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DVD Review – Cub (2014)

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Cub, 2014. Directed by Jonas Govaerts. Starring Maurice Luijten, Evelien Bosmans, Titus De Voogdt, Stef Aerts, Gill Eeckelaert and Ricko Otto. SYNOPSIS: A 12-year-old boy with a vivid imagination goes off into the woods on a scout camp, only to discover that his imagination may not be that overactive at all. Evoking the backwoods horrors of The […]

Comic Book Review – Justice League: Rebirth #1

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Tony Black reviews Justice League: Rebirth #1… Spinning out of the events of DC UNIVERSE: REBIRTH #1, a new day dawns for Earth’s greatest heroes as they welcome three new members to the team, including… Superman? Who is this strange visitor from a dead world — and can he be trusted? Batman and Wonder Woman […]

Comic Book Review – Superman: Action Comics – The Rebirth Deluxe Collection Book 1

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Ricky Church reviews Superman: Action Comics – The Rebirth Deluxe Collection Book 1… In these stories from ACTION COMICS #957-966 and JUSTICE LEAGUE #52, collected for the first time in hardcover, Superman returns to Metropolis just in time to meet the city’s newest protector: Lex Luthor. But the dueling titans soon meet someone unexpected: Clark Kent! […]

Movie Review – Stations of the Cross (2014)

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Stations of the Cross, 2014. Directed by Dietrich Brüggemann. Starring Lea van Acken, Moritz Knapp, Lucie Aron, Florian Stetter, Anna Brüggemann and Franziska Weisz.   SYNOPSIS: Fourteen-year-old Maria, a pious Roman Catholic girl living in a “sinful” modern world, attempts to become a saint by following in Jesus’ footsteps on his way to Calvary.   Remember Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, […]

Movie Review – The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 (2014)

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, 2014. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Julianne Moore, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Woody Harrelson, Donald Sutherland, Natalie Dormer, Sam Claflin, Elizabeth Banks SYNOPSIS: After defying the capital at the end of Catching Fire, Katniss joins the rebels of District 13 to take on […]

Video Game Review – Just Cause 3

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Kris Wall reviews Just Cause 3… Avalanche Studios are really staking their claim to be the masters of explosive entertainment. Following on from this years Mad Max, the latest entry into the Just Cause series takes their pyrotechnics to the next level with some of the most destructive gameplay I’ve ever seen in a video […]

Second Opinion – Doctor Strange (2016)

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Doctor Strange, 2016. Directed by Scott Derrickson. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelsen, and Benedict Wong. SYNOPSIS: A former neurosurgeon embarks on a journey of healing only to be drawn into the world of the mystic arts. When a film opens with the villain ceremoniously decapitating an innocent librarian and […]

Movie Review – Free State of Jones (2016)

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Free State of Jones, 2016. Directed by Gary Ross. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mahershala Ali, Keri Russell, Christopher Barry, Sean Bridgers, and Jacob Lofland. SYNOPSIS: As civil war divides the nation, a poor farmer from Mississippi leads a group of rebels against the Confederate army. Free State of Jones doesn’t start out so bad; […]