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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 […]

Wonder Woman 2 casts Game of Thrones’ Pedro Pascal

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Plans for Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman 2 are certainly heating up now. Just a couple weeks after the director cast Kristen Wigg as The Cheetah, Jenkins’ has made another new addition to the film. According to Variety, Game of Thrones and Narcos actor Pedro Pascal has joined the anticipated sequel. This would mark a reunion between Jenkins and Pascal after having worked together […]

Yvonne Strahovski joins Noomi Rapace in Angel of Mine

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Yvonne Strahovski (Dexter) will be joining Noomi Rapace in the thriller Angel of Mine, per Deadline. The film, to be directed by Kim Farrant, sees Rapace as Lizzie, a mother who is still struggling with the loss of her daughter when she becomes convinced that a stranger’s daughter is actually hers. Strahovski will portray Claire, the […]

Comic Book Review – Superman – Action Comics: The Oz Effect Deluxe Edition

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Ricky Church reviews Superman – Action Comics: The Oz Effect Deluxe Edition… Superman is known for being an inspirational beacon of hope, never quitting when things look bleak and doing all he can to protect the world. A question has often been raised in some comics over whether or not Superman can change the world […]

Emily Blunt delayed Edge of Tomorrow sequel for Mary Poppins Returns, reveals she was never considered for Captain Marvel role

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Emily Blunt, who will be seen next in the horror film A Quiet Place in April [read our review here], really solidified her place as a rising action star with Doug Liman’s Edge of Tomorrow, or Live Die Repeat as it became known on home video. The 2014 sci-fi blockbuster starring Blunt alongside Tom Cruise became a surprise favourite, with […]