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REVIEW: 'SPOILS OF WAR' WAS A  DAMN DRAGON APPRECIATION EPISODE.     By Robert Schools  

       The year 2017 was always going to be big year at the movies, with the yearly marvel release as well as other hotly anticipated movies and so far it has delivered. It could be rightly said that the month of June was an auspicious month for movie goers the world over. Most people (including myself) were skeptical about DC’s latest release:  Wonder Woman  and rightly so given the  history of lackluster and disappointing movies with poor story lines that have so far failed to do justice to their awesome roster of characters (looking at you  Batman vs Superman ).  Wonder Woman  was a pleasant surprise, gaining both critical and commercial success and breathing some much needed life into the ailing DCEU. Other Franchises such as Universal’s newly announced  Dark Universe  and  Transformers  failed to hit the mark with entries like  The Mummy  and  Transformers: The Last Knight  respectively...

MARVEL'S THE DEFENDERS: THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE VERDICT The Defenders brought together the stars and characters of the Marvel Netflix TV shows with Charlie Cox as Daredevil, Kristen Ritter as Jessica Jones, Mike Colter as Luke Cage and Finn Jones as Iron Fist to battle the evil ninja-esque organisation The Hand and its threat on New York led by the evil and mysterious Alexandra played by Sigourney Weaver. The show did have its ups and downs but overall I feel like it (kinda) lived up to expectations and wasn't too disappointing. So, for those of you who are yet to binge watch The Defenders (why???) and are allergic to spoilers, let this be fair warning but for the rest of you, lets get to it. THE GOOD The cast chemistry:  the idea of seeing all four members of the defenders team up was already an exciting prospect but I have to say that the chemistry between the actors on-screen really made for good viewing especially in the case of Finn Jone's Iron...