Amy Richau reviews the season two premiere of Halt and Catch Fire… The second season of AMC’s retro tech drama Halt and Catch Fire jumps forward 20 months and throws the main characters in different and sometimes surprising directions. However it’s not clear from the first episode where the series is actually going and if […]
Movie Review – Area 51 (2015)
Area 51, 2015. Directed by Oren Peli. Starring Reid Warner, Jelena Nik, Darrin Bragg and Ben Rovner. SYNOPSIS: Three young conspiracy theorists attempt to uncover the mysteries of Area 51, the government’s secret location rumored to have hosted encounters with alien beings. What they find at this hidden facility exposes unimaginable secrets. In 2009, Oren Peli all […]
Turtle Beach Stealth 500p Headset Review
Ben Rayner reviews the Turtle Beach Stealth 500p Headset… It’s no surprise Turtle Beach have been a big name in the gaming world for this long, with almost every headset they release delivering great audio and comfort at respectable prices. Well, as long as you don’t go too high-end of course. The wireless market for […]
Movie Review – Skin Trade (2014)
Skin Trade, 2014. Directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham. Starring Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Ron Perlman, Peter Weller, Michael Jai White and Celina Jade. SYNOPSIS: After his family is killed by a Serbian gangster with international interests, NYC detective Nick goes to S.E. Asia and teams up with a Thai detective to get revenge and destroy the […]
East End Film Festival Movie Review – The Isle (2018)
The Isle, 2018 Directed by Matthew Butler Hart Starring Conleth Hill, Alex Hassell, Tori Butler Hart, Fisayo Akinade, Alix Wilton Regan, Joe Bannister SYNOPSIS: When three survivors of a shipwreck off the coast of 1840’s Scotland wash up on a sparsely populated island, they’re taken in by the residents before they can be rescued by […]
Movie Review – The Connection (2014)
The Connection (a.k.a. La French), 2014. Directed by Cédric Jimenez Starring Jean Dujardin, Gilles Lellouche, Céline Sallette, Mélanie Doutey, Guillaume Gouix, Benoît Magimel, Bruno Todeschini, Moussa Maaskri and Féodor Atkine. SYNOPSIS: A French police magistrate spends years trying to take down one of the country’s most powerful drug rings. If La French succeeds at anything […]
Comic Book Review – Invisible Republic #3
Zeb Larson reviews Invisible republic #3… Arthur McBride discovers Maia’s secret…and her act of compassion could get them both killed. Invisible Republic has a lot of promise as a political take on the sci-fi genre. It’s an insider take on the fall of a dictatorship. These are always juicy in real life, so why should […]
Movie Review – Danny Collins (2015)
Danny Collins, 2015. Written and Directed by Dan Fogelman. Starring: Al Pacino, Annette Benning, Jennifer Garner, Bobby Cannavale and Christopher Plummer. SYNOPSIS: An ageing rocker comes to the realisation that his life perhaps hasn’t gone as it should have after he reads a letter written to him by John Lennon, sent decades earlier but not […]
Blu-ray Review – Island of Death (1976)
Island of Death, 1976. Directed by Nico Mastorakis. Starring Bob Belling, Jane Lyle, Jessica Dublin, Gerard Gonalons and Janice McConnel. SYNOPSIS: A British couple on a Greek island embark on a perverted killing spree, targeting anybody they think deserves punishing. Anybody who has ever taken an interest in the enduring legacy of the video nasty era would […]
Movie Review – Infini (2015)
Infini, 2015. Written and Directed by Shane Abbess. Starring Daniel MacPherson, Grace Huang and Luke Hemsworth. SYNOPSIS: An elite ‘search and rescue’ team transport onto an off-world mining-facility to rescue Whit Carmichael, the lone survivor of a biological outbreak. There’s an old movie saying, that an audience would rather be confused than bored, but this […]
