Child 44, 2015. Directed by Daniel Espinosa. Starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Gary Oldman, Joel Kinnaman, Jason Clarke, Paddy Considine and Vincent Cassel. SYNOPSIS: A disgraced member of the military police investigates a series of nasty child murders during the Stalin-era Soviet Union. Based on Tom Rob Smith’s 2008 novel; Child 44 proves how […]
Blu-ray Review – Coffy (1973)
Coffy, 1973. Directed by Jack Hill. Starring Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Robert DoQui, Sid Haig, William Elliot, Allan Arbus, Linda Haynes and Carol Lawson. SYNOPSIS: A nurse takes matters into her own hands after her sister is given some bad junk by local drug dealers. Having released Jack Hill’s 1974 blaxploitation classic Foxy Brown on Blu-ray […]
Blu-ray Review – Midnight Run (1988)
Midnight Run, 1988. Directed by Martin Brest. Starring Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Dennis Farina, Joe Pantoliano, Yaphet Kotto, John Ashton, Wendy Phillips and Philip Baker Hall. SYNOPSIS: Ex-cop-turned-bounty-hunter Robert De Niro has to escort a bail-jumpig Charles Grodin across the country with the FBI, a rival bounty hunter and the mob on their trail. […]
DVD Review – Beneath (2013)
Beneath, 2013. Directed by Ben Ketai. Starring Kelly Noonan, Jeff Fahey, Brent Briscoe, Kurt Caceres, Eric Etebari, Molly Hagan, Larry Moran and Joey Kern. SYNOPSIS: A team of miners get trapped 600 feet underground after the mine collapses, and as the air runs out so does their sanity. In Beneath, Jeff Fahey (Machete) stars as […]
Mad Men Season 7 Episode 9 Review – ‘New Business’
Martin Burgoyne reviews the ninth episode of Mad Men season 7… ‘New business’ is the very apt title for this latest episode of Mad Men. Whereas the previous episode was trying very hard to cover all bases on the goings on at Madison Avenue, this episode seems to focus primarily on three main storylines… Firstly we have Don and his […]
Movie Review – Last Knights (2015)
Last Knights, 2015. Directed by Kazuaki Kiriya. Starring Clive Owen, Morgan Freeman, Aksel Hennie, Cliff Curtis, Dave Legeno and Ayelet Zurer. SYNOPSIS: Academy Award Nominee Clive Owen delivers an electrifying performance as a fallen warrior who rises against a corrupt and sadistic ruler to avenge his dishonored master, Academy Award Winner Morgan Freeman in this […]
Movie Review – The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)
The Town That Dreaded Sundown, 2014 Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon Starring Addison Timlin, Veronica Cartwright, Anthony Anderson, Gary Cole, Joshua Leonard and Ed Lauter. SYNOPSIS: 65 years after a masked serial killer terrorized the small town of Texarkana, the so-called ‘moonlight murders’ begin again. Is it a copycat or something even more sinister? A lonely […]
Comic Book Review – Chrononauts #2
Zeb Larson reviews Chrononauts #2… Corbin Quinn and Danny Reilly have become the world’s first time travelers—but not all goes according to plan when the two go rogue in their own era-hopping adventure! With the world watching, the buddies get mixed up in an eon’s worth of sticky situations while some of history’s scariest villains—and […]
Comic Book Review – The Fade Out #5
Zeb Larson reviews The Fade Out #5… The second act of BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS’ biggest hit ever begins with a bang! Someone knows who killed Valeria Sommers, but can our “heroes” find them without exposing themselves? And will their search lead them to answers they don’t want to find? A perfect jumping-on point for new […]
Second Opinion – Lost River (2014)
Lost River, 2014. Written and Directed by Ryan Gosling. Starring Ben Mendelsohn, Christina Hendricks, Eva Mendes, Iain De Caestecker, Matt Smith and Saorise Ronan. SYNOPSIS: A single mother is swept into a dark underworld, while her teenage son discovers a road that leads him to a secret underwater town. If Lost River were a cocktail […]