Mark Clark reviews the third episode of Ray Donovan season 4… Ray Donovan season four is fast becoming a genre and directorial showcase as Michael Apted takes the chair for episode 3. Not that Apted is particularly known for one genre or another (although he has been to lands of Narnia and 007), and you […]
Preacher Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘He Gone’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Preacher… Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. A more dysfunctional version of happy families you are never likely to see. Everyone one here is trying to pretend that everything is fine, nobody has crossed the line and this is just another average day in bible belt […]
Wayward Pines Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘Pass Judgement’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Wayward Pines season 2… This is a continuation of last week’s powder keg episode where Abbies had congregated outside the fence by the thousand. Inside remained a hot bed of in-fighting, finger pointing and slanderous exchanges. What episode eight gives us is more of the same except this […]
Scream Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘Let The Right One In’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Unlike other shows Scream is a good old fashioned pastiche to its very marrow. There are no genre boundaries being traversed, no wild revelations or people trying too hard in the drama department. This is just predictable slaughter on a weekly basis […]
Vin Diesel shares teaser for xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
With the first full trailer for D.J. Caruso’s xXx: The Return of Xander Cage set to arrive later this week, Vin Diesel has taken to social media to reveal a brief teaser for the upcoming action threequel; check it out here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK62YMICs6A UPDATE: And here’s a second teaser… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx2qIEBtA2U The third explosive chapter of the blockbuster franchise that […]
FrightFest Presents Review – Curtain (2015)
Curtain, 2015. Directed by Jaron Henrie-McCrea. Starring Danni Smith, Tim Lueke, Rick Zahn and Martin Monahan. SYNOPSIS: A young woman buys an apartment and discovers a portal to another dimension that likes eating shower curtains. No, really… Otherwise known as The Gateway, Curtain is an odd little movie that clearly has some big ideas lurking […]
Movie Review – Tale of Tales (2015)
Tale of Tales, 2015. Directed by Matteo Garrone. Starring Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Toby Jones and Vincent Cassel. SYNOPSIS: From the bitter quest of the Queen of Longtrellis, to two mysterious sisters who provoke the passion of a king, to the King of Highhills obsessed with a giant Flea, these tales are inspired by the […]
Movie Review – Baskin (2015)
Baskin, 2015. Directed by Can Evrenol. Starring Gorkem Kasal, Mehmet Akif Budak, Fadik Bülbül, Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Serhat Mustafa Kiliç and Muharrem Bayrak. SYNOPSIS: A team of cops investigating a disturbance in an abandoned building discover more than they bargained for. Imagine, if you will, a clash between the nightmare world of Clive Barker’s imagination and […]
Marvel to explore the fallout from Civil War II with The Accused and The Fallen
Following the shocking events of Civil War II #3, Marvel has announced it is to explore the fallout with two new one-shots entitled The Accused #1 and The Fallen #1. First, it’s the trial of the century as Marc Guggenheim (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.), Ramon Bachs (Secret Wars Journal) and Garry Brown (Iron Patriot) bring you […]
Movie Review – Almost Holy (2015)
Almost Holy, 2015. Directed by Steve Hoover. Starring Gennadiy Mokhnenko. SYNOPSIS: The real-life account of a Ukrainian Pastor and moral enforcer, Gennadiy Mokhnenko, who takes it upon himself to single-handedly rehabilitate child drug users in Mariupol where violence and poverty is rife. Almost Holy is a documentary that follows Gennadiy Mokhnenko, who calls himself Pastor Crocodile […]
