a world where people collect Pokémon to do battle, a boy comes across an intelligent talking Pikachu who […]

Movie Review – Wine Country (2019)

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Wine Country, 2019. Directed by Amy Poehler Starring Maya Rudolph, Rachel Dratch, Ana Gasteyer, Paula Pell, Emily Spivey, Jason Schwartzman and Tina Fey. SYNOPSIS: When a group of longtime girlfriends goes to Napa for the weekend to celebrate their friend’s 50th birthday, tensions from the past boil over. Though Netflix’s self-branded slate of “Originals” continues […]