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Movie Review – Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)

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Black Mirror: Bandersnatch, 2018. Directed by David Slade. Starring Fionn Whitehead, Will Poulter, Asim Chaudhry, Craig Parkinson, Alice Lowe, Tallulah Haddon, Laura Evelyn, Catriona Knox, Jonathan Aris, Paul Bradley, Alan Asaad, Suzanne Burden and Jeff Minter. SYNOPSIS: A young programmer makes a fantasy novel into a game for a big company. Trying to keep his […]

Movie Review – Colette (2018)

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Colette, 2018. Directed by Wash Westmoreland. Starring Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Fiona Shaw, Denise Gough, Sloan Thompson, Arabella Weir, and Robert Pugh. SYNOPSIS: Plucked from her childhood home in the French countryside by notorious Parisian writer, Willy (Dominic West), Colette (Keira Knightley) becomes a ghost-writer for her husband. In doing so she creates a bestselling […]

TV Review – Netflix’s You

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Eammon Jacobs reviews Netflix’s You… If there’s one thing Netflix do brilliantly, it’s knowing how to get audiences to binge an entire series at once. One of their latest offerings (released on Boxing Day no less) takes the stereotypical tropes found in romantic comedies, and violently flips them on their head. You follows Joe Goldberg (Gossip […]

Comic Book Review – The Man of Steel by Brian Michael Bendis

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Ricky Church reviews The Man of Steel by Brian Michael Bendis… One of DC’s biggest coups of the last year was gaining superstar and fan-favourite writer Brian Michael Bendis to work on their oldest and most reverent superhero, Superman. Bendis is taking over on both Superman and Action Comics, but before his tenure on those flagship titles […]

Movie Review – Holmes & Watson (2018)

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Holmes & Watson, 2018. Directed by Etan Cohen. Starring Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, Rebecca Hall, Rob Brydon, Steve Coogan, Ralph Fiennes and Braun Strowman. SYNOPSIS: A “humorous” take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. If the litmus test for a solid Sherlock Holmes spoof is the absence of […]

TV Review – Sunderland ‘Til I Die

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Liam Hoofe reviews Netflix’s Sunderland ‘Til I Die… Back in August, Amazon Prime released their critically acclaimed All or Nothing: Manchester City which documented the titular team’s record-breaking Premier League season, providing an interesting insight into Pep Guardiola and all of the players. Not to be outdone, Netflix were also busy filming their own football […]

Blu-ray Review – Final Score (2018)

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Final Score, 2018. Directed by Scott Mann. Starring Dave Bautista, Pierce Brosnan, Lara Peake, Ray Stevenson, Martyn Ford, Alexandra Dinu, Craig Conway, Amit Shah, and Ralph Brown. SYNOPSIS: A former soldier must rescue his niece when the football stadium they are in is taken over by terrorists. Remember that time back in the late ’80s/early […]

Blu-ray Review – The Cooler (2003)

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The Cooler, 2003. Directed by Wayne Kramer. Starring William H. Macy, Maria Bello, Alec Baldwin, Paul Sorvino, M.C. Gainey, Ron Livingston, Shawn Hatosy, and Arthur J. Nascarella. SYNOPSIS: An unlucky casino ‘cooler’ working to pay off a debt to his brutal boss falls in love with a waitress but his boss won’t let him be […]

Movie Review – Bumblebee (2018)

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Bumblebee, 2018. Directed by Travis Knight. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Dylan O’Brien, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Cena, Angela Bassett, Justin Theroux, John Ortiz, Peter Cullen, Jess Harnell, Jason Drucker, Abby Quinn, Rachel Crow, Ricardo Hoyos, Gracie Dzienny, Kenneth Choi, Pamela Adlon, Stephen Schneider, Grey Griffin, Steve Blum, Marcella Bragio, Andrew Morgado, David Sobolov, Jon Bailey, Megyn […]