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Movie Review – Final Recall (2017)

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Final Recall, 2017. Directed by Mauro Borrelli. Starring Wesley Snipes, R.J. Mitte, Jedidiah Goodacre, Laura Bilgeri, Niko Pepaj, and Hannah Rose Nay. SYNOPSIS: A group of friends are spending the weekend at a cabin while, unbeknownst to them, aliens have begun to attack planet Earth. A number of them are abducted by the alien spaceship […]

Movie Review – The Rizen (2017)

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The Rizen, 2017. Directed by Matt Mitchell. Starring Laura Swift, Christopher Tajah, Patrick Knowles, Adrian Edmondson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and Sally Phillips. SYNOPSIS: The year is 1955. NATO and the Allied Forces have been conducting secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. Now, they have finally succeeded but what the Army has […]

Movie Review – Wish Upon (2017)

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Wish Upon, 2017. Directed by John R. Leonetti. Starring Joey King, Ryan Phillippe, Ki Hong Lee, Mitchell Slaggert, Shannon Purser, Sydney Park, and Elisabeth Röhm. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl discovers a box that carries magic powers and a deadly price for using them. It’s safe to say that goodie-two-shoes heroes don’t necessarily make for complex or […]

Movie Review – Baby Driver (2017)

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Baby Driver, 2017. Directed by Edgar Wright. Starring Ansel Elgort, Lily James, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Jon Bernthal, and Eiza González. SYNOPSIS: A young getaway driver yearns to break free from the clutches of a local crime boss and start a new life on the road with his waitress girlfriend. As I sat […]

Movie Review – Cars 3 (2017)

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Cars 3, 2017. Directed by Brian Fee. Featuring the voice talents of Owen Wilson, Armie Hammer, Cristela Alonzo, Nathan Fillion, Chris Cooper, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Kerry Washington, Tony Shalhoub, Bob Costas, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Ray Magliozzi, Bob Peterson, Lea, DeLaria, Darrell Waltrip, Cheech Marin, Margo Martindale, John Ratzenberger, and Paul Newman. SYNOPSIS: […]

DVD Review – The Salesman (2016)

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The Salesman, 2016. Directed by Asghar Farhadi. Starring Taraneh Alidoost, Shahab Hosseini, Farid Sajjadi Hosseini, and Babak Karimi. SYNOPSIS: In modern-day Iran, a teacher and his wife are preparing for the opening night of their amateur production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman.  But work on an adjacent building makes their own apartment block […]

Movie Review – The Shepherd (El Pastor) (2016)

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The Shepherd (El Pastor), 2016. Written and directed by Jonathan Cenzual Burley. Starring Miguel Martín, Juan Luis Sara, Alfonso Mendiguchia, Maribel Iglesias, and Carlos San Jorge. SYNOPSIS: A self-sufficient shepherd’s home and way of life is threatened when property developers take an interest in his land. With The Shepherd – or El Pastor in Spanish – Jonathan […]

Comic Book Review – Wonder Woman #23

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Ricky Church reviews Wonder Woman #23… “The Truth” part five! The conclusion to Diana’s search for the truth takes her on a journey into darkness. But the price of understanding may be one sacrifice too many for Wonder Woman… With Wonder Woman #23 comes the conclusion to ‘The Truth’, edging us that much closer to […]

Video Game Review – Victor Vran Overkill Edition

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Scott Watson reviews Victor Vran Overkill Edition… It has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Then again, there’s the flipside too that familiarity breeds contempt. Victor Vran, by Haemimont Games (of Tropico fame), straddles that ever so thin line between both splendidly. An action RPG with a storyline steeped in Grimm’s […]