Matthew Spencer-Skeen reviews the tenth episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 2… As Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D reached its midseason finale point, I found myself comparing this season with the last at their respective midway points. I think, in spite of its now far lower viewer ratings, this season has taken the show forward leaps and […]
Comic Book Review – Chew #45
Jessie Robertson reviews Chew #45… “CHICKEN TENDERS,” Conclusion! The aftermath of last issue’s shocking events, and an ending that’s even MORE shocking. Plus, this issue comes with a WRAPAROUND TRI-FOLD COVER, starring everybody’s favorite government secret agent cyborg rooster, POYO!!! This month’s issue wraps up the aftermath of the horrible and gruesome battle that was […]
Comic Book Review – Star Trek: New Visions #4 – ‘Made Out of Mudd’
Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: New Visions #4 – “Made Out of Mudd”… John Byrne continues his new Star Trek photonovel adventures with “Made Out of Mudd” – Harry Mudd has gotten under Jim Kirk’s skin before, but never quite like this… alien artifacts, Klingons, and a mad man’s schemes add up to headaches for the […]
Comic Book Review – Southern Bastards #6
Zeb Larson reviews Southern Bastards #6… Dig further into the grim past of the biggest bastard of them all, and discover how Coach Boss came to be the most feared man in all Craw County. Are bastards born, or are they made? This issue of Southern Bastards looks at what made Euless Boss into the […]
Video Game Review – Bedlam
Villordsutch reviews Bedlam… If you’re like me , an old mature gamer who has been around for a fair few decades watching games evolve, we’ve seen wondrous things from black and white tennis (Pong) to the monochrome colour clashing on the ZX Spectrum then onwards to the 486 basic PCs up to our beast of […]
Comic Book Review – Bitch Planet #1
Zeb Larson reviews Bitch Planet #1… 2014 Best Writer Eisner Award nominee KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE LANDRO (X-Factor) team up for the very third time to bring you the premiere issue of BITCH PLANET, their highly-anticipated womenin- prison sci-fi exploitation riff. Think Margaret Atwood meets Inglourious Basterds. Bitch Planet […]
Movie Review – The Pyramid (2014)
The Pyramid, 2014. Directed by Grégory Levasseur. Starring Ashley Hinshaw, Denis O’Hare, James Buckley, Christa Nicola and Amir K. SYNOPSIS: A documentary film crew follows a team of archaeologists into a newly-discovered and completely unmapped pyramid near Cairo, only for things to quickly start going very wrong… Well, what have we got here? Is it another found footage horror movie? Of […]
Video Game Review – Never Alone
Kris Wall reviews Never Alone… Every now and again, something comes along completely out of the blue and unexpectedly blindsides you, and so it is with Upper One Games’ Never Alone, or Kissima Ingitchuna to give it its proper name, that has appeared out of a blizzard to completely take my breath away. Let me […]
DVD Review – Still the Enemy Within (2014)
Still the Enemy Within, 2014. Directed by Owen Gower. Starring Norman Strike, Paul Symonds and Steve Hamil. SYNOPSIS: Interviewing those involved and fighting the cause, Still the Enemy Within documents the 1984/1985 Miners strike. Published in 2011, Owen Jones left-wing, revealing book, Chavs, explained how the demonization of the working class has its roots in 1984. The children […]
Blu-ray Review – The Killers (1946)
The Killers, 1946. Directed by Robert Siodmak. Starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmund O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene and Jack Lamberto SYNOPSIS: A pair of hit-men carry out the murder of an unresisting victim. A partnership of insurance investigator and police detective try to establish the facts surrounding the crime. Taking a classic Ernest Hemingway […]
