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Comic Book Review – The Raid #1

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Calum Petrie reviews The Raid #1… How exactly do you turn an extremely heavily choreographed martial arts film into a comic book series? Well, the answer is very interestingly. The Raid, for those who may not know, is an excellent action film set in Indonesia, in which an elite police force are trapped and have […]

Castle Rock Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Local Color’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Castle Rock… Real estate agents are known for being unscrupulous but to disconnect someone from their respirator takes a degree of self-interest even property peddlers might blanch at. Teenager crushes similarly pass with time, mellow with age, or diminish with reality, yet Molly Strand played by Melanie Lynskey […]

Movie Review – Extinction (2018)

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Extinction, 2018. Directed by Ben Young. Starring Michael Peña, Lizzy Caplan, Mike Colter, Amelia Crouch and Erica Tremblay. SYNOPSIS: A father has a recurring dream of losing his family. His nightmare turns into reality when the planet is invaded by a force bent on destruction. Fighting for their lives, he comes to realise an unknown strength to keep […]

Movie Review – Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)

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Mission: Impossible – Fallout, 2018. Written and Directed by Christopher McQuarrie. Starring Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg, Ving Rhames, Rebecca Ferguson, Henry Cavill, Sean Harris, Vanessa Kirby, Angela Bassett, Michelle Monaghan, Wes Bentley, Frederick Schmidt, Liang Yang, Kristoffer Joner, Wolf Blitzer, and Alec Baldwin.   SYNOPSIS: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team, along with some familiar […]

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 […]