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Review: The Suicide Squad

No-nonsense Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) gathers up a ragtag selection of incarcerated individuals with super-powers who are sent on a dangerous mission fronted by Col. Rick Flagg (Joel Kinnaman). Storming a South American island, the majority of them are swiftly and violently wiped out by the enemy. Thankfully, Waller also selected another time at the same time, including the grumpy Bloodsport (Idris Elba) and an idiotic mutant shark named King Shark (voiced by Sly Stallone). After rescuing the surviving Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) and Flagg from the ill-fated first team, our second team of ragtag ex-cons set out to complete the mission: Destroy all evidence of Project Starfish, a mysterious project that is apparently a danger to U.S. national security. Part of the plan is to find the project’s creator ‘The Thinker’ (Peter Capaldi) and force him to get them to the lab where the project (which is really a captured alien) is housed. John Cena plays metallic helmet-wearing Peacemaker, fr...

Review: Hammer House of Horror

“The House That Bled to Death”: A family moves into a house where a murder was once committed. After a while, sinister shit starts happening like the cat meeting an untimely end and a literally bloody children’s birthday party. In “The Silent Scream” , recent parolee Brian Cox apparently made friends with a prison counsellor and former WWII concentration camp survivor played by Peter Cushing. He goes to visit the man at his pet shop, and is shown something very special in the back…an array of wild animals kept in cages without bars. Instead, electric charges averts any thought of escape. But hey nevermind that, Cox just wants to have a crack at opening Cushing’s safe. It doesn’t go very well for him. “The Two Faces of Evil” has husband and wife Gary Raymond and Anna Calder-Marshall picking up a creepy hitch-hiker in the rain, only for the latter to go berserk and cause the car to crash. Upon waking, Raymond is injured and the hitch-hiker dead. Or perhaps not. “The Mark of Satan” see...