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Black Lightning Season 1 Finale Review – ‘Shadow of Death: The Book of War’

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Red Stewart reviews the season 1 finale of Black Lightning… I didn’t have much hope going into the season finale of Black Lightning, and that luckily proved to be a wise decision. The last episode, “The Book of Pain,” was not only one of the worst episodes of the show, it also ruined any chance of […]

Movie Review – Sherlock Gnomes (2018)

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Sherlock Gnomes, 2018. Directed by John Stevenson. Starring James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Johnny Depp, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Maggie Smith, Michael Caine, Mary J. Blige, Jamie Demetriou, Ashley Jensen and Matt Lucas. SYNOPSIS: When all of their friends are kidnapped right out of the garden, Gnomeo and Juliet join forces with a backyard-based sleuth to track down […]

Movie Review – Beast (2017)

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Beast, 2017. Directed by Michael Pearce. Starring Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn, Geraldine James, Trystan Gravelle and Emily Taaffe. SYNOPSIS: Moll lives at home on Jersey with her family, dividing her time between looking after her invalid father and her job as a tour guide.  But she feels like the black sheep of the family and […]

Movie Review – They Remain (2018)

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They Remain, 2018. Directed by Philip Gelatt. Starring William Jackson Harper and Rebecca Henderson. SYNOPSIS: Two scientists who share a romantic history are tasked with investigating unnatural animal behavior on the site of a Manson Family-style cult’s compound. The flippant description of Philip Gelatt’s They Remain is that it’s Annihilation meets the 1973 Wicker Man. […]

Video Game Review – Frostpunk

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Lewy Buck reviews Frostpunk… I’ve always been a huge fan of city builders and I’ve been lucky enough to have reviewed two of my favourites here on Flickering Myth> both Banished and Kingdoms and Castles have kept me up until the early hours of the morning clicking away and telling myself I’ll go to sleep […]

DVD Review – Pyewacket (2017)

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Pyewacket, 2017. Directed by Adam MacDonald. Starring Nicole Muñoz, Laurie Holden, Chloe Rose, Eric Osborne, James McGowan, Bianca Melchior, and Neil Whitely. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl summons a witch to kill her unstable mother after the death of her father. The proverb that begins ‘Be careful what you wish for…’ has been the basis for […]

DVD Review – Acts of Vengeance (2017)

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Acts of Vengeance, 2017. Directed by Isaac Florentine. Starring Antonio Banderas, Karl Urban, Paz Vega, Cristina Serafini, Lillian Blankenship, Clint Dyer, and Robert Forster. SYNOPSIS: A lawyer takes a vow of silence as he goes on the hunt for whoever killed his wife and daughter. Now that Liam Neeson has stepped back from the revenge/action […]

Young Sheldon Season 1 Episode 19 Review – ‘Gluons, Guacamole, and the Color Purple’

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Martin Carr reviews the nineteenth episode of Young Sheldon… As ever the deep-rooted issues being explored in Young Sheldon are not always obvious. Intellectual insecurities amongst rival siblings, familial self-sacrifice for their genius prodigy or romantic encounters initiated for similar reasons are all addressed. Quirky, off kilter but no less endearing for all that, episode […]