UK18, 2017. Directed by Andrew Tiernan. Starring Shona McWilliams, Ian Hart, Jean-Marc Barr, Jack Roth, Tim Bentinck, and Jason Williamson. SYNOPSIS: A documentary film-maker suspects she is being brainwashed by a secret government organisation. Set in a not-so-distant, not-so-unrecognisable dystopian future, Andrew Tiernan’s faux surrealist documentary makes the case that conspiracy theorists were right all along, and […]
American Horror Story Season 6 Episode 10 Review
Kirsty Capes reviews the season six finale of American Horror Story: Roanoke… The finale of AHS Roanoke is finally upon us, and there are still plenty of unanswered questions, as well as some rather interesting theories about what the future holds for the anthology show. After the traumatic finale of episode 9, which saw Lee […]
American Horror Story Season 6 Episode 8 Review
Kirsty Capes reviews the eighth episode of American Horror Story season 6… It seems as though episode 8 marks the beginning of the end for AHS 6. After some already harrowing scenes in episode 7, with the death of Matt at the hands of his wife Shelby and a crowbar, episode 8 ups the ante […]
American Horror Story Season 6 Episode 5 Review
Kirsty Capes reviews the fifth episode of American Horror Story season 6… As the nightmare continues, American Horror Story’s sixth anthology instalment comes to its midseason point as tensions reach new heights. Shelby and Matt have recovered Flora, finally, from the clutches of the Croatoan colony, but that doesn’t mean the danger is over, as […]
American Horror Story Season 6 Episode 1 Review
Kirsty Capes reviews the first episode of American Horror Story season 6… It’s finally back. After months of teasing and misdirection, the highly anticipated sixth season of American Horror Story has returned to our screens, with its first episode airing last night. Unlike previous seasons of the anthology series, creators Bryan Falchuk and Ryan Murphy […]
Movie Review – Best of Seven (2016)
Best of Seven, 2016. Directed by Jonnie Stapleton. Starring Jonnie Stapleton, Paula Kelley and Jim Armstrong. SYNOPSIS: After a nearly fatal overdose, a young man with multiple personality disorder attempts to go one week without his medication. It’s becoming a trend in comedy these days to have a longer feature. At a modest one hundred minutes, Best […]
DVD Review – Identicals (2015)
Identicals, 2015. Written and directed by Simon Pummell. Starring Nora-Jane Noone, Nick Blood and Lachlan Nieboer. SYNOPSIS: None Of Us Are As Unique As We Think. Identicals is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare. From British writer-director Simon Pummell, Identicals seeks to […]
Movie Review – Tallulah (2016)
Tallulah, 2016. Written and directed by Sian Heder. Starring Ellen Page, Allison Janney, Tammy Blanchard, Zachary Quinto, John Benjamin Hickey and Uzo Aduba. SYNOPSIS: Tallulah tells the story of young vagabond, Lu (Ellen Page), who lives in a van and is fiercely independent in her hand-to-mouth existence. When a chance encounter incites her to impulsively […]
TV Review – Love Season One
Love – Season One Starring Paul Rust, Gillian Jacobs, Claudia O’Doherty, Tracie Thomas, Andy Dick and Jordan Rock. SYNOPSIS: A program that follows a couple who must navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment and other things they were hoping to avoid. I got turned off from Love before I even bothered to watch the trailer. […]
Smithers comes out as gay on The Simpsons
If you’re even a passing fan of The Simpsons, you’ll know that everyone’s favourite man-servant-stroke-roller-blading-badass Waylon Smithers has always had a bit of a soft spot for his senior boss Monty Burns. Smithers has always been a tad camp, whether it’s trying to woo Mr Burns with romantic picnics, or going to gay bars with his […]
