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Movie Review – The Carrier (2015)

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The Carrier, 2015. Directed by Anthony Woodley. Starring Ed Kingsley, Jack Gordon, Karen Bryson, Joe Dixon, Zora Bishop, Billy Clarke, Andrew French, Luke Healy and Rebecca Johnson. SYNOPSIS: Eight survivors take to the skies in a badly damaged aircraft to escape an antibiotic resistant pandemic which decimates the planet. There’s nowhere safe to land, but […]

Movie Review – One Million K(l)icks (2014)

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One Million K(l)icks, 2014. Directed by Alex Padrutt and Oliver Juhrs Starring Mike Moeller, Martin Baden, Bartholomaeus Kowalski, Volkram Zschiesche, Sabine Steinbach and Yanlong Li. SYNOPSIS: A fighter with a heart of gold finds himself drawn into an Internet-streaming underground martial arts tournament. Since Bruce Lee took on an island of fighting experts in Enter […]

Movie Review – The Terminator (1984)

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The Terminator, 1984. Directed by James Cameron. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. SYNOPSIS: A human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all […]

Movie Review – Dragon Blade (2015)

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Dragon Blade, 2015. Directed by Daniel Lee. Starring Jackie Chan, John Cusack and Adrien Brody. SYNOPSIS: Set in China during the Han dynasty (206-220 AD), Dragon Blade follows Huo An (Chan), an official framed and enslaved for a crime he didn’t commit. Soon thereafter, however, he meets a Roman soldier in Cusack’s Lucius and the […]

Movie Review – Skin Trade (2014)

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Skin Trade, 2014. Directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham. Starring Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Ron Perlman, Peter Weller, Michael Jai White and Celina Jade. SYNOPSIS: After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests, NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the […]

Revisiting the Mad Max Trilogy

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With Mad Max: Fury Road set to arrive this month, Tom Jolliffe revisits the Mad Max Trilogy… For the last year we have been treated with some tantalizing footage of the upcoming, Mad Max: Fury Road. Every new trailer provides yet more spectacular and eye-catching visuals, and promises a film absolutely crammed with dazzling vehicular […]

20 Years On: The Legacy of Father Ted

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Tom Jolliffe on the legacy of Father Ted… So 20 years ago this week a sitcom debuted on Channel 4. Set in the fictional Craggy Island this focused on a parochial house of three priests and their house keeper. Father Ted ran for three seasons before the untimely death of Dermot Morgan who played the […]

Video Game Review – 5 Star Wrestling

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Tom Jolliffe reviews 5 Star Wrestling… Wrestling has been immensely popular over the last thirty years. Once a bastion of Saturday afternoon entertainment on TV during the 2-3 three channel days, it then became less sport and more entertainment focused. A living, athletic and slightly sweaty soap opera, full of drama, twists, turns and budgie […]

Movie Review – The Ninja Immovable Heart (2014)

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The Ninja Immovable Heart, 2014. Directed by Rob Baard and John Balazs. Starring Danny Glover, Rob Baard, Roger Neave, John Balazs, Cassandra Gava. SYNOPSIS: Reeve is a member of an elite covert group thought not to exist anymore, he is captured, beaten and brutally tortured, by the very Governments he used to work for. With […]