Chernobyl Diaries, 2012. Directed by Bradley Parker. Starring Jesse McCartney, Jonathan Sadowski, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Devin Kelley, Nathan Phillips, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, and Dimitri Diatchenko. SYNOPSIS: Six ‘extreme’ tourists discover they are not alone during an illegal visit to the abandoned city of Prypiat in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. I’ll be honest; I went to […]
Thoughts on… Phantasm II (1988)
Phantasm II, 1988. Directed by Don Coscarelli. Starring James LeGros, Paula Irvine, Reggie Bannister and Angus Scrimm. SYNOPSIS: Six years later and people are still going missing – could the mortician have returned? Or did he never leave in the first place? It took almost a decade before audiences were able to return to the […]
DVD Review – The Woman in Black (2012)
The Woman in Black, 2012. Directed by James Watkins. Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds, Sophie Stuckey and Liz White. SYNOPSIS: Young lawyer Arthur Kipps travels to a small village to settle the affairs of the lady of Eel Marsh House, to discover the villagers are tormented by a very vengeful ghost. The Woman […]
Blu-ray Review – The Reptile (1966)
The Reptile, 1966. Directed by John Gilling. Starring Noel Willman, Jacqueline Pearce, Ray Barrett, Jennifer Daniel and Michael Ripper. SYNOPSIS: Following the mysterious death of his brother, Harry Spalding (Ray Barrett) and his wife Valerie (Jennifer Daniel) move to an inherited cottage in small Cornish village with a dark secret. It is always refreshing to […]
Blu-ray Review – The Plague of the Zombies (1966)
The Plague of the Zombies, 1966. Directed by John Gilling. Starring André Morell, John Carson, Jacqueline Pearce, Brook Williams and Michael Ripper. SYNOPSIS: As a mysterious plague ravagers a remote 19-century Cornish village, two scientists desperately search for an antidote, only to discover a world of black magic and a legion of flesh eating zombies. […]
DVD Review – Dexter: The Sixth Season
Dexter: The Sixth Season. Starring Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, C.S. Lee, Desmond Harrington, David Zayas, Lauren Vélez, James Remar, Colin Hanks, Aimee Garcia, Edward James Olmos, Billy Brown and Mos Def. SYNOPSIS: Dexter Morgan and Miami Metro Homicide find themselves on the hunt for the Doomsday Killer after an outbreak of gruesome killings based […]
Blu-ray Review – A Bronx Tale (1993)
A Bronx Tale, 1993. Directed by Robert De Niro. Starring Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato, Jr., Francis Capra, Taral Hicks and Kathrine Narducci. SYNOPSIS: After witnessing a murder and refusing to identify the killer, a young boy is taken under the wing of a local mob boss who gradually introduces him to a […]
The Value of Game of Thrones
Commenting on the critics with Simon Columb… Russ Fischer, for /Film, writes a post titled “First Pressing of Game of Thrones Just Became A Collectors Item”: “Unless you’ve been offline for the past few days you’ve likely read about the fact that, in the final episode of the first season of HBO’s Game of Thrones, […]
The Week in Spandex – The Amazing Spider-Man, The Dark Knight Rises, Man of Steel, Iron Man 3, Avengers Assemble, Wolverine and the X-Men and more
Our weekly round-up of the big news stories from the world of movie superheroes… With just over two weeks to go until the release of The Amazing Spider-Man, Sony’s marketing campaign has gone into full swing [sorry] on the Marc Webb-directed reboot, with a host of promotional material flooding the internet these past seven days. […]
Second Opinion – Rock of Ages (2012)
Rock of Ages, 2012. Directed by Adam Shankman. Starring Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, Russell Brand, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Malin Akerman, Bryan Cranston, Alec Baldwin and Mary J. Blige. SYNOPSIS: A small town girl and a city boy meet on the Sunset Strip, while pursuing their Hollywood dreams. The cinematic musical is a […]
