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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.14 — ‘The War Without, the War Within’
This season’s warping to a close, and “The War Without, the War Within” began what’s essentially a bonus two-parter after the Mirror Universe arc. The Discovery’s now back in the Prime Universe, but it’s nine months later and the Klingon Empire’s close to winning the war. This episode quickly brought us up to speed on…
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THE SERPENT AND THE RAINBOW (1988)
An anthropologist goes to Haiti after hearing rumours about a drug used by black magic practitioners to turn people into zombies…
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FLATLINERS (2017)
Five medical students, obsessed by what happens after death, stops their hearts for short periods to trigger near-death experiences…
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THE X-FILES, 11.5 – ‘Ghouli’
The situation with Mulder (David Duchovny) and Scully (Gillian Anderson) having a child together, which they gave up for adoption, formed part of The X-Files mythos after I’d stopped watching in the late-1990s, so it’s always been hard for me to care about it. I’d much rather the revived series ditch the alien conspiracy stuff,…
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REVOLT (2017)
In a war-ravaged Kenya, a U.S soldier with amnesia and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive an alien invasion…
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THE CAT O’NINE TAILS (1971)
A newspaper reporter and a retired, blind journalist try to solve a series of killings connected to a pharmaceutical company’s experimental, top-secret research projects and in so doing, both become targets of the killer.
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, 1.13 – ‘What’s Past is Prologue’
The climax of Star Trek: Discovery’s extensive foray into the Mirror Universe ended on an explosive high, with levels of action and nail-biting drama the series hasn’t handled this well since Deep Space Nine’s day. It’s remarkable what modern TV budgets can achieve, as there was a cinematic grandeur to many of the spacecraft sequences…
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KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE (2017)
When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, Eggsy flies across the Atlantic for help from the American version of the Kingsman organisation…
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THE HORROR OF FRANKENSTEIN (1970)
Scientist Victor Frankenstein builds a man from spare body parts; the monster comes alive and wreaks havoc.
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IVAN’S CHILDHOOD (1962)
In WWII, 12-year-old orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Russian officers.
