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Arrow Season 4 Episode 19 Review – ‘Canary Cry’

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Jessie Robertson reviews the nineteenth episode of Arrow season 4… For tonight’s game, let’s play……Who’s More Guilty!! Don’t hide that self-loathing! Unleash that huge mound of guilt you feel bogging you down! You could win fabulous prizes galore on …..Who’s More Guilty! When you watch Arrow, you definitely feel the dour. It is all over […]

Movie Review – Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)

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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, 2016. Directed by David Yates. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Colin Farrell, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, Carmen Ejogo, Ezra Miller, Ron Perlman, Jon Voight, Ronan Raftery, Faith Wood-Blagrove, Jenn Murray, Zoe Kravitz and Johnny Depp. SYNOPSIS: The adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York’s secret community of […]

Comic Book Review – The Hunt #1

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Tony Black reviews The Hunt #1… Dream or reality? For a long time, teenager Orla Roche couldn’t tell them apart, and now THE HUNT is coming with its nightmare world of the restless dead. An intense story of survival, THE HUNT is a supernatural horror tale that will give Irish mythology a distinctly modern twist. […]

Movie Review – Ghostbusters (2016)

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Ghostbusters, 2016. Directed by Paul Feig. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, Neil Casey, Andy Garcia, Michael Kenneth Williams, Charles Dance and Chris Hemsworth. SYNOPSIS: Erin Gilbert, a disgraced physics teacher who grew up believing in ghosts, falls in with her estranged school friend Abby Yates and helps form the ‘Ghostbusters’, the […]

Second Opinion – Born to Be Blue (2015)

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Born to Be Blue, 2015. Directed by Robert Budreau. Starring Ethan Hawke, Carmen Ejogo, Callum Keith Rennie and Stephen McHattie. SYNOPSIS: A liberal interpretation of a key period in Chet Baker’s life after he’s beaten within an inch of his life, forcing him to re-learn his embouchure while struggling to control his addiction to heroin. There’s […]

Movie Review – The Magnificent Seven (2016)

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The Magnificent Seven, 2016. Directed by Antoine Fuqua. Starring Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio, Byung-hun Lee, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Martin Sensmeier, Peter Sarsgaard, Luke Grimes and Haley Bennett.   SYNOPSIS: Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves. Boasting an all-star cast, Antoine […]

FrightFest Presents Review – Curtain (2015)

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Curtain, 2015. Directed by Jaron Henrie-McCrea. Starring Danni Smith, Tim Lueke, Rick Zahn and Martin Monahan. SYNOPSIS: A young woman buys an apartment and discovers a portal to another dimension that likes eating shower curtains. No, really… Otherwise known as The Gateway, Curtain is an odd little movie that clearly has some big ideas lurking […]

Comic Book Review – Heroes: Godsend #5

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Tai Freligh reviews Heroes: Godsend 5… Farah Nazan… Former soldier and tough protector of Malina… But how did she become the woman she is today? Farah’s origins are explored in Godsend.   Farah is desperate to stop those who have turned to violence and vandalism to destroy her  community. After they clashed with the mysterious    Mr. […]