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Star Wars Resistance Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘The Platform Classic’

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Ricky Church reviews the ninth episode of Star Wars Resistance… After devoting the past few episodes to the First Order and pirate attacks, Star Wars Resistance has at last gone back to one of its central elements: racing. ‘The Platform Classic’ revolved around a popular race held by the Colossus in a pretty entertaining sequence, but beneath […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: The Wreckers Saga

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: The Wreckers Saga… Over the years of the Transformers franchise, there have been plenty of Autobots and Decepticons who have often gotten the short end of the stick in its many iterations. Plenty of bots on both sides just haven’t been fleshed out or fully explored, leaving a lot of room for potential […]

Comic Book Review – Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying #3

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Calum Petrie reviews Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying #3… The ongoing adventure in Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying appears to drag the titular characters back through the misery of their past, where the times of their greatest failures and weaknesses are being thrust upon them again, only to torment and provoke them. The latest issue […]

Movie Review – Disobedience (2018)

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Disobedience, 2018. Directed by Sebastián Lelio. Starring Rachel Weisz, Rachel McAdams, Allesandro Nivola, Allan Corduner, Anton Lesser, and Nicholas Woodison. SYNOPSIS: Ostracised from her Orthodox Jewish community in London for her relationship with a childhood friend, Ronit Krushka (Rachel Weisz) returns from New York to attend a family funeral, and in doing so reignites the prejudice and […]

Blu-ray Review – Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3

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Brad Cook reviews Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3… SYNOPSIS: Pixar has scooped up the shorts they’ve released since 2012 for a new Blu-ray release called Pixar Short Films Collection Volume 3. They’ve included 13 short films – a mix of theatrical releases and shorts issued elsewhere – along with a pair of brief featurettes […]

Movie Review – Creed II (2018)

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Creed II, 2018. Directed by Steven Caple Jr. Starring Michael B. Jordan, Sylvester Stallone, Tessa Thompson, Florian Munteanu, Phylicia Rashad, Russell Hornsby, Dolph Lundgren, Wood Harris, Robbie Johns, Andre Ward, Brigitte Nielsen, and Milo Ventimiglia. SYNOPSIS: Under the tutelage of Rocky Balboa, light heavyweight contender Adonis Creed faces off against Viktor Drago, son of Ivan […]

Video Game Review – Battlefield V

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Andy Naylor reviews Battlefield V… After a delay, Twitter fury at the debut trailer, weird staged releases that still don’t make any sense to me and, most importantly, huge anticipation, Battlefield V has arrived on PC, Xbox One and PS4. First impressions you ask? I’m impressed. Very impressed. To the point that I’m sat here […]

Comic Book Review – Optimus Prime #25

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Ricky Church reviews Optimus Prime #25… The end has come as Optimus Prime #25 serves not just as a conclusion to the series and an epilogue to Unicron, but to IDW’s Transformers continuity as a whole. Running from 2005 to now, the IDW universe has had its highs and lows while reshaping familiar elements of the franchise and putting entirely new […]

Second Opinion – The Christmas Chronicles (2018)

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The Christmas Chronicles, 2018. Directed by Clay Kaytis. Starring Kurt Russell, Darby Camp, Judah Lewis, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Martin Roach, Lamorne Morris, and Oliver Hudson. SYNOPSIS: The story of sister and brother, Kate and Teddy Pierce, whose Christmas Eve plan to catch Santa Claus on camera turns into an unexpected journey that most kids could only dream […]