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Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Picard – Countdown #3

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Picard – Countdown #3… And so we come to the final slice of Star Trek: Picard – Countdown.  This three issue special, written by Kirsten Beyer and Mike Johnson, aimed to give us a glimpse into the universe of the retired Admiral Picard.  The comic book special written to show us […]

Book Review – A Guide to ZX Spectrum Games 1982 to 1984

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Villordsutch reviews A Guide to ZX Spectrum Games 1982 to 1984…. There’s an increase in love for all things retrogaming emerging across the globe, and at the same time there is also appearing a large number of books chronicling the history of the machines and the games of the past.  Of course the greatest machine to […]

Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide soundtrack available now to pre-order

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It’s fair to say that Games Workshop’s Warhammer series is adored, with its fanbase sprawling across the globe.  So today’s announcement from Sumthing Else Music Works that Jesper Kyd’s (the BAFTA award-winning Danish composer) soundtrack from the first person melee/shooter Warhammer: The End Times – Vermintide is set to be released via digital and streaming […]

Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe arriving in October from BBC Books

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Arriving in October 2017 from BBC Books is Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe, which has been co-written by Cavan Scott, George Mann and Justin Richards. This book is full of Dalek lore, new short stories from writers including Terrance Dicks and Paul Magrs, comic strips from Cavan Scott, […]

Comic Book Review – Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx

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Villordsutch reviews Cadet Anderson: Teenage Kyx… SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS! ONE IN TEN PSI-CADETS WILL COMMIT SUICIDE IN THEIR FIRST YEAR! It’s tough being ten in a school where an assessment can involve taking on a serial killer, but not for the girl who will eventually become Psi-Division’s top telepath, Judge Cassandra Anderson!Cadet Anderson and […]

Hardware Review – GEM Box

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Villordsutch reviews the GEM Box from EMTEC… I am a person that can never have enough things to entertain me.  Things that flash, glow, connect, stream and link me to the big wide world prick my interest and I need to know more.  I’ve even built my own, that’s how far I’ll go… I build […]

DVD Review – Red Dwarf XI

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Villordsutch reviews Red Dwarf Series XI … I think we can all agree that when we heard the announcement for the new series of Red Dwarf, a fair few of us felt a wee pang of trepidation.  Even a long-term fan such as myself – I have been watching the show since the first transmission […]

Blu-ray Review – Star Trek: The Original Series – The Roddenberry Vault

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: The Original Series – The Roddenberry Vault… The difference between a visionary and a normal, everyday Joe is that a visionary will always see that an insignificant something as actually “Something!”.  The visionary in the discussion here is Gene Roddenberry and it’s thanks to him seeing the insignificant as important that we […]

Tom Hanks – A Retrospective

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A Hologram For The King, directed by Tom Tykwer, is due for release on both Blu-ray and DVD come the 19th September 2016 from Icon Film Distribution.  Based on the novel by Dave Eggers, Tom Hanks plays Alan Clay, a man who has lost everything now finding himself desperate and directionless within a strange and foreign land, searching for […]