Zeb Larson reviews Bullet Gal #12… Bullet Gal has been an intelligent, stylish and mind-bending comic that lends itself to multiple interpretations. And now, Bullet Gal has come to a close with this twelfth issue. The ending might be off-putting because it feels so abrupt: there’s no great closure for Mitzi, merely a transformation. Yet […]
Video Game Review – Cities Skylines
Ben Rayner reviews Cities Skylines… To follow an old concept that’s often been thrown around in the gaming world, Cities Skylines is a killer. More precisely it’s a Sim City killer. The way it looks and feels, along with its core soul, it takes what everyone loved about Sim City and rather than throw in […]
Blu-ray Review – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Fifty Shades of Grey, 2015. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle and Marcia Gay Harden. SYNOPSIS: When college senior Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic […]
Movie Review – The Terminator (1984)
The Terminator, 1984. Directed by James Cameron. Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton and Michael Biehn. SYNOPSIS: A human-looking indestructible cyborg is sent from 2029 to 1984 to assassinate a waitress, whose unborn son will lead humanity in a war against the machines, while a soldier from that war is sent to protect her at all […]
Halt and Catch Fire Season 2 Episode 4 Review – ‘Play with Friends’
Amy Richau reviews the fourth episode of Halt and Catch Fire season 2… The main characters in Halt and Catch Fire made a big step towards the same storyline in the entertaining (and at times frustrating – Cameron stop being so annoying!) fourth episode “Play with Friends”. Joe and Gordon are polar opposites personality wise, […]
Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Premiere Review – ‘The Siege of Lothal’
Chris Cooper reviews the season 2 premiere of Star Wars Rebels… With a double-length première episode Rebels comes flying right into the thick of the action. You might immediately be confused if you’re a stickler for the old canon, but with that being swept away it allows the Rebels team to show us a different […]
Blu-ray Review – Blackhat (2015)
Blackhat, 2015. Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Chris Hemsworth, Tang Wei, Viola Davis, Holt McCallany and Wang Leehom. SYNOPSIS: After a Hong Kong nuclear plant and the Mercantile Trade Exchange in Chicago are hacked by unknown perpetrators, a federal agent proposes that the FBI work with China to find the cyber-criminals. The leader of the Chinese team, Chen Dawai, insists […]
Movie Review – Accidental Love (2015)
Accidental Love, 2015. Directed by David O. Russell (as Stephen Greene). Starring Jessica Biel, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Marsden, Catherine Keener, Tracy Morgan and James Brolin. SYNOPSIS: A small town waitress gets a nail accidentally lodged in her head causing unpredictable behavior that leads her to Washington, D.C., where sparks fly when she meets a clueless […]
DVD Review – School For Sex (1969)
School For Sex, 1969. Directed by Pete Walker. Starring Derek Aylward, Rose Alba, Bob Andrews, Edgar K. Bruce, Vic Wise, Hugh Latimer, Nosher Powell, Cathy Howard. SYNOPSIS: A crooked aristocrat opens a finishing school to teach girls how to extort money from rich men. School For Sex followed For Men Only in director Pete Walker’s output and […]
Second Opinion – Entourage (2015)
Entourage, 2015. Directed by Doug Ellin. Starring Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Jeremy Piven, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Haley Joel Osment, Constance Zimmer, Emmanuelle Chrique and Billy Bob Thornton. SYNOPSIS: Movie star Vincent Chase, together with his boys Eric, Turtle, and Johnny, are back – and back in business with super agent-turned-studio head Ari Gold on […]
