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Toronto International Film Festival Review – I, Tonya (2017)

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I,Tonya, 2017. Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Julianne Nicholson, Paul Walter Hauser, Bobby Cannavale, and Allison Janney. SYNOPSIS: Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises among the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes. In Craig Gillespie’s I, Tonya, Margot […]

First Impressions – Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite

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Emma Withington with some first impressions of Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite… It’s easy to look at Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite and focus on its apparent blemishes in such a saturated market, particularly if you are a veteran of the fighter genre. It carries a much smaller roster than its predecessors, with only a handful of […]

Comic Book Review – Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Captain Phasma #1

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Ricky Church reviews Journey to Star Wars: The Last Jedi – Captain Phasma #1… Outside of Kylo Ren, the next heavily promoted character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens was probably the chrome-plated Captain Phasma, played by Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie. Sadly, the film didn’t do the character justice, pushing her to the sidelines before […]

Comic Book Review – The Girl Who Played With Fire – Millennium #1

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Liam Hoofe reviews The Girl Who Played With Fire – Millennium #1… Following on from the excellent ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo adaptation is the second book in the Millennium trilogy, The Girl Who Played With Fire, published by Hard Case Crime and Titan Comics. The Girl Who Played with Fire continues the story of […]

Comic Book Reviews – The Waterbringer and The Shattered

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews the first two Eimurian Tales… There’s a certain pleasure to going into a series blind and M.D. Penman’s Eimurian Tales are exactly what you hope to uncover. A dark fantasy web-comic, the first two volumes standalone but leave an opening for the stories to intersect down the line.ar Penman is their writer, artist, […]

Movie Review – Circus Kane (2017)

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Circus Kane, 2017. Directed by Christopher Ray. Starring Jonathan Lipnicki, Tim Abell, Mark Christopher Lawrence, Ted Monte, Victoria Konefal, and Nicole Arianna Fox. SYNOPSIS A reclusive circus master invites a group of social media stars to his house of haunts. Anyone who can make it out before being scared into submission will earn $250,000 – […]

Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘The Suicide Hour’

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Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Mr. Mercedes… This slowly gets under your skin. Working its way through open pores, seeping into sweat glands, tear ducts and every open orifice. Between the high-tech surveillance talk, on-line harassment and seedy conversations over webcam there are darker elements at play. Alcoholics, liars, incestuous couples and torture […]

Second Opinion – It (2017)

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It, 2017. Directed by Andy Muschietti. Starring Bill Skarsgard, Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis, Finn Wolfhard, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Nicholas Hamilton, Jack Dylan Grazer, Stephen Bogaert, Jackson Robert Scott, Chosen Jacobs, Wyatt Oleff, Jake Sim, Owen Teague, Stuart Hughes, Logan Thompson, Geoffrey Pounsett, Pip Dwyer, and Javier Botet SYNOPSIS: In the late 1980s in the small […]