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Comic Book Review – WWE: NXT Takeover – Proving Ground #1

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Liam Hoofe reviews WWE: NXT Takeover – Proving Ground #1… Following on from their impressive NXT debut last month, Boom! Studios released their second NXT issue recently, Proving Ground. After introducing us to a whole roster in the first comic, the story narrowed down in the second edition, documenting the story of Samoa Joe and […]

TV Review – American Vandal Season 2

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Liam Hoofe reviews American Vandal season 2… Netflix struck gold last year with their mockumentary series, American Vandal. The show documented the fallout of an elaborate prank at a school, and had fans all over the internet asking the question ‘who drew the dicks?’. It was a clever piece of television that turned out to […]

Movie Review – Mile 22 (2018)

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Mile 22, 2018. Directed by Peter Berg. Starring Mark Wahlberg, Lauren Cohen, Iko Uwais, John Malkovich, Ronda Rousey, and Carlo Alban. SYNOPSIS: James Silva (Mark Wahlberg) is an elite American intelligence officer working with a top secret tactical unit. When he’s tasked with smuggling a high value asset (Iko Uwais) out of foreign territory, he […]

Comic Book Review – WWE: NXT Takeover – The Blueprint #1

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Liam Hoofe reviews WWE: NXT Takeover #1… Boom! Studios have done an excellent job at bringing the weird and wonderful of the WWE to life in their comic books, and their latest spin-off, focusing on WWE developmental brand, NXT, shows plenty of promise in its first issue. The first comic is set in the early […]

Movie Review – The Little Stranger (2018)

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The Little Stranger, 2018. Directed by Lenny Abrahamson. Starring Domhnall Gleeson, Ruth Wilson, Will Poulter, Charlotte Rampling and Liv Hill. SYNOPSIS: A doctor provides care for the eccentric family who live in a crumbling 18th century mansion during the postwar years, only for mysterious and dark events to take place within its walls. A few […]

Video Game Review – Rigid Force Alpha

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Red Stewart reviews Rigid Force Alpha for PC… What can I say about the shoot-em up (or schmup) genre that hasn’t been said before? It’s a fairly-simple type of game to create: throw a bunch of enemies on-screen and give the player unlimited ammo to mow them all down. Because of massive influence from Space Invader and Galaga, […]

Video Game Review – Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor Martyr

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Emma Cockroft reviews Warhammer 40,000: Inquisitor Martyr… I do enjoy a good Warhammer game! From Age of Reckoning (which I still miss to this day) to Warhammer Total War I’ve played quite a few so when a copy of Warhammer Inqusitor Martyr fell into my hands I jumped at the chance to install and jump […]

Movie Review – Lizzie (2018)

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Lizzie. 2018. Directed by Craig William Macneill. Starring Chloë Sevigny, Kristen Stewart, Kim Dickens, Fiona Shaw, Denis O’Hare, and Jamey Sheridan. SYNOPSIS: A psychological thriller based on the infamous 1892 murders of the Borden family. Craig William Macneill’s Lizzie falsely – in my opinion – bills itself as a “psychological thriller” based on 1892’s famous […]