Blame, 2017. Written and Directed by Quinn Shephard. Starring Quinn Shephard, Chris Messina, Nadia Alexander, and Tate Donovan. SYNOPSIS: Tensions rise when a substitute teacher changes the class play to The Crucible. Early in Blame we meet Abigail (Quinn Shephard), combing her hair in a mirror, the back of her head blocking us from seeing her […]
Video Game Review – Night in the Woods
Shaun Munro reviews Night in the Woods… Infinite Fall’s new explorative adventure game will provide players with a welcome break from the current glut of AAA, 30-plus-hour experiences hitting the shelves, yet at the same time it’s a surprisingly deep, robust package in its own right with a wealth of content to seek out. Night in […]
Video Game Review – Extinction
Calum Petrie reviews Extinction… Extinction is an action/adventure hack & slash game which places players in a familiar “one man against the apocalypse” scenario. The theme of extinction is one of a man who is the last of his ancient order, the one person who is able to stand against the hordes of evil and […]
Class Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did’
Alex Moreland reviews the seventh episode of the Doctor Who spinoff Class… At some point today, should everything go according to plan, there will come a moment… when you start to believe. This episode is interesting primarily because of how different it is from the average episode of Class. Consider the difference between this episode […]
Comic Book Review – Assassin’s Creed: Templars #9
Calum Petrie reviews Assassin’s Creed: Templars #9… With the reality of his situation now almost preternaturally clear to Dre, there is only one possible course of action… he needs to get away from Abstergo. With no clue how to do this, he lets his instincts take over, and finds that he has hidden depths he […]
The Flash Season 4 Episode 17 Review – ‘Null and Annoyed’
Jessie Robertson reviews the seventeenth episode of The Flash season 4… Okay Flash fans, we are back in Central City. This week, our title comes from the 11th bus meta, Nora Petty, a woman whose power (I think?) is to basically make anything she touches float, which eventually wears off and then it comes crashing […]
DVD Review – Terrifier (2017)
Terrifier, 2017. Directed by Damien Leone. Starring Catherine Corcoran, Jenna Kanell, Margaret Reed, David Howard Thornton, Michael Leavy, and Katie Maguire. SYNOPSIS: It’s Halloween night and a psychopathic clown terrorizes the streets, homing in on three young women. A success on the festival circuit last year, Damien Leone’s Terrifier certainly hit at the right time, […]
Movie Review – Lean on Pete (2018)
Lean on Pete, 2018. Written and Directed by Andrew Haigh Starring Charlie Plummer, Chloë Sevigny, Travis Fimmel, Steve Buscemi, Steve Zahn, Thomas Mann, Amy Seimetz, Lewis Pullman, and Alison Elliott SYNOPSIS: A teenager gets a summer job working for a horse trainer and befriends the fading racehorse, Lean on Pete. Structurally, Lean on Pete will […]
Movie Review – Wildling (2018)
Wildling, 2018. Directed by Fritz Bohm. Starring Bel Powley, Liv Tyler, Brad Dourif, Collin Kelly-Sordelet, Mike Faist, Troy Ruptash, and James Le Gros. SYNOPSIS: A blossoming teenager uncovers the dark secret behind her traumatic childhood. One thought lingered in my mind (and still hasn’t left) upon watching the uncomfortably inappropriate The Diary of a Teenage Girl: […]
Movie Review – Where is Kyra? (2018)
Where is Kyra?, 2018. Directed by Andrew Dosunmu. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Kiefer Sutherland, Sam Robards, and Suzanne Shepherd. SYNOPSIS: In Brooklyn, New York, Kyra (Pfeiffer) loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother’s income. As the weeks and months go on, her problems worsen. This leads her on a risky and enigmatic […]
