La La Land, 2016.Directed by Damien Chazelle Starring Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, John Legend, Rosemarie DeWitt, Finn Whitrock, and J.K. Simmons.SYNOPSIS:Dreams are chased and love is found in Damien Chazelle’s ode to Hollywood musicals and celluloid magic.On paper, La La Land, reads like it’s going to be my favourite movie of all time. While I’m […]
Video Game Review – Syndrome
Jordan Jones reviews Syndrome… Syndrome is a frustrating game, and much of that has nothing to with it’s difficulty. You see, when Syndrome is good, it’s very good. The game generates a palpable feeling of tension in its best moments, but they are simply too fleeting. At times, I felt like the game was standing in […]
Black Mirror Season 3 Episode 1 – ‘Nosedive’
Tony Black reviews Black Mirror – ‘Nosedive’…We can all pretty much stop now and agree that Charlie Brooker is a genius, right? Love him or not as a personality presenting the Wipe program on the BBC or his Guardian articles/books, but Black Mirror has within two painfully short seasons on Channel 4 become The Twilight […]
Second Opinion – Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, 2016. Directed by Edward Zwick Starring Tom Cruise, Cobie Smulders, Aldis Hodge, Danika Yarosh, Patrick Heusinger, Holt McCallany, Robert Catrini, Madalyn Horche and Robert Knepper. SYNOPSIS: Ex-Army drifter Jack Reacher finds himself drawn into a military conspiracy when he attempts to protect disgraced Major Susan Turner, suspected of espionage… Not […]
October Horrors Day 22 – The Shining (1980)
The Shining, 1980. Directed by Stanley Kubrick Starring Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers and Danny Lloyd. SYNOPSIS: Jack Torrance is a struggling writer who takes a job as the winter caretaker of the Overlook Hotel, located deep in the mountains and often snowed in during the winter months, bringing along his wife Wendy and […]
Westworld Season 1 Episode 3 Review – ‘The Stray’
Tony Black reviews the third episode of Westworld… Inevitably the pedal eases off in ‘The Stray’, Westworld‘s third episode, which takes a step to the side in order to contextualize and deepen the character beats and motivations of the sprawl of main characters in Jonathan Nolan’s ensemble. It’s becoming clear that the show intends to […]
Class Season 1 Episode 1 Review – ‘For Tonight We Might Die’
Alex Moreland reviews the first episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class…“You can’t seriously expect these juveniles to deal with whatever’s going to come through these tears in space and time?!”Class starts as any typical Doctor Who episode might: someone’s running from a monster in a darkened corridor. In beginning this way, there’s a clear […]
Video Game Review – Fractured Space
Josh Cui reviews Fractured Space… Are you a fan of massive spacecraft as seen in Star Trek or Battlestar Galactica? Do you also happen to be a fan of the MOBA genre (League of Legends, DOTA, Heroes of the Storm)? If so you might be in for a treat; even those who answered no to […]
October Horrors Day 21 – Creep (2014)
Creep, 2014. Directed by Patrick Brice Starring Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass. SYNOPSIS: Videographer Adam is hired by the terminally ill Josef to film a series of mundane activities so that they might be shown to Josef’s unborn son, whose birth he is not likely to live long enough to witness. However, as Adam begins […]
Second Opinion – Shin Godzilla (2016)
Shin Godzilla, 2016. Directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi Starring Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, Satomi Ishihara, Ren Ohsugi, Akira Emoto. SYNOPSIS: A young government official is plunged into an unexpected leadership role when a giant monster makes land in Japan, plunging the country into chaos as the government scrambles to contain the situation. It’s happened […]
