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 […]
Movie Review – A Futile and Stupid Gesture (2018)
A Futile and Stupid Gesture, 2018. Directed by David Wain. Starring Will Forte, Domhnall Gleeson, Martin Mull, Joel McHale, Thomas Lennon, Josh Gemberling, Matt Walsh, Rick Glassman, Jon Daly, and Seth Green. SYNOPSIS: In the 1970s and ’80s, National Lampoon’s success and influence creates a new media empire overseen in part by the brilliant and […]
Movie Review – Hostiles (2018)
Hostiles. 2018. Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike, Jonathan Majors, Rory Cochrane, Scott Shepherd, David Midthunder, Stephen Lang, Wes Studi, Ben Foster, Jesse Plemons, Timothée Chalamet, Adam Beach, Scott Wilson, Q’orianka Kilcher, Tanaya Beatty, Ryan Bingham. SYNOPSIS: In 1892, a legendary Army captain reluctantly agrees to escort a Cheyenne chief and his […]
Movie Review – Kickboxer: Retaliation (2018)
Kickboxer: Retaliation, 2018. Directed by Dimitri Logothetis. Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Alain Moussi, Christopher Lambert, Mike Tyson, Sara Malakul Lane, Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson, and Ronaldinho Gaúcho. SYNOPSIS After the events of Kickboxer: Vengeance, Kurt Sloane is captured and imprisoned by Thomas Moore (Lambert). Now back in Thailand, Sloane must fight Moore’s champion, a 6ft 8, 400 […]
