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Movie Review – RBG (2018)

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RBG, 2018. Directed by Betsy West and Julie Cohen. Featuring Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Jane Ginsburg, James Steven Ginsburg, Nina Totenberg, Clara Spera and Gloria Steinem. SYNOPSIS: The exceptional life and career of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has developed a breathtaking legal legacy while becoming an unexpected pop culture icon. In the […]

Luther Series 5 Episode 3 Review

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Eammon Jacobs reviews the third episode of Luther series 5… After the second episode’s killer ending, Luther’s problems on both sides of the law only become increasingly complicated. The detective is spinning too many plates, and one of them has to come crashing down. While he scrambles to stay on top of both the investigation […]

Movie Review – The Pinch (2018)

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The Pinch, 2018. Directed by Ashley Scott Meyers. Starring Gunner Wright, James Aston Lake, and Candice Bolek. SYNOPSIS: A courier of a California crime boss is caught and becomes embroiled in a deadly cat-and-mouse game with him. Director Ashley Scott Meyers’s The Pinch is an average crime drama with notable highlights and lows. A local […]

Movie Review – The Vanishing (2019)

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The Vanishing Directed by Kristoffer Nyholm Starring Gerard Butler, Peter Mullan, Connor Swindells, and Olafur Darri Olafsson. SYNOPSIS Three lighthouse keepers on the remote Flanna Isles find a hidden trunk of gold, leading to their mysterious disappearance. The film, (very) loosely inspired the real disappearance of the three lighthouse keepers in 1900, attempts to explain […]

Movie Review – Welcome to Marwen (2018)

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Welcome to Marwen, 2018. Directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Diane Kruger, Merritt Wever, Janelle Monáe, Eiza González, Gwendoline Christie, Leslie Zemeckis, Siobhan Williams and Neil Jackson. SYNOPSIS: A victim of a brutal attack finds a unique and beautiful therapeutic outlet to help him through his recovery process. Welcome to Marwen isn’t […]

Luther Series 5 Episode 2 Review

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Eammon Jacobs reviews the second episode of Luther series 5… “This is going to hurt”. It’s a phrase that was plastered across all the previews and trailers for the fifth series of Luther, and they weren’t lying. While the first episode introduced us to a grisly new killer who acts out of sexual impulse, the […]

Book Review – Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill

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Michelle Herbert reviews Sea of Rust by C. Robert Cargill… Sea of Rust is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. It is unlike many post-apocalyptic settings that we have read before, as humanity has been decimated and all those surviving in the Sea of Rust are robots. Some, those known as freebots were created by humanity, […]

Luther Series 5 Episode 1 Review

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Eammon Jacobs reviews the first episode of Luther series 5… DCI John Luther has returned to our screens for a fifth series, continuing his crusade against depraved killers and criminals that haunt London’s sprawling underbelly. The first episode of series 5 plays up to the usual ‘whodunnit’ conventions, but has some surprising tricks up its […]

Movie Review – The Favourite (2018)

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The Favourite, 2018. Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. Featuring Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn, James Smith, and Mark Gatiss. SYNOPSIS: In early 18th century England, a frail Queen Anne occupies the throne and her close friend, Lady Sarah, governs the country in her stead. When a new servant, Abigail, arrives, her […]

Comic Book Review – WWE #24

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Liam Hoofe reviews Boom! Studios’ WWE #24… Boom! Studios continuse to chronicle AJ Styles’ excellent WWE title run in this latest issue, this time choosing to focus on his long rivalry with Shinsuke Nakamura from last year. The comics have done an excellent job of portraying AJ Styles as a fighting champion, and this latest […]