Arrival, 2016. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, Forest Whitaker, Michael Stuhlbarg, Mark O’Brien and Tzi Ma. SYNOPSIS: A linguist is recruited by the military to assist in translating alien communications If aliens landed on earth, how would we react and how would we try to communicate with them? This is […]
Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Waypoint #2
Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Waypoint #2…This month, two stories from different ends of the galaxy! First, a GOLD KEY homage from New York Times best-selling Star Trek author Dayton Ward, with Trek novelist and collaborator Kevin Dilmore, and art by Gordon Purcell (Star Trek), where Kirk and Spock find an uncharted planet inhabited by monstrous […]
Comic Book Review – Assassins Creed: Templars #7
Calum Petrie reviews Assassin’s Creed: Templars #7…Under the watchful eyes of Abstergo, Dre Bolden has been viewing the memories that Otso Berg hopes hide the missing piece in the puzzle threatening to dismantle the Templars. As Dre relives the experiences of his Barbary coast based ancestor, he realises how much he has to learn about […]
Movie Review – The Edge of Seventeen (2016)
The Edge of Seventeen, 2016.Written and Directed by Kelly Fremon Craig. Starring Hailee Steinfeld, Woody Harrelson, Blake Jenner, Haley Lu Richardson, Hayden Szeto, and Kyra Sedgwick.SYNOPSIS:High-school life gets even more unbearable for Nadine when her best friend, Krista, starts dating her older brother.At some point high school is probably miserable for all teenagers (and far […]
Movie Review – Bleed for This (2016)
Bleed for This, 2016.Directed by Ben Younger. Starring Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart, Ciaran Hinds and Katey Sagal.SYNOPSIS:At the peak of his career in the 80s, boxer Vinny ‘Paz’ Pazienza had won the lightweight world championship, followed by the junior middleweight title. But shortly afterwards, a near fatal car crash landed him in hospital with a […]
Comic Book Review – Assassin’s Creed Last Descendants – Locus #3
Calum Petrie reviews Assassin’s Creed Last Descendants – Locus #3… The streets of Victorian London are a much darker place than the avenues of new York… as Pinkerton agent Tommy Greyling is finding out! Hot on the tail of a murderer, it seems there’s more to this mystery than meets the eye. Luckily for Tommy, […]
The Flash Season 3 Episode 6 Review – ‘Shade’
Jessie Robertson reviews the sixth episode of The Flash season 3… I Like you but we’re certainly not at the cuff stage……yet Tonight’s Flash felt a bit like a 90’s Batman movie: overstuffed. Much like that tasty Thanksgiving bird we’ll be dining on here in a week, this thing was stuffed to the gills and […]
Movie Review – Cheerleader (2016)
Cheerleader. 2016. Directed by Irving Franco Starring Catherine Blades, Chris Bert and Rachel Beyda SYNOPSIS: Reeling from her first heartbreak, naive and promiscuous Mickey seeks calculated revenge on her ex-boyfriend by turning her attention to an unlikely subject. Cheerleader follows the character of Mickey (Catherine Blades), a high school cheerleader who’s got it made. She’s […]
Comic Book Review – Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen #5
Tony Black reviews Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen #5… The storming conclusion to the 2016 Event! Universes will live and die, and timelines will be changed for ever. You MUST NOT MISS this staggering finale! So the conclusion of Doctor Who: Supremacy of the Cybermen hinges on a delicious irony which underpins what, in […]
Blu-ray Review – Citizen Kane: 75th Anniversary Edition
Citizen Kane, 1941. Directed by Orson Welles. Starring Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Ray Collins, George Coulouris and Agnes Moorehead. SYNOPSIS: Warner Bros. is celebrating Citizen Kane‘s 75th anniversary with a Blu-ray that’s the same one included in the previous 70th anniversary set. However, the DVDs with the Battle Over Citizen Kane and RKO […]
