01st Mar2014

Hannibal 2×01 – “Kaiseki” [Season Premiere] Review

by Nathan Smith

Stars: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne | Created by Bryan Fuller Kaiseki: a type of multicourse Japanese meal offering small dishes; a Japanese tasting menu Wisely, Bryan Fuller, who co-scripted the premiere, leaves Will in lockup as the season begins (forced to be picked apart by antagonistic Frederick Chilton), and truly haunted […]

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27th Feb2014

The Americans 2×01 – “Comrades” [Season Premiere] Review

by Nathan Smith

Stars: Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys, Noah Emmerich, Holly Taylor, Keidrich Sellati | Created by Joseph Weisberg Let’s begin at the end here. It makes the most sense to do so. Or as close to the end as we can get. We know that espionage isn’t exactly a sunshine and lollipops kind of business. It’s abhorrent behavior, […]

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26th Feb2014

WWE Network: A First Look (Early Thoughts)

by Chris Cummings

The time has come folks. The WWE has finally launched the WWE Network in the United States (the rest of the World to follow eventually) and I had a chance to spend the last couple of days delving into the service. I’ll begin by saying that my review and look at the service is based […]

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25th Feb2014

WWE RAW Results & Review (24.02.14)

by Chris Cummings

We are twenty-four hours removed from WWE Elimination Chamber, the show that ended with Randy Orton retaining his WWE World Title in a chamber match against five opponents, including Daniel Bryan. Tonight has a lot of hype about it, with the launch of the WWE Network in the US, and the return of Hulk Hogan […]

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24th Feb2014

Bates Motel 2×01 – “Gone But No Forgotten” Review

by Nathan Smith

— SPOILERS LIE BEYOND HERE — We all know how the saga of Norman Bates is going to end. It’s something that’s been so ingrained in the pop culture lexicon for many years that I was actually shocked when discussing Bates Motel, with others, that they didn’t actually know how this was all going to […]

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24th Feb2014

‘WWE Elimination Chamber 2014’ Results & Review

by Chris Cummings

Elimination Chamber, as you’re reading this, has been and gone and we are now well on our way down the road to WrestleMania XXX. There were lots of questions to be answered going in to Elimination Chamber, and in all honesty most of those questions were left unanswered as the show went off the air […]

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22nd Feb2014

‘WWE Elimination Chamber 2014’ Preview

by Chris Cummings

So here we are, in the midst of the “Road to WrestleMania”, a time of year when WWE pull out the stops and attempt to pull back casual fans for their biggest annual PPV, WrestleMania. We’re a month away from that, and that means we are about to see Elimination Chamber, an event built around […]

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22nd Feb2014

Tales from the Crypt 2×07 – “The Sacrifice” Review

by Nathan Smith

Original airdate – May 15th, 1990 There’s a reason I don’t usually remember the Tales From the Crypt episodes with no supernatural leanings – it’s because they’re bland. Look, every episode, you’ll find a single certainty: there’s going to be someone getting killed or someone deserving of some major cosmic comeuppance, and then they get […]

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19th Feb2014

House of Cards Season Two: Episodes 1-3 Review

by Catherina Gioino

In Netflix’s original series, House of Cards returned for its second season on Friday, February 14th 2014 to blow away audiences everywhere, even causing a 16% spike of Netflix’s new users (and beating out last year’s premiere with a spike of only 2%). The point is, it’s doing quite well financially. However, since it is […]

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18th Feb2014

WWE RAW Results & Review (17.02.14)

by Chris Cummings

Welcome to this week’s RAW write-up. Tonight’s show opens with John Cena’s music playing and him making his way to the ring to his usual reaction, the kids cheer, the rest of the fans boo. We see a replay of Cena pinning Orton in the main event of last week’s RAW. Cena poses for the […]

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17th Feb2014

‘WWE Survivor Series 2013’ Blu-ray Review

by Chris Cummings

Survivor Series began at the end of the 1980’s and was a themed show that saw the roster of WWE team together in elimination style tag team battles that saw the biggest stars of the day team together to form super-teams. As time went by the Survivor Series stopped being a show filled with elimination […]

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15th Feb2014

‘Games of Thrones: The Complete Third Season’ DVD Review

by Paul Metcalf

When looking at Game of Thrones: The Complete Third Season for review the question has to be what can I say what people don’t already know? If they are going to watch the third season they already will have seen the other seasons and know what is to come.  In looking at the complete season […]

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14th Feb2014

Advance Review: Hannibal 2×01 – ‘Kaiseki’ [Spoiler-Free]

by Nathan Smith

Stars: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne | Created by Bryan Fuller I fell out of reviewing Hannibal last season, not because I didn’t have anything to say about the show (because frankly, I always have things to say about the show), I fell out of covering it purely because the timing was […]

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10th Feb2014

‘WWE Superstar Collection: Sheamus’ DVD Review

by Paul Metcalf

Today as well as the release of WWE Superstar Collection: Daniel Bryan, we also have WWE Superstar Collection: Sheamus which is yet another collection of matches all connected by the “Superstar” from the WWE.  With the quality of the release being down to the selected match I always start to watch these with trepidation as […]

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10th Feb2014

‘WWE Superstar Collection: Daniel Bryan’ DVD Review

by Paul Metcalf

I’m not really a fan of the WWE Superstar Collection releases, but to be fair I guess it’s the choice of matches that are important. The collection picks a superstar and then gives a series of matches from their history that feature them. With the WWE Superstar Collection: Daniel Bryan release for the most part […]

04th Feb2014

WWE RAW Results & Review (03.02.14)

by Chris Cummings

Welcome to this week’s write-up of Monday Night RAW. The show begins with Randy Orton making his way to the ring, the WWE World Heavyweight Titles around his shoulders, to a chorus of boo’s from the fans. The announcers talk about Randy Orton defending his title against five other men inside the Elimination Chamber at […]

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30th Jan2014

‘American Horror Story: Coven 3×13 – The Seven Wonders’ Season Finale Review

by Nathan Smith

Perhaps because I was so enamored with the highs of American Horror Story: Asylum, I went into the third season, Coven, with appropriately set expectations. I mean, witches in New Orleans residing in a boarding school. Well, that’s ripe with possibilities. And throw in a little bit of local flavor with the history of Madame […]

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29th Jan2014

‘Bates Motel: Season One’ Review

by Paul Metcalf

Some shows come along and you just can’t help being sceptical about them.  Bates Motel Season 1 came with the news that it would be a “modern re-imagining” of the Psycho origin story, putting Norman and his mother in a modern-day setting with an aim of looking at the routes of just what made Norman […]

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28th Jan2014

WWE RAW Results & Review (27.01.14)

by Chris Cummings

Welcome to the RAW following Royal Rumble 2014, the most controversial WWE PPV in many a moon. There are many open questions heading into tonights RAW, and hopefully some of them will be answered in the three hour episode of WWE’s flagship program. Will the WWE fans continue to voice their vehement support for Daniel […]

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27th Jan2014

‘WWE Royal Rumble 2014’ Results & Review

by Chris Cummings

So, here we are, officially on the road to WrestleMania, the time of year where WWE pull out all the stops in order to sell as many PPV’s as possible come April. Royal Rumble has always been the beginning of this segment of the year and often is the time when WWE brings in popular […]

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27th Jan2014

WWE Royal Rumble 2014: A few thoughts on the crowd reaction

by Paul Metcalf

Last night the WWE held its yearly Royal Rumble event and in many ways it was exactly what you would expect from the wrestling company and there were no real surprises.  I tend to like Royal Rumble because of the match itself where thirty of the superstars enter the ring starting with one, then after […]

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26th Jan2014

WWE Royal Rumble 2014 Preview

by Chris Cummings

Here we are at the first WWE PPV of 2014 and the official beginning on the frequently-mentioned “Road to WrestleMania”. The most famous and successful gimmick match in history, the Royal Rumble, rides again with 30 men fighting it out for the opportunity to become the number one contender to the WWE World Heavyweight Championship […]

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