Barbershop: The Next Cut (a.k.a. Barbershop: A Fresh Cut) (2016) Directed by Malcolm D. Lee Starring Ice Cube, Robert Teitel, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall, Sean Patrick Thomas, Eve, Anthony Anderson, Jazsmin Lewis-Kelley, Common, Nicki Minaj, Margot Bingham, Lamorne Morris, Deon Cole, Reggie Brown, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Tyga, J.B. Smoove, Deon Cole SYNOPSIS Employees at the barbershop […]
Movie Review – Race (2016)
Race (2016) Directed by Stephan James Starring Stephan James, Jason Sudeikis, Jeremy Irons, Carice van Houten, William Hurt, Eli Goree, Shanice Banton, Barnaby Metschurat, Glynn Turman, Amanda Crew, Adam Zwicker. SYNOPSIS This biopic retells the historic moment where a young African-American athlete Jesse Owens came to defy the Nazi’s Aryan ideology. Anybody familiar with their […]
Movie Review – Where You’re Meant To Be (2016)
Where You’re Meant To Be, 2016. Directed by Paul Fegan. Starring Aidan Moffat and Sheila Stewart. SYNOPSIS: Documentary charting the progress of a Scottish artist as he attempts to rewrite his country’s oldest songs. “Folk music needs a good editor” Aidan Moffat says at one point during this heartfelt and incisive documentary. It’s just one […]
Movie Review – Warcraft (2016)
Warcraft, 2016. Directed by Duncan Jones. Starring Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Toby Kebbell, Ben Schnetzer, Robert Kazinsky, Clancy Brown, Daniel Wu, Ruth Negga, Anna Galvin, and Glenn Close. SYNOPSIS: The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing […]
Countdown to Spectre – The Spy Who Loved Me Review
Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of The Spy Who Loved Me… James Bond’s previous adventure in The Man with the Golden Gun was a low point for the series that relied too heavily on camp and comedy to succeed. While The Spy Who Loved Me continues Bond’s campy trend, it […]
Video Game Review – PES 2016
Andy Naylor reviews PES 2016… Last year’s PES [read our review here] was promising. It showed some footballing intuition, it felt better than any PS3/360 incarnation ever did. With this in mind, there was a trickle of excitement at how, in the following 12 months, Konami could tweak and improve upon the positive steps taken in PES […]
Comic Book Review – Star Trek/Green Lantern #4
Villordsutch reviews Star Trek/Green Lantern #4… The crossover event of 2015 continues here, as Starfleet and the Green Lantern Corps team up in the middle of a ring-powered galactic war! The evil Nekron has arrived in the Star Trek universe… with his eye on resurrecting the planet Vulcan itself! Don’t miss out on the latest […]
Comic Book Review – Judge Dredd – Day of Chaos: Endgame
Villordsutch reviews Judge Dredd – Day of Chaos: Endgame… Mega-City One is at the mercy of a terrible act of retribution, thirty years in the making. The Chaos Bug has been released and the weakened Justice Department are finding it increasingly difficult to remain in control. As Judge Dredd searches for the perpetrators of this heinous […]
Countdown to Spectre – The Man with the Golden Gun Review
Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of The Man with the Golden Gun… While Roger Moore’s first outing as Bond in Live and Let Die was a too campy in some aspects, there were still some moments of seriousness in the film. Moore’s follow-up adventure goes in completely the other direction; […]
59th BFI London Film Festival Review – The Lobster (2015)
The Lobster, 2015 Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen and John C. Reilly SYNOPSIS: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five […]
