Jigsaw, 2017. Directed by Michael Spierig & Peter Spierig. Starring Matt Passmore, Tobin Bell, Callum Keith Rennie, Clé Bennett, Laura Vandervoort, Brittany Allen, Josiah Black, and Mandela Van Peebles. SYNOPSIS: A series of grisly murders point to Jigsaw killer John Kramer as the suspect but he has been dead for 10 years… hasn’t he? So […]
DVD Review – Beyond the Woods (2018)
Beyond the Woods, 2018. Directed by Sean Breathnach. Starring John Ryan Howard, Mark Lawrence, Sean McGillicuddy, Ross Mac Mahon, Claire J. Loy, Alan Riordan, and Irene Kelleher. SYNOPSIS: Seven people stay in a secluded holiday cottage near where a sinkhole has opened up, unleashing evil forces into the area. The first full-length feature for writer/director […]
Movie Review – The Shape of Water (2017)
The Shape of Water, 2017. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nick Searcy, and David Hewlett. SYNOPSIS: At a top-secret research facility in the 1960s, a lonely janitor forms a unique relationship with an amphibious creature that is being held in captivity. The […]
Movie Review – Loveless (2017)
Loveless, 2017. Directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev. Starring Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, and Matvey Novikov. SYNOPSIS: A couple going through a divorce must team up to find their son who has disappeared during one of their bitter arguments. Loveless issues two stark warnings to its audience: don’t let your resentment for another render you without love […]
Blu-ray Review – Scalpel (1977)
Scalpel, 1977. Directed by John Grissmer. Starring Robert Lansing, Judith Chapman, Arlen Dean Snyder, David Scarroll, and Sandy Martin. SYNOPSIS: A psychopathic plastic surgeon tries to claim a huge inheritance by transforming the face of an accident victim into that of his missing daughter. John Grissmer’s debut feature Scalpel is an odd one. Odd because, […]
Waco Episode 4 Review – ‘Of Milk and Men’
Red Stewart reviews the fourth episode of Waco… One of the most interesting parts of the fourth episode of Waco involves a broadcast by a conservative radio host. In it, he talks to a preacher about the definition of a cult and whether or not Koresh and the Branch Davidians classify as such. The preacher points out […]
Second Opinion – Red Sparrow (2018)
Red Sparrow, 2018. Directed by Francis Lawrence. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Charlotte Rampling, Mary-Louise Parker, Ciarán Hinds, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons, and Joely Richardson. SYNOPSIS: Ballerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to ‘Sparrow School,’ a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. But her first mission, targeting a […]
Tech Review – BenQ W1700 4K HDR CineHome Projector
Gary Collinson reviews BenQ’s W1700 4K HDR CineHome Projector… With your typical 4K projector costing anywhere from £5,000 to £25,000 (or more), BenQ is set to bring the world of Ultra High Definition to home cinema enthusiasts everywhere with the release of the BenQ W1700 4K HDR CineHome Projector, an affordable piece of kit which […]
Movie Review – The Shape of Water (2017)
The Shape of Water, 2017. Directed by Guillermo del Toro. Starring Sally Hawkins, Doug Jones, Michael Shannon, Octavia Spencer, Richard Jenkins, Michael Stuhlbarg, Nick Searcy, and David Hewlett. SYNOPSIS: Mute orphan Elisa lives her life on the edges in Baltimore in 1962, until her job working nights as a cleaner at a secret US government […]
Comic Book Review – Dark Nights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1
Ricky Church reviews Dark Nights Rising: The Wild Hunt #1… With big, epic comic book events, tie-in comics are not anything unheard of. Sometimes its a bit tedious to have to collect tie-in issues, especially if so many bear actual consequences on the main event itself. Fortunately most of the tie-ins for DC’s Dark Nights: Metal have […]
