Tony Black reviews Assassin’s Creed: Trial By Fire… Charlotte de la Cruz is over-educated and underemployed, wasting her time in a dead-end job in San Diego, and spending her free time chasing down conspiracy theories on the dark side of the internet. When a real-life conspiracy crashes into her life, she’s pulled into the orbit of […]
DVD Review – 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, 2016. Directed by Michael Bay. Starring John Krasinski, Max Martini, James Badge Dale, Freddie Stroma and Toby Stephens. SYNOPSIS: Over the course of one hot, desperate night, a team of covert American military defence contractors must protect a secret CIA compound in the Libyan city of Benghazi from […]
Movie Review – Girl in Woods (2016)
Girl in Woods, 2016 Directed by Jeremy Benson. Starring Juliet Reeves, Jeremy London, John Still and Charisma Carpenter. SYNOPSIS: Grace Walker and her fiancee Jim take a romantic journey into the Smoky Mountains to celebrate their engagement, but after a tragic and fatal accident, Grace is left alone with only the woods and her demons […]
Game of Thrones Season 6 – Episode 5 Review – The Door
The Door Directed by Jack Bender Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Bran If there’s one thing I love in any fiction, it’s time travel. If there’s one thing I love even more, it’s when time travel is used to deliver a payoff you’ve spent years waiting for, and boy does Game of Thrones […]
Game of Thrones Season 6 – Episode 4 Review – ‘Book of the Stranger’
Book of the Stranger Directed by Daniel Sackheim Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Jon & Sansa How awesome is it to have a section title with those two names together? A genuinely emotional moment for everyone as Sansa (Sophie Turner) rode into Castle Black and gave a loitering, listless Jon (Kit Harington) what […]
DVD Review – Mercury Plains (2016)
Mercury Plains, 2016. Directed by Charles Burmeister. Starring Scott Eastwood, Nick Chinlund and Angela Sarafyan. SYNOPSIS: Mitch, jobless and drifting, accepts an offer by an undercover FBI paramilitary officer over the Mexican border to join his crew taking out the drug trade. He soon however begins to question his motives… Scott Eastwood seems perennially like […]
Blu-ray Review – It Happened One Night (1934)
It Happened One Night, 1934. Directed by Frank Capra. Starring Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Kerns and Jameson Thomas. SYNOPSIS: Ellen ‘Ellie’ Andrews, a spoiled heiress, runs away to elope with her handsome pilot fiancee. Along the way, she meets down on his luck reporter Peter Warne, and realises maybe her future isn’t […]
Second Opinion – The Jungle Book (2016)
The Jungle Book, 2016. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johnasson, Giancarlo Esposito and Christopher Walken. SYNOPSIS: Mowgli, a young boy raised in the jungle by a panther and a pack of wolves, is forced to travel to a man village when Shere Khan, a […]
Movie Review – The Jungle Book (2016)
The Jungle Book, 2016. Directed by Jon Favreau. Starring Neel Sethi, Bill Murray, Ben Kingsley, Idris Elba, Lupita Nyong’o, Scarlett Johansson, Giancarlo Esposito and Christopher Walken. SYNOPSIS: The man-cub Mowgli flees the jungle after a threat from the tiger Shere Khan. Guided by Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear, Mowgli embarks on a journey of self-discovery, […]
Movie Review – Criminal (2016)
Criminal, 2016. Directed by Ariel Vromen. Starring Kevin Costner, Gary Oldman, Gal Gadot, Tommy Lee Jones, Michael Pitt, Amaury Nolasco, Antje Traue, Alice Eve, Jordi Molla, Scott Adkins, Natalie Burn, Robert Davi, and Ryan Reynolds. SYNOPSIS: In a last-ditch effort to stop a diabolical plot, a dead CIA operative’s memories, secrets, and skills are implanted […]