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Video Game Review – Mario Tennis Aces

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Shaun Munro reviews Mario Tennis Aces… Mario Tennis Aces will undoubtedly be the introduction to the Mario Tennis franchise for many Nintendo Switch owners – this reviewer included – and though far from an unqualified success, it nevertheless proves itself a surprisingly nuanced and less-surprisingly addictive sports title overflowing with personality. This certainly isn’t a tennis […]

Marvel’s Luke Cage Season 2 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Basement’

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Liam Hoofe reviews the sixth episode of Luke Cage season 2… Luke Cage and  Bushmaster finally meet again as the rest of Harlem continues to descend into chaos in episode 6 of Luke Cage season 2. After being ambushed at the end of the previous episode, episode 6 opens with Luke Cage chasing members of […]

Second Opinion – Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado, 2018. Directed by Stefano Sollima. Starring Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Isabela Moner, Jeffrey Donovan, Catherine Keener, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Matthew Modine, Shea Whigham, and Elijah Rodriguez. SYNOPSIS: The drug war on the US-Mexico border has escalated as the cartels have begun trafficking terrorists across the US border. To fight the […]

Movie Review – Overboard (2018)

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Overboard, 2018 Directed by Rob Greenberg. Starring Eugenio Derbez, Anna Faris, Eva Longoria, John Hannah, Swoosie Kurtz, Mariana Treviño, Cecilia Suárez, Omar Chaparro, and Jesús Ochoa. SYNOPSIS: A single, working-class mother is hired to clean the luxury yacht belonging to a spoilt, selfish, wealthy playboy. After she is unjustly fired, the selfish playboy accidentally falls off […]

Marvel’s Luke Cage Season 2 Episode 5 Review – ‘All Souled Out’

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Liam Hoofe reviews the fifth episode of Luke Cage season 2… Things continue to heat up in Harlem as we get closer to the half-way point of Luke Cage season 2. Following on from Luke being served at the end of the previous episode, ‘All Souled Out’ opened up with a familiar face back on […]

Event Review – Pokémon Regional Championship 2018 in Sheffield, UK

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Villordsutch attends the Pokémon Regional Championship in Sheffield… On the weekend of the 16th June 2018 I was lucky enough to attend the Pokémon Regional Championship 2018 in Sheffield, UK.  This was – in truth – my first ever major Pokémon Regional Championship, so I was a little unsure what to expect. Was this weekend […]

Movie Review – Adrift (2018)

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Adrift, 2018. Directed by Baltasar Kormákur. Starring Shailene Woodley, Sam Claflin, Grace Palmer, Jeffrey Thomas and Elizabeth Hawthorne. SYNOPSIS: A young couple find themselves forced to battle for survival when the pleasure yacht they are sailing to California is caught in the midst of a horrific storm, leaving them drifting in the Pacific Ocean. There’s […]

Movie Review – The Bookshop (2017)

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The Bookshop, 2017. Directed by Isabel Coixet. Starring Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Patricia Clarkson, Honor Kneafsey, and James Lance. SYNOPSIS: Florence Green decides to open a bookshop in the small coastal town of Hardborough.  But she finds herself up against powerful opposition in wealthy Mrs Gamert, who has her own ideas on how the shop […]

DVD Review – Then, Now, Forever: The Evolution of WWE’s Women’s Division

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Then, Now, Forever: The Evolution of WWE’s Women’s Division, 2018. SYNOPSIS: A varied and colourful collection of women’s wrestling matches, tracing WWE’s female competitors from the 1980s all the way to today’s Women’s Evolution, which has seen the current female roster make history on numerous occasions. WWE is definitely in the grip of a ‘Women’s […]