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Comic Book Review – Batman: Knightfall Omnibus Vol. 2 – Knightquest

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Ricky Church reviews Batman: Knightfall Omnibus Vol. 2 – Knightquest… The aftermath of Batman’s confrontation with the supervillain Bane is one of Batman’s most famous eras not only for his broken back, but also because of who took up the mantle of the bat during Bruce’s recovery. Rather than handing it off to Nightwing or […]

Kathryn Hahn to star in HBO’s Mrs. Fletcher pilot

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A new comedy series may be under way at HBO as the network has ordered a pilot for Mrs. Fletcher starring Katheryn Hahn (Transparent). According to Variety, Hahn will star in the lead role for the pilot, based on the book of the same name by Tom Perrotta. Mrs. Fletcher is described as a dual coming of age […]

Book Review – Star Wars: The Last Jedi by Jason Fry

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: The Last Jedi by Jason Fry… Usually when a big blockbuster movie comes out the novelization is timed to coincide with its release, but in the case of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Lucasfilm decided to release the novelization of the Rian Johnson-directed film three months after the filme. Fry writes […]

Eric Bana and Connie Britton to star in Dirty John

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Eric Bana (The Finest Hours) and Connie Britton (Nashville) are set to star alongside each other in the first season of Bravo Media’s Dirty John. The TV anthology series is based on articles and the true crime podcast of the same name from Christopher Goffard, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Bana will star as […]

Marvel’s Spider-Man to be released in September, details on Deluxe and Collector’s Edition revealed

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Its been a long road for Marvel’s Spider-Man, the upcoming Playstation 4 game involving everyone’s friendly neighbourhood web-slinger, but the release date for the highly anticipated game has kept fluctuating since it was announced. Now the game, developed by Insomniac Games, finally has a release date of September 7, 2018. They released a short trailer marking […]

Blu-ray Review – Father Figures (2017)

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Father Figures, 2017. Directed by Lawrence Sher. Starring Ed Helms, Owen Wilson, Glenn Close, J.K. Simmons, Harry Shearer, and Ving Rhames. SYNOPSIS: Peter (Ed Helms) and Kyle (Owen Wilson) are polar opposite twin brothers; the former is a physicist who specialises in the colon, the other a lucky lay about who got rich from being […]

Comic Book Review – Doomsday Clock #4

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Ricky Church reviews Doomsday Clock #4… Its been a long couple of months since Doomsday Clock switched to a bi-monthly schedule, but the latest issue of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank’s series has arrived. While Doomsday Clock #4 didn’t contain a whole lot of action or answers to what’s going on in the DC universe, this issue was a […]

Krypton Season 1 Episode 2 Review – ‘House of El’

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Ricky Church reviews the second episode of Krypton… Krypton‘s second episode, ‘House of El’, continued the momentum from the series’ pilot as Seg-El searched for evidence of Brainiac’s existence while planning to enact his revenge for the death of his parents as a fallback plan. ‘House of El’ did a nice job to further explore […]

Comic Book Review – Dark Nights: Metal #6

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Ricky Church reviews Dark Nights: Metal #6… Anyone who has been reading Dark Nights: Metal will know how increasingly crazy or ‘out there’ the event series has gotten over its run. Scott Snyder has taken a lot of cues from Grant Morrison in crafting such a meta-commentary heavy event ladled with examining the nature of stories and […]