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Movie Review – The Open House (2018)

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The Open House, 2018. Directed by Matt Angel and Suzanne Coote. Starring Dylan Minnette, Piercey Dalton, Sharif Atkins, and Patricia Bethune. SYNOPSIS: A teenager and his mother find themselves besieged by threatening forces when they move into a new house. Proving that January isn’t merely a dumping ground for Hollywood’s most rancid theatrical releases, Netflix’s generically-monikered The Open House […]

Movie Review – The Misguided (2017)

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The Misguided, 2017. Directed by Shannon Alexander. Starring Katherine Langford, Anna Philp, Caleb Galati, Athan Bellos, Steven J. Mihaljevich, Clay Foster, Kirstie Francis and Jasmine Nibali. SYNOPSIS: After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation. Filmmaker Shannon […]

Video Game Review – Nightmare Boy

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Scott Watson reviews Nightmare Boy… Take a strong pinch of Terry Gilliam’s unique storytelling, a healthy does of Guillermo del Toro’s at times extraordinary fantasia, and chuck it in the mixing pot with a metroidvania style old-school influenced 2D scroller come platformer and you may think you’re on to a winner with Nightmare Boy on […]

Movie Review – Curse of the Witch’s Doll (2018)

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Curse of the Witch’s Doll, 2018. Written and Directed by Lawrence Fowler. Starring Helen Crevel, Philip Ridout, and Layla Watts. SYNOPSIS: After a series of inexplicable events, Adeline Gray believes a haunted doll possesses the soul of a vengeful Witch. To have any hope of being reunited with her missing daughter, she knows she must […]

Video Game Review – The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: Xbox One Edition

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Calum Petrie reviews The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: Xbox One Edition… Upon the original release of the game in 2014, The Vanishing of Ethan Carter was both praised and ridiculed for its simplicity. The game was labelled a “walking simulator” due to the bare bones investigation and traversal around the game’s luscious and outstanding vistas. […]

Comic Book Review – Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – Hera

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – Hera… Since Star Wars Rebels premiered, Hera Syndulla has become a fan-favourite character and an important figure in the early days of the Rebellion. The latest in IDW’s Forces of Destiny series focuses on Hera as she continues spreading hope and resistance across the galaxy, telling a short story of […]

Second Opinion – Den of Thieves (2018)

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Den of Thieves, 2018. Directed by Christian Gudegast. Starring Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Pablo Schreiber, Evan Jones, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Dawn Olivieri, Brian Van Holt, Jordan Bridges, Eric Braeden, Maurice Compte, Sonya Balmores, Cooper Andrews, Meadow Williams, Kaiwi Lyman, Jay Dobyns, Nick Loeb, Mo McRae, and Jermaine Rivers. SYNOPSIS: A gritty crime saga […]

Comic Book Review – Optimus Prime #15

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Ricky Church reviews Optimus Prime #15… The big threat IDW has been building up in Optimus Prime and Transformers: Till All Are One has arrived as Onyx Prime comes to Cybertron with an apparently captured Liege Maximo in tow. Two of the biggest threats they’ve faced in the last year showing up at the same time is not a […]

Video Game Review – Nantucket

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Red Stewart reviews Nantucket… When I first saw the concept for Nantucket, I admit I was quite piqued. As someone who enjoyed the literary classic Moby-Dick, here was a game that, on the outset, took Herman Melville’s epic and combined it with a good old-fashioned graphic adventure. Unfortunately, the experience I got from playing it ended up […]