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Lee

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Founder and editor of Nerd Culture Network and host of the Nerdy Up North Podcast. I cover movies, television, gaming, anime and pop culture, writing reviews, news and just all round nerdy stuff.

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Neagley

Frances Neagley, now working as a private investigator in Chicago, is pulled into a dangerous investigation after the suspicious death of a close friend from her past. Drawing on the skills she learned in the Army's 110th Special Investigations Unit, she sets out to uncover what really happened and bring those responsible to justice.

Games

The Complete History of Final Fantasy VII So Far

With Final Fantasy 7 Revelations coming soon we have put together the entire Final Fantasy 7 timeline to get you fully up to speed before the new trilogy finally reaches its conclusion

Movies Review

The Final Reckoning Is a Massive Goodbye That Sometimes Feels the Weight of the Whole Franchise

Ethan Hunt and his team make one final attempt to stop the Entity before it falls into the wrong hands, forcing Ethan to confront old choices while the fate of the world hangs on the mission.

Movies Review

Dead Reckoning Part One Is Brilliant Until You Remember It Is Only Half the Story

Ethan Hunt races to find two halves of a key that can control a powerful artificial intelligence known as the Entity, bringing him into conflict with a figure from his past and thief Grace.

Movies Review

Fallout Is Mission: Impossible Firing on Absolutely Everything

After a mission to recover stolen plutonium goes wrong, Ethan Hunt and his team race to stop nuclear attacks while CIA operative August Walker is sent to watch every move they make.

Movies Review

Rogue Nation Brings in Ilsa Faust and the Franchise Gets Even Better

With the IMF under threat of being dissolved, Ethan Hunt goes after the Syndicate, a secret network of highly trained rogue operatives led by the calculating Solomon Lane.

Movies Review

Ghost Protocol Is Where Mission: Impossible Became an Event

After the Kremlin is bombed, the IMF is shut down and Ethan Hunt's team is left without official support as they try to stop a nuclear war.

Movies Review

Mission: Impossible III Gave Ethan Hunt His Most Terrifying Villain

Ethan Hunt is pulled back into field work to rescue a captured agent and stop arms dealer Owen Davian, while trying to keep his secret life hidden from his fiancée Julia.

Movies Review

Mission: Impossible 2 Is John Woo Turned All the Way Up

Ethan Hunt is sent to recover a deadly engineered virus called Chimera from rogue IMF agent Sean Ambrose, with professional thief Nyah Nordoff-Hall caught between them.

Movies Review

Mission: Impossible Started the Franchise as a Proper Spy Thriller

After a mission in Prague goes disastrously wrong, IMF agent Ethan Hunt is framed as a mole and forced to go rogue to uncover who really betrayed his team.

Movies Review

Resident Evil

Movies Review

Beautiful, Baffling and Completely Owned by Tim Curry

When the Lord of Darkness plots to destroy the world's last unicorns and plunge everything into eternal night, a young forest dweller named Jack must rescue Princess Lili and restore the balance between light and darkness.

Movies Review

The 80s Blockbuster That Still Feels the Need for Speed

Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his radar intercept officer Goose are sent to the elite Top Gun fighter school, where Maverick competes with Iceman, starts a relationship with civilian instructor Charlie and has to learn whether raw instinct is enough when the consequences of flying recklessly become painfully real.

TV Review

Peacemaker Should Be an Idiot Joke Character. Somehow He Ends Up Breaking Your Heart.

After surviving the events of The Suicide Squad, Christopher Smith is forced into a secret government operation investigating an alien threat known as the Butterflies. His new team quickly discovers that Peacemaker's biggest problem might be himself.

Gaming Review

This game was so bad I played it while blind

Marvel's Wolverine follows Logan as he reunites with Team X to rescue kidnapped mutants from Bolivar Trask

Movies Review

Ridiculous 80s action wrapped around a surprisingly sharp dystopian idea.

Ben Richards is framed for a massacre and eventually forced onto The Running Man, the government's hugely popular television show where prisoners are hunted and killed by colourful celebrity assassins.

Movies Review

Tombstone

Retired lawman Wyatt Earp heads to Tombstone with his brothers hoping to make money and live quietly. The violent Cowboys have other ideas, eventually pulling Wyatt and his dangerously ill friend Doc Holliday into a conflict that becomes increasingly personal.

Movies Review

A massive action movie with a genuinely clever science fiction idea underneath it.

Douglas Quaid dreams obsessively about Mars and visits Rekall to have the memory of a secret agent adventure implanted. The procedure goes wrong, apparently uncovering suppressed memories and sending Quaid into a violent conspiracy that may or may not be real.

Movies Review

Fifty years later, there is almost nothing here that feels old.

After a young woman is killed by a shark, Amity police chief Martin Brody wants the beaches closed. Local officials refuse, forcing Brody to eventually join oceanographer Matt Hooper and shark hunter Quint aboard the Orca to hunt the animal themselves.

Movies Review

This is what happens when an action film decides subtlety is somebody else's problem.

Two of Los Angeles' most successful narcotics detectives are framed by crime boss Yves Perret. After being sent to prison alongside criminals they previously arrested, Tango and Cash escape and attempt to clear their names in increasingly ridiculous fashion.

Movies Review

Ninety minutes of Dredd walking upward through a building and absolutely ruining people's day.

Veteran Judge Dredd is evaluating rookie Cassandra Anderson when a routine murder investigation leads them to Peach Trees. Drug lord Ma-Ma seals the enormous tower and orders every gang member inside to kill the Judges before they can escape.

Movies

X-Men at D23 2026

Everything Marvel Revealed About the Mutants

TV Review

The Office Became Far More Than an American Remake

A documentary crew follows the staff of the Scranton branch of paper company Dunder Mifflin. What begins as a workplace mockumentary centred around painfully awkward manager Michael Scott gradually becomes a long running story about the friendships, relationships and completely ridiculous people working in the office.

Movies Review

Spider-Man Brand New Day

Four years after the world forgot his identity, an isolated and battle worn Peter Parker lives a solitary life in New York, fighting street level crime as a full time vigilante. However, the crushing emotional toll of his loneliness triggers a radical physical mutation, causing his spider powers to violently evolve as he struggles to control his changing body.

Movies Review

Sonic The Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog is a super fast alien hedgehog who has been hiding on Earth. After accidentally revealing himself, he teams up with a small town sheriff to escape the government and the eccentric Dr. Robotnik, who wants to capture Sonic and use his powers for himself.

Movies Review

Police Story

Police Story is an action comedy following honest Hong Kong police detective Chan Ka Kui (Jackie Chan) after he single handedly arrests a major triad drug lord. Ka Kui is assigned to protect the drug lord’s secretary, who is set to testify for the state, but things quickly go wrong when she vanishes. The syndicate retaliates by framing Ka Kui for a murder he didn't commit, forcing the clean cop to go on the run to protect his girlfriend, clear his name, and bring down the criminals through a series of jaw dropping, high stakes martial arts stunts and battles.

Movies Review

Dragonheart

In 10th century England, a disillusioned knight named Bowen forms an unlikely partnership with Draco, the very last living dragon on Earth.Years after a tragedy turns Bowen into a cynical, wandering dragon slayer, he crosses paths with Draco. Realising that fighting each other is a waste of time, the two strike up a clever partnership: they travel from village to village staging fake "dragon attacks" so Bowen can "slay" Draco and collect the reward money.However, as a tyrannical king pushes the realm to the brink of ruin, Bowen and Draco are forced to stop their con games. Together with a band of rebels, they must stand against the corrupt monarchy to restore justice to the kingdom.

Movies Review

Reign Of Fire

n 2020, a post apocalyptic Earth is ruled by fire breathing dragons after they are accidentally awakened from hibernation beneath modern day London.The story follows Quinn, the leader of a desperate community of British survivors hiding out in a castle. Their fight for survival changes when Van Zan, a bombastic American military leader, arrives with a ragtag squad of high tech dragon slayers. Realising that all the beasts they are fighting are female, the two groups must unite and venture into the ash ruins of London to hunt down the only male dragon on Earth before humanity faces total extinction.

Movies Review

The Hobbit

Set in the fictional world of Middle-earth, The Hobbit follows the quiet homebody Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit who is unexpectedly recruited by the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves led by Thorin Oakenshield.Their perilous quest is to journey to the Lonely Mountain to reclaim the Dwarven kingdom and its vast treasures from the fearsome, fire breathing dragon, Smaug. Along the way, Bilbo encounters dangerous creatures, discovers an immense reservoir of personal bravery, and stumbles upon a mysterious, invisibility granting ring that will alter the fate of Middle-earth forever.

Movies Review

Pokemon Done Right

Tim Goodman teams up with a talking Pikachu to uncover the mystery behind his father’s disappearance, leading them into a strange world filled with Pokemon, secrets and one very big mystery.

Movies Review

Mortal Kombat - The Original Movies

Earthrealm faces imminent destruction as the demonic realm of Outworld prepares for a final martial arts tournament that, if won, will allow them to conquer Earth. To avert this fate, Lord Raiden recruits fighters Liu Kang, Johnny Cage, and Sonya Blade to travel to a mysterious island and battle Outworld's warriors in a decisive showdown against the sorcerer Shang Tsung.

Movies Review

Project Hail Mary

The story follows Ryland Grace, a middle school science teacher who wakes up from a long coma with severe amnesia aboard an interstellar spaceship, only to discover he is humanity's last hope to prevent an extinction level event

Review Review

Mutiny

A fun movie if you just switch off your brain and dont think about it too much

TV Review

Batman Caped Crusader Season 2 Delivers Twists That Even Long Time Fans Won't Expect

Batman Returns...again

Anime Review

Engage Kiss

A Surprising Supernatural Action Anime

Anime Review

Reincarnated As A Sword

Review Review

The Dog Stars

Movies Review

Pinocchio Unstrung

He just wants to be a real boy

Review Review

Coyote Vs Acme is bringing pure nostalgia

For decades we have watched every single attempt Wile E Coyote has made to capture the Roadrunner backfire and fail, and every single attempt had one common denominator. Acme products. Starved and defeated Wile sees an advert for billboard lawyer Kevin Avery (Will Forte) and decides enough is enough. Acme are going down. Wile teams up with this down and out lawyer to take on the biggest company in the looney Tune verse and their team of lawyers led by Buddy Crane (John Cena)

Anime

Will This Be The Biggest New Anime Of 2027

Kagurabachi Image courtesy of ©Takeru Hokazono/SHUEISHA, Project Kagurabachi

TV

Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2

Arriving Tomorrow on Prime Video

Comics

5 Spider-Man Comics To Read Before Brand New Day Comes Out Tomorrow

Spider-Man Brand New Day Out In Cinemas Tomorrow

TV

Reacher is back

and once again everyone thinks they can take him on!

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