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Young Sheldon Season 1 Episode 9 Review – ‘Spock, Kirk, and Testicular Hernia’

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Martin Carr reviews the ninth episode of Young Sheldon…With the usual abstract notions which accompany every Big Bang Theory we venture into another outing of its lesser sibling Young Sheldon. Nuanced, crackpot, scenario specific and nostalgic to a fault CBS keeps mining the solid gold character quirks of Mister Cooper with panache. Building a robust […]

Video Game Review – Life is Strange: Before the Storm – Episode 3 ‘Hell Is Empty’

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Shaun Munro reviews Life is Strange: Before the Storm – Episode 3 ‘Hell Is Empty’…Maintaining the momentum of the previous episode’s scintillating cliffhanger, Life is Strange: Before the Storm‘s “season finale” brings Chloe and Rachel’s adventure to an understated crescendo in mostly satisfying – if occasionally detached – fashion. The snappy two-hour closer goes by in […]

Movie Review – Bright (2017)

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Bright, 2017.Directed by David Ayer. Starring Will Smith, Joel Edgerton, Lucy Fry, Noomi Rapace, Jay Hernandez, Veronica Ngo, Edgar Ramirez, Happy Anderson, and Ike Barinholtz.SYNOPSIS:In a world where mystical creatures live side by side with humans, a human cop is forced to work with an Orc to find a weapon everyone is prepared to kill […]

Video Game Review – Resident Evil 7: Not a Hero

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Harrison Abbott reviews Resident Evil 7: Not a Hero…Whereas End of Zoe had a somewhat hefty price tag associated with it, Not a Hero has no such barrier to entry. This means that if you already own a copy of Resident Evil 7, then you are entitled to this substantial epilogue piece, which sees Chris Redfield fight his way through […]

53rd Chicago International Film Festival Review – I, Tonya (2017)

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I,Tonya, 2017.Directed by Craig Gillespie. Starring Margot Robbie, Sebastian Stan, Julianne Nicholson, Paul Walter Hauser, Bobby Cannavale, Caitlin Carver, Bojana Novakovic, Paul Walter Hauser, and Allison Janney.SYNOPSIS:Competitive ice skater Tonya Harding rises among the ranks at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships, but her future in the sport is thrown into doubt when her ex-husband intervenes.Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf […]

Second Opinion – Pitch Perfect 3 (2017)

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Pitch Perfect 3, 2017.Directed by Trish Sie. Starring Anna Kendrick, Rebel Wilson, Hailee Steinfeld, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp, John Lithgow, DJ Khaled, Hana Mae Lee, Ruby Rose, Alexis Knapp, Chrissie Fit, Ester Dean, Shelley Regner, Kelley Jakle, Matt Lanter, Guy Burnet, Alexis Knapp, Jessica Chaffin, Michael Rose, Andy Allo, Venzelia Joy, Moises Arias, Hannah Fairlight, […]

Second Opinion – The Greatest Showman (2017)

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The Greatest Showman, 2017.Directed by Michael Gracey. Starring Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Michelle Williams, Paul Sparks, Diahann Carroll, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Ziv Zaifman, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo.SYNOPSISThe Greatest Showman is the tale of entertainment revolutionary P.T. Barnum (Hugh Jackman) and the extraordinary lengths he went to bring spectacle to the masses in […]

Movie Review – Downsizing (2017)

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Downsizing, 2017.Directed by Alexander Payne. Starring Matt Damon, Kristen Wiig, Christoph Waltz, Hong Chau, Rolf Lassgård, Ingjerd Egeberg, Udo Kier, Søren Pilmark, and Jason Sudeikis.SYNOPSIS:A social satire in which a guy realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself. Downsizing is the second failed social satire of 2017 prominently featuring Matt […]

Video Game Review – Blossom Tales on Nintendo Switch

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Sam Thorne reviews Blossom Tales…One reason for the Nintendo Switch’s ‘indie gold rush’ period, as many people have coined it, is due to the sheer lack of storefront curation or quality vetting on other digital marketplaces like Steam. Every indie game coming to the Switch seems to be of reasonable quality – at least playable […]