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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 to […]

Comic Book Review – Star Wars #51

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars #51…At the end of Star Wars #50, Darth Vader ordered hope to be the next thing to die for the Rebellion. That order continues to a great degree in ‘Hope Dies Part 2′ as the Rebels’ chances of escaping an Imperial trap and onslaught lessens with each turn of the page. […]

Movie Review – Apostasy (2017)

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Apostasy, 2017.Directed by Daniel Kokotajlo. Starring Siobhan Finneran, Sacha Parkinson, Molly Wright and Robert Emms.SYNOPSIS:Inside the Jehovah’s Witness community, a family is in turmoil.  The elder daughter has rejected the faith and has been cut off from everything and everybody she knows.  Her mother is only allowed limited visits, her younger sister isn’t allowed to […]

Comic Book Review – Supergirl: Being Super

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Ricky Church reviews Supergirl: Being Super…Supergirl’s popularity has been on the rise in recent years thanks to the hit series that originated on CBS and is now home at The CW. Thanks to that rise, DC has put out a new origin for Supergirl in a standalone tale from writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Joelle […]

Comic Book Review – Dark Nights: Metal – Dark Knights Rising

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Ricky Church reviews Dark Nights: Metal – Dark Knights Rising…Dark Nights: Metal saw the DC Universe invaded by a collection of alternate evil Batmen from the Dark Multiverse, each one a reflection of some of Bruce Wayne’s deepest fears. The collected edition of Metal didn’t really go into each of these Batmen and why they were so fearsome, […]

Comic Book Review – WWE #19

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Liam Hoofe reviews WWE #19…This month’s edition of WWE comics from Boom! Studios shifts its focus away from the women’s revolution and onto the ongoing relationship between Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn.Like the women’s revolution (which I would have liked to have seen a few more issues of, personally) there is plenty of history to […]

Blu-ray Review – The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)

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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey, 1988.Directed by Vincent Ward. Starring Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood, Hamish Gough, Sarah Peirse, and Marshall Napier.SYNOPSIS:Villagers in 14th century England attempt to escape the Black Death by digging a hole to the other side of the Earth, emerging in 20th century New Zealand.In a decade that gave the world some […]

Movie Review – Incredibles 2 (2018)

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Incredibles 2, 2018.Directed by Brad Bird. Featuring the voice talents of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Sarah Vowell, Huck Milner, Catherine Keener, Eli Fucile, Bob Odenkirk, Samuel L. Jackson, Sophia Bush, Isabella Rossellini, and Jonathan Banks.SYNOPSIS:Bob Parr (Mr. Incredible) is left to care for the kids while Helen (Elastigirl) is out saving the world.It’s taken […]

Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger Season 1 Episode 8 Review – ‘Ghost Stories’

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Red Stewart reviews the eighth episode of Cloak & Dagger…As we move further into the future of streaming and online services and away from the past of cable and satellite venues, I’m beginning to wonder whether or not we’ll come to a point where seasonal mandates by content providers will be less standardized and more […]