Predestination, 2014. Directed by The Spierig Brothers. Starring Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Madeleine West, Christopher Kirby, Christopher Sommers and Noah Taylor. SYNOPSIS: The life of a time-travelling Temporal Agent. On his final assignment, he must pursue the one criminal that has eluded him throughout time. Time is linear and moves forward, so says the “science”. […]
DVD Review – Backtrack: Nazi Regression (2014)
Backtrack: Nazi Regression (a.k.a. Nazi Vengeance), 2014. Directed by Tom Sands. Starring Mark Drake, Sophie Barker, Rosie Akerman, Miles Jovian, Julian Glover and Jon Bartlett. SYNOPSIS: A man tries to connect with his past and conjures up more than he bargained for when that past comes looking for him. Released in the UK on DVD […]
Movie Review – 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 of two descends into a dark underworld trying to save her childhood home and hold her family together, while her son sets off on a journey to […]
Comic Book Review – Judge Dredd: Luna-1
Andrew Newton reviews Judge Dredd: Luna-1… In 2061, an international lunar treaty divided a million square miles of the moon’s surface between Mega-Cities One, Two and Texas City. Every six months one of these cities has to supply a Judge-Marshal to govern it… enter Judge Dredd! An environment every bit as deadly as the streets […]
Arrow Season 3 Episode 18 Review – ‘Public Enemy’
Jessie Robertson reviews the eighteenth episode of Arrow season 3… It’s getting to that time: finale time. The season is winding up, and it’s no more apparent here as Captain Lance pretty much dominates scene after scene in some of his finest work on the show, from cornering his own daughter, to reading Oliver the […]
Comic Book Review – Nailbiter #11
Zeb Larson reviews Nailbiter #11… NEW STORY ARC Does the Nailbiter know why sixteen of the world’s worst serial killers all came from the same small town? Does he know the truth? Find out as the Nailbiter…confesses! Nailbiter #11 brings back a new story arc, yet there is still frustratingly little movement on the central […]
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 2 Episode 15 Review – ‘One Door Closes…’
Matthew Spencer-Skeen reviews the fifteenth episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2… I think one word properly surmises all my feelings about this week’s S.H.I.E.L.D. episode. Finally. Finally, the showrunners are getting the show back onto a way more interesting track. For those who read my review last week they’ll know I was getting a […]
The Flash Season 1 episode 17 Review – ‘Tricksters’
Jessie Robertson reviews the seventeenth episode of The Flash… If you only watch one scene, out of context, from The Flash this season, let it be the opening of this episode! We get, in fully computer generated, the race-battle between the Flash and Reverse Flash and it is YES! Spoilers ahead (as always)… “Tricksters” is […]
Comic Book Review – Black Science #13
Zeb Larson reviews Black Science #13… The Dimensionauts take on a new mission: leave every world they visit better than when they found it. But their mettle is put to the test in a plague-ridden society that wants to burn them all at the stake. I’ve been really enjoying Black Science since the first issue, […]
Comic Book Review – Elric of Melnibone Vol. 1
Andrew Newton reviews Elric of Melnibone Vol. 1… Collecting the first volume of the classic adaptation of Michael Moorcock’s bestselling fantasy saga, Elric of Melniboné marks the perfect introduction to the series’ iconic antihero, his fabled blade, Stormbringer, and his harrowing adventures across the Dragon Isle. Adapted by former Marvel Comics editor, Roy Thomas, and […]
