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Comic Book Review – Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire #3

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Ricky Church reviews Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire #3… Concluding the first new-canon comic tale set between episodes VI and VII! As the Empire Shatters around them, Rebel heroes fight for a better tomorrow! Greg Rucka (Punisher, Cyclops, Wolverine) and Marco Checchetto (Punisher, Avengers World) take us into the more […]

Countdown to Spectre – The Spy Who Loved Me Review

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Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of The Spy Who Loved Me… James Bond’s previous adventure in The Man with the Golden Gun was a low point for the series that relied too heavily on camp and comedy to succeed. While The Spy Who Loved Me continues Bond’s campy trend, it […]

Countdown to Spectre – The Man with the Golden Gun Review

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Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of The Man with the Golden Gun… While Roger Moore’s first outing as Bond in Live and Let Die was a too campy in some aspects, there were still some moments of seriousness in the film. Moore’s follow-up adventure goes in completely the other direction; […]

Countdown to Spectre – Diamonds Are Forever Review

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Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of Diamonds Are Forever… After On Her Majesty’s Secret Service producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman sought Sean Connery to come back to the role he made famous one last time (officially at least) in Diamonds Are Forever, the conclusion to the SPECTRE era of […]

Comic Book Review – Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire #2

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Ricky Church reviews Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire #2… For the first time in the new Star Wars canon, journey with us into the time after the end of Return of the Jedi! Writer Greg Rucka (PUNISHER, WOLVERINE, Gotham Central) and artist Marco Checchetto (AVENGERS WORLD, PUNISHER) take us past […]

Person of Interest Season 5 Episode 5 Review – ‘ShotSeeker’

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Ricky Church reviews the fifth episode of Person of Interest season 5… Person of Interest’s ‘ShotSeeker’ returned to a regular case-of-the-week story but, as with many of the series’ episodes throughout the third and fourth seasons, even this filler episode was tied to the ongoing arc of the show. And after Shaw’s semi-return in ‘6,471’ […]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens – 4 Hints We Learnt From Star Wars: Aftermath

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Ricky Church with four hints for Star Wars: The Force Awakens from Aftermath… Despite being less than 4 months until its release, there is still a whole lot we don’t know about Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Its plot is still unknown, we don’t know the true identities of Finn and Rey, we don’t know […]

Book Review – Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig

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Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig… In the lead up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Chuck Wendig’s Star Wars: Aftermath is the first piece of new story canon to take place post-Return of the Jedi. Taking place approximately six months after the destruction of the second Death Star and the deaths […]

Countdown to Batman v Superman – Trinity

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Ricky Church continues his countdown to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice with Trinity… Despite the movie being called Batman v Superman, one factor that is just as heavily anticipated, if not more so, than the two heroes going head-to-head in a physical match is the introduction of Wonder Woman. This will be the first […]