Anghus Houvouras reviews Archie #1… Comic superstars Mark Waid and Fiona Staples reimagine an icon! Familiar faces return in unexpected ways in this must-have #1 issue! It’s a can’t-miss kick-off to Archie’s new ongoing series that you just can’t miss. As the new school year approaches, you’d think Archie Andrews would be looking forward to […]
Comic Book Review – Transference #1
Zeb Larson reviews Transference #1… Colton Moss and his elite team of special agents run counter-terrorism operations utilizing a secret form of time travel technology called “transference,” which enables them to send their consciousnesses back in time – but, when Colton’s past is altered to reshape his life in the present, he discovers this technology […]
Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #47
Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #47… The Stockman Swarm engulfs NYC searching high and low for the Turtles. The Turtles are on the run and desperate. Will they be able to find sanctuary before it’s too late? Due to some rather off scheduling we’ve received TMNT #47 after the first issue of the […]
DVD Review – The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015)
The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) Directed by John Madden Starring Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Ronald Pickup, Diana Hardcastle, Penelope Wilton, Celia Imrie, Tina Desai, Dev Patel, Shazad Latif, Tamsin Greig and Richard Gere. SYNPOSIS: As the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel has only a single remaining vacancy – posing a rooming predicament […]
Blu-ray Review – Contamination (1980)
Contamination, 1980. Directed by Luigi Cozzi. Starring Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé and Siegfried Rauch. SYNOPSIS: Pod-like alien spores filled with an explosive acid are brought to Earth after a mission to Mars and distributed through a South American coffee company by alien clones. Contamination is what you get when you mash together Invasion […]
Blu-ray Review – Mona Lisa (1986)
Mona Lisa, 1986. Directed by Neil Jordan. Starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane, Sammi Davis, Clarke Peters, Kate Hardie, Zoe Nathenson and Joe Brown. SYNOPSIS: An ex-con just released from prison lands a job driving a call girl from job to job. Arrow Films follow-up their excellent release of The Long Good […]
Movie Review – Amy (2015)
Amy, 2015. Directed by Asif Kapadia. SYNOPSIS: Documentary charting Amy Winehouse’s music and battle with drug and alcohol addiction. What takes your breath away watching Asif Kapadia’s outstanding documentary on Amy Winehouse, Amy, is how much she was hounded. Reminding us of those final moments in Princess Diana’s life, Winehouse courted paparazzi even in death, snapping and […]
Second Opinion – Magic Mike XXL (2015)
Magic Mike XXL, 2015 Directed by Gregory Jacobs Starring Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Adam Rodriguez, Kevin Nash, Gabriel Iglesias, Donald Glover, Elizabeth Banks, Jada Pinkett-Smith SYNOPSIS: Three years after quitting the stripper life, ‘Magic’ Mike Lane runs into his old stripper buddies from the Xquisite show, who take him along on a road […]
Wayward Pines Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Betrayal’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Wayward Pines… Week on week there are so many ideas playing out in Wayward Pines, that the superficial framework of plot and structure seem effortless. By showing us behind the curtain producers have added a resonance which underpins these more fantastical elements, with natural character moments. Dillon’s Ethan […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 1 Review
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Scream: The TV Series… Anyone remember Party of Five? Exactly the same as Dawson’s Creek but without those homely qualities of a Katie Holmes or Michelle Williams. It aired on Channel Four in the Nineties, convincing Miramax producers that casting Neve Campbell in Scream was a good idea. […]