Sam Thorne reviews Yooka-Laylee… You’ve got to feel a little bad for Playtonic games. The studio formed from several former key players at Rare during their golden years launched an insanely successful kickstarter campaign, to fund a spiritual successor to Banjo Kazooie, but only received lukewarm praise at best. To make matters worse, they missed […]
Second Opinion – Brigsby Bear (2017)
Brigsby Bear. 2017. Directed by Dave McCary. Starring Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, Jane Adams, Beck Bennett, Claire Danes, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., Greg Kinnear, Kate Lyn Sheil, Ryan Simpkins, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins, and Andy Samberg. SYNOPSIS: Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children’s TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James’s […]
Marvel’s Runaways Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Metamorphosis’
Liam Hoofe reviews the sixth episode of Marvel’s Runaways… Marvel’s Runaways has been fairly successful so far. The opening five episodes have done an excellent job at building the characters, exploring the relationships between them, and establishing the world that they live in. The season’s sixth episode ‘Metamorphosis’ while far from a bad outing for […]
Lucifer Season 3 Episode 10 Review – ‘The Sin Bin’
Tori Brazier reviews the tenth episode of Lucifer season three… *Spoiler alert* It’s a bit of a tangled web to negotiate this episode as the writers plan to deceive over the true identity of criminal the Sinnerman (Kevin Carroll) right until the final few moments of Lucifer’s mid-season finale. In lighter relief, Dan (Kevin Alejandro) […]
Marvel’s The Gifted Season 1 Episode 10 Review – ‘eXploited’
Rachel Bellwoar reviews the tenth episode of Marvel’s The Gifted… Of the mutants in the Mutant Underground, Dreamer’s abilities have been cause for more debate than most but her intentions have always been good. While interrogating Dreamer, Jace lets her know this is personal for him, after she tampered with his memories and made him forget the […]
Movie Review – Shot Caller (2017)
Shot Caller, 2017. Directed by Ric Roman Waugh. Starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Jon Bernthal, Lake Bell, Benjamin Bratt, Omari Hardwick, and Holt McCallany. SYNOPSIS: A newly released prisoner is forced to enter a gang war upon his return to the outside world in a bid to get his life back on track. With HBO’s epic Game of Thrones […]
Thor and The Hulk join Hasbro’s Marvel Legends Series 12″ Action Figure Line
Coinciding with their showdown (and subsequent team-up) in last month’s Thor: Ragnarok, the God of Thunder and the Green Goliath are the latest additions to Hasbro’s Marvel Legends Series, with a 12″ Thor and 14.5″ Incredible Hulk available to purchase now. First up we have the Thor figure, which includes over 30 points of articulation, […]
Blu-ray Review – Game of Thrones: The Complete Seventh Season
Games of Thrones Season 7 Starring Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Aidan Gillen, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Diana Rigg, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Liam Cunningham, Carice van Houten, Nathalie Emmanuel, Indira Varma, Alfie Allen, Gwendoline Christie, Conleth Hill, John Bradley, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jerome Flynn, Hannah Murray, Joe Dempsie, Kristofer Hivju, Rory McCann, and Iain […]
Video Game Review – LocoRoco 2 Remastered
Shaun Munro reviews LocoRoco 2 Remastered… Cult classic PSP platformer LocoRoco was given a superbly shiny new 4K PS4 port back in May, and now its 2008 sequel has also gotten the glossy makeover treatment to similarly dazzling effect. LocoRoco 2 Remastered may not deviate much from the formula firmly established by its predecessor, largely succeeding and […]
Movie Review – Playground (2016)
Playground, 2016. Written and Directed by Bartosz M. Kowalski. Starring Nicolas Przygoda, Michalina Swistun and Przemyslaw Balinski. SYNOPSIS: A provincial town in Poland. The final day of school. A seemingly normal day in life of three ordinary elementary school students. This day however eventually culminates in shocking and terrifying events. Does a movie need to be enjoyable or […]
