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Book Review – Star Wars: Phasma

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Phasma… If there was one underutilized character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, it was Gwendoline Christie’s Captain Phasma. Despite her incredibly cool appearance and heavy promotion, Phasma had very little screentime and was taken down fairly easily by the small group of heroes. Hopefully she’ll have much more to […]

Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #74

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Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #74… Having recently watched A Few Good Men, my bar for courtroom drama is set really high. I’ll try not to compare TMNT to Aaron Sorkin and Jack Nicholson. Despite starting off with some pew pew action, TMNT #74 quickly settles into the courtroom setting, and I’m thankful. […]

Movie Review – Brimstone (2017)

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Brimstone, 2017. Directed by Martin Koolhoven. Starring Dakota Fanning, Guy Pearce, Carice Van Houten and Kit Harrington. SYNOPSIS: A frontier woman turns fugitive when she is wrongly accused of a crime she didn’t commit and is hunted by a vengeful preacher. An ingenious conglomeration of narrative complexity, Koolhoven’s audacious film Brimstone is tense, authentic and absolutely […]

Movie Review – Leatherface (2017)

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Leatherface, 2017. Directed by Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury. Starring Finn Jones, Lili Taylor, Nicole Andrews, Stephen Dorff, James Bloor, Vanessa Grasse, Sam Coleman, and Sam Strike. SYNOPSIS: A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell while being pursued by […]

Comic Book Review – Go Go Power Rangers #3

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Jordan Jones reviews Go Go Power Rangers #3… “They put everything together knowing you will simply knock it back down…” That line perfectly encapsulates issue #3 of BOOM! Studios’ Go Go Power Rangers. An issue that didn’t move the plot in a big way, but was full of wonderful character moments, and whip-smart dialogue. Where the […]

Video Game Review – Dishonored: Death of the Outsider

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Calum Petrie reviews Dishonored: Death of the Outsider… Dishonored: Death of the Outsider is the latest entry in the deceitful and twisted Dishonored franchise, and has once again been created by the talented team at Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda. The story of this game follows Billie Lurk (voiced by the talented Rosario Dawson), an […]

Movie Review – American Made (2017)

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American Made, 2017. Directed by Doug Liman. Starring Tom Cruise, Domhnall Gleeson, Sarah Wright, E. Roger Mitchell, Jesse Plemons, Lola Kirke, Alejandro Edda, Benito Martinez, Caleb Landry Jones, and Jayma Mays. SYNOPSIS: A pilot lands work for the CIA and as a drug runner in the south during the 1980s. Antiheroes require an actor that radiates […]

Movie Review – The Mountain Between Us (2017)

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The Mountain Between Us, 2017. Directed by Hany Abu-Assad. Starring Idris Elba, Kate Winslet, Dermot Mulroney, and Beau Bridges. SYNOPSIS: Stranded after a tragic plane crash, two strangers must forge a connection to survive the extreme elements of a remote snow-covered mountain. When they realize help is not coming, they embark on a perilous journey across […]

Comic Book Review – Dishonored: The Peeress and the Price #1

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Calum Petrie reviews Dishonored: The Peeress and the Price #1… This new instalment of the wonderful Dishonored franchise takes us back into the wonderfully dark and twisted world and vengeance and deceit. The returning characters of Corvo Ortanno and Emily Kaldwin are back to once again return piece to the pit of chaos that is […]