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Matthew, 33 😱 Reader 📚 TV Binger 🍿 Gaymer 🎮 Creator, reviewer, and, one day, author here at The Phoenix Project: Welcome!

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Review: 🎮 Control, ironically, cannot contain its explosively fantastical masterclass in both storytelling and third-person action 🎮

Rating: 🔥 PHOENIX RECOMMENDED 🔥
Developer (Release): Remedy Entertainment (2019)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/09/21/r...

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Review: 🎮 Control, ironically, cannot contain its explosively fantastical masterclass in both storytelling and third-person action 🎮
Jesse Faden experienced a horrific, unworldly event as a child, an event that led to the disappearance of all the adults in her hometown of Ordinary. Separated from her brother by a shadowy governm…
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/09/21/review-🎮-control-ironically-cannot-contain-its-explosively-fantastical-masterclass-in-both-storytelling-and-third-person-action-🎮/
September 21, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Review: 📚 The Island is a surprisingly slasher-fuelled thriller that jumps to one too many easy conclusions 📚

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author (Platform): Paul Finch (Kindle)
Length (Release): 343 pages (2025)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/09/14/r...

#PaulFinch #TheIsland #BookReview #Crime #Thriller
Review: 📚 The Island is a surprisingly slasher-fuelled thriller that jumps to one too many easy conclusions 📚
A dream holiday. You’d die to be there. You are offered the getaway of a lifetime on a remote island with a group of strangers. Things have been difficult recently, so you jump at the chance to swi…
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/09/14/review-📚-the-island-is-a-surprisingly-slasher-fuelled-thriller-that-jumps-to-one-too-many-easy-conclusions-📚/
September 14, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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Review: 📚 Wolfsong is a beautiful ballad in a smutty, supernatural coming-of-age fantasy 📚

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author (Platform): TJ Klune (Kindle)
Length (Release): 578 pages (2022)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/31/r...

#TJKlune #Wolfsong #GreenCreek #BookReview #Romance #Fantasy #LGBT
Review: 📚 Wolfsong is a beautiful ballad in a smutty, supernatural coming-of-age fantasy 📚
Ox Matheson was twelve when his father taught him a lesson: Ox wasn’t worth anything and people would never understand him. Then he left.

Ox was sixteen when the energetic Bennett family moved in …
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/31/review-📚-wolfsong-is-a-beautiful-ballad-in-a-smutty-supernatural-coming-of-age-fantasy-📚/
August 31, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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Review: 🎬 The Gorge delivers an action-packed meet-cute at the expense of its identity 🎬

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
Director and Writer (Platform): Scott Derrickson and Zach Dean (Apple TV)
Length (Release): 2 hours and 7 minutes (2025)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/30/r...

#TheGorge #AppleTV
Review: 🎬 The Gorge delivers an action-packed meet-cute at the expense of its identity 🎬
Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies wit…
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/30/review-🎬-the-gorge-delivers-an-action-packed-meet-cute-at-the-expense-of-its-identity-🎬/
August 30, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Review: 🎮 Alone in the Dark can’t escape the shadows of its contemporaries 🎮

Rating: ⭐️⭐️
Developer (Platform): Pieces Interactive (Xbox Series X)
Publisher (Release): THQ Nordic (2024)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/28/r...

#Xbox #AloneintheDark #Gaming #SurvivalHorror #GameReview
Review: 🎮 Alone in the Dark can’t escape the shadows of its contemporaries 🎮
Client Emily Hartwood and private investigator Edward Carnby embark on a harrowing quest for answers; Emily to the mystery of her missing uncle, Edward to the toughest case he will ever face, and b…
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/28/review-🎮-alone-in-the-dark-cant-escape-the-shadows-of-its-contemporaries-🎮/
August 28, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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Review: 🎮 Banishers - Ghosts of New Eden is a haunting gothic love story wrapped in an action-adventure shell 🎮

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Developer (Platform): Don’t Nod (PlayStation 5)
Release: 2024

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/22/r...

#DontNod #Banishers #PlayStation #GameReview
Review: 🎮 Banishers – Ghosts of New Eden is a haunting gothic love story wrapped in an action-adventure shell 🎮
New Eden, 1695. Antea Duarte and Red mac Raith are lovers and Banishers, ghost-hunters who vowed to protect the living from the threat of lingering ghosts and specters. Following a disastrous last …
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/22/review-🎮-banishers-ghosts-of-new-eden-is-a-haunting-gothic-love-story-wrapped-in-an-action-adventure-shell-🎮/
August 22, 2026 at 6:21 PM
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Review: 📺 The Last Thing He Told Me soars where it should sink thanks to a powerhouse performance from Jennifer Garner 📺

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Creators (Platform): Laura Dave & Josh Singer (Apple TV)
Length (Release): 7 episodes (2023)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/19/r...

#AppleTV #TVReview
Review: 📺 The Last Thing He Told Me soars where it should sink thanks to a powerhouse performance from Jennifer Garner 📺
Hannah’s world is turned upside down when her husband goes missing, leaving her and his 16-year-old daughter Bailey to connect the disparate pieces of his past.
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/19/review-📺-the-last-thing-he-told-me-soars-where-it-should-sink-thanks-to-a-powerhouse-performance-from-jennifer-garner-📺/
August 19, 2026 at 6:46 PM
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Review: 📚 A Forgotten Kill is an electrifying battle of wits as Daniela Vega descends into her past 📚

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author (Platform): Isabella Maldonado (Kindle)
Length (Release): 361 pages (2024)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/17/r...

#IsabellaMaldonado #DanielaVega #BookReview #Crime
Review: 📚 A Forgotten Kill is an electrifying battle of wits as Daniela Vega descends into her past 📚
FBI Special Agent Daniela “Dani” Vega was seventeen when her mother murdered her father. Ten years after Dani’s own damning eyewitness testimony sealed her mother’s fate, she’s starting to have dou…
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/17/review-📚-a-forgotten-kill-is-an-electrifying-battle-of-wits-as-daniela-vega-descends-into-her-past-📚/
August 17, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Review: 🎮 Pragmata is a smorgasbord of influences that come together to form a unique sci-fi action adventure 🎮

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Developer & Publisher (Platform): Capcom (PlayStation 5 Pro)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/07/r...

#PlayStation #Gaming #Capcom #Pragmata #GameReview
Review: 🎮 Pragmata is a smorgasbord of influences that come together to form a unique sci-fi action adventure 🎮
In the near future, humans have developed Lunafilament, a material that can be used to create almost anything, so long as its users have the right data. When communication is lost with the lunar st…
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/07/review-🎮-pragmata-is-a-smorgasbord-of-influences-that-come-together-to-form-a-unique-sci-fi-action-adventure-🎮
August 7, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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Review: 📚 Death’s Shadow doesn’t slow down as it sets the bloody stage for an epic finale 📚

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author (Platform): Darren Shan (Kindle)
Length (Release): 228 pages (2008)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/04/r...

#DarrenShan #TheDemonata #BookReview #Horror #YoungAdult #Fantasy
Review: 📚 Death’s Shadow doesn’t slow down as it sets the bloody stage for an epic finale 📚
You can’t cheat death… The apocalypse came and the world burned. But it wasn’t the end, and out of the destruction, new life has emerged. Bec is back to face the Demonata. After centuries of …
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/08/04/review-📚-deaths-shadow-doesnt-slow-down-as-it-sets-the-bloody-stage-for-an-epic-finale-📚/
August 4, 2026 at 7:23 PM
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Review: 📚 The Hunting Party hits the bullseye for a devilishly dark drama 📚

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author (Platform): Lucy Foley (Kindle)
Length (Release): 401 pages (2018)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/07/27/r...

#TheHuntingParty #LucyFoley #Books #BookReviews
Review: 📚 The Hunting Party hits the bullseye for a devilishly dark drama 📚
NEW YEAR. OLD FRIENDS. IT’S A PARTY TO DIE FOR… New Year, the Loch Corrin Estate: in a remote hunting lodge, deep in the Scottish wilderness, old friends gather. The beautiful one
The golden couple…
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/07/27/review-📚-the-hunting-party-hits-the-bullseye-for-a-devilishly-dark-drama-📚/
July 27, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Review: 📚 Murder by Design is a clever little mystery that revels in the shadows of its inspirations 📚

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Author (Platform): Lee Goldberg (Kindle)
Length: 236 pages

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/07/20/r...

#EdisonBixby #LeeGoldberg #Whodunit
Review: 📚 Murder by Design is a clever little mystery that revels in the shadows of its inspirations 📚
Edison Bixby is wealthy, handsome, and, due to a traumatic brain injury, impulsively rude. He’s also a brilliant insurance investigator who solves baffling crimes by figuring out how the design of …
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/07/20/review-📚-murder-by-design-is-a-clever-little-mystery-that-revels-in-the-shadows-of-its-inspirations-📚/
July 20, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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Review: 🎮 Directive 8020 is a nifty narrative horror lost in its influences 🎮

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️
Developer (Platform): Supermassive Games (PlayStation 5 Pro)
Publisher (Release): Supermassive Games (2026)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/06/03/r...

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Review: 🎮 Directive 8020 is a nifty narrative horror lost in its influences 🎮
Earth is dying and humanity is running out of time. 12 light years from home, Tau Ceti f offers a small sliver of hope. When the colony ship Cassiopeia crash lands on the planet, its crew soon real…
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/06/03/review-🎮-directive-8020-is-a-nifty-narrative-horror-lost-in-its-influences-🎮/
June 3, 2026 at 4:26 PM
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Review: 🎮 007 First Light - license to enter the modern video game stratosphere? Granted 🎮

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Developer (Platform): IO Interactive (PlayStation 5 Pro)
Publisher (Release): IO Interactive (2026)

Full Review: phoenix-prjct.com/2026/06/01/r...

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Review: 🎮 007 First Light – license to enter the modern video game stratosphere? Granted 🎮
After a heroic act, young Naval air crewman Bond is offered the opportunity to join the newly revived Double 0 programme. But when a mission to stop a rogue agent ends in tragedy, he must join forc…
https://phoenix-prjct.com/2026/06/01/review-🎮-007-first-light-license-to-enter-the-modern-video-game-stratosphere-granted-🎮/
June 1, 2026 at 8:09 PM
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On verge of mental breakdown…

I DID THE SQUATS FINE WHY IS THIS ONE KICKING MY ASS!?

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September 29, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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