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Black Lightning Season 2 Episode 4 Review – ‘The Book of Consequences: Chapter Four: Translucent Freak’

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Red Stewart reviews the fourth episode of Black Lightning season 2… “Translucent Freak” opened with something I never thought I would see on Black Lightning– a well-choreographed fight scene. In her attempts to control her powers, Jennifer realizes that Khalil is the source of her emotional turmoil (a theory that makes sense given that she formulated […]

Comic Book Review – Home After Dark

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Ricky Church reviews Home After Dark… In his second foray into adult graphic novels, writer and artist David Small focuses his attention on a coming-of-age story set in 1950s America in Home After Dark. What he delivers is a greatly written and illustrated story that touches on the societal difficulties of the 1950s, yet despite the […]

Movie Review – Possum (2018)

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Possum. 2018. Directed by Matthew Holness. Starring Sean Harris and Alun Armstrong. 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, the UK mastermind behind cult favorite Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, ushers us into a parallel reality […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 31 – Train to Busan (2016)

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Train to Busan, 2017. Directed by Yeon Sang Ho. Starring Gong Yo, Jung Yu-mi, Kim Su-an, Ma Dong-seok, and Choi Woo-shik. SYNOPSIS: A workaholic father attempts to reconnect with his estranged daughter while on a train to Busan. As the two board the train, a zombie apocalypse suddenly erupts turning the pair’s journey into a […]

The Flash Season 5 Episode 4 Review – ‘News Flash’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the fourth episode of The Flash season 5… A villain who actually works this week! The Good: – This was a great episode. The opening “family breakfast” defines what The Flash is all about. Great, smart, character driven writing with Iris who can’t cook and is obviously third wheel to Barry and […]

Star Wars Resistance Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘The High Tower’

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Ricky Church reviews the fifth episode of Star Wars Resistance… After taking a couple episodes to establish the workings of the Colossus and Kaz’s adjustment to becoming a spy and pretend-mechanic, Star Wars Resistance went back to the main plot of the Kaz’s mission to find out what the First Order wants with the Colossus and […]

October Horrors 2018 Day 30 – It (2017)

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It, 2017. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring Jaeden Lieberher, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Chosen Jacobs, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff, Nicholas Hamilton, and Bill Skarsgard. SYNOPSIS: In the small town of Derry, a group of friends find themselves locked into a fight for lives with a terrifying creature that has terrorised the […]

Doctor Who Series 11 Episode 4 Review – ‘Arachnids in the UK’

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Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 11 Episode 4 – ‘Arachnids in the UK’… Directed by – Sallie Aprahamian Written by – Chris Chibnall Doctor – “I eat danger for breakfast? I don’t. I prefer cereal.” After last week’s rather brilliant episode of Doctor Who, our teaser following Rosa warned that those of us suffering from arachnophobia really didn’t […]

Video Game Review – Spider-Man: The Heist DLC

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Ricky Church reviews Spider-Man: The Heist DLC… Though its been over a month since its release, Insomniac Games isn’t done with Spider-Man and the wall-crawler’s world. The studio has released the first piece of downloadable content for its “City That Never Sleeps’ pack which sees the return of the Black Cat, one of New York’s most renowned car […]