Zeb Larson reviews The Walking Dead #153… Heavy hangs the head. This is one of those scenery issues of The Walking Dead where we’re on the way to a climax, which means that there’s not a whole lot in this issue to really delve into. Rather, there’s some fallout from the previous issue, and a […]
Better Call Saul Season 2 Episode 8 – ‘Fifi’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Better Call Saul season 2… It took me a while to work out how Saul works. To begin with I figured it was the usual mix of ongoing story stretched over several episodes to form a cohesive whole, but this week the penny dropped. Sure there is the […]
DVD Review – Estranged (2015)
Estranged, 2015. Directed by Adam Levins. Starring Amy Manson, Craig Conway, Simon Quarterman, James Cosmo, Bob Duff, James Lance, Eileen Nicholas, Nora-Jane Noone. SYNOPSIS: A woman with amnesia from a crash returns to her family home and tries to work out who she was before her accident and why her family are behaving so strangely […]
Blu-ray Review – Bride of Re-Animator (1989)
Bride of Re-Animator, 1989. Directed by Brian Yuzna. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, David Gale, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, Kathleen Kinmont, Mel Stewart. SYNOPSIS: Herbert West and his assistant Dan Cain discover how to re-animate dead tissue from individual body parts and set about creating their own ‘perfect’ woman. Right then, now we’re talking. […]
Star Wars Exclusive: Rogue One’s Darth Vader casting revealed
Following last month’s correct report on who Scoot McNairy was really playing in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (spoilers: it wasn’t Jimmy Olsen or Metallo), we’ve now got a Star Wars exclusive for you this morning on the casting of Darth Vader. It was reported last year that the Sith Lord would feature in Rogue One: […]
Blu-ray Review – Trapped: Complete Season One
Trapped: Season One Created by Baltasar Kormákur. Starring Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, Ilmur Kristjánsdottir, Ingvar Sigurðsson, Nina Dögg Filipusdottir, Bjarne Henriksen and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson. SYNOPSIS : In a remote town in Iceland, local police desperately try to solve a crime as a powerful storm descends upon the town. The recent success of Trapped – or if you’re feeling like brushing up […]
“Cinema as Territory”: An Interview with Mark Cousins
Simon Columb chats with Mark Cousins… I Am Belfast, directed by Mark Cousins, is currently playing in a select number of cinemas across the country. Released by BFI, Cousins is an artist who takes many forms. Whether he is writing for Sight and Sound or interviewing David Lynch, Cousins is an expert in each field. […]
Gary Oldman gives J.K. Simmons advice on playing Commissioner Gordon in Justice League
In 2017’s Justice League Part One, Oscar winner J.K. Simmons will be taking on the iconic role of Gotham City’s Commissioner James Gordon, making him the first actor to play the part in a live-action film since Gary Oldman did so in The Dark Knight Rises. In fact, Oldman, who was among a slew of […]
Batman v Superman overtakes Deadpool at the worldwide box office, now ninth-highest grossing superhero movie
It may have been knocked from the top of the domestic box office by Melissa McCarthy’s latest film The Boss, but Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice has overtaken the worldwide haul of 20th Century Fox’s Deadpool this weekend, having grossed $783.5 million compared to the Merc with a Mouth’s $758.8 million. Despite coming out […]
Steve McQueen’s Widows to shoot in September
Back in 2014 it was announced that 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen would be teaming up with Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn for an adaptation of the 1980s British TV series Widows, and now My Entertainment World is reporting that the crime drama will start shooting in September. Created by Lynda La Plante […]
