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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. Directed by Marty Langford. Starring Roger Corman, Alex Hyde-White, Joseph Culp and Oley Sassone. SYNOPSIS: In 1994, Roger Corman produced a movie adaptation of Marvel’s first ever comic-book, The Fantastic Four, a low budget picture destined never to be released. This is its fascinating story… […]

Movie Review – Brotherhood (2016)

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Brotherhood, 2016. Written and Directed by Noel Clarke. Starring Noel Clarke, Steven Cree, Olivia Chenery, Tonia Sotiropoulou, Nick Nevern, Adjoa Andoh, Arnold Oceng, Fredi ‘Kruga’ Nwaka and Ashley Thomas. SYNOPSIS: The final instalment in Noel Clarke’s West London crime trilogy sees Sam Peel reckon with his past as attacks on his family threaten his future. […]

Movie Review – Imperium (2016)

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Imperium, 2016. Directed by Daniel Ragussis. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Toni Collette, Tracy Letts, Burn Gorman, Sam Trammell, Nestor Carbonell, Chris Sullivan, Seth Numrich and Adam Meier. SYNOPSIS: Idealistic FBI agent Nate Foster goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new […]

Comic Book Review – Green Lanterns #5

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Tony Black reviews Green Lanterns #5… “Red Planet” part five! Bad goes to worse as Atrocitus, leader of the Red Lanterns, comes to Earth to begin the final stages of his plan to turn Earth into a new central battery for his Corps! Without doubt, the so-far excellent opening Rebirth arc of Green Lanterns, ‘Rage […]

TV Review – Jean-Claude Van Johnson – Pilot Episode

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Tom Jolliffe reviews the pilot episode of Jean-Claude Van Johnson… For The Muscles From Brussels, Mr Jean-Claude Van Damme, the notion of sending himself up is nothing new. Many stars may find the idea of mocking themselves as too much for their ego to handle, but Jean-Claude (despite often being accused of having no small […]

DVD Review – The Killings of Tony Blair (2016)

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The Killings of Tony Blair, 2016. Directed by Sanne van den Bergh and Greg Ward. Featuring George Galloway, Stephen Fry, Noam Chomsky, Clare Short, Lauren Booth, Ken Livingstone and Will Self. SYNOPSIS: George Galloway presents a feature documentary examining the prime-ministerial career of Tony Blair and his business activities since leaving office. For many people […]

Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 1 – ‘Nosedive’

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Tony Black reviews Black Mirror – ‘Nosedive’… We can all pretty much stop now and agree that Charlie Brooker is a genius, right? Love him or not as a personality presenting the Wipe program on the BBC or his Guardian articles/books, but Black Mirror has within two painfully short seasons on Channel 4 become The […]

Movie Review – She Who Must Burn (2015)

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She Who Must Burn, 2015. Directed by Larry Kent. Starring Sarah Smyth, Shane Twerdun, Missy Cross, James Wilson and Jim Francis. SYNOPSIS: Angela (Sarah Smyth) sets up her own home medical clinic, after her previous Planned Parenthood doctor colleague was shot to death by anti-abortion protester Abraham Baarker (James Wilson). This puts her directly in […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek #60

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek #60… A Five Year Mission = five years of STAR TREK comics! Celebrate the end of the latest chapter in the Enterprise’s epic adventures with this all-new story that brings Captains and crews from two different timelines together! After last month’s mind-swapping Original and NuTrek crossover opening issue of Connection, we left […]