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Krypton Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Transformation’

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Ricky Church reviews the seventh episode of Krypton… Since passing the midway point of its inaugural season, Krypton has been firing on all cylinders. ‘Transformation’ upped the stakes even more as Brainiac’s presence became known to all the characters as he made a gigantic play for control of Kandor. The episode was action packed with the focus […]

Movie Review – Entebbe (2018)

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Entebbe, 2018. Directed by Jose Padilha. Starring Rosamund Pike, Daniel Brühl, Eddie Marsan, Denis Ménochet, Nonso Anozie, and Lior Ashkenazi. SYNOPSIS: In July 1976, two terrorists (Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl) linked to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, hijacked an Air France passenger plane, forcing it to land at Entebbe airport in Uganda. Chronicling the […]

WWE Backlash 2018 Review

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Liam Hoofe reviews WWE Backlash… After a chaotic month, the WWE presented their second big event in the space of 10 days last night, Backlash. The show featured several inter-brand matches and saw five of the WWE’s main titles defended. After an incredibly mixed build, did the show deliver on the night? Let’s take a […]

Movie Review – Terminal (2018)

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Terminal, 2018. Directed by Vaughn Stein. Starring Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg, Dexter Fletcher, Max Irons and Mike Myers. SYNOPSIS: Two hitmen agree to take on a high-risk mission for a mysterious employer and a large paycheck. Along the way, they encounter a woman who may be more involved in their mission than they had realised. The […]

Blu-ray Review – Dark Blue (2002)

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Dark Blue, 2002. Directed by Ron Shelton. Starring Kurt Russell, Ving Rhames, Scott Speedman, Michael Michele, Brendan Gleeson, Jonathan Banks, Kurupt, Dash Mihok, Khandi Alexander, Lolita Davidovich, and Marin Hinkle. SYNOPSIS: In the aftermath of the Rodney King incident in 1991 Los Angeles, a corrupt cop begins to question his methods as L.A. begins to […]

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 20 Review – ‘The One Who Will Save Us All’

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Danny Hale reviews the twentieth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5… SPOILER WARNING FOR AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR Talbot took centre stage this week as he brought his new powers to the Confederacy as Thanos begins his attack on Earth. General Talbot wastes no time in confronting the Confederacy head-on, Coulson dragged along for […]

Movie Review – The Con is On (2018)

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The Con is On, 2018. Directed by James Oakley. Starring Uma Thurman, Tim Roth, Maggie Q, Stephen Fry, Alice Eve, Sofia Vergara, and Crispin Glover. SYNOPSIS: In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot. […]

Arrow Season 6 Episode 21 Review – ‘Docket No. 11-19-41-73’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-first episode of Arrow season 6… Three words best describe this episode: Melodrama, thy name. Whenever a superhero is put on trial, it usually ends up wacky and bad. So with a long sentence hanging over Oliver, this felt like a dooming moment looming. Just think: Diggle went to prison last […]

Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Capsule Review – Fast Color

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It is movingly fitting that one of the only superhuman-based films centered on women (in this case, generations of women with Gugu Mbatha-Raw and her growing star power, underrated television character actor Lorraine Toussaint, and youngster Saniyya Sidney bonding and making amends while also going even further back reading ancestral passages from a handed diary) focuses […]