Martin Izzard reviews Netflix’s Living With Yourself… When you sit down without the intention of binging an entire new show all at once but that happens anyway, it’s pretty indicative of the impact of that series. This is absolutely the case with Living With Yourself starring Paul Rudd, Aisling Bea and Paul Rudd. Rudd is […]
Movie Review – Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)
Zombieland: Double Tap, 2019. Directed by Ruben Fleischer. Starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin, Rosario Dawson, Zoey Deutch, Avan Jogia, Thomas Middleditch, Bill Murray, Luke Wilson, Al Roker, and Grace Randolph. SYNOPSIS: Columbus, Tallahassee, Wichita, and Little Rock return to face off against a new zombie threat, as well as deal with […]
Netflix Review – Marianne
Hasitha Fernando reviews the first season of the Netflix series Marianne… Marianne follows the tale of successful French horror writer Emma Larsimon (Victoire Du Bois), who is dragged back to her hometown, when the dark entity that has haunted her childhood memories return, fifteen-years later. To say that I was a huge fan of The […]
Movie Review – El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019)
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie, 2019. Directed by Vince Gilligan. Starring Aaron Paul, Matt Jones, Charles Baker, Jonathan Banks, and Larry Hankin. SYNOPSIS: Picking up after the events of Breaking Bad, Jesse Pinkman is on the run. How do you follow up Breaking Bad, a show that is consistently named as one of the […]
Angelina Jolie and cast discuss Maleficent: Mistress of Evil at the UK press conference
Laura Jorden reports from the Maleficent: Mistress of Evil UK press conference… In the breathtaking ballroom at The Mandarin Oriental Knightsbridge, surroundings fit for any queen, a stunningly relaxed Maleficent played by Angelina Jolie and a few key cast members including new characters Conal and Borra (Chiwetel Ejiofor and Ed Skrein) along with returning favourites, […]
Will Disney+ reset the Netflix model of all-at-once streaming?
Martin Izzard on whether Disney+ will reset the Netflix distribution model… Thanks to streaming, TV budgets and investment into original content is absolutely booming. But more than ever, the ‘whenever,wherever’ nature of streaming means TV shows don’t have as much staying power or invite the conversation they used to. Because we can all consume entire […]
Blu-ray Review – Rabid (2019)
Rabid, 2019. Directed by The Soska Sisters. Starring Laura Vandervoort, Stephen Huszar, Greg Bryk, C.M. Punk, Lynn Lowry, and Ted Atherton. SYNOPSIS: A woman involved in a traffic accident has facial reconstruction surgery, with some icky results. It has been said before that anybody remaking a David Cronenberg film is incredibly brave, such is the […]
Blu-ray Review – Oldboy Limited Edition (2003)
Oldboy, 2003. Directed by Park Chan-wook. Starring Choi Min-sik, Yu Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jeong, and Kim Byeong-ok. SYNOPSIS: Arrow Video unleashes Park Chan-wook’s influential revenge thriller Oldboy in an extensive Limited Edition 4-disc Blu-ray set with a couple of special extras. Although some of their recent standalone releases have been pushing the loyalty of collectors thanks […]
Netflix Review – The Spy
Hasitha Fernando reviews The Spy… In this latest spy thriller that dropped from Netflix, Sacha Baron Cohen plays the main role as newly recruited Mossad spy Eli Cohen and boy, is he something or what. In fact, if I were to sum up my review succinctly in three words it would be; Sacha Baron Cohen. […]
Extreme Cinema – Salò (1975)
Salò, 1975. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Starring Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto P. Quintavalle and Aldo Valletti. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film Salò (Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma, 1975) is based on the Marquis de Sade’s novel 120 Days of Sodom. Instead of France, the story is set in the republic of […]