Personal Shopper, 2016. Directed by Olivier Assayas. Starring Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Sigrid Bouaziz, Anders Danielsen Lie and Ty Olwin. SYNOPSIS: Maureen serves as a personal shopper for the rich and famous. Residing in Paris, she also practices as a medium with the hope of contacting her recently deceased twin brother. Channelling two greatly conflicting lifestyles, soon […]
Movie Review – RWD (2016)
RWD, 2016. Directed by Matt Stuertz. Starring Adam Hartley and Matt Stuertz. SYNOPSIS: Two men disappear into the woods armed with cameras and looking for ghosts, hoping to shoot the latest episode of their ongoing web series about paranormal happenings. Instead they find something different, but equally as unusual. Found-footage is a pretty cheap sub-genre, […]
October Horrors Day 16 – City of the Living Dead (1980)
City of the Living Dead, 1980 Directed by Lucio Fulci Starring Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Majo and Antonella Interlenghi SYNOPSIS: In the village of Dunwich Father Thomas hangs himself in the local graveyard causing the gates of hell to open and spew evil into the world. At the same time in New York […]
October Horrors Day 9 – Dawn of the Dead (1978)
Dawn of the Dead, 1978 Directed by George A. Romero Starring Ken Foree, David Emege, Scott Reigner and Gaylen Ross SYNOPSIS: TV news chopper pilot Stephen, his girlfriend Francine and SWAT team members Peter and Roger, attempt to find a place to hole up in the midst of a zombie apocalypse spiralling ever more out of […]
Video Game Review – Ride 2 (Video Review)
Lewy Buck Reviews Ride 2… As someone who has always been interested in motorcycles, motorcycle games have never quite cut it with me. The games that were currently available to us for example the MotoGP series all seemed to…professional. The thought of riding nothing but racing grade motorcycles around an official track seemed linear, tedious […]
October Horrors Day 15 – Suspiria (1977)
Suspiria, 1977 Starring Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci, Miguel Bose and Alinda Valli SYNOPSIS: Young American dance student Suzy has arrived in Germany to attend an exclusive ballet school. However, Suzy and some of her fellow students soon begin to notice the slightly strange goings on in the school, with some students disappearing and […]
October Horrors Day 8 – Psycho (1960)
Psycho, 1960 Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Starring Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin, Martin Balsam and Janet Leigh SYNOPSIS: Marion Crane has just stolen thousands of dollars from her former employer in order to clear the debts of her soon-to-be-husband and build a new life for them. Making a quick getaway, Marion stops in at […]
60th BFI London Film Festival Review – Manchester by the Sea (2016)
Manchester by the Sea, 2016. Directed by Kenneth Lonergan. Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges and Tate Donovan. SYNOPSIS: An uncle is forced to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy’s father dies. Densely absorbing and richly enveloping, writer-director Kenneth Lonergan’s third feature is a melancholic but undeniably human portrait of grief, […]
Movie Review – The Light Between Oceans (2016)
The Light Between Oceans, 2016 Directed by Derek Cianfrance Starring Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz. SYNOPSIS: In the years following WW1, a lonely ex-soldier becomes a lighthouse keeper on an isolated island off of Western Australia, where he marries a local girl and attempts to start a family. When the two find that […]
Video Game Review – Shu
Andy O’Flaherty Reviews Shu… Originally slated for a release last year after impressing at GDC 2014, and after many graphical overhauls and gameplay tweaks, Coatsink and Secret Lunch’s Shu is finally here. A 2.5D platform adventure with emphasis on speed-running, players control the bird-like ‘Shu’ (a reference to the Greek God of Air) and go on […]
