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Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe #13

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Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe #13… “Karai’s Path,” part 2 of 4. As Karai becomes embroiled in the Tokyo underworld, an ancient sword may show her the true path forward… if she can overcome the obstacles guarding it! The theme of this arc appears to be ‘adapt’. We see all three characters, Karai, […]

Book Review – Relics by Tim Lebbon

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Michelle Herbert reviews Relics by Tim Lebbon… Relics is one of those books that you’re not really sure what to expect from, at the start we are introduced to Angela, who is being interrogated by the police. We are not told why she has been arrested or why they believe she is involved in a […]

Mr. Mercedes Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘On Your Mark’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Mr. Mercedes… For those expecting concise characterisation, clear structure and narrative clarify with Mr. Mercedes be warned this takes a little longer than most. It plays out like an elongated episode of Jimmy McGovern’s Cracker without the chain-smoking, alcohol addled central protagonist. There are no failing marriages, awkward family […]

Comic Book Review – The Mystery Knight: A Graphic Novel

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Ricky Church reviews The Mystery Knight: A Graphic Novel… Westeros is eerily peaceful. King Aerys I sits on the Iron Throne. A ravaging plague has abated. Yet beneath the surface, tensions linger sixteen years after a failed rebellion. In these restless times, noble hedge knight Ser Duncan the Tall—Dunk, to his friends—and his precocious boy […]

Movie Review – The Trip to Spain (2017)

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The Trip to Spain, 2017. Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Starring Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan. SYNOPSIS: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a six-part episodic road trip through Spain, sampling the restaurants, eateries, and sights along the way. Right from the beginning I will confess that I have never seen the previous two entries […]

Second Opinion – The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017)

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The Hitman’s Bodyguard, 2017. Directed by Patrick Hughes. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L. Jackson, Gary Oldman, Salma Hayek, Elodie Yung, Joaquim De Almeida, Kirsty Mitchell, and Richard E. Grant. SYNOPSIS: A top-rated bodyguard struggling to rebuild his reputation after a calamitous mistake, is forced to help deliver an infamous hitman to testify at the trial […]

Movie Review – Dark Night (2016)

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Dark Night, 2016. Directed by Tim Sutton. Starring Robert Jumper, Anna Rose Hopkins, Aaron Purvis, Eddie Cacciola and Conor A. Murphy. SYNOPSIS: The lives of six strangers intersect at a suburban Cineplex where a massacre occurs. Based upon the 2012 massacre in Aurora, Colorado where lone gunman James Eagan Holmes opened fire on a midnight screening of The Dark Knight, this Sundance Film […]