Author: Rob Williams
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Welcome to Middle Earth
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The 22nd of September is known as Hobbit Day. Why? Because that is the shared birthday of the two best known hobbits…Bilbo and Frodo Baggins; lead characters in The Hobbit and The Lord Of The Rings respectively. If those names mean nothing to you then you may as well stop reading now! Middle Earth is…
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Loki – (Season 2) What You Need To Know
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Loki was among the new wave of MCU TV series. It came out after WandaVision, and The Falcon And The Winter Soldier. The main difference, to me, was that Loki took off in a totally different direction to the film outings. WandaVision led on from the death of Vision at the hands of Thanos while…
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Blade – What You Need To Know
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I remember the Wesley Snipes era Blade and quite enjoyed the trilogy. It ran from 1998 to 2004 and led to a spin-off TV series. Blade: The Series only ran for one season but that isn’t necessarily down to quality! It was being made by a fledgling network (Spike TV) and they couldn’t afford to…
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Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania – What You Need To Know
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Hands up everyone who thought the MCU would have to start wrapping up after Avengers: Endgame.. Yes, me too. But it just goes to show that there is still plenty of mileage to be wrung out of all the original characters as well bringing out new ones! In fact, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania…
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Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny – What You Need To Know
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Indiana Jones returns for his fifth adventure…Indiana Jones and The Dial Of Destiny. The fact that Harrison Ford is now eighty years old seems not to be much of a problem. Less of a problem than trying to introduce an Indiana Jones Jr. Jr. in the last film. Which was a mere fourteen years ago when…
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Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 – What You Need To Know
I’ll admit that my first watch of Guardians Of The Galaxy left me quite cold. However, I had another look and got hooked! One theme running through the first two films was that Peter Quill/Star-Lord had a couple of cassettes left to him by his Earthling mother. This meant that there was a brilliant 60s/70s…
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Good Omens Season 2 – What You Need To Know
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Good Omens was based on the book of the same name. Well, it was based on the book called Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch. This was a collaboration between the two most imaginative and creative writers of modern times; Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. As a result the Good…
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I Can’t Be Bothered Thinking, Just Stick This One On
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I know that I’ve mentioned this on many occasions, but I have a selection of films which I just put on when I can’t be bothered thinking about what I want to watch. By that I mean, I suppose, my favourites which I am happy to watch over and over again. Sometimes I have to…
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Riddick 4: Furya – What You Need To Know
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Pitch Black came out in 2000 and introduced us to the character Riddick played by Vin Diesel. It was a success and so there was the inevitable run of sequels; The Chronicles Of Riddick (2004), and Riddick (2013). The fourth Riddick outing was first announced in 2014 but everything seemed to go quiet for a…
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Best of British Biographies – Ewan McGregor
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in BiographyA long time ago in a galaxy far, far away… Well, a bit over fifty years ago on the banks of the River Tay in Scotland, Ewan Gordon McGregor OBE was born. His parents were both teachers so we are very lucky that he didn’t decide to follow in their footsteps. If he had, we…
