Flay, 2017. Directed by Eric Pham. Starring Ella Lamont, Dalton E. Gray, Johnny Walter, Violett Beane, A. Michael Baldwin, and Patricia Cane. SYNOPSIS: After the death of her mother, an estranged daughter struggles to save her brother, and those around her from a malevolent faceless spirit. Possessed objects are no stranger to the horror genre […]
Book Review – Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Michelle Herbert reviews Strange Weather by Joe Hill… Strange Weather is a collection of short stories, which not surprisingly have a connection to meteorological conditions, whether that is a growing forest fire or rain that no longer falls as expected. These stories have weather in the background, yet these are very human stories full of […]
Movie Review – Den of Thieves (2018)
Den of Thieves, 2018. Directed by Christian Gudegast. Starring Gerard Butler, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Pablo Schreiber, Evan Jones, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Dawn Olivieri, Brian Van Holt, Jordan Bridges, Eric Braeden, Maurice Compte, Sonya Balmores, Cooper Andrews, Meadow Williams, Kaiwi Lyman, Jay Dobyns, Nick Loeb, Mo McRae, and Jermaine Rivers. SYNOPSIS: As a series of […]
Movie Review – Basmati Blues (2017)
Basmati Blues, 2017. Directed by Dan Baron. Starring Brie Larson, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Saahil Sehgal, Scott Bakula, Tyne Daly, Lakshmi Manchu, and Donald Sutherland. SYNOPSIS: A brilliant scientist is plucked out of the company lab and sent to India to sell the genetically modified rice she created – which she doesn’t realize will destroy the farmers […]
Arrow Season 6 Episode 11 Review – ‘We Fall’
Jessie Robertson reviews the eleventh episode of Arrow season 6… For our first episode with split teams, I was not very into this episode. I hate to be the person that says “Not much happened” because just because a bunch of stuff happens, doesn’t make a good episode of TV, but in this case, it […]
Movie Review – Attraction (2017)
Attraction, 2017. Directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. Starring Irina Starshenbaum, Alexander Petrov, Rinal Mukhametov, and Oleg Menshikov. SYNOPSIS: After an alien ship crash lands onto a Russian city, many who saw it and the occupants start to question their own existence while there are those who demand the aliens leave Earth. Russian cinema has been the source of some of the […]
Movie Review – The Cured (2017)
The Cured, 2017. Directed by David Freyne. Starring Ellen Page, Sam Keeley, Tom Vaughn-Lawlor, and Paula Malcolmson. SYNOPSIS: In a sub-genre that has swallowed up contemporary culture in a way that nobody saw coming when George A. Romero’s groundbreaking films captured the Vietnam or consumerist zeitgeist of their respective eras, David Freyne’s contribution to the […]
Video Game Review – Monster Hunter World
Ray Willmott reviews Monster Hunter World… As I write this review I’m coming back to camp to lick my wounds. This is the second time I’ve failed to defeat my target so it’s safe to say I’ve found a nemesis. The first time was unfortunate. The T-Rex looking Anjanath was hobbling away from me, yelping […]
Second Opinion – The Misguided (2017)
The Misguided, 2017. Written and directed by Shannon Alexander. Starring Steven J. Mihaljevich, Jasmine Nibali, Caleb Galati, and Katherine Langford. SYNOPSIS: After planning to leave the city with his girlfriend, a young man must first betray her in order to save his brother from a deadly situation. The last thing I expected to think about while watching The […]
Comic Book Review – Gears of War: The Rise of RAAM #1
Calum Petrie reviews Gears of War: The Rise of RAAM #1… In this spin off series from the hugely popular Gears of War franchise, we see the series’ most iconic villain before he became the boogeyman to humanity. The events in issue one bring the Locust Horde into a new light – it strangely humanises the […]
