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Movie Review – Love and Saucers (2017)

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Love and Saucers, 2017.Directed by Brad Abrahams.SYNOPSIS:The story of David Huggins, an unassuming 72 year-old who claims to have had a lifetime of encounters with otherworldly beings – including an inter-species romance with an E.T. woman (with whom he lost his virginity to), and chronicled it all in surreal impressionist paintings. Are his experiences dream, hallucination, […]

The Punisher Season 1 Episode 8 Review – ‘Cold Steel’

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Liam Hoofe reviews the eighth episode of Marvel’s The Punisher…One of the main ingredients for The Punisher’s success is its ability to juggle several plot points at one time, while also continuing to give us complex, and interesting characters. One of these characters, is Billy Russo, Frank’s former best friend from the Marines, who in […]

Movie Review – Suburbicon (2017)

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Suburbicon, 2017.Directed by George Clooney. Starring Matt Damon, Julianne Moore, Noah Jupe, Glenn Fleshler, Gary Basaraba, Karimah Westbrook, Tony Espinosa, Megan Ferguson, and Oscar Isaac.SYNOPSIS:A home invasion rattles a quiet family town.It’s all too easy to discuss the rather meat-headed prescience of George Clooney’s Suburbicon, a film unable to shift a lingering sense of falsity […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two – Volume 6

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Ricky Church reviews Transformers: The IDW Collection Phase Two – Volume 6…While the Transformers film franchise has struggled in the way of audience and critical reception and treating its characters like actual characters, IDW has had plenty of success over the years with its handling of the franchise in the comic medium. For the last few years, […]

Movie Review – I Love You, Daddy (2017)

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I Love You, Daddy, 2017.Written and Directed by Louis C.K. Starring Louis C.K., Chloe Grace Moretz, John Malkovich, Rose Byrne, Charlie Day, Pamela Adlon, Edie Falco, Helen Hunt, Ebonee Noel, Dan Puck, and Albert Brooks.SYNOPSIS:When a successful television writer’s daughter becomes the interest of an aging filmmaker with an appalling past, he becomes worried about […]

Comic Book Review – Batman and Robin by Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason Omnibus

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Ricky Church reviews Batman and Robin by Peter J. Tomasi and Patrick Gleason Omnibus…When he was first introduced in Grant Morrison’s epic run on Batman, many people didn’t like Damian Wayne and felt he was a spoiled, annoying, ungrateful little brat. Over time he became a fan-favourite character and developed into quite an interesting and […]

Comic Book Review – Doomsday Clock #1

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Ricky Church reviews Doomsday Clock #1…For over 30 years, Watchmen has been considered one of the best graphic novels ever created, breaking new ground for comics with its serious themes, characters and deconstruction of the superhero genre. Now DC’s Geoff Johns and artist Gary Frank is crossing Watchmen over with the DC Universe after over a year of build […]

Peaky Blinders Series 4 Episode 2 Review – ‘Heathens’

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Liam Hoofe reviews the second episode of Peaky Blinders series 4… Peaky Blinders returned to our screens last week with what I consider to be one of the best episodes of television in 2017. The episode was full of awesome moments and it shocked us all with its devastating ending.This series’ second episode, ‘Heathens’ picked up […]

The Punisher Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Crosshairs’

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Liam Hoofe reviews the seventh episode of Marvel’s The Punisher…For a brief moment towards the end of ‘Crosshairs’, the seventh episode of The Punisher, I was worried that the show was going to pull the usual Marvel trick and bump off one of the main villains halfway through the season. Once again, though, The Punisher proved […]

Hardware Review – Turtle Beach Stealth 600 Wireless Surround Sound Gaming Headset

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Shaun Munro reviews Turtle Beach’s Stealth 600 wireless surround sound gaming headset for PS4…If you’re in the market for a premium PS4 gaming headset that won’t annihilate your bank account, the Turtle Beach Stealth 600 just might be the one for you. A superb wireless surround sound headset that packs a crisp aural punch without sacrificing […]