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The Fireman by Joe Hill (2016)

Review by CJ

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Page count:
752 [including credits and acknowledgements]

Format:
Hardcover

ISBN:
978-0-06-220063-1

 

A deadly spore has infected most of the planet’s population causing them to spontaneously combust. When Harper Willowes becomes infected, she is happily married and working as a volunteer nurse around the clock to ease the suffering of those afflicted with Draco incendia trychophyton.

When the tell-tale black and gold markings appear, confirming that she has contracted the disease, Harper’s world turns upside-down. She discovers that she is also pregnant and that her husband isn’t the man she thought he was.

Harper flees her home and is rescued by John Rookwood, AKA The Fireman. John takes Harper back to a secluded camp where people with Draco incendia trychophyton hide from the extermination crews and learn to coexist with the spore that inhabits their bodies. But can a new community coexist with each other over the long term or will the camp erupt while the rest of the world burns?

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Snakes on a Plane (2006)

Review by CJ

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Director:
David R. Ellis

Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Julianna Margulies, Nathan Phillips

Other notable appearances:
Sunny Mabrey, Rachel Blanchard, Kenan Thompson, David Koechner

Running time:
105 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Deep Blue Sea, Lake Placid, Anaconda

 

There are snakes. They’re on a plane. Madness and chaos ensue.

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Stranger Things: Season One

Review by CJ

Stranger Things

Director:
Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer (as The Duffer Brothers)

Writer:
Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, Justin Doble, Paul Dichter, Jessica Mecklenburg, Jessie Nickson-Lopez, Alison Tatlock

Starring:
Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Noah Schnapp

Other notable appearances:
Matthew Modine, Shannon Purser, Randall P. Havens, Chris Sullivan

Running time:
41-55 minutes per episode

Number of episodes:
8

 

When Will (Schnapp) goes missing on the way home from playing Dungeons and Dragons with his friends, most of the town assumes it is a standard missing child case. Will’s mother Joyce (Ryder), brother Jonathan (Heaton) and friends Mike (Wolfhard), Dustin (Matarazzo) and Lucas (McLaughlin) aren’t so sure. Will they win the battle against the supernatural and human disbelief to save Will?

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Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War by Mike Johnson, Angel Hernandez and Alejandro Sanchez (2015)

Review by CJ

Page count:
157

Format:
Digital

Publisher:
IDW Publishing and DC Comics

 

When the greatest heroes and villains of the galaxy are unable to stop Nekron, Guardian Ganthet uses a last resort that sends the remaining ring-bearers from all spectrums to a parallel universe along with a new ring of each colour.

The universe to which the remaining lanterns are sent just happens to be the same universe in which Captain James T. Kirk and his crew are boldly going where no-one has gone before.

The heroes from both universes soon realise that Nekron was amongst the ring-bearers transported to the Starfleet universe. It is up to the crew of the Enterprise, Hal Jordan and the rest of the ring-bearers to put an end to Nekron once and for all.

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The Shallows (2016)

Review by CJ

The Shallows

Director:
Jaume Collet-Serra

Starring:
Blake Lively, Sully Seagull

Other notable appearances:
A really big great white shark

Running time:
86 minutes

Watch this if you liked:
Jaws, The Reef, Bait

 

Nancy (Lively) travels to a secret Mexican beach to surf and mourn her mother who had travelled to the same beach while pregnant with her. While there, Nancy unwittingly swims into the territory of a great white shark and is marooned 200 yards from the shore. Nancy must fight for her life against the elements, her injuries and one of the world’s oldest predators.

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