Zeb Larson reviews Roche Limit #3… Moscow pays a visit to the ghouls while Alex and Sonya get their hands on Guthrie. A strange sickness emerges. Disparate threads are starting to come together in this story as several of our protagonists cross paths. The biggest revelation regards what Recall does to people, as it becomes […]
Leeds International Film Festival 2014 Review – Love is Strange (2014)
Love is Strange, 2014. Directed by Ira Sachs. Starring John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Darren Burrows and Charlie Tahan. SYNOPSIS: After Ben and George get married, George is fired from his teaching post, forcing them to stay with friends separately while they sell their place and look for cheaper housing — a situation that […]
Comic Book Review – C.O.W.L. #6
Zeb Larson reviews C.O.W.L. #6… NEW STORY ARC! Before he started C.O.W.L., Geoffrey Warner fought for Chicago as the city’s first hero, THE GREY RAVEN! But what started him down the path of crime fighting? Witness the origin of Chicago Superheroes, the War Years, and the formation of C.O.W.L. as told in the sellout issue […]
Comic Book Review – IXth Generation #2
Villordsutch reviews IXth Generation #2… Aphrodite IX has the Witchblade and several other Artifacts have also appeared, destroying the delicately balanced utopia. Who is wielding the Darkness and why is it so hellbent on killing all of the IXs? To start on a positive with IXth Generation #2, the art from Stjepan Sejic is absolutely […]
Leeds International Film Festival 2014 Review – M (1931)
M, 1931. Directed by Fritz Lang. Starring Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke and Gustaf Gründgens. SYNOPSIS: When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. Within Fritz Lang’s first film made in sound, 1931’s M, there’s fascinating evidence of the period’s – and, of course, the […]
Leeds International Film Festival 2014 Review – Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Songs from the Second Floor, 2000. Written and Directed by Roy Andersson. Starring Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Torbjörn Fahlström, Sten Andersson and Peter Roth. SYNOPSIS: One evening, a series of strange events with no apparent logic take their course. A clerk is made redundant; an immigrant is violently attacked; a magician makes […]
Movie Review – The Theory of Everything (2014)
The Theory of Everything, 2014. Directed by James Marsh. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Harry Lloyd, David Thewlis, Emily Watson and Christian McKay. SYNOPSIS: A look at the relationship between Stephen Hawking (Redmayne) and Jane Hawking (Jones), from their meeting at Cambridge until Hawking’s worldwide success. There have been many biopics that show […]
Movie Review – What We Do in the Shadows (2014)
What We Do in the Shadows, 2014. Written and Directed by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi. Starring Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi, Jonathan Brugh, Cori Gonzalez-Macuer and Stuart Rutherford. SYNOPSIS: A New Zealand documentary crew are invited to the home of four flatmates who just happen to be ancient vampires. With the vampire genre saturated […]
Movie Review – The Homesman (2014)
The Homesman, 2014. Directed by Tommy Lee Jones. Starring Hilary Swank, Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, Meryl Streep, John Lithgow, Jesse Plemons and William Fichtner. SYNOPSIS: Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon by the pious, independent-minded Mary […]
Comic Book Review – Witchblade #180
Villordsutch reviews Witchblade #180… DARKNESS FALLS IN WITCHBLADE! In another life Jackie Estacado was Sara Pezzini’s lover and the father of her child. Now he has used the power of the Darkness to endanger the whole of human existence and only the Witchblade can stop him. Here at last is the untold story…The Death Of […]
