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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 […]

Comic Book Review – Optimus Prime #17

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Ricky Church reviews Optimus Prime #17… Its safe to say not only did Optimus Prime #17 raise the stake’s of Cybertron’s survival, but delivered one of the most shocking twists in Transformers history. John Barber crafts an intriguing tale that places readers in the place of the characters as things go from bad to worse in a chaotic manner […]

WWE Greatest Royal Rumble Review

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Liam Hoofe reviews WWE’s The Greatest Royal Rumble event… The Greatest Royal Rumble, the WWE’s first ever PPV event held in Saudi Arabia, took place this Friday evening. The event saw seven of the company’s title defended and their first ever 50 man Royal Rumble match. The WWE has pulled out all of the stops […]