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Movie Review – Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle (2018)

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Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, 2018. Directed by Andy Serkis. Starring Christian Bale, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Tom Hollander, Andy Serkis, Peter Mullan, Naomie Harris, Freida Pinto, Eddie Marsan, Jack Reynor, Matthew Rhys, and Rohan Chand. SYNOPSIS: A human child raised by wolves must face off against a menacing tiger named Shere Khan, as well […]

Black Lightning Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘The Book of Blood: Chapter Three: The Sange’

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Red Stewart reviews the seventh episode of Black Lightning season 2… One of the things I’ve been hearing about Aquaman, based on early social media reactions, is that it is reportedly very zany, full of balls-to-the-wall imagery, action, and plot threads. As a comic book fan, this is nothing short of fantastic to hear. But as […]

Movie Review – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018. Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, and Rodney Rothman. Featuring the voice talents of Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Jake Johnson, Liev Schreiber, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Lily Tomlin, Nicolas Cage, Kimiko Glenn, and John Mulaney. SYNOPSIS: Spider-Man crosses parallel dimensions and teams up with the Spider-Men of […]

The Flash Season 5 Episode 7 Review – ‘Oh Come, All Ye Thankful’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the seventh episode of The Flash season 5… The title totally confused me; I thought we were getting a Christmas episode early… nice work! The Good: – So there’s an interesting wrinkle in Cicada’s story; the girl in the coma is not actually his daughter – she was left to him by […]

Doctor Who Series 11 Episode 8 Review – ‘The Witchfinders’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 11 Episode 8 – ‘The Witchfinders’… Director – Sallie Aprahamian Writer – Joy Wilkinson King James I – “Honi soit qui mal y pense” After last week’s Doctor Who turned its attention to the ever-expanding universe of “next day delivery” and its workforce with Kerblam!, this week takes us back in time […]

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 […]