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Book Review – Star Wars: Thrawn – Alliances

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Thrawn – Alliances… If there is one team-up die-hard Star Wars fans want to see, it is the potential of Darth Vader and the fan-favourite Expanded Universe character Grand Admiral Thrawn together. Now that Thrawn has made his way into the official Star Wars canon through his appearances in Star Wars Rebels, author Timothy […]

Second Opinion – What Keeps You Alive (2018)

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What Keeps You Alive, 2018. Directed by Colin Minihan. Starring Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen, Martha MacIsaac and Joey Klein. SYNOPSIS: Majestic mountains, a still lake and venomous betrayals engulf a female married couple attempting to celebrate their one-year anniversary. Colin Minihan’s What Keeps You Alive is a beastly hybrid of survivalist and relationship thrills, […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: Unicron #3

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Unicron #3… Answers are revealed and stakes are raised in Transformers: Unicron #3 as the sins of Cybertron’s past literally comes back to destroy it. John Barber writes an engrossing issue with several great character moments and new moral dilemmas they must face in order to survive Unicron’s onslaught. As the halfway marker […]

Movie Review – The Happytime Murders (2018)

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The Happytime Murders, 2018. Directed by Brian Henson. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Elizabeth Banks, Maya Rudolph, Leslie David Baker, Joel McHale, Michael McDonald, and Bill Barretta. SYNOPSIS: When the puppet cast of an ’80s children’s TV show begin to get murdered one by one, a disgraced LAPD detective-turned-private eye puppet takes on the case. The Happytime […]

Comic Book Review – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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Christian Jimenez reviews Bram Stoker’s Dracula… This graphic novel follows the 1992 film adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Dracula decides to come to London and discovers a woman, Mina, who resembles a lover of his from centuries past. A doctor, Van Helsing, who hunts vampires discovers Dracula’s plant to kidnap Mina […]

Movie Review – Bad Samaritan (2018)

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Bad Samaritan, 2018. Directed by Dean Devlin. Starring David Tennant, Kerry Condon, Robert Sheehan, Jacqueline Byers, Lisa Brenner, and Hannah Barefoot. SYNOPSIS: Two valet attendants have developed a clever scam – as wealthy patrons enjoy their meals, one of them drives to the patron’s home to burgle their property while the other one is on […]

Movie Review – Christopher Robin (2018)

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Christopher Robin, 2018. Directed by Marc Forster. Starring Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Mark Gatiss, Oliver Ford Davies, Ronke Adekoluejo, Adrian Scarborough, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, Ken Nwosu, John Dagleish, Amanda Lawrence, Orton O’Brien, Paul Chahidi, and featuring the voice talents of Jim Cummings, Brad Garrett, Toby Jones, Nick Mohammed, Peter Capaldi, Sophie Okonedo, and Sara […]

Comic Book Review – Rod Serling’s Planet of the Apes: Visionaries

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Calum Petrie reviews Rod Serling’s Planet of the Apes: Visionaries… Taylor is Thomas, and Ape City isn’t a crude, primitive grouping of huts, it’s a bustling and urbane metropolis filled with cars and skyscrapers and a vibrant ape culture. Apes wear modern clothes and drive modern cars, they have talk shows and nightclubs and alcohol. How […]

Movie Review – BlacKkKlansman (2018)

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BlacKkKlansman, 2018. Directed by Spike Lee. Starring John David Washington, Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, Jasper Paakkonen, Topher Grace, and Ryan Eggold. SYNOPSIS: Ron Stallworth (John David Washington) is an African-American rookie cop on the Colorado police force, who manages to infiltrate the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan, using his partner Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) as […]

Movie Review – What Keeps You Alive (2018)

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What Keeps You Alive, 2018. Directed by Colin Minihan. Starring Hannah Emily Anderson, Brittany Allen, and Martha MacIsaac. SYNOPSIS : Jackie and Jules attempt to celebrate their one year anniversary in the wild woods and mountainous countryside of Jackie’s family holiday home. Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen) are a happily married couple keen to […]