Dough, 2015. Directed by John Goldschmidt. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Jerome Holder, Phil Davis and Pauline Collins. SYNOPSIS: In a London suburb, a family owned Jewish bakery is on its uppers, losing customers and under pressure to sell up to developers. Then baker Nat (Jonathan Pryce) loses his assistant, who goes to work for the nearby […]
Fargo Season 3 Episode 7 Review – ‘The Law of Inevitability’
Shaun Munro reviews the seventh episode of Fargo season 3… As Fargo’s third season enters its final stretch, it hit the ground running following Ray’s shocking demise last week, with Nikki promptly being arrested and Varga’s presumed frame-up attempt working perfectly. It’s now clear that Nikki is essentially the series’ de facto protagonist, or at the very least […]
First Impressions – The Culling
Mike Mc Grath with some first impressions of The Culling… If you’ve ever seen The Hunger Games and thought “I’d like to participate in this from the comfort of my home” then The Culling is the game for you. The basic premise is 16 people are dropped into a walled off area of a jungle […]
Comic Book Review – Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye Vol. 1: Going Underground
Ricky Church reviews Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye Vol. 1: Going Underground… Cave Carson has done it all: survived countless adventures below the Earth’s surface, met the love of his life, and gotten a cybernetic eye…somehow. Now, newly widowed, Cave tries to piece his life back together when a knock on the door of his […]
Movie Review – The Confessions (2016)
The Confessions, 2016 Directed by Roberto Andò. Starring Toni Servillo, Daniel Auteuil, Pierfrancesco Favino, Connie Nielsen, Lambert Wilson, Marie-Josée Croze, and Moritz Bleibtreu. SYNOPSIS: At G8 meeting in Germany, a monk invited by director of the International Monetary Fund ends up thrust into the middle of a murder investigation while navigating a web of international […]
Movie Review – Whisky Galore! (2016)
Whisky Galore!, 2016. Directed by Gillies MacKinnon, Starring Gregor Fisher, Eddie Izzard, Ellie Kendrick, Kevin Guthrie, Fenella Woolgar and James Cosmo. SYNOPSIS: It’s 1941, rationing is in force and the residents of the Scottish island of Todday are faced with a nightmare. Their supply of whisky has run out and the island is completely dry. […]
Score Reviews – Despicable Me 3 and Castlevania
Tony Black reviews the scores for Despicable Me 3 and Castlevania… The third film in the animated franchise sees Heitor Pereira return once again as composer for Despicable Me 3, in which loveable bad guy Gru gets a twin brother, the Minions go to prison, a new bad guy emerges and the usual comedic […]
Movie Review – Spaceship (2016)
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 […]
