Shaun Munro reviews Disc Jam… Released for “free” as part of PlayStation Plus’ Instant Game Collection, High Horse Entertainment’s Disc Jam has already been widely touted as “the new Rocket League“, a half-apt, half-reductive comparison that may both help and hinder the sci-fi sports title in the long run. For what it’s worth, Disc Jam is almost as […]
Movie Review – Personal Shopper (2016)
Personal Shopper, 2016. Directed by Olivier Assayas. Starring Kristen Stewart, Lars Eldinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, and Ty Olwin. SYNOPSIS: A fashion model’s personal shopper finds herself drawn into the mystery surrounding the ghost of a lost family member. The heaps and heaps of critical and Cannes-lead praise for Olivier Assayas’s 21st-century answer to Poltergeist for the […]
Movie Review – Road to the Well (2016)
Road to the Well, 2016. Written and directed by Jon Cvack. Starring Marshall R. Teague, Micah Parker, Rosalie McIntire, Barak Hardley, Michelle LaFrance, and Laurence Fuller. SYNOPSIS: Jack (Micah Parker), rolls into town to visit his old friend Frank (Laurence Fuller). Risk averse, free-spirited and bohemian as oppose to repressed, trapped and hemmed in. Jack’s […]
Book Review – The Hangman’s Daughter by Gavin Smith
Michelle Herbert reviews The Hangman’s Daughter by Gavin Smith… Welcome to the future, where humanity left Earth for the stars 400 years ago. In this future, we have expanded through the stars, although some things are still the same. There is still crime, as humanity hasn’t evolved into purely altruistic beings, the CIA is still […]
Movie Review – The Program (2015)
The Program, 2015. Directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Ben Foster, Chris O’Dowd, Guillaume Canet, Jesse Plemons, Lee Pace, Denis Menochet and Dustin Hoffman. SYNOPSIS: An Irish sports journalist becomes convinced that Lance Armstrong’s performances during the Tour de France victories are fueled by banned substances. With this conviction, he starts hunting for evidence that will […]
Movie Review – Viceroy’s House (2017)
Viceroy’s House, 2017. Directed by Gurinder Chadha. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson, Manish Dayal, Michael Gambon, Huma Qureshi, Lily Travers, Simon Callow, and Om Puri. SYNOPSIS: Lord Mountbatten, as the last appointed Viceroy of India in 1947, is tasked with handing the country back to its people after 300 years of British imperial rule. His […]
Video Game Review – A Pixel Story
Calum Petrie reviews A Pixel Story… A Pixel Story is a bold and bouncy adventure filled with cute characters, bouncing puzzles and nostalgia filled levels. Developed by Lamplight Studios and published by Rising Star Games, this game was originally released on Steam and is now making its way to consoles. The BAFTA nominated indie title […]
Legion Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Chapter 4’
Rachel Bellwoar reviews the fourth episode of Legion… ‘Chapter 4’ opens with a character we’d never met in person, Dr. Bird’s husband, Oliver (Jemaine Clement), introducing the episode as a “five act play,” like this is Masterpiece Theater. More importantly, Oliver gives us something to look for this episode, a common thread to pull all […]
Video Game Review – Typoman Revised
Andy O’Flaherty reviews Typoman Revised… Isn’t it so annoying when you are trying to watch an episode of Countdown whilst simultaneously playing a dark and moody platform game? Well, thanks to the folk over at Brainseed Factory you can now do both! Welcome to Typoman. Originally released for the Wii-U in 2015, Typoman at its core […]
Movie Review – Demon Hunter (2016)
Demon Hunter, 2016. Directed by Zoe Kavanagh. Starring Niamh Hogan, Alan Talbot, Michael Parle, and Aisli Moran. SYNOPSIS: Taryn makes a deal with Falstaff to fight demons like the one who killed her sister, but finds herself fighting for her mind instead when Falstaff reveals his true intentions. You can’t change the past but when a […]
