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Movie Review – Border (2018)

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Border, 2018. Directed by Ali Abbasi. Starring Eva Melander, Eero Milonoff, Jörgen Thorsson and Sten Ljunggren. SYNOPSIS: A border guard with an unusual ability to smell when people are guilty is drawn into investigating a child pornography ring, while she also meets someone who may share her gifts. Imagine The Shape of Water, but nastier […]

TV Review – I Am the Night

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Matt Rodgers reviews I Am the Night… The television landscape is something of a battleground at the moment; Game of Thrones is looming over the horizon, and True Detective has just made a triumphant return to form with a slice of Missouri macabre. With networks jostling for position alongside the likes of Amazon (Homecoming) and […]

Supergirl Season 4 Episode 11 Review – ‘Blood Memory’

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Martin Carr reviews the eleventh episode of Supergirl season 4… This might not be Tranamerica but Blood Memory does represent a milestone for television in its inclusion of a transgender character. Nia Nal as portrayed by Nicole Maines is given backstory, dramatic purpose and moments of tangible regret throughout episode eleven, which go some way […]

Movie Review – Escape Room (2019)

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Escape Room, 2019. Directed by Adam Robitel. Starring Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, Nik Dodani, Tyler Labine and Yorick van Wageningen. SYNOPSIS: A group of unconnected people are invited to a uniquely immersive escape room experience, but soon realise that the stakes are legitimately life and death. I’ve never been to […]

Blu-ray Review – Dave Made a Maze (2017)

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Dave Made a Maze, 2017. Directed by Bill Watterson. Starring Meera Rohit Kumbhani, Nick Thune, Adam Busch, Stephanie Allynne, Scott Krinsky, and James Urbaniak. SYNOPSIS: When Dave gets lost in the cardboard labyrinth he built in his front room his friends have to go in and rescue him, encountering a strange world of cardboard monsters […]

DVD Review – One Cut of the Dead (2017)

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One Cut of the Dead, 2017. Directed by Shin’ichirô Ueda. Starring Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya. SYNOPSIS: A film crew making a zombie movie in an abandoned World War II facility are attacked by real zombies. They say you know a genre has peaked when the parodies start appearing. In the case […]

Movie Review – The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019)

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The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part, 2019. Directed by Mike Mitchell. Featuring the voice talents of Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Will Arnett, Alison Brie, Nick Offerman, Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Stephanie Beatriz, Arturo Castro, Tiffany Haddish, Jason Momoa, Gal Gadot, and Margot Robbie SYNOPSIS: It’s been five years since everything was awesome and the citizens […]

Video Game Review – FutureGrind

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Shaun Munro reviews FutureGrind… If the agonising wait for the release of Trials Rising is leaving you twitchy, the latest effort from Milkbag Games (Photobomb, Sidewords) will most certainly fill that void. Fashioned as a futuristic trial-and-error stunt-racer, FutureGrind may not do much to reinvent the genre, but it is an enticing and ludicrously addictive entry into an under-served gaming […]

Movie Review – Green Book (2018)

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Green Book, 2018. Directed by Peter Farrelly. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Dimeter Marinov, Mike Hatton and Iqbal Theba. SYNOPSIS: In the 1960s, an uncouth Italian-American gets a job as the chauffeur for a black pianist as he takes part in a tour of the Deep South. Out of nowhere, Peter Farrelly is […]