Edgar Allen Poe’s Black Cats Directed by Sergio Martino/Lucio Fulci. Starring Edwige Fenech, Anita Strindberg, Luigi Pistilli, David Warbeck, Ivan Rassimov, Patrick Magee, Mimsy Farmer, Al Cliver and Dagmar Lassander. SYNOPSIS: Box set containing two adaptations of Poe’s classic The Black Cat by directors Sergio Martino and Lucio Fulci. Poe’s The Black Cat, like a […]
The Apprentice Series 11 Episode 2 Review – ‘Cactus Shampoo’
Tom Beasley reviews the latest episode of The Apprentice, in which the two teams were tasked with branding and advertising a cactus-based shampoo. Things got a little hairy… Advertising tasks on The Apprentice are usually pretty easy to predict, with a runaway director derailing their team’s chances by running around like Terrence Malick trying to […]
Movie Review – Tales of Halloween (2015)
Tales of Halloween, 2015. Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman, Axelle Carolyn, Adam Gierasch, Andrew Kasch, Neil Marshall, Lucky McKee, Mike Mendez, Dave Parker, Ryan Schifrin, John Skipp and Paul Solet. SYNOPSIS: An anthology of ten creepy tales set around Halloween night, featuring the likes of candy-munching demons, mischievous imps and a killer pumpkin. Horror anthologies […]
Comic Book Review – Batman #45
Ricky Church reviews Batman #45… When Batman almost gets taken out by a new threat, Jim Gordon might have to reevaluate what it means to wear the cowl before it’s too late for Gotham City! Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo continue to roll out their surprises in this new era of Batman. As Gordon struggles […]
Fargo Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘Waiting For Dutch’
James Garcia reviews Fargo season 2 episode 1, ‘Waiting for Dutch’… Last year, Noah Hawley took it upon himself to do what, on paper, seemed outlandish – create a television series based around the 1996 Coen Brothers masterpiece, Fargo. Hawley’s ambitious ten-hour opus – which he wrote every episode of – was a great success and exceeded […]
Comic Book Review – The Wicked + The Divine #15
Zeb Larson reviews Wicked + Divine #15… Wicked + Divine breaks with the theme of misogyny and gender that has run through the last few issues to introduce…something new. It’s hard to say exactly what it is because the shape of it is still fuzzy, which the writers admit in the back pages of the […]
Comic Book Review – Roche Limit: Clandestiny #5
Zeb Larson reviews Roche Limit: Clandestiny #5… And now Roche Limit: Clandestiny has come to its end, its conclusion significantly raising the stakes for the third and final volume of this series. The survivors of the group realize that the malevolent beings they’ve found want to make their way to Earth, and the survivors plus […]
Video Game Review – Ghost Blade
Ben Rayner reviews Ghost Blade… The SEGA Dreamcast was easily one of the greatest home consoles ever to grace our living rooms. I’ve never shied away from my love of the original online gaming console but it’s not simply just my opinion, it’s also a widely regarded fact that has kept fans amassing huge collections […]
DVD Review – Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
Insidious: Chapter 3, 2015. Directed by Leigh Whannell. Starring Lin Shaye, Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson and Tate Berney. SYNOPSIS: A few years before the haunting of the Lambert family, psychic Elise Rainier is called upon to help a teenage girl try to contact her dead mother. It would be very easy […]
BIFF 2015 Movie Review – Ixcanul Volcano (2015)
Ixcanul Volcano, 2015. Directed by Jayro Bustamante. Starring Maria Mercedes Coroy, Maria Telon, Manuel Antun, Justo Lorenzo, Marvin Coroy. SYNOPSIS Maria is a 17 year old Mayan girl who lives and works on a coffee plantation with her family. Despite the arranged marriage that awaits her, Maria dreams of escaping to the city, but then an unwanted pregnancy […]
