Spaceship, 2016 Written and Directed by Alex Taylor. Starring Alexa Davis, Lara Peake, Tallulah Rose Haddon, Harry Jarvis, Antii Reini, Stephen Elder SYNOPSIS : A teenage girl disappears in small town England, leaving her father to search for her amidst a strange world of adolescence and youth subculture. Aiming to bring a sense of the intensity […]
DVD Review – Heal The Living (2016)
Heal The Living, 2016. Directed by Katelle Quillevere. Starring Emmanuelle Seigner, Tahar Rahim, Anne Dorval, and Gabin Verdet. SYNOPSIS: The lives of a number of people – a young man, his parents, a woman with a heart condition, medical staff – are all connected by a single accident. One that shatters a family and gives […]
Blu-ray Review – Neruda (2016)
Neruda, 2016. Directed by Pablo Larrain. Starring Gael García Bernal, Luis Gnecco, and Mercedes Morán. SYNOPSIS: A revered poet and politician is forced into refuge after clashing with the Chilean government. A complicated game of cat and mouse ensues between the poet and the police officer assigned to arrest him. Taking the conflict between poet and political […]
Video Game Review – Sniper Elite 4 DLC Deathstorm Part 2: Infiltration
Scott Watson reviews Sniper Elite 4: Deathstorm Part 2: Infiltration… Hats off to Rebellion, they’ve done a damn fine job with keeping those of us in need of our Sniper Elite fix entertained. The drip feed of season pass DLC and additional free content in the way of maps, modes, weapons and skins has been pretty […]
Comic Book Review – Transformers: Till All Are One #11
Ricky Church reviews Transformers: Till All Are One #11… With Elita One’s influence closing in around Starscream, he’s desperate to make any alliances he can. Turns out, a powerful ally might already be within his grasp. But is he willing to risk his own sanity to reach them? Transformers: Till All Are One #11 may […]
Movie Review – It Comes At Night (2017)
It Comes At Night, 2017. Directed by Trey Edward Shults. Starring Joel Edgerton, Christopher Abbot, Carmen Ejogo, Riley Keough, and Kelvin Harrison Jr. SYNOPSIS: A small family – father, mother and teenage son – live in what appears to be an abandoned house. The windows are boarded up and, from the outside, there’s little sign […]
Movie Review – The Levelling (2016)
The Levelling, 2016. Directed by Hope Dickson Leach. Starring Ellie Kendrick, David Troughton, Jack Holden, and Joe Blakemore. SYNOPSIS: Trainee vet Clover (Ellie Kendrick) returns home to the family farm in Somerset following the death of her brother. She finds the farm in chaos and her father a shadow of his former self. Their relationship has […]
Book Review – Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Michelle Herbert reviews Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman… Eleanor Oliphant is Gail Honeyman’s debut novel and it is a powerful and astounding novel. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first started reading the story but soon found that I couldn’t put it down. There were so many layers to the […]
Movie Review – Unlocked (2017)
Unlocked, 2017. Directed by Michael Apted. Starring Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, Toni Collette, Michael Douglas and John Malkovich. SYNOPSIS: Former CIA interrogator Alice (Noomi Rapace) is working undercover in a London community centre. She’s reluctant to go back to her old job because of her failure to “unlock” a suspect, which resulted in terrorist attack which […]
Video Game Review – Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy
Shaun Munro reviews Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy… After years of fans begging Activision to bring Crash Bandicoot back, they’ve finally done it with the Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, a “Remaster Plus” of the original three games, which uses Naughty Dog’s original map geometry but updates the titles with gorgeous new sounds and visuals. Though its old-school […]
