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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 […]

Second Opinion – Slice (2018)

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Slice, 2018. Directed by Austin Vesely. Starring Zazie Beetz, Chance the Rapper, Hannibal Buress, Joe Keery, Chris Parnell, Katherine Cunningham, Paul Scheer, Austin Vesely, Rae Gray, and Kelli Simpkins. SYNOPSIS: When a pizza delivery driver is murdered on the job, the city searches for someone to blame: ghosts? drug dealers? a disgraced werewolf? Austin Vesely’s […]

Comic Book Review – Fantastic Four #2

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Allen Christian reviews Fantastic Four #2… “Here We Make Our Stand” When last we left the Future Foundation, the Reed Richards helmed think-tank featuring the brightest young minds on Earth, they were rebuilding the imploded multiverse with the combined powers of Franklin Richards and the Molecule Man. And that’s exactly where they are when we […]

Comic Book Review – Fantastic Four #1

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Allen Christian reviews Fantastic Four #1… In early 2015, leading into Jonathan Hickman’s Secret Wars, we saw the dissolution of the Fantastic Four and the cancellation of their eponymous monthly comic book. The assumption is that Marvel seized this opportunity to cease production of the book due to ongoing conflict with 20th Century Fox, the […]

Video Game Review – Planet Alpha

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Red Stewart reviews Planet Alpha… When Super Mario Bros. hit the shelves in 1985, the success of the platformer became built on innovation. Anyone was capable of making a game where you had to jump on blocks to reach the end- it was Shigeru Miyamoto’s decision to include warp pipes, power-ups, and water physics that made Mario the critically-acclaimed […]

American Horror Story: Apocalypse Episode 1 Review – ‘The End’

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EJ Moreno reviews the first episode of American Horror Story: Apocalypse… While the world ends, the action starts to pick up on American Horror Story: Apocalypse. The eighth season premiere is a haunting and sometimes hilarious look at the world during a nuclear apocalypse. This episode is something that starts conversations about “what if?” or “what […]

Movie Review – Lucky (2017)

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Lucky, 2017 Directed by John Carroll Lynch. Starring Harry Dean Stanton, David Lynch, James Darren, Tom Skerritt and Ed Begley Jr. SYNOPSIS: Lucky is elderly and lives alone.  When he collapses at home, he realises he has to face up to his inevitable decline and accept it Harry Dean Stanton’s penultimate film is also his […]

Movie Review – Slice (2018)

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Slice, 2018. Directed by Austin Vesely. Starring Zazie Beetz, Chance Bennett, Joe Keery, Chris Parnell, and Paul Scheer. SYNOPSIS: In a spooky small town of Kingfisher, the residents attempt to deal with the murder of a pizza delivery boy. Is it one of the ghosts they share the area with or is it another one of many grave […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: The Next Generation: Terra Incognita #3

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: The Next Generation: Terra Incognita #3… After last month’s slice of Star Trek: The Next Generation: Terra Incognita we discovered that the Federation, after the Borg encounter at Wolf-359, is at a desperate time and is currently placing a lot of hope on the upcoming ‘Peace Talks’ with the Cardassians – the […]