Oliver Davis reviews Hacktivity #1…. “Shawn Harris is a hacktivist, a software programmer / activist, who just pushed the boundaries too far. On trial for breaking into FBI systems, he’s just been found guilty and sentenced to 30 years in maximum security prison. As his trial starts getting media attention, people find the facts of […]
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57th BFI London Film Festival Review – Becoming Traviata (2012)
Becoming Traviata, 2012. Directed by Philippe Béziat. Starring Natalie Dessay, Jean-François Sivadier and Louis Langrée. SYNOPSIS: French language documentary on the staging of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera La Traviata, celebrating the bicentenary of his birth. Becoming Traiviata’s opening sequence shows the unhurried preparation of an opera. Workmen carry planks across the stage; paint brushes are framed […]
DVD Review – Terry Pratchett’s Truckers: The Complete Series
Terry Pratchett’s Truckers: The Complete Series, 1992 Produced by Cosgrove Hall.Starring Joe McGann, Sir Michael Hordern and Brian Trueman. SYNOPSIS: A whole civilisation of gnomes try to find their way home, from a department store to the stars. Sometime after Terry Pratchett created his Discworld Universe, for which he is arguably most famed, he wrote […]
Comic Book Review – Spawn #236
Oliver Davis reviews Spawn #236… “Having survived the first round of his showdown with the K7-Leetha, Jim seeks to make amends for past sins. But his struggle for control is only just beginning. While Jim is distracted, his enemies continue to further their own efforts as Clown and Bludd have a showdown. And another familiar […]
Comic Book Review – East of West #6
Oliver Davis reviews East of West #6… “The work of the Chosen is revealed as the RANGER is recruited to hunt down and kill Death.“ After an issue focusing on the relationship between Death and Xiaolian (which contained one rather sizeable plot point reveal), East of West #6 instead details the plight of The Chosen […]
DVD Review – Everybody Has A Plan (2012)
Everybody Has A Plan, 2012 Directed by Ana Piterbarg.Starring Viggo Mortensen, Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego, and Sofía Gala. SYNOPSIS: A man has to pose as his murder-implicated twin brother in rural Argentina. “I’m seeing double – four Viggo Mortensens!” Everybody Has A Plan is a lot like Twins. Only instead of Arnold Schwarzenegger […]
Comic Book Review – Prophet #39
Oliver Davis reviews Prophet #39… Die-Hard, a cyborg trying to regain his humanity, looks back over the thousands of years since his birth. “DIEHARD” reads the front cover of Prophet #39. No, not a new titling convention for the John McClane franchise. It’s the name of a 10,241 year old robot. Issue 38 ended on […]
Movie Review – Pain & Gain (2013)
Pain & Gain, 2013. Directed by Michael BayStarring Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Ed Harris, Rebel Wilson and Anthony Mackie. SYNOPSIS: Three body-builders take a rich client for all he’s worth, and then live the high life until the cash runs out. Perhaps the best screenshot of anything, ever. Pain & Gain is a film about […]
Comic Book Review – Spawn #234
Oliver Davis reviews Spawn #234… “The violent, soul-shattering struggle between Jim Downing and the increasingly powerful K7-Leetha threatens to overwhelm the world’s new savior. Whoever wins – Jim or the symbiote – will change the world.” Underneath the ‘Spawn’ title on issue #234’s cover is another name, ‘Haunt’, in a similar way to the recent […]
Comic Book Review – East of West #5
Oliver Davis reviews East of West #5… “Hear the good word, hear the MESSAGE. In this issue of East of West we find out the contents of the apocrypha that predicts the end of the world. Or does it? The most exciting new book of the year, EAST OF WEST continues in THE LOST WORDS.” […]