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Video Game Review – Small Radios Big Televisions

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Andy O’Flaherty reviews Small Radios Big Televisions… Small Radios Big Televisions, a new puzzle offering from Adult Swim games, surprisingly has absolutely nothing at all to do with radios, or indeed televisions.  What it is to do with is classic point and click adventuring… and tapes.  Remember them?  Analogue media is the focus of this puzzling […]

Movie Review – Counter Clockwise (2016)

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Counter Clockwise, 2016. Directed by George Moise. Starring Michael Kopelow, Devon Ogden, Kerry Knuppe, Joy Rinaldi, Caleb Brown, Alice Rietveld and Frank Simms. SYNOPSIS: Counter Clockwise delivers a thriller about a befuddled scientist who stumbles into inventing a time machine and recklessly zaps himself six months into the future. But in that future, he is a […]

The Flash Season 3 Episode 8 Review – ‘Invasion!’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the eighth episode of The Flash season 3… Roll Call! If you caught last year’s superhero sized team up, you have an idea of what to expect this year: don’t come looking for deep plot, or paced action; come for the jokes and the action. If there’s one thing last year’s crossover […]

Comic Book Review – The X-Files #8

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Tony Black reviews The X-Files #8… “Came Back Haunted,” Part 3 of 4: In search of Mulder, Scully travels to Europe where each uncovers unpleasant secrets. And what connection does Firas Ben-Brahim have to both? SEE ALSO: Check out a preview of The X-Files #8 here The penultimate issue of ‘Came Back Haunted’, Joe Harris’ […]

Movie Review – Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four (2015)

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Doomed! The Untold Story of Roger Corman’s The Fantastic Four, 2015 Written and Directed by Marty Langford Starring Roger Corman, Alex Hyde-White, Oley Sassone, Michael Bailey Smith, Jay Underwood SYNOPSIS: In the 90s, legendary b-movie filmmaker Roger Corman was given the opportunity to produce a film of Marvel’s first family, the Fantastic Four. But after the […]

Movie Review – Moana (2016)

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Moana, 2016. Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker. Featuring the voice talents of Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Jemaine Clement, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison, Alan Tudyk, and Nicole Scherzinger. SYNOPSIS:  In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain’s daughter’s island, she answers the Ocean’s call to seek out the demigod to set […]

Star Wars Rebels Season 3 Episode 8 Review – ‘The Wynkahthu Job’

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Chris Cooper reviews the eighth episode of Star Wars Rebels season 3… I’ve spoken about the term ‘filler’ before, and how I’ve come to realise it’s a term I no longer want to use. Episodes tend to either include big plot advancements or pleasing moments of character growth. We usually learn something, even if it […]

Comic Book Review – Wonder Woman #11

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Ricky Church reviews Wonder Woman #11… “THE LIES” part six! In the conclusion to this epic tale, the lie is revealed as Wonder Woman returns to Themyscira in the company of Steve Trevor to find that nothing has changed—and everything is wrong. Greg Rucka and Liam Sharp’s Wonder Woman tale ‘The Lies’ came to a […]

Video Game Review – Merry Christmas From Horace on the ZX Spectrum

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Villordsutch reviews Merry Christmas Fom Horace on the ZX Spectrum… Horace, the no necked, vacant staring shape of a being is – in some classic ZX Spectrum owners hearts – the official mascot of the their machine.  Yes, we have Miner Willy from Manic Miner and Jet Set Willy, Monty Mole from a cluster of games […]