Martin Carr reviews Rocket League… You’re in a huge stadium. Floodlights blaze down from atop vast scaffolding constructs encompassing an arena decked out in full regalia. People rev their engines in anticipation of that klaxon kicking off another adrenaline fuelled foot to the floor fiasco. Rocket League is foolishly simple yet savagely addictive from almost […]
Movie Review – Grimsby (2016)
Grimsby (aka The Brothers Grimsby), 2016. Directed by Louis Leterrier. Starring Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Strong, Rebel Wilson, Penélope Cruz, Isla Fisher and Ian McShane. SYNOPSIS: A football hooligan tracks down his long-lost brother, a spy for MI6, and they end up on the run from a terrorist organisation. Sacha Baron Cohen is a brave […]
Video Game Review – Homefront: The Revolution Closed Beta
Martin Carr reviews Homefront: The Revolution closed beta… Deep Silver Dambuster Studios have created something which I have played more than a few times. I appreciate that this was a closed beta of Homefront: The Revolution, but somehow my expectations were higher. As this beta was only available for three days my time on it […]
Brant Daugherty signs on for Fifty Shades Freed
Deadline is reporting that Brant Daugherty (Pretty Little Liars) has signed on to appear in the third instalment of the Fifty Shades of Grey franchise, Fifty Shades Freed, where he’ll portray Sawyer, a bodyguard to Dakota Johnson’s Anastasia Steele. Fifty Shades Freed is being shot back-to-back with the second movie Fifty Shades Darker, with James […]
Our Favourite Mythical Characters in Film
They’re a concept artist’s dream and an actor’s biggest challenge. Any film that involves mythical characters automatically becomes a hundred times cooler, and a thousand times more creative. Here’s a brief rundown of our cinematic top five. 1. Tinkerbell, Hook There are a few representations of this iconic fairy to choose from, but Julia Roberts’ […]
Comic Book Review – Haunted Love #1
David Smyth reviews Haunted Love #1… Haunted Love features rotting tales of supernatural Pre-code romance from putrid horror comics from the vile horror comics of the 1950s. Lurid lust! Vicious violence! Creepy kisses! The zombie-fied Haunted Love #1 is just the first of 3 throbbing issues that will set your horrid hearts afire. Haunted Love […]
DVD Review – Nina Forever (2015)
Nina Forever, 2015. Directed by Ben Blaine & Chris Blaine. Starring Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Abigail Hardingham, Cian Barry, David Troughton, Lee Nicolas Harris and Elizabeth Elvin. SYNOPSIS: A man is haunted by the restless ghost of his dead girlfriend after he finds a new love. Having lost his girlfriend Nina (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) in a car accident, […]
The X-Files Season 10 Episode 5 Review – ‘Babylon’
Martin Carr review the fifth episode of The X-Files season 10… There is a confidence and swagger to ‘Babylon’ which can only signal the return of Chris Carter. Creator, writer and guru of all things Mulder and Scully. Known to raise a contentious issue or two in his time, Carter stokes the fire to great […]
You, Me and the Apocalypse Season One Review
You, Me and the Apocalypse Season One Starring Mathew Baynton, Joel Fry, Pauline Quirke, Jenna Fischer, Kyle Soller, Rob Lowe, Gaia Scodellaro, Paterson Joseph, Megan Mullally, Diana Rigg, Fabian McCallum. SYNOPSIS: When a group of ordinary people learn that an eight-mile wide comet is on a collision course with Earth, they hunker beneath the town […]
The Walking Dead Season 6 Episode 9 Review – ‘No Way Out’
Sadé Green reviews the ninth episode of The Walking Dead season 6… Have you been getting a little bit fed up of The Walking Dead? Have you been thinking what could they possibly do that’s new? Have you recently thought that maybe you wouldn’t watch it anymore? Then behold: Season 6, Episode 9, No Way […]