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DVD Review – Tank 432 (2016)

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Tank 432, 2016. Directed by Nick Gillespie Starring Rupert Evans, Deirdre Mullins, Steve Garry, Gordon Kennedy and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: A group of British mercenaries transporting human cargo through the countryside come under attack from a strange enemy, forcing them to hide inside a old, abandoned tank… After watching Tank 432 aka Belly of the […]

DVD Review – Forsaken (2016)

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Forsaken, 2016 Directed by Jon Cassar. Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Demi Moore, Michael Wincott, Greg Ellis and Brian Cox. SYNOPSIS: In the Old West, former Civil War-veteran John Henry returns to his frontier hometown where he must repair a fractious relationship with his Reverend father, and face the demons of his past when a […]

Blu-ray Review – Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan: Director’s Cut (1982)

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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, 1982. Directed by Nicholas Meyer. Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Paul Winfield, Bibi Besch and Ricardo Montalban. SYNOPSIS: Years after their five year mission, the crew of the USS Enterprise under now Admiral James T. Kirk are pitched […]

DVD Review – Train to Busan (2016)

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Train to Busan, 2016. Directed by Sang-ho Yeon. Starring Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, Yu-mi Jung, Dong-seok Ma, and Eui-sung Kim. SYNOPSIS: A selfish businessman reconnects with his young daughter on a train journey across South Korea, albeit against a backdrop of marauding zombies. You would have thought that the zombie genre had all but dried […]

Video Game Review – Z-Exemplar on PC Steam

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Villordsutch reviews Z-Exemplar on the Steam… Back in 1987 Irem released a side-scrolling shooter called R-Type upon the arcade houses across the world, and this caused Gaming Waves that are still being felt today.  It was a glorious game, with swarms of enemies, bosses so huge and grotesque that they were in fact morbidly beautiful at the […]

DVD Review – The Shallows (2016)

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The Shallows, 2016. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra. Starring Blake Lively, Oscar Jaenada, Angelo Josue Lozano Corzo, Bret Mullen, Chelsea Moody. SYNOPSIS: A surfer is attacked by a great white shark a couple of hundred yards from the shore and must battle to get back to dry land. “The best shark movie since Jaws” is a […]

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – Creepy (2016)

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Creepy, 2016. Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa Starring Hidetoshi Nishijima, Yuko Takeuchi, Masahiro Higaside and Teruyuki Kagawa. SYNOPSIS: Retired detective turned university professor Takakura is called upon by a former colleague to help in the investigation of a family that vanished six years prior, with the daughter of the family being the sole remaining member and […]

60th BFI London Film Festival Review – Moonlight (2016)

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Moonlight, 2016. Directed by Barry Jenkins. Starring Trevante Rhodes, Andre Holland, Janelle Monáe, Ashton Sanders, Jharrel Jerome, Naomie Harris, and Mahershala Ali. SYNOPSIS: A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing […]

Movie Review – Allied (2016)

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Allied, 2016. Directed by Robert Zemeckis Starring Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, Jared Harris, Lizzy Caplan, Simon McBurney and Matthew Goode SYNOPSIS: In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of […]