The Hundred-Foot Journey, 2014. Directed by Lasse Hallström. Starring Helen Mirren, Om Puri, Juhi Chawla, Manish Dayal and Charlotte Le Bon. SYNOPSIS: The Kadam family leaves India for France where they open a restaurant directly across the road from Madame Mallory’s Michelin-starred eatery. If we based our pre-conceived notions of India and France on those […]

The Longest Week, 2014. Written and Directed by Peter Glanz. Starring Olivia Wilde, Jason Bateman, Billy Crudup, Jenny Slate and Tony Roberts. SYNOPSIS: Affluent and aimless, Conrad Valmont lives a life of leisure in his parent’s prestigious Manhattan Hotel. In the span of one week, he finds himself evicted, disinherited, and… in love. Jason Bateman […]

Yesterday news broke that a Supergirl TV series was in development, from DC Comics writer Michael Green. Green worked on the Supergirl New 52 relaunch and has worked on shows like Smallville and Gotham, so his involvement certainly made sense. However, new reports have since surfaced from several of the trades, debunking Green’s involvement and providing a few updates. According to […]

The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Kaguyahime no monogatari), 2013. Directed by Isao Takahata. Starring Aki Asakura, Kengo Kora, Takeo Chii, and Nobuko Miyamoto. SYNOPSIS: Based on a tenth-century folk tale, an old man finds a princess in a bamboo who is only the size of a finger. A bamboo cutter is out in the forest where he […]

Scarlet Innocence (Madam Ppang-Deok), 2014. Directed by Yim Pil-sung. Starring Woo-sung Jung, Esom, and So-young Park.   SYNOPSIS: Small-town girl Deokee is abandoned by university professor Hak-kyu after a lusty affair, and vengefully approaches him 8 years later when he starts suffering from blindness. A university professor seeks refuge teaching in a small town while a […]

American comedian, actress, writer, producer and TV host Joan Rivers has passed away today aged 81, her daughter Melissa has revealed. She had been on life support since August 28th, having suffered a cardiac arrest during throat surgery. Born in Brooklyn in 1933, Rivers began her career as a stand-up comic in New York City […]

Four Corners, 2013. Directed by Ian Gabriel. Starring Brendon Daniels, Jezzriel Skei, Lindiwe Matshikiza, Irshaad Ally and Abduragman Adams. SYNOPSIS: Intertwining tales of 4 people caught in the Number Gang Wars of the 26 and the 28 in the Cape Flats of Cape Town. Four Corners has a good contrast of differences and similarities to […]

Zeb Larson reviews Tech Jacket #3… The champion of the Colossus emerges to challenge Tech Jacket, while the President of the United States (you know who!) receives council from a strange advisor. This is a pretty middling issue. There’s some action here that certainly looks nice, but none of it feels particularly dramatic or engrossing. […]

The Amazing Spider-Man 2, 2014. Directed by Marc Webb. Starring Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Campbell Scott, Embeth Davidtz, Colm Feore, Paul Giamatti, Sally Field, B.J. Novak, Felicity Jones, Chris Cooper, Chris Zylka and Denis Leary. SYNOPSIS: When atrocities threaten New York, Spider-Man must protect the citizens of New York and his […]

Zeb Larson reviews Nailbiter #5… ONE OF THE HORRIBLE SECRETS OF BUCKAROO HAS BEEN REVEALED! Finch and Crane are hot on the heels of a serial killer loose in Buckaroo, but Finch has finally found what he was looking for and it’s worse than he feared. Just as Finch and Crane think they have a […]