The Sweeney: Paris, 2015. Directed by Benjamin Rocher. Starring Karl Amoussou, Féodor Atkine, Jakob Cedergren,Stefi Clema, Oumar Diaw, Alban Lenoir, Jess Liaudin, Caterina Murino, Thierry Neuvic, Sabrina Ouazani, .and Jean Reno SYNOPSIS: A ragtag squad of French cops, whose old-fashioned protocol infuriates the commissioner, recognises a series of bank and jewellery heists that have the hallmarks of […]
Comic Book Review – The Walking Dead #153
Zeb Larson reviews The Walking Dead #153… Heavy hangs the head. This is one of those scenery issues of The Walking Dead where we’re on the way to a climax, which means that there’s not a whole lot in this issue to really delve into. Rather, there’s some fallout from the previous issue, and a […]
Better Call Saul Season 2 Episode 8 – ‘Fifi’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Better Call Saul season 2… It took me a while to work out how Saul works. To begin with I figured it was the usual mix of ongoing story stretched over several episodes to form a cohesive whole, but this week the penny dropped. Sure there is the […]
DVD Review – Estranged (2015)
Estranged, 2015. Directed by Adam Levins. Starring Amy Manson, Craig Conway, Simon Quarterman, James Cosmo, Bob Duff, James Lance, Eileen Nicholas, Nora-Jane Noone. SYNOPSIS: A woman with amnesia from a crash returns to her family home and tries to work out who she was before her accident and why her family are behaving so strangely […]
Blu-ray Review – Bride of Re-Animator (1989)
Bride of Re-Animator, 1989. Directed by Brian Yuzna. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, David Gale, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, Kathleen Kinmont, Mel Stewart. SYNOPSIS: Herbert West and his assistant Dan Cain discover how to re-animate dead tissue from individual body parts and set about creating their own ‘perfect’ woman. Right then, now we’re talking. […]
Blu-ray Review – Trapped: Complete Season One
Trapped: Season One Created by Baltasar Kormákur. Starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdottir, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Nina Dögg Filipusdottir, Bjarne Henriksen and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson. SYNOPSIS : In a remote town in Iceland, local police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town. The recent success of Trapped – or if you’re feeling like brushing up […]
Movie Review – Nasty Baby (2015)
Nasty Baby, 2015. Directed by Sebastián Silva. Starring Sebastián Silva, Tunde Adebimpe, Kristen Wiig and Reg E. Cathey. SYNOPSIS: Polly is looking to be the surrogate to her best friend Freddy and his partner Mo’s baby. Complications arise in both creating a life and taking one. Think of a tap consistently dripping from its mouth. Think […]
Movie Review – Green Room (2016)
Green Room, 2016. Written and Directed By Jeremy Saulnier. Starring Patrick Stewart, Imogen Poots, Anton Yelchin, Alia Shawkat, Callam Turner, Marc Weber, Macon Blair, and Joe Cole. SYNOPSIS: After witnessing a murder, a punk rock band is forced into a vicious fight for survival against a group of maniacal skinheads. Green Room is that rare […]
Movie Review – The Boss (2016)
The Boss, 2016. Directed by Ben Falcone. Starring Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Bell, Ella Anderson, Peter Dinklage, Tyler Labine, Cecily Strong, Kristen Schaal, Ben Falcone, and Kathy Bates. Synopsis : A titan of industry is sent to prison after she’s caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America’s latest sweetheart, not everyone […]
Movie Review – Demolition (2016)
Demolition, 2016. Directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Naomi Watts, Chris Cooper, Judah Lewis, C.J. Wilson, Polly Draper, James Colby, and Heather Lind. SYNOPSIS: As an investment banker struggles after losing his wife in a tragic car crash, his increasingly confessional series of letters to a vending machine company catch the attention of a customer […]
