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Movie Review – The Pass (2016)

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The Pass, 2016. Directed by Ben A. Williams. Starring Russell Tovey, Arinze Kene, Lisa McGrillis and Nico Mirallegro. SYNOPSIS: The night before their debut match for the first team, two teenage footballers can’t sleep for excitement. They tease each other, fight, prepare their kit – and then something unexpected happens.  Something that, ten years on, neither […]

DVD Review – Red Dwarf XI

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Villordsutch reviews Red Dwarf Series XI … I think we can all agree that when we heard the announcement for the new series of Red Dwarf, a fair few of us felt a wee pang of trepidation.  Even a long-term fan such as myself – I have been watching the show since the first transmission […]

Comic Book Review – The X-Files: Origins #4

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Tony Black reviews The X-Files: Origins #4… Before the FBI, before the X-Files, they were just two teenagers in search of the truth. On Martha’s Vineyard, a young Fox Mulder investigates something strange happening on the island, while in San Diego, 13-year-old Dana Scully looks into the shocking murder of her teacher. Two kids, two […]

Blu-ray Review – Star Trek: The Original Series – The Roddenberry Vault

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: The Original Series – The Roddenberry Vault… The difference between a visionary and a normal, everyday Joe is that a visionary will always see that an insignificant something as actually “Something!”.  The visionary in the discussion here is Gene Roddenberry and it’s thanks to him seeing the insignificant as important that we […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek New Visions: “The Hidden Face”

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: New Visions – “The Hidden Face”… If any readers of these reviews frequent John Byrne’s forum you’ll have noticed that John’s CGI work is quite frankly splendid.  Some months back I commented upon the fact that I was unsure why there was a difference between the brief tasters he was showing […]

Movie Review – Office Christmas Party (2016)

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Office Christmas Party, 2016. Directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck. Starring  Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Olivia Munn, Vanessa Bayer, Courtney B. Vance, Jillian Bell, Jamie Chung, Rob Corddry, Abbey Lee, Kate McKinnon, Karan Soni, and Matt Walsh. SYNOPSIS: In OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY, when the CEO (Jennifer Aniston) tries to close her hard-partying […]

Movie Review – A Monster Calls (2016)

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A Monster Calls, 2016. Directed by J.A Bayona. Starring Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver, Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell and Liam Neeson. SYNOPSIS: A boy seeks the help of a Tree monster to help his mother with her terminal illness. A Monster Calls is a truly tragic coming of age story, a 12-year-old boy Conor (Lewis MacDougall) dealing […]

Comic Book Review – Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #3

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Villordsutch reviews Dirk Gently: The Salmon of Doubt #3… Plagued by nightmares about a childhood he never had, Dirk Gently discovers that a holistic detective can have more than one past, and his adventures have only just begun… The universe of Dirk Gently is anything but boring, as has been proven over the previous two […]

Movie Review – Snowden (2016)

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Snowden, 2016. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Rhys Ifans, Tom Wilkinson, Timothy Olyphant, Joely Richardson, Ben Schnetzer, Scott Eastwood and Nicolas Cage. SYNOPSIS: The story of Edward Snowden, former soldier and CIA operative, who went on to work for the NSA and make public the agency’s illegal surveillance […]