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Movie Review – 12 Strong (2018)

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12 Strong, 2018. Directed by Nicolai Fuglsig Starring Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Navid Negahban, Trevante Rhodes, Geoff Stults, Thad Luckinbill, Austin Stowell, Ben O’Toole, Austin Hebert, Kenneth Miller, Kenny Sheard, Jack Kesy, Elsa Pataki, William Fichtner, Rob Riggle, Laith Nakli, Fahim Fazli, and Numan Acar. SYNOPSIS:: 12 Strong tells the story of the […]

Movie Review – Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

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Maze Runner: The Death Cure, 2018. Directed by Wes Ball. Starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Aidan Gillen, Will Poulter, Rosa Salazar, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Ki Hong Lee, Katherine McNamara, Walton Goggins, Nathalie Emmanuel, Barry Pepper, Jacob Lofland, Dexter Darden, Paul Lazenby, and Patricia Clarkson. SYNOPSIS: Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a […]

Comic Book Review – WWE #13

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Liam Hoofe reviews Boom! Studios’ WWE#13… Like the recent Royal Rumble Special, the first thing you will notice about WWE #13, the latest in Boom! Studios’ WWE series is that a superstar’s name is listed on the front cover. Following in AJ Styles’ footsteps, Samoa Joe has penned a story about his own debut in […]

Blu-ray Review – Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

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Blade Runner 2049, 2017. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks, Robin Wright, Dave Bautista, Mackenzie Davis, Carla Juri, David Dastmalchian, Barkhad Abdi, Lennie James, and Jared Leto. SYNOPSIS: A young blade runner’s discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, […]

Movie Review – The Final Year (2017)

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The Final Year, 2017. Directed by Greg Barker. Featuring Barack Obama, John Kerry, Samantha Power and Ben Rhodes. SYNOPSIS: A documentary offering an insider’s account of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team during their last year in office at The White House.  This behind the scenes view reveals the inner workings of the Obama administration […]

Marvel’s The Gifted Season 1 Episodes 12 & 13 Review – ‘eXtraction/X-roads’

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews the two-hour season finale of Marvel’s The Gifted… If TV shows were poker games, The Gifted just went all in for their two-hour season finale. A kidnapping became an assassination over the course of two hours. The Mutant Underground’s headquarters got leveled in two hours and, in that disorienting moment of picking up […]

Video Game Review – InnerSpace

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Shaun Munro reviews InnerSpace… InnerSpace is the debut effort from PolyKnight Games, a flight-exploration game which began development following a successful Kickstarter campaign back in 2014. While undeniably rough around the edges, the game’s enticing art-style, free-wheeling “do what you like” gameplay and ethereal musical score did nevertheless make most of my time with it both relaxing and enjoyable. Like […]

Movie Review – The Post (2017)

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The Post, 2017. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jesse Plemons, Alison Brie and Matthew Rhys. SYNOPSIS: In the early 70s, the Washington Post discovers an extensive cover-up spanning four US Presidents.  The decision to publish what became known as The Pentagon […]

Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 11 Review – ‘The Wolf Inside’

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Alex Moreland reviews the eleventh episode of  Star Trek: Discovery… Can you hide your heart? Can you bury your decency? Can you continue to pretend to be one of them? Even as, little by little, it kills the person you really are. It’s something that I touched on briefly in my review of last week’s […]