Fifty Shades Freed. 2018. Directed by James Foley. Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Luke Grimes, Rita Ora, Max Martini, Marcia Gay Harden. SYNOPSIS: Anastasia and Christian get married, but Jack Hyde continues to threaten their relationship. It’s over. After four sexually explicit (eh, softcore) years, Fucking White People: The Thriller Fifty […]
Video Game Review – Descenders (Early Access)
Lewy Buck reviews Descenders on Early Access… As an avid skateboarder any game of the extreme sports variety usually gets me pretty excited but with relatively average releases such as Steep last year I feel as if that excitement had dwindled but after watching the development and growth of descenders it looked as if things […]
Riverdale Season 2 Episode 13 Review – ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’
Liam Hoofe reviews the thirteenth episode of Riverdale season 2… Riverdale has never been one to hide its influences and this week’s episode, named after the iconic Edgar Allan Poe short story ‘The Tell-Tale Heart‘ is no different. In Poe’s story, a man kills someone, only to be tormented by the incessant beating of the man’s […]
The Flash Season 4 Episode 13 Review – ‘True Colors’
Jessie Robertson reviews the thirteenth episode of The Flash season 4… Tonight’s episode is the continuing journey of the evolution of Ralph Dibny. After coming back to STAR Labs after a run-in with an old seedy accomplice, Ralph begins transforming and the team realizes if he concentrates hard enough, he can actually change his form […]
Waco Episode 3 Review – ‘Operation Showtime’
Red Stewart reviews the third episode of Waco… “Operation Showtime” (taking its name from the real-life ATF raid) opens up with a scene we saw in the pilot: Koresh walking outside to plead with the surrounding ATF agents. At the time, we didn’t know when that was happening. Now that we do, there’s a retrospective […]
Black Lightning Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘Black Jesus’
Red Stewart reviews the fourth episode of Black Lightning… On the outset, it would be easy to criticize ‘Black Jesus’ for being a remake of the Arrow season 1 episode ‘Vertigo’. After all, both deal with the surge of a street drug marketed at high schoolers, that consequently leads to the hero having to confront the source. […]
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 Episode 14 Review – ‘The Battle Without, and the Battle Within’
Alex Moreland reviews the fourteenth episode of Star Trek: Discovery… “I think the only way we can stop ourselves from becoming like them is to understand the darkness within us and fight it.” It’s worth a word on the title, I think. What it refers to, largely, is obvious. The first part, “The Battle Without”, […]
Comic Book Review – Assassin’s Creed: Uprising Vol. 2
Calum Petrie reviews Assassin’s Creed: Uprising Vol. 2… Uprising is the combination of a few story arcs merging together in the Assassin’s Creed Chronicles – though it does reference one story arc in particular that is close to my heart, that is The Black Cross. The reason it is close to my heart is the […]
Lucifer Season 3 Episode 14 Review – ‘My Brother’s Keeper’
Tori Brazier reviews the fourteenth episode of Lucifer season three… After an episode off and half a season to emerge as one of Lucifer‘s most likeable supporting characters, ‘My Brother’s Keeper’ gives forensics’ finest Ella Lopez (Aimee Garcia) her moment in the spotlight. When her diamond-certifying brother Jay (Rey Valentin) goes unexpectedly AWOL, Ella calls […]
Second Opinion – The Cloverfield Paradox (2018)
The Cloverfield Paradox, 2018. Directed by Julius Onah. Starring Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Daniel Brühl, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris O’Dowd, David Oyelowo and Zhang Ziyi. SYNOPSIS: Orbiting above a planet on the brink of war, scientists test a device to solve an energy crisis and end up face-to-face with a dark alternate reality. It goes without saying that The Cloverfield Paradox is […]
