Tai Freligh reviews Geek-Girl #1… Trying to be a super-hero, Ruby Kaye stumbles across a mysterious and extremely dangerous new villain taking down her town’s Numero Uno heroine – and is forced to step up and use her powers for more than just accidentally knocking drinks over her friends… Geek-Girl is entering the Super-Hero Big […]
Retro Video Game Review – Pac-Man on the NES
Villordsutch reviews Pac-Man on the NES… Pac-Man is an all-time classic! Originally released upon the Japanese arcades in May 1980 from video game designer Toru Iwatani, this Namco game then went over to America and flew under the Midway flag come December 1980. As any Scott Pilgrim fan will tell you, our yellow hero went […]
Retro Video Game Review – Double Dragon II: The Revenge
Andy O’Flaherty reviews Double Dragon II: The Revenge on the Nintendo Entertainment System… There is an extremely high likelihood that the vast majority of people reading these words have at the very least heard of Double Dragon. The original arcade game, released in 1987, was a landmark title that revolutionised the way games in the […]
Movie Review – The Unspoken (2015)
The Unspoken, 2015. Directed by Sheldon Wilson Starring Jodelle Ferland, Sunny Suljic, Pascale Hutton, Anthony Konechny, Jake Croker SYNOPSIS : In 1997 the close-knit Anderson family vanished from their country home without a trace. No bodies were ever found and for 17 years the house has remained undisturbed…until now. While confusion and mystery is at […]
DVD Review – Abbey Grace (2016)
Abbey Grace, 2016. Directed by Stephen Durham. Starring Debbie Sheridan, Jacob Hobbs, Amber Gallaway, Semi Anthony, Maggie McNabb. SYNOPSIS: After her mother dies, a professional woman puts her career on hold to move back home to look after her agoraphobic brother who has not left the house for years. She soon discovers that the house holds […]
Book Review – A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky
Michelle Herbert reviews A City Dreaming by Daniel Polansky… With A City Dreaming, Polansky has written an intriguing and at times mind boggling urban fantasy that seeps into the unconscious via a series of vignettes following the exploits of M, his friends and associates. M’s world encompasses our own, but like a VIP curtain, you only […]
Book Review – The X-Files: Secret Agendas
Tony Black reviews The X-Files: Secret Agendas… In the space of around eighteen months, IDW Publishing have neatly timed around the revival of 90’s TV hit The X-Files a series of compilation short stories about the weird & wonderful investigations of FBI Special Agents Fox Mulder & Dana Scully, with ‘Secret Agendas’ the overarching title […]
Comic Book Review – Justice League #45
Ricky Church reviews Justice League #45… The critically acclaimed “Darkseid War” continues as the second wave of war begins with “Darkseid War: Gods and Men”! Writer Geoff Johns is joined by superstar artist Francis Manapul for this special issue featuring the all-new, all-powerful Justice League! In the aftermath of the cataclysmic events of JUSTICE LEAGUE […]
DVD Review – 50 Years of Star Trek (2016)
50 Years of Star Trek, 2016. Directed by Ian Roumain. SYNOPSIS: 50 Years of Star Trek isn’t an exhaustive documentary, since you can only cram so much into 85 minutes, but it is a nice look back at a franchise that has endured for half a century. It’s also notable for containing Leonard Nimoy’s last […]
29th Leeds International Film Festival Review – The Witch (2015)
The Witch, 2015. Directed by Robert Eggers. Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson and Kate Dickie. SYNOPSIS: A family of settlers is slowly torn apart by supernatural forces in 1630s New England. ‘The scariest film of all time / the year / in decades’ is a phrase that appears on the posters of every single horror […]
