Zeb Larson reviews The Walking Dead #153… Heavy hangs the head. This is one of those scenery issues of The Walking Dead where we’re on the way to a climax, which means that there’s not a whole lot in this issue to really delve into. Rather, there’s some fallout from the previous issue, and a […]
DVD Review – Estranged (2015)
Estranged, 2015. Directed by Adam Levins. Starring Amy Manson, Craig Conway, Simon Quarterman, James Cosmo, Bob Duff, James Lance, Eileen Nicholas, Nora-Jane Noone. SYNOPSIS: A woman with amnesia from a crash returns to her family home and tries to work out who she was before her accident and why her family are behaving so strangely […]
Blu-ray Review – Bride of Re-Animator (1989)
Bride of Re-Animator, 1989. Directed by Brian Yuzna. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, David Gale, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, Kathleen Kinmont, Mel Stewart. SYNOPSIS: Herbert West and his assistant Dan Cain discover how to re-animate dead tissue from individual body parts and set about creating their own ‘perfect’ woman. Right then, now we’re talking. […]
Blu-ray Review – Trapped: Complete Season One
Trapped: Season One Created by Baltasar Kormákur. Starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdottir, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Nina Dögg Filipusdottir, Bjarne Henriksen and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson. SYNOPSIS : In a remote town in Iceland, local police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town. The recent success of Trapped – or if you’re feeling like brushing up […]
Class Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Brave-ish Heart’
With Doctor Who spinoff Class returning for a BBC One airing, Alex Moreland continues his reviews of this YA hit… When your entire people are being killed before your very eyes, then you can talk to me about monsters! In many ways, this is a chessboard episode; it feels almost like a perfunctory piece, dedicated more […]
Movie Review – Hunting Grounds (2015)
Hunting Grounds, 2015. Directed by John Portanova. Starring Bill Oberst Jr., Jason Vail, and Miles Joris-Peyrafitte. SYNOPSIS: Four hunters soon find themselves lost in the American wilderness, stumbling across a squad of bloodthirsty Sasquatch who won’t let them leave without a fight. Bafflingly retitled from the far superior (and much more sensical) Valley of the […]
Movie Review – Killer Pinata (2015)
Killer Pinata, 2015. Directed by Stephen Tramontana. Starring Lindsay Ashcroft, Nate Bryan, and Billy Chengary. SYNOPSIS: A possessed piñata, seeking to avenge the savagery that humanity has inflicted on his kind, picks off a group of friends, one by one, in an unending night of terror. Sometimes a concept will sell a film. You just […]
Comic Book Review – The X-Files #10
Tony Black reviews The X-Files #10… “Contrarians,” Part 1 (of 2): Mulder chances upon evidence that suggests the now-defunct Syndicate’s involvement in the Iran-Contra affair. Guest-starring the Cigarette Smoking Man and President Reagan! Given the powder keg that is United States politics, ‘Contrarians’ is, in time-honoured X-Files fashion, very appropriate right now. You can feel […]
Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe #6
Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe #6… Behold the debut of the TMNT’s weirdest foe yet: Wyrm! When Michelangelo tries to help find a missing person in the sewers, he ends up discovering something he wished stayed in the dark! Last month I moaned about TMNT Universe being a victim of its own […]
Book Review – A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Michelle Herbert reviews A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay… A Head Full of Ghosts is an intense account of what happened to Merry’s family fifteen years ago. The story is told in two ways, the first is a set of interviews, where adult Merry recounts the events of that time to a reporter. The […]
