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DVD Review – The Bouncer (2018)

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The Bouncer, 2018.Directed by Julien Leclercq. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Sami Bouajila, Sveva Alviti, Kevin Janssens, and Sam Louwyck.SYNOPSIS:An ageing bouncer struggles to raise his 8-year-old daughter when he becomes involved with the criminal underworld.Another year, another direct-to-DVD release starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, the craggy-faced Muscles from Brussels whose career went to the ‘I’m Too […]

American Gods Season 2 Episode 5 Review – ‘The Ways of the Dead’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of American Gods season 2…Carnal coupling New Orleans style awaits the seasoned watcher and newbie alike as Nordic folklore combines with a smattering of voodoo infused racial histrionics. Flaming heads talking in present day moments of acid trip clarity sit alongside bullet wound imagery, laughing lynch mobs and bickering […]

Movie Review – Pet Sematary (2019)

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Pet Sematary, 2019.Directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer. Starring Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, Jeté Laurence, Obssa Ahmed, Alyssa Brooke Levine, Sonia Maria Chirila, Hugo Lavoie, Lucas Lavoie, and John Lithgow. SYNOPSIS:Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discover a mysterious burial […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two – Vol. 8

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two – Vol. 8…While IDW has started a new Transformers series with a fresh continuity, the publisher is still releasing its previous series in deluxe format with Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two – Vol. 8. Collecting several issues from Transformers, More Than Meets The Eye, the Drift: Empire of Stone […]

Video Game Review – Dangerous Driving

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Shaun Munro reviews Dangerous Driving…EA’s refusal to give Burnout fans another entry into the beloved arcade racer series has left something of a gap in the market over the last decade, and one that curiously few developers have actually attempted to fill.Enter Three Fields Entertainment, then, a small developmental outfit founded by several former employees of […]

Movie Review – Mid90s (2018)

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Mid90s, 2018.Directed by Jonah Hill. Starring Sunny Suljic, Na-Kel Smith, Olan Prenatt, Ryder McLaughlin, Gio Galicia, Lucas Hedges, Katherine Waterston and Alexa Demie.SYNOPSIS:A 13-year-old kid desperate for attention finds himself welcomed into a group of skateboarders in 90s LA.“You should look up to me,” says a teenage character during the first act of Mid90s, adding: […]

Blu-ray Review – The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (1971)

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The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire, 1971.Directed by Riccardo Freda. Starring Luigi Pistilli, Dagmar Lassander, Anton Diffring, Valentina Cortese.SYNOPSIS:A grizzled detective investigating the murder of a young woman gets romantically involved with the daughter of the victim’s lover as each of the primary suspects is killed off one by one.Coming in the wake of […]

Movie Review – Pet Sematary (2019)

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Pet Sematary, 2019.Directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer. Starring Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, Jeté Laurence, Obssa Ahmed, Alyssa Brooke Levine, Sonia Maria Chirila, Hugo Lavoie, Lucas Lavoie, and John Lithgow.SYNOPSIS:Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discover a mysterious burial […]

Movie Review – The Sisters Brothers (2018)

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The Sisters Brothers, 2018.Directed by Jacques Audiard. Starring John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Riz Ahmed, Jake Gyllenhaal, Rutger Hauer, Rebecca Root and Carol Kane.SYNOPSIS:In 1850s Oregon, the infamous duo of assassins, Eli and Charlie Sisters, chase a gold prospector and his unexpected ally.Ah, the western, a once hyper-popular genre reduced to a once or twice […]