London Has Fallen, 2016 Directed by Babak Najafi. Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Radha Mitchell, Patrick Kennedy, Robert Forster, Melissa Leo, Charlotte Riley, Shivani Ghai, Mehdi Dehbi, Waleed Zuaiter, Alon Aboutboul, Jackie Earle Haley, and Michael Wildman. SYNOPSIS: In London for the Prime Minister’s funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to […]
Movie Review – The Forest (2016)
The Forest, 2016. Directed by Jason Zada. Starring Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Eoin Macken, Stephanie Vogt and Yuho Yamashita. SYNOPSIS: A woman heads into Japan’s notorious Suicide Forest to find her missing twin sister, only to find herself confronted by supernatural terror. The first real horror film of the year is something of a mixed bag. On the one […]
Gotham Season 2 Episode 12 Review – ‘Mr Freeze’
Martin Carr reviews the twelfth episode of Gotham season 2… ‘Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light’ (Milton ‘Paradise Lost’) I have procrastinated for too long. There is only so much pie and Oreo cookies one can eat before hitting critical mass. Therefore I find myself weighing up […]
Supergirl Season 1 Episode 15 Review – ‘Solitude’
Martin Carr reviews the fifteenth episode of Supergirl… When you are dealing with a computer virus made flesh, who is the manifestation of a species designed to control technological systems for a whole planet expect two things. Firstly lots of big words and secondly a very long sentence. Now consider yourself introduced to Indigo the […]
Agent Carter Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘Hollywood Ending’
Amy Richau reviews the season finale of Agent Carter season 2… The season finale of Agent Carter, “Hollywood Ending”, starts 60 seconds after the previous episode ended. It’s really too bad that ABC didn’t choose to air episodes 9 and 10 together as a two-hour grand finale instead of packaging episodes six & seven (which worked […]
Video Game Review – Vade Retro on the Spectrum 48K/128K
Dave Edwards reviews Vade Retro on the Spectrum 48K/128K… If you’re an evil sorcerer with the power to zombify at will, you probably think the town’s blacksmith isn’t going to give you a lot of trouble. That’s what Senor Delcram thought anyway when he started throwing his orb around zombifying the eastland inhabitants of Ye Olde […]
Video Game Review – SUPERHOT
Mike Mc Grath reviews SUPERHOT… SUPERHOT is one of those games that would be made even better with a VR device, so until the Flickering Myth higher-ups give me one….. No? OK. The gameplay is pretty simple; time only moves when you move and 1 hit kills on both you and your enemies. While this […]
Comic Book Review – Green Lantern #50
David Smyth reviews Green Lantern #50… In this extra-sized issue, it’s a battle for the fate of Earth! Parallax believes Hal Jordan has failed this universe—and now, he’s prepared to wipe Hal out of existence! Hal has to get over the shock that Parallax still exists so he can unleash the power of his gauntlet […]
Comic Book Review – Heroes Vengeance #5
Tai Freligh reviews Heroes Vengeance #5… Carlos Gutierrez of the Heroes Reborn: Event Series, is not the only person to assume the alias of El Vengador. Before him came his grandfather Luis and his older brother Oscar. Here we learn the stories of the Gutierrez family… Oscar Gutierrez and Father Mauricio have been helping refugee EVOs […]
Comic Book Review – Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill Alpha #1
David Smyth reviews Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill Alpha #1… Pleasant Hill looks like the perfect small-town community — but underneath the surface, a deadly secret lurks. One so explosive it will draw estranged allies Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson back together to save a friend in danger and put things right. But when […]