Villordsutch reviews Twin Peaks Season 3 – Episodes 5… Twin Peaks is a show for the faithful and the alert. Lynch and Frost have not created Season 3 for you to Tweet midway through with a “#TwinPeaks” hashtag so people know you’ve seen an owl or to highlight that Dougie Cooper said “Coffee”. Nor have they […]
Movie Review – Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016)
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016 Directed by Zack Snyder. Starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, Gal Gadot, Diane Lane, Laurence Fishburne, Jeremy Irons, Holly Hunter, Scoot McNairy, Tao Okamoto, Lauren Cohan, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ray Fisher, Ezra Miller and Callan Mulvey. SYNOPSIS: Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero […]
Movie Review – Hitchcock/Truffaut (2016)
Hitchcock/Truffaut, 2016. Directed by Kent Jones. Starring Mathieu Amalric, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Alfred Hitchcock, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Francois Truffaut. SYNOPSIS: Filmmakers look at the impact Francois Truffaut’s 1966 book ‘Cinema According to Hitchcock’ had on Hitchcock’s reputation, and their own films. […]
Movie Review – The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki (2016)
The Happiest Day In The Life Of Olli Maki, 2016. Directed by Juho Kuosmanen. Starring Jarkko Lahti, Oona Airola and Eero Milonoff. SYNOPSIS: Finnish boxer Olli Maki gets a shot at the world featherweight boxing title, but he has something else on his mind. He’s fallen in love. Will he be a winner? Based on […]
Blu-ray Review – Headshot (2016)
Headshot, 2016. Directed by Kimo Stamboel and Timo Tjahjanto. Starring Iko Uwais, Chelsea Islan, Sunny Pang, Very Tri Yulisman, and Julie Estelle. SYNOPSIS: An injured amnesiac is nursed back to health and begins to piece his life back together only to discover the brutal truth about who he is and where he came from. Thanks […]
Book Review – All Our Wrongs Today by Elan Mastai
Michelle Herbert reviews All Our Wrongs Today by Elan Mastai… Tom Berren, has messed up the present, or at least his present, as he now inhabits the present we have always known. Tom grew up in what we would think of as a post-scarcity utopia. People still work in that reality, but they work to […]
DVD Review – Mine (2016)
Mine, 2016. Directed by Fabio Guaglione and Fabio Resinario. Starring Armie Hammer, Annabelle Wallis, Tom Cullen and Clint Dyer. SYNOPSIS: After aborting his mission, an army sniper is stranded in the middle of the desert. One small movement could kill him, so he has to fight against the elements and the psychological toll of the […]
Movie Review – After the Storm (2016)
After the Storm, 2016. Written and Directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. Starring Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kike, Yôko Maki, Satomi Kobayashi, Lily Franky, and Taiyô Yoshizawa. SYNOPSIS: A former writer and private detective struggles to find child support money for his ex-wife in order to look after their son. After the Storm, Hirokazu Koreeda’s (Still Walking, Our Little Sister) […]
Video Game Review – Oh…Sir!! The Insult Simulator
Shaun Munro reviews Oh…Sir!! The Insult Simulator… Amid the sea of AAA titles vying for your cash, Vile Monarch’s fiercely unique Oh…Sir!! The Insult Simulator is nothing if not a breath of fresh air. Having sold more than 250,000 copies on PC and mobile platforms since its release late last year, it now finally arrives on […]
Comic Book Review – The Walking Dead #152
Zeb Larson reviews The Walking Dead #152… There’s a reason why dictators don’t just kill their enemies, but kill their enemies’ families as well: no future reprisals to fear. It’s not exactly humane or just, but under the right circumstances it might make more sense than allowing a potential enemy to live. Rick has to […]
