Tomorrowland, 2015. Directed by Brad Bird Starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie, Raffey Cassidy, Keegan-Michael Key, Tim McGraw and Kathryn Hahn. SYNOPSIS: A former boy-genius and an optimistic teenager join forces to find the mysterious Tomorrowland. Brad Bird, like many of us at heart, is a big kid, who loves nothing more than to […]
Movie Review – Poltergeist (2015)
Poltergeist, 2015. Directed by Gil Kenan. Starring Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Saxon Sharbino, Kyle Catlett and Kennedi Clements. SYNOPSIS: A family whose suburban home is haunted by evil forces must come together to rescue their youngest daughter after the apparitions take her captive. Just a heads up, there is not much positive to say about […]
Movie Review – Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Blade Runner: The Final Cut. Directed By Ridley Scott. Starring Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer and M. Emmet Walsh. SYNOPSIS: Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is the titular Blade Runner, tasked to track down human-looking, A.I. “Replicants” Blade Runner bombed in 1982. It has since become a cult, and now firmly established, classic of science-fiction film-making. […]
Video Game Review – Borderlands: The Handsome Collection
Villordsutch reviews Borderlands: The Handsome Collection… I can still recall buying my first copy of Borderlands: GOTY edition and instantly being impressed with the visuals and the dark humour that came stapled to it, so much so that when Borderlands 2 arrived in 2012 I actually went out and bought it on release day. This was […]
Movie Review – Wild Tales (2014)
Wild Tales, 2014. Written and Directed by Damián Szifron. Starring Dario Grandinetti, Ricardo Darín, Erica Rivas, Diego Gentile, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Rita Cortese. SYNOPSIS: A six standalone story anthology film that draws together troubled lives focused by violence, obsession and revenge… Multi-story features can hold many a delight for all kinds of audiences. One draw […]
Video Game Review – Slender: The Arrival
Villordsutch reviews Slender: The Arrival… It seems strange but it was only a few years back that Slender was born. It was over at Something Awful forums back in 2009 that this malevolent faceless figure was spawned by the SA forum user Victor Surge (RL name Eric Knudsen); this went on to generate a number of […]
Arrow Season 3 Episode 17 Review – ‘Suicidal Tendencies’
Jessie Robertson reviews the seventeenth episode of Arrow Season 3… We’ve got a wedding on Arrow; never thought we’d see this. And it’s actually really nice, despite the fill in minister and strangest wedding vows you’ve ever heard. But, there’s a 3rd party in their limo waiting to wisk the Diggles off to Fiji; Deadshot. […]
Bloodline Season 1 Episode 1 Review
Gary McCurry reviews the first episode of Bloodline… Changing his mind, Danny Rayburn (Ben Mendelsohn) takes the speech in his hand and places it back in the pocket from which it came. “To the Rayburn’s!” he shouts. His audience at the annual gathering held in the picturesque family-owned getaway in Florida breathe a silent sigh […]
The Flash Season 1 Episode 16 Review – “Rogue Time”
Jessie Robertson reviews the sixteenth episode of The Flash… Only The Flash could get away with something like this; our major plot turns last week have all been reset with Barry’s time jump! So, there is no kiss, no reveal to Iris, Cisco isn’t dead, Wells hasn’t been discovered (yet) and a tidal wave is […]
DVD Review – Silicon Valley: The Complete First Season
Luke Owen reviews Silicon Valley: The Complete First Season… In the high-tech gold rush of modern Silicon Valley, the people most qualified to succeed are the least capable of handling success. A comedy partially inspired by Mike Judge’s own experiences as a Silicon Valley engineer in the late 1980s. Remember those kids in school? The […]
