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October 2013 horror movie DVD round-up

The principle law of the horror movie genre is that if your film is even just slightly successful, there really must be at least one sequel.

Usually, one sequel is not enough, so the endless cycle of diminishing returns continues until somehow you have a Wrong Turn 5 on your hands. God knows, no-one wants that, so let’s hope that with the frankly ridiculously-titled The Last Exorcism Part II, producer Eli Roth has learnt that valuable lesson and stops while the going’s still relatively good.

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‘Orphan Black’: ‘Effects of External Conditions’ review

‘Effects of External Conditions’ is all about the chase. Orphan Black wastes no time in getting the police on the trail of the mysterious clone introduced towards the end of the last episode. Meanwhile, Sarah continues to use her connections with Alison and Cosima to assist her deceit as they both help her out in different ways.

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‘Peaky Blinders’: Episode 4 review

It’s almost as if the abrasive industrial landscape of Birmingham scours away the principles of all who set foot in its dark and vice-riddled back streets. The same can be said of Birmingham back in 1919 too (we kid, we kid!), because as Peaky Blinders reaches its fourth episode, people are willing to compromise almost every principle in order to get what they want.

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‘Whitechapel’: Series 4 Episode 5 review

Following the pattern that grisly discoveries occur when the Whitehapel gang are socialising, this final tale began amid a “Zombie Apocalypse” team building exercise.

Not that we were initially aware, joining them fleeing from the undead hordes with Buchan and Miles worryingly immersed in the game. It was a smart move, serving to highlight this fractured team’s plight. If such an event does not truly exist for corporate jollies, it really ought to!

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‘How I Met Your Mother’ Season 8 DVD review

Eight years ago, Ted Mosby sat his telegenic children down and began to tell them one long story.

During that eight years, Facebook and Twitter came into being. As did the iPhone, Breaking Bad and the entire country of South Sudan. Yes, whole new cultures, communications, and nations have been forged in the time it’s taken Ted Mosby to narrate just one story: How I Met Your Mother.

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September 2013 horror movie DVD round-up

With the news of the worldwide release of Doctor Sleep, Stephen King’s belated sequel to his classic novel The Shining, comes the terrifying prospect of the author covering the same old ground yet again. Worthy follow-up or not, it’s pretty unlikely it’ll be quite as bad as his latest TV mini-series adaptation, Bag of Bones.

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