High-Rise, 2015. Directed By Ben Wheatley. Starring Tom Hiddleston, Luke Evans, Jeremy Irons, Sienna Miller, Elisabeth Moss, James Purefoy and Peter Ferndinando. SYNOPSIS: Life for the residents in a tower block spirals into chaos and debauchery following a power cut. Adapting J.G. Ballard’s seminal dystopian novel High-Rise for the big screen was a long process: […]
Comic Book Review – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short #2
Villordsutch reviews Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short #2… A Spoon Too Short is Dirk Gently’s most baffling and incomprehensible case. Inspired by the tantalizing alternative title for the Dirk adventure Douglas Adams was working on prior to his death, A Spoon Too Short follows the continuing adventures of the world’s weirdest […]
Movie Review – 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
10 Cloverfield Lane, 2016. Directed by Dan Trachtenberg. Starring Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr. and John Goodman. SYNOPSIS: After surviving a car accident, a woman wakes up in an underground cellar. She fears she has been abducted by a survivalist, who tells her he saved her life, and that a worldwide chemical attack has […]
DVD Review – Experimenter (2015)
Experimenter, 2015. Written and directed by Michael Almereyda. Starring Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Anthony Edwards, John Palladino, Jim Gaffigan, Harley Ware, John Leguizamo and Anton Yelchin. SYNOPSIS: In 1961, famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans willingness to obey authority. Michael Almereyda’s biopic about Stanley Milgram’s […]
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 […]
Movie Review – Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Kung Fu Panda 3, 2016. Directed by Jennifer Yuh and Alessandro Carloni. Featuring the voice talents of Jack Black, Bryan Cranston, Angelina Jolie, Dustin Hoffman, J.K. Simmons, Seth Rogan, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu and Kate Hudson. SYNOPSIS: Cuddly kung fu fighting panda Po has reached the heights of Dragon Warrior and is responsible for protecting […]
Video Game Review – Hitman GO
Ben Rayner reviews Hitman GO… When your favourite franchise brings out a sequel that meets your expectations, there’s nothing better really is there. Except, now I’m certain there is. When the same franchise brings out a game that takes a complete left turn, making you initially frightened of it’s new direction but then completely nailing […]
Movie Review – Time Out of Mind (2015)
Time Out of Mind, 2015. Directed by Oren Moverman. Starring Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone and Steve Buscemi. SYNOPSIS: George seeks refuge at Bellevue Hospital, a Manhattan intake center for homeless men, where his friendship with a fellow client helps him try to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter. I’ll admit before anything […]
Video Game Review – Sadame
Ben Rayner reviews Sadame… A hack’n’slash title that attempts to litter Japanese history with Demons for killing and bright colours to whet the appetite of 90’s gamers everywhere? Well, that sounds great and something that had my had ready to grip the 3DS once more. Sadly, I felt a somewhat more tepid emotion when playing […]
Movie Review – Curtain (2015)
Curtain, 2015. Directed by Jaron Henrie-McCrea. Starring Danni Smith, Tim Lueke, Martin Monahan and Rick Zahn. SYNOPSIS: An ex-nurse moves into a new apartment but when her shower curtains keep disappearing, she discovers a portal to another dimension in her bathroom. Yes, this film is as bat-shit crazy as the synopsis would suggest. Curtain (also […]
