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Second Opinion – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett and Alec Baldwin. SYNOPSIS: Ethan Hunt must deal with a returning terrorist villain, a new group of zealots and an interfering CIA operative in his latest very improbable mission. […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: Lost Light #19

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Lost Light #19… In Transformers: Lost Light #19, Rodimus and his team have finally caught up with Getaway and the mutineers of the Lost Light, though it seems Getaway’s methods have taken an even darker turn since we saw him last. James Roberts begins this climactic showdown in a tense fashion as […]

Retro Review – 1K Minesweeper for the Sinclair ZX81

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Villordsutch reviews Minesweeper for the Sinclair ZX81… Back in the 1990’s, if you sat behind any computer that ran a version of Microsoft Windows you quite possibly became a wee bit bored and found yourself drawn towards the ‘Games’ folder.  Here lurked (if you were lucky) a cluster of excellent little titles, to waste numerous […]

Second Opinion – Skyscraper (2018)

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Skyscraper, 2018. Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber Starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Pablo Schreiber, Noah Taylor, Roland Møller, Hannah Quinlivan, McKenna Roberts, Kevin Rankin, Byron Mann, Matt O’Leary, and Chin Han. SYNOPSIS: When former FBI agent Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) takes a lucrative building safety job at the behest of his friend Ben (Pablo Schreiber), […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018. Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Alec Baldwin, and Sian Brooke. SYNOPSIS: Two years have passed since Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) prevented the Syndicate from destroying IMF, but as with all terrorist organisations, a new […]

Video Game Review – Bomb Chicken

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Scott Watson reviews Bomb Chicken… You know, one of the things I love most about games like Nitrome’s Bomb Chicken is the way the developers spin a fantastic yarn to fit the game, the character, the premise, the setting and more. After a freak accident, a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb laying free range […]

Movie Review – The Devil’s Doorway (2018)

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The Devil’s Doorway, 2018. Directed by Aislinn Clarke. Starring Lalor Roddy, Ciaran Flynn, Helena Bereen, and Lauren Coe. SYNOPSIS: In the fall of 1960, Father Thomas Riley and Father John Thornton were sent by the Vatican to investigate a miraculous event in an Irish home for ‘fallen women’, only to uncover something much more horrific. […]

Movie Review – Incredibles 2 (2018)

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Incredibles 2, 2018. Directed by Brad Bird. Featuring the voice talents of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Huck Milner, Catherine Keener, Eli Fucile, Bob Odenkirk, Samuel L. Jackson, Sophia Bush, Isabella Rossellini, and Jonathan Banks. SYNOPSIS: Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for the kids while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving […]

Movie Review – Skyscraper (2018)

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Skyscraper. 2018. Directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Neve Campbell, Pablo Schreiber, Noah Taylor, Roland Møller, Hannah Quinlivan, and Chin Han. SYNOPSIS: A father goes to great lengths to save his family from a burning skyscraper. Skyscraper isn’t *just* Rawson Marshall Thurber’s first written/directed non-comedy. It’s The Towering Inferno meets Die Hard meets […]