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 […]
Second Opinion – Tomorrowland (2015)
Tomorrowland, 2015. Directed by Brad Bird. Starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Thomas Robinson, Raffey Cassidy and Hugh Laurie. SYNOPSIS: Bound by a shared destiny, a teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor embark on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory. […]
Video Game Review – Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
Kris Wall reviews Wolfenstein: The Old Blood… Wolfenstein has long been considered ‘The Godfather’ of the first person shooter genre, the one which started it all, without which there would be no Battlefield, no Halo and no Call of Duty, a bold and lofty claim but not one without evidence and merit. 2001’s Return to […]
Blu-ray Review – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (1981)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne, 1981. Directed by Walerian Borowczyk. Starring Udo Kier, Marina Pierro, Patrick Magee and Howard Vernon. SYNOPSIS: A brilliant doctor’s engagement party livens up a bit when the guests start getting raped and murdered, and every time there’s a murder the doctor is nowhere to be found. […]
Movie Review – The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2014)
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, 2014. Directed by Isao Takahata. Featuring the voice talents of Chloë Grace Moretz, James Caan and Mary Steenburgen (English)/Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora and Takeo Chii (Japanese). SYNOPSIS: A girl is born of the bamboo trees, and she is brought up to be a Princess … During the Studio Ghibli season at the BFI last […]
Comic Book Review – The Fade Out #6
Zeb Larson reviews The Fade Out #6… BRUBAKER and PHILLIPS’ best-selling series ever just keeps hitting! Charlie and his blacklisted friend Gil hunt Hollywood’s back alleys for answers to Valeria Sommer’s murder and cover-up, but the one man who might know something, ex-child star “Flapjack” Jones, has gone into hiding…unless he’s dead in a ditch […]
Comic Book Review – Zombies vs Robots #5
Andrew Newton reviews Zombies vs Robots #5… In “Inherit the Earth,” an attack on the Amazon island expands the war beyond zombies and robots, with two planets at stake! And in “The Orphan,” a new friendship is torn asunder… Issue 5 of Zombies vs Robots greets us with a full blast of action from the […]
