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Blu-ray Review – Rollercoaster (1977)

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Rollercoaster, 1977. Directed by James Goldstone. Starring George Segal, Timothy Bottoms, Richard Widmark, Harry Guardino, Susan Strasber, Henry Fonda, Helen Hunt, Wayne Tippit, Steve Guttenberg, and Craig Wasson. SYNOPSIS: A bomber threatens to blow up rollercoasters in various amusement parks unless his ransom demands are met. Riding the crest of a wave of disaster movies […]

Blu-Ray Review – Ready Player One (2018)

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Ready Player One, 2018. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance, Simon Pegg, T.J. Miller, Lena Waithe, Hannah John-Kamen, Ralph Ineson, Mckenna Grace, Win Morisaki, Susan Lynch, and Philip Zhao. SYNOPSIS: When the creator of a virtual reality world called the OASIS dies, he releases a video in which he […]

Comic Book Review – Optimus Prime #21

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Ricky Church reviews Optimus Prime #21… ‘The Falling’ finally concludes in Optimus Prime #21 as Optimus, Bumblebee and Pyra Magna put a stop to Shockwave’s plan, yet leave the door open for new threats as the series leads into Transformers: Unicron. John Barber subverts expectations though with what Shockwave’s ultimate goal in this phase was, […]

Video Game Review – Defiance 2050

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Scott Watson reviews Defiance 2050… I remember watching and thoroughly enjoying the first season of Defiance when the SyFy Channel first introduced us to this newly terra-formed future Earth and its mix of humans and alien refugees thrown together into a melting pot of cultures, races and conflict.  Released at the same time and aiming […]

Movie Review – Apostasy (2017)

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Apostasy, 2017. Directed by Daniel Kokotajlo. Starring Siobhan Finneran, Sacha Parkinson, Molly Wright and Robert Emms. SYNOPSIS: Inside the Jehovah’s Witness community, a family is in turmoil.  The elder daughter has rejected the faith and has been cut off from everything and everybody she knows.  Her mother is only allowed limited visits, her younger sister […]

Comic Book Review – Supergirl: Being Super

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Ricky Church reviews Supergirl: Being Super… Supergirl’s popularity has been on the rise in recent years thanks to the hit series that originated on CBS and is now home at The CW. Thanks to that rise, DC has put out a new origin for Supergirl in a standalone tale from writer Mariko Tamaki and artist […]

Comic Book Review – Dark Nights: Metal – Dark Knights Rising

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Ricky Church reviews Dark Nights: Metal – Dark Knights Rising… Dark Nights: Metal saw the DC Universe invaded by a collection of alternate evil Batmen from the Dark Multiverse, each one a reflection of some of Bruce Wayne’s deepest fears. The collected edition of Metal didn’t really go into each of these Batmen and why they were so […]

Comic Book Review – WWE #19

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Liam Hoofe reviews WWE #19… This month’s edition of WWE comics from Boom! Studios shifts its focus away from the women’s revolution and onto the ongoing relationship between Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn. Like the women’s revolution (which I would have liked to have seen a few more issues of, personally) there is plenty of […]