Villordsutch reviews Valhalla Hills… On first glance Valhalla Hills is the game for me! Vikings? Check! Playing God? Check! Reminds you a bit of the classics Settlers and Populous? Check! Both the developers Funatics, along with publishers Daedalic Entertainment have certainly done their homework when it came to pleasing my initial wants in a game. […]
This Is England ’90 Episode 1 Review – ‘Spring’
Tom Beasley reviews the first episode of Shane Meadows’ latest, and possibly final, return to the This Is England universe… From the moment we’re tossed back into the world of This Is England ’90, it’s as if we’ve never been away. Shane Meadows’ captures the milieu of working class Britain and the lives of his […]
DVD Review – War Pigs (2015)
War Pigs, 2015. Directed by Ryan Little. Starring Luke Goss, Dolph Lundgren, Mickey Rourke, Chuck Liddell, Ryan Kelley, Noah Segan and Steven Luke. SYNOPSIS: A misfit army unit go behind enemy lines to confirm the existence of a Nazi super weapon during WWII. Remember when the first trailers for Inglourious Basterds came out and it […]
Video Game Review – Star Wars: Uprising
Chris Sanderson reviews Star Wars: Uprising… Star Wars: Uprising is Disney’s new Star Wars game for iOS and Android released last week. In what looks to be the first of a slew of mobile games being released by Disney, Uprising is surprisingly refreshing given the long list of overly used builder/ timer games that exist […]
Blu-ray Review – Hard to be a God (2013)
Hard to be a God, 2013. Directed by Aleksei German. Starring Leonid Yarmolnik, Aleksandr Chutko, Valeriy Boltyshev, Yuriy Ashikhmin, Evgeniy Gerchakov and Yuriy Tsurilo. SYNOPSIS : A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to study the local civilization, which is in the medieval phase of its own history… Humankind and their alien […]
DVD Review – Julia (2014)
Julia, 2014. Directed by Matthew A. Brown. Starring Ashley C.Williams, Tahyna Tozzi, Jack Noseworthy, Ryan Cooper and Brad Koed. SYNOPSIS: A neo-noir revenge thriller centering on Julia, who after suffering a brutal trauma, falls prey to an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself. This debut feature from writer-director Matthew A. Brown joins the ranks […]
Movie Review – The Visit (2015)
The Visit, 2015. Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. Starring Olivia DeJonge, Ed Oxenbould, Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie and Kathryn Hahn. SYNOPSIS: A single mother finds that things in her family’s life go very wrong after her two young children visit their grandparents. The Visit is an odd movie. Billed as a horror film […]
Movie Review – Pasolini (2015)
Pasolini, 2015. Directed by Abel Ferrara. Starring Willem Dafoe, Maria de Medeiros, Ninetto Davoli and Riccardo Scamarcio. SYNOPSIS: The final few days of Pasolini’s life, told through dreams and reconstruction. He had plans. The last shot of Abel Ferrara’s Pasolini leaves us in no doubt toward the plans Pier Paolo Pasolini had for the future. On his passport, […]
Comic Book Review – The Wicked + The Divine #14
Zeb Larson reviews The Wicked + The Divine #14… Behind the music, Woden’s stayed back from the spotlight. But in this issue? We look beneath the mask. Shall we say it’s the most audacious and experimental issue of WicDiv yet? I think so. The Wicked + The Divine #14 goes in the opposite direction of […]
Movie Review – Legend (2015)
Legend, 2015. Directed by Brian Helgeland. Starring Tom Hardy, Emily Browning, David Thewlis, Taron Egerton, Christopher Eccleston, Paul Bettany and Chazz Palminteri. SYNOPSIS: The film tells the story of the identical twin gangsters Reggie and Ronnie Kray, two of the most notorious criminals in British history, and their organised crime empire in the East End […]
