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Movie Review – Clyde Cooper (2018)

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Clyde Cooper, 2018. Directed by Peter Daskaloff. Starring Jordi Vilasuso, Abigail Titmuss, Richard Neil, Aria Sirvaitis, Isabella Racco, Joanna Fyllidou. SYNOPSIS:  A California private detective is hired to investigate the disappearance of a missing lover. But as the mystery escalates, strange people and a Silicon Valley organisation get involved. From the man behind eternal classics […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: The Next Generation: Terra Incognita #4

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: The Next Generation: Terra Incognita #4… With the ongoing web being woven within Star Trek: TNG “Terra Incognita” from Scott & David Tipton, we’ve so far seen: suspicious engine failings of Federation vessels, peace treaties between the Cardassians barely holding, the loss of a Vulcan Ambassador, the ongoing fallout of the devastating […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 23 – Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986)

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Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, 1986. Directed by John McNaughton. Starring Michael Rooker, Tom Towles, and Tracy Arnold. SYNOPSIS: Henry and Otis are a pair of former convicts trying to make a living in Chicago when they are joined by Otis’s sister Becky. Unbeknownst to his room-mates, Henry also moonlights as a serial killer, […]

2018 BFI London Film Festival Review – Wild Rose

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Wild Rose, 2018. Directed by Tom Harper. Starring Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo, Jamie Sives, James Harkness and Janey Godley. SYNOPSIS: A young woman and ex-offender from Glasgow dreams of becoming a Nashville country star. Wild Rose is a sweet and sincere but light-hearted film about a young single mum from Glasgow, with a […]

Movie Review – Possum (2018)

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Possum, 2018. Directed by Matthew Holness Starring Sean Harris, Alun Armstrong, Simon Bubb, and Andy Blithe. SYNOPSIS: After returning to his childhood home, a disgraced children’s puppeteer is forced to confront his wicked stepfather and the secrets that have tortured his entire life. Matthew Holness, best known for the cult-comedy classics Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace and […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: Unicron #5

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Unicron #5… Transformers: Unicron #5 doesn’t just mark the penultimate issue of the series, but of IDW’s whole continuity for Transformers, G.I. Joe and R.O.M. The issue delivers a lot of action as the heroes mount their final defense against Unicron and his invading forces, but there is also a nice amount of introspection from a […]

Doctor Who Series 11 Episode 3 Review – ‘Rosa’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 11 Episode 3 – ‘Rosa’… Written by – Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall Directed by – Mark Tonderai Doctor – “I don’t recognise anyone by that description” Now with a newly decorated TARDIS, which includes a Custard Cream dispenser, the Doctor is struggling to get her new best friends back to […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 22 – The Hunger (1983)

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The Hunger, 1983. Directed by Tony Scott. Starring Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, Susan Sarandon, Cliff De Young, and Beth Ehlers. SYNOPSIS: A scientist specialising in the research of ageing and sleep finds herself at the centre of a love triangle between two centuries old vampires. One of my running themes this year has been to […]