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Video Game Review – Battlezone Gold Edition

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Scott Watson reviews Battlezone Gold Edition… Talk about making you feel old… doing a bit of research and back history into Battlezone, and Rebellion’s repackaging and Gold Edition release, has made me feel positively archaic!  I remember summer holidays to Scarborough, Bridlington, and the North East coast of England in my youth, chucking ten pence […]

Lucifer Season 3 Episode 22 Review – ‘All Hands on Decker’

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Tori Brazier reviews the twenty-second episode of Lucifer season 3… Although Lucifer often provides fun team-ups courtesy of its strong ensemble of characters (the current Amenadiel and Charlotte pairing, Ella and anyone – and remember Lucifer and Pierce’s short-lived domestic bliss?), this episode provides the dream team we’ve all been waiting for: Dan and Lucifer. […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through the Mirror #1

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: The Next Generation: Through the Mirror #1… SEE ALSO: Check out the preview for Through the Mirror #1 here Last year’s Mirror Broken from the Tipton brothers and one of my all-time favourite Star Trek artists J.K. Woodward was a brutal slice of Trek.  As with all ‘Mirror’ stories the Trek […]

Movie Review – Lean On Pete (2017)

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Lean On Pete, 2017. Directed by Andrew Haigh. Starring Charlie Plummer, Steve Buscemi, Travis Fimmel, Chloe Sevigny and Steve Zahn. SYNOPSIS: Fifteen year old Charley (Charlie Plummer) has never lived in one place for long.  He and his dad now have a squalid house in Portland and the teenager discovers a local racetrack nearby.  He […]

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Capsule Review – Beast

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As Beast goes on the question shifts from “is Pascal a serial killer?” to “if Pascal is a serial killer, are these two perfect for each other in a demented Natural Born Killers kind of way?”, which is where Michael Pearce likes to repeatedly flip the motives and truth on the audience. The trick never fully wears thin, but […]

Krypton Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Civil Wars’

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Ricky Church reviews the sixth episode of Krypton… The latest episode of Krypton delivered several answers as well as twists as Seg and Lyta discovered more about the mysterious Black Zero member – now revealed as a time travelling General Zod – as the situation in Kandor went from bad to worse. It was a good example […]

Movie Review – The Strangers: Prey at Night (2018)

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The Strangers: Prey at Night, 2018. Directed by Johannes Roberts. Starring Christina Hendricks, Bailee Madison, Martin Henderson, Lewis Pullman, Emma Bellomy, Damian Maffel and Lea Enslin. SYNOPSIS: A family staying at a secluded trailer park during the off-season are pursued and attacked by a gang of masked intruders boasting an array of weapons and mysterious […]

DVD Review – Twist of Fate: The Best of the Hardy Boyz

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Twist of Fate: The Best of the Hardy Boyz, 2018. SYNOPSIS: A compilation of matches and moments from the storied careers of Matt and Jeff Hardy, culminating in their return to WWE and narrated by fireside anecdotes at the Hardy Compound. I missed the Attitude Era first time around. I first started watching wrestling in […]

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 19 Review – ‘Option 2’

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Danny Hale reviews the nineteenth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5… ‘Option 2’ sees the consequences of Yo-Yo’s actions last week start to spill out as the team becomes even more divided and Qovas arrives at Earth seeking the gravitonium. To see our team start to turn on one another felt weighted, earned […]