Dark Water, 2002. Directed by Hideo Nakata. Starring Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Fumiyo Kohinata and Rio Kanno. SYNOPSIS: A mother and her young daughter move into a run-down apartment block where ghostly goings-on put their lives in danger. Yoshimi Matsubara (Hitomi Kuroki) and her young daughter Ikuko (Rio Kanno) move into a tatty apartment […]
Video Game Review – WRC 6
Martin Carr reviews WRC 6… I like my rally games but have avoided the Forza series favouring instead anything with Colin McRae, or Dirty Rally in the title baring‘Dirt 3. Reason being that number three seemed to lack the authenticity which CodeMasters had always strived for in other incarnation. Imagine my surprise then when WRC […]
Exclusive interview with actor Richard Tyson
david j. moore chats with actor Richard Tyson… A busy actor since making his auspicious cinematic debut as perhaps the greatest movie bully of all time in Three O’clock High (1988), Richard Tyson always makes an impression when you see him on screen. He’s done everything from sexy and suave (Two Moon Junction, 1988) to […]
Movie Review – The Guv’nor (2016)
The Guv’nor, 2016. Directed by Paul Van Carter. Starring Jamie McLean, Guy Ritchie, Jason Flemyng, Vas Blackwood, Martin Askew and John Huntley. SYNOPSIS: Documentary covering the life of bare knuckle boxer and all-round hard man Lenny McLean, as seen through the eyes of his son. Trying to encapsulate the life of a character like Lenny […]
Gotham Season 3 Episode 3 Review – ‘Look Into My Eyes’
Martin Carr reviews the third episode of Gotham season 3… Once again Gotham season three is jam packed full of narrative tangents, colourful characterisations and enough kookiness to keep those sceptics at bay. With plotlines gaining traction it felt like Gotham was once again moving in the right direction. A none too subtle homage to the […]
Video Game Review – XCOM 2
Andy Naylor reviews XCOM 2… XCOM 2 is the successor to the impressive XCOM: Enemy Unknown (and XCOM: Enemy Within, which was essentially an expansion pack). Set 20 years after the original, Earth has since been conquered by the aliens, known as Elders, and the planet is run by a government of alien collaborators called […]
Movie Review – Blood Father (2016)
Blood Father, 2016. Directed by Jean-Francois Richet. Starring Mel Gibson, Erin Moriarty, Diego Luna, Michael Parks and William H. Macy. SYNOPSIS: After her drug kingpin boyfriend frames her for stealing a fortune in cartel cash, 18 year old Lydia goes on the run, with only one ally in this whole wide world: her perennial screw-up of […]
Second Opinion – The Girl on the Train (2016)
The Girl on the Train, 2016. Directed by Tate Taylor Starring Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Luke Evans, Justin Theroux and Allison Janney. SYNOPSIS: A divorcee becomes entangled in a missing persons investigation that promises to send shockwaves throughout her life. “A drunk, a whore and a mother walk into a bar,” seems to […]
The Strain Season 3 Episode 6 Review – ‘The Battle For Central Park’
Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of The Strain season 3… This plays out like an extended section of the Cameron classic Aliens. Dark tunnels, pitch black caverns filled with twitching bodies and small factions of mercenaries poorly equipped for carnage. There are the occasional diversions into the daylight which primarily involve people looking concerned, […]
Blu-ray Review – The Hills Have Eyes (1977)
The Hills Have Eyes, 1977. Directed by Wes Craven. Starring Susan Lanier, Dee Wallace, Michael Berryman, Robert Houston, Russ Grieve, John Steadman, Lance Gordon, Martin Speer, James Whitworth, Virginia Vincent, Janus Blythe and Cordy Clark. SYNOPSIS: An all-American family travelling across country fall foul of a clan of cannibals that live in the desert. Quite […]
