Michelle Herbert reviews A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky… With A City Dreaming, Polansky has written an intriguing and at times mind boggling urban fantasy that seeps into the unconscious via a series of vignettes following the exploits of M, his friends and associates. M’s world encompasses our own, but like a VIP curtain, you only […]
Book Review – The X-Files: Secret Agendas
Tony Black reviews The X-Files: Secret Agendas… In the space of around eighteen months, IDW Publishing have neatly timed around the revival of 90’s TV hit The X-Files a series of compilation short stories about the weird & wonderful investigations of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder & Dana Scully, with ‘Secret Agendas’ the overarching title […]
Comic Book Review – Justice League #45
Ricky Church reviews Justice League #45… The critically acclaimed “Darkseid War” continues as the second wave of war begins with “Darkseid War: Gods and Men”! Writer Geoff Johns is joined by superstar artist Francis Manapul for this special issue featuring the all-new, all-powerful Justice League! In the aftermath of the cataclysmic events of JUSTICE LEAGUE […]
DVD Review – 50 Years of Star Trek (2016)
50 Years of Star Trek, 2016. Directed by Ian Roumain. SYNOPSIS: 50 Years of Star Trek isn’t an exhaustive documentary, since you can only cram so much into 85 minutes, but it is a nice look back at a franchise that has endured for half a century. It’s also notable for containing Leonard Nimoy’s last […]
29th Leeds International Film Festival Review – The Witch (2015)
The Witch, 2015. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie. SYNOPSIS: A family of settlers is slowly torn apart by supernatural forces in 1630s New England. ‘The scariest film of all time / the year / in decades’ is a phrase that appears on the posters of every single horror […]
Movie Review – Black Souls (2015)
Black Souls, 2015. Directed by Francesco Munzi. Starring Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta and Fabrizio Ferracane. SYNOPSIS: The story of three brothers, the sons of a shepherd, close to the ndrangheta and of their divided souls. Tantalisingly steady in its pace, Black Souls toys with the idea of classical Mafia crime drama, subverting its stereotypical themes […]
Class Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘Nightvisiting’
Alex Moreland reviews the third episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class… “I’m not made of glass.” This week’s episode of Class touches on a theme that was in fact dealt with extensively during Doctor Who’s last season: grief. It’s a common theme in sci-fi, and the aforementioned Doctor Who episode ‘Hell Bent’ was widely […]
American Horror Story Season 6 Episode 7 Review
Kirsty Capes reviews the seventh episode of American Horror Story season 6… So continues American Horror Story season 6, and the twist has well and truly turned now. After the introduction of a season 2 of ‘My Roanoke Nightmare’, called ‘Return to Roanoke’ last episode, we are now treated to both the cast of the re-enactments […]
October Horrors Day 29 – The Guest (2014)
The Guest, 2014. Directed by Adam Wingard. Starring Dan Stevens, Maika Monroe, Brendan Meyer, Leland Orser, and Lance Reddick. SYNOPSIS: A family is in mourning after their son is killed in action while away in the military. Soon after this loss, a mysterious stranger by the name of David arrives, claiming to be a squad […]
Comic Book Review – Nailbiter #17
Zeb Larson reviews Nailbiter #17… NEW STORY ARC. A brutal new serial killer strikes! Nailbiter takes us in a new direction with this story arc, mostly leaving Buckaroo behind to focus on the new killer in Atlanta. In a lot of respects, this new direction is a good thing, a chance to leave behind the […]
