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Star Trek: The Axanar Repercussions

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Tony Black on the repercussions of Star Trek: Axanar… Well. CBS and Paramount just put a great big giant bat’leth right through the hopes and dreams of many a Star Trek fan looking to make a movie within their beloved franchise, with a brand new set of very clear and to an extent unprecedented stipulations […]

Game of Thrones: Winter has brought the Age of Queens

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Tony Black on Game of Thrones’ ‘Age of Queens’ (spoilers for ‘The Winds of Winter’ follow)… It began with Kings. Game of Thrones now looks set to end with Queens. The feminist revolution in Westeros truly blossomed this season and epic finale ‘The Winds of Winter’ cemented the concrete inside the stone, or perhaps more […]

Comic Book Review – Independence Day #1-5

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Tony Black reviews Independence Day #1-5… On the eve of Independence Day: Resurgence, a blockbuster sequel two decades in the making, Titan Comics have jumped on the prequel bandwagon to deliver this limited-run, five issue story set just after the original Independence Day film, from writer Victor Gischler & artist Tazio Bettin. The hook is […]

Second Opinion – Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

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Independence Day: Resurgence (2016). Directed by Roland Emmerich. Starring Liam Hemsworth, Jeff Goldblum, William Fichtner, Jessie T. Usher, Bill Pullman, Maika Monroe, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Brent Spiner, Judd Hirsch and Deobia Oparei. SYNOPSIS: Twenty years after launching a devastating attack on Earth, alien invaders return to destroy the planet and only survivors from the War of […]

Game of Thrones: The Battle is over, but Winter is Coming

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Tony Black on what could be in store for Game of Thrones in ‘The Winds of Winter’… It’s taken me a while, but I’ve managed to recover from the televisual onslaught that was Game of Thrones season six episode nine, ‘Battle of the Bastards’. Spoilers will inevitably follow for this monster, this narrative titan of […]

DVD Review – Visions (2016)

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Visions, 2016 Directed by Kevin Greutert. Starring Isla Fisher, Anson Mount, Jim Parsons, Gillian Jacobs, Joanna Cassidy and Eva Longoria. SYNOPSIS: Everleigh Maddox survives a horrific car accident, and a year later, while pregnant, begins to suffer terrifying visions suggesting the event may still be haunting her… You wouldn’t know that producer Jason Blum had […]

Blu-ray Review – Enemy Mine (1985)

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Enemy Mine, 1985. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen. Starring Dennis Quaid, Louis Gosset Jr., Richard Marcus, Carolyn McCormick and Brion James. SYNOPSIS: The future. Humanity fight for distant star systems against an alien race called the Drac. When human pilot Davidge crash-lands on a hostile, barren alien world, he must forge an unlikely alliance with Jeriba, […]

Movie Review – The Antwerp Dolls (2016)

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The Antwerp Dolls, 2016. Directed by Jake L. Reid. Starring Jason Wing, Courtney Winston, Sean Cronin, Sebastian Foucan and Bruce Payne. SYNOPSIS: A ruthless businessman’s payoff to the Belgian mafia is intercepted by his revenge-seeking former protegees, launching a deadly war of violence and double-dealing… Another peculiar sub-genre of recent years appears to have been […]

Second Opinion – The Conjuring 2 (2016)

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The Conjuring 2, 2016. Directed by James Wan. Starring Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga, Frances O’Connor, Madison Wolfe, Simon McBurney and Franke Potente. SYNOPSIS: Enfield, North London, 1977. The Hodgson family are plagued by a terrifying poltergeist, attracting the attention of American paranormal investigators, Ed & Lorraine Warren, who must take a leap of faith to […]