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Game of Thrones: Riverrun, the Blackfish, and why we’re going back

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Tony Black on Game of Thrones: Riverrun, the Blackfish, and why we’re going back… Riverrun. Good old Riverrun. When was the last time we saw Riverrun? It’s been a while since the seventy minute opening credits of Game of Thrones took us there, but that looks like where we’re going for the show’s next episode, […]

Comic Book Review – Assassin’s Creed: Trial By Fire

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Tony Black reviews Assassin’s Creed: Trial By Fire… Charlotte de la Cruz is over-educated and underemployed, wasting her time in a dead-end job in San Diego, and spending her free time chasing down conspiracy theories on the dark side of the internet. When a real-life conspiracy crashes into her life, she’s pulled into the orbit of […]

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the Unhelpful Rumour Machine

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Tony Black on Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and the unhelpful rumour machine… We may be living in the age of the geek, but when you examine all the rumour around Rogue One: A Star Wars Story this week, you can’t help but wonder if that Birth. Movies. Death article doing the rounds about ‘broken […]

DVD Review – 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)

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13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, 2016. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring John Krasinski, Max Martini, James Badge Dale, Freddie Stroma and Toby Stephens. SYNOPSIS: Over the course of one hot, desperate night, a team of covert American military defence contractors must protect a secret CIA compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi from […]

Game of Thrones: Who is Bran’s Cold Handed Saviour?

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Tony Black on Bran’s Cold Handed saviour… MAJOR spoilers for Game of Thrones – Season 6 Episode 6 – ‘Blood of My Blood’. So hands up who thought Bran Stark was dead meat after the traumatic end of ‘The Door’? With poor old Hodor fulfilling his manifest destiny, his all-seeing Raven mentor cut to ribbons, […]

Justin Lin and the Battle for Axanar

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Tony Black on the legal dispute over Star Trek: Axanar… Fan films have existed in the Star Trek universe almost as long as the licensed ones. Just look at Star Trek: New Voyages which frequently includes major stars from Voyager or as far back as The Original Series, frequently playing the roles they are beloved […]

Game of Thrones: The Night King is not who we thought…

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Tony Black on the identity of the Night King… Well now. Who saw this coming? This weeks Game of Thrones, in the middle of a season now definitively outpacing George R.R. Martin’s books, raced thick and fast toward not only some serious character development but equally some enormous revelations about the dense, fascinating mythology underpinning […]

X-Men: The real Apocalypse is its continuity!

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Tony Black attempts to make sense of the continuity of the X-Men franchise… Have you ever attempted to make sense of the X-Men movie continuity? As in pick apart the entire timeline of events across the eight, soon to be nine films in the franchise? Of course not, you all have lives. You have friends […]

Movie Review – Girl in Woods (2016)

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Girl in Woods, 2016 Directed by Jeremy Benson. Starring Juliet Reeves, Jeremy London, John Still and Charisma Carpenter. SYNOPSIS: Grace Walker and her fiancee Jim take a romantic journey into the Smoky Mountains to celebrate their engagement, but after a tragic and fatal accident, Grace is left alone with only the woods and her demons […]