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With Renée Ballard now heading up a newly-formed cold-case unit – a result of being able to choose her next position (after events in The Dark Hours) – she assembles her team of experts, almost all of them having had police positions at some point but are now private...
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The innate problem with creating an anthology of stories around the Predator race is that the franchise itself has mostly had one story to tell, hunter/hunted, which it has sought to do over and over again to varying degrees of success. The film franchise (that began with the famous...
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When last we ventured into the dark, mysterious lands and outlying territories inhabited by John Connolly’s saviours and miscreants, the tome (The Nameless Ones) was mainly concerned with Louis and Angel. The two characters – killers and fixers with a collective heart of…if not gold then certainly melted copper...
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It’s New Year’s Eve 2020 and as the clock ticks over into a new year, Renee Ballard hopes that 2021 won’t bring any more unpleasant surprises. In the short and long term, she’s likely to be disappointed. She has a raft of cases on her docket, some more official...
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After the events of A Book of Bones, the repercussions of the actions taken by Charlie Parker, Louis and Angel in Europe have finally started to ripple out. The Vuksans – two brothers whose legendary brutality across Eastern Europe and the carnage of the war in the old Yugoslavia...
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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Illustrated Handbook Though The Next Generation gets the bulk of the press for Trek’s resurgence in the 1980/1990s, it’s not difficult to find many fans for whom Deep Space Nine was a more layered experience. The middle-child between TNG and Voyager it...
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Attorney Mickey Haller has just won another case and is in the mood to celebrate. But on the way home from a subsequent party, he is pulled over by the police in what he presumes is an annoying but arbitrary event – after all, he wasn’t speeding and he’s...
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Jonathan Melville’s A Kind of Magic shows that important combination of being an invested fan and a good researcher. In some cases the attention to detail will appeal more to a die-hard Highlander fan than a casual cine-buff, but he draws in accounts from stars and day-players and treats...
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It’s 1997 and in Burdon County, Arkansas, a young black woman lies dead in the undergrowth, just the wrong or right side of a property-line, depending on your view. While there are those who want to catch her killer, there are others who recognise the similarities to a previous...
With Renée Ballard now heading up a newly-formed cold-case unit – a result of being able to choose her next position (after events in The Dark Hours) – she assembles her team of experts, almost all of them having had police positions at some point but are now private...
The innate problem with creating an anthology of stories around the Predator race is that the franchise itself has mostly had one story to tell, hunter/hunted, which it has sought to do over and over again to varying degrees of success. The film franchise (that began with the famous...
When last we ventured into the dark, mysterious lands and outlying territories inhabited by John Connolly’s saviours and miscreants, the tome (The Nameless Ones) was mainly concerned with Louis and Angel. The two characters – killers and fixers with a collective heart of…if not gold then certainly melted copper...
It’s New Year’s Eve 2020 and as the clock ticks over into a new year, Renee Ballard hopes that 2021 won’t bring any more unpleasant surprises. In the short and long term, she’s likely to be disappointed. She has a raft of cases on her docket, some more official...
After the events of A Book of Bones, the repercussions of the actions taken by Charlie Parker, Louis and Angel in Europe have finally started to ripple out. The Vuksans – two brothers whose legendary brutality across Eastern Europe and the carnage of the war in the old Yugoslavia...
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine – The Illustrated Handbook Though The Next Generation gets the bulk of the press for Trek’s resurgence in the 1980/1990s, it’s not difficult to find many fans for whom Deep Space Nine was a more layered experience. The middle-child between TNG and Voyager it...
Attorney Mickey Haller has just won another case and is in the mood to celebrate. But on the way home from a subsequent party, he is pulled over by the police in what he presumes is an annoying but arbitrary event – after all, he wasn’t speeding and he’s...
Jonathan Melville’s A Kind of Magic shows that important combination of being an invested fan and a good researcher. In some cases the attention to detail will appeal more to a die-hard Highlander fan than a casual cine-buff, but he draws in accounts from stars and day-players and treats...
It’s 1997 and in Burdon County, Arkansas, a young black woman lies dead in the undergrowth, just the wrong or right side of a property-line, depending on your view. While there are those who want to catch her killer, there are others who recognise the similarities to a previous...
The Last of Us (and its sequel story) were two of the most acclaimed PS4 games ever produced for the system and it was only the expansive world created...
This week, as something of an early yuletide treat, there has been a raft of teasers and trailers for some of the key 2023 entertainment releases. After their well-received...
Far away on the planetoid of Knowhere, Peter Quill is feeling a little lonesome. Gamora is nowhere to be found and his fellow Guardians realise that this strange human...
Cassian Andor has returned to Ferrix in time for his adoptive mother’s funeral. But even as the local townspeople come to honour one of their most respected citizens, there...