Pay the Ghost, 2015. Directed by Uli Edel. Starring Nicolas Cage, Sarah Wayne Callies, Jack Fulton, Lyriq Bent, Lauren Beatty, Stephen McHattie and Veronica Ferres. SYNOPSIS: A professor frantically searches for his son who was abducted during a Halloween parade. At first glance, a film starring Nicolas Cage titled Pay the Ghost screams absurdity too […]
Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 2 Review – ‘The Witch’s Familiar’
Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 2, ‘The Witch’s Familiar’… Clara: “So the Androids think he’s dead and Doctor escapes?” Missy: “No he’s the Doctor. He fell into a nest of vampire monkeys.” Vampire Monkeys: “Ook! Ook! Ook!” After last week’s rather brutal ending of the The Sorcerer’s Apprentice [review here], those of us that were wise enough to […]
Movie Review – The Diabolical (2015)
The Diabolical, 2015. Directed by Alistair Legrand. Starring Ali Larter, Max Rose, Chloe Perrin, Patrick Fischler and Arjun Gupta. SYNOPSIS: Madison, a single mother, and her children, are awoken nightly by an increasingly strange and intense presence. She seeks help from her scientist boyfriend Nikolai, who begins a hunt to destroy the violent spirit that paranormal […]
Movie Review – Mississippi Grind (2015)
Mississippi Grind, 2015. Written and Directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. Starring Ben Mendelsohn, Ryan Reynolds and Sienna Miller. SYNOPSIS: Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the […]
Second Opinion – Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, 2015. Directed by Wes Ball. Starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Ki Hong Lee, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Jacob Lofland, Rosa Salazar, Giancarlo Esposito, Allan Tudyk, Aidan Gillen, and Patricia Clarkson. SYNOPSIS: After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate […]
Movie Review – The Green Inferno (2013)
The Green Inferno, 2013. Written and Directed by Eli Roth. Starring Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Magda Apanowicz, Ignacia Allamand, Daryl Sabara, Nicolas Martinez, Sky Ferreira, Eusebio Arenas, Richard Burgi and Matias Lopez. SYNOPSIS: A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, […]
Book Review – Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig… In the lead up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Chuck Wendig’s Star Wars: Aftermath is the first piece of new story canon to take place post-Return of the Jedi. Taking place approximately six months after the destruction of the second Death Star and the deaths […]
Second Opinion – Sicario (2015)
Sicario, 2015. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Maximillano Hernandez and Daniel Kaluuya. SYNOPSIS: An idealistic FBI agent (Blunt) joins a task force on the war on drugs after discovering a cartel “death house” in Arizona. What she sees during her time there changes her forever, as […]
Comic Book Review – Invisible Republic #6
Zeb Larson reviews Invisible Republic #6… NEW STORY ARC. This war just got asymmetrical. Invisible Republic is a book that has steadily built up steam in the last few issues, and that building really pays off here. The book has just begun its second arc, and it introduces a few new plot elements that will […]
Hardware Review – ZX Spectrum Vega
Villordsutch reviews the ZX Spectrum Vega… I’ve been interested in getting my hands on the ZX Spectrum Vega since its conception a year or so ago. I’ve been a ZX Spectrum user since the early 1980’s, my first Sinclair product was the ZX81, then I went straight to the hard-shelled 48K and moved to the […]
