Kirsty Capes reviews the first episode of American Horror Story season 6… It’s finally back. After months of teasing and misdirection, the highly anticipated sixth season of American Horror Story has returned to our screens, with its first episode airing last night. Unlike previous seasons of the anthology series, creators Bryan Falchuk and Ryan Murphy […]
Movie Review – Best of Seven (2016)
Best of Seven, 2016. Directed by Jonnie Stapleton. Starring Jonnie Stapleton, Paula Kelley and Jim Armstrong. SYNOPSIS: After a nearly fatal overdose, a young man with multiple personality disorder attempts to go one week without his medication. It’s becoming a trend in comedy these days to have a longer feature. At a modest one hundred minutes, Best […]
DVD Review – Identicals (2015)
Identicals, 2015. Written and directed by Simon Pummell. Starring Nora-Jane Noone, Nick Blood and Lachlan Nieboer. SYNOPSIS: None Of Us Are As Unique As We Think. Identicals is a highly unconventional romantic thriller: an obsessive love story stripped down and re-arranged into the looping logic of a nightmare. From British writer-director Simon Pummell, Identicals seeks to […]
Movie Review – Tallulah (2016)
Tallulah, 2016. Written and directed by Sian Heder. Starring Ellen Page, Allison Janney, Tammy Blanchard, Zachary Quinto, John Benjamin Hickey and Uzo Aduba. SYNOPSIS: Tallulah tells the story of young vagabond, Lu (Ellen Page), who lives in a van and is fiercely independent in her hand-to-mouth existence. When a chance encounter incites her to impulsively […]
Book Review – And I Darken by Kiersten White
Kirsty Capes reviews And I Darken by Kiersten White… Kiersten White’s first instalment in her Conquerors trilogy is full of promise for a story of epic proportions, as White carves out the powerful origins of her heroine, Lada and her companions. And I Darken follows Lada, a Wallachian princess, and her little brother Radu as they are […]
Star Wars Celebration 2016 – A Fan’s Verdict
Arriving up to ExCel on the DLR was a great feeling. Much like Comic-Con, it was easy to pick out Star Wars fanatics from the crowd of commuters, because they all seemed to be talking to each other about BB-8 and Rogue One on the train. Before we entered the ExCel conference centre in London’s […]
TV Review – Orange Is the New Black Season 4
Kirsty Capes reviews Orange Is the New Black season 4… Where to even begin with season 4 of Orange Is the New Black? The credits rolled on that final episode, LP’s uplifting track Muddy Waters permeating the visual of Samira Wiley’s character Poussey Washington looking over the Hudson River, turning to the camera and breaking the fourth […]
Second Opinion – Remainder (2015)
Remainder, 2015. Directed by Omer Fast. Starring Tom Sturridge, Cush Jumbo, Ed Speleers, Arsher Ali, Shaun Prendergast and Laurence Spellman. SYNOPSIS: A London man who loses his memory when he’s struck by a falling object develops a way to reconstruct his past. A directorial debut from Israeli video artist Omer Fast, and adapted from Tom […]
Versailles Season 1 Episode 4 Review
Kirsty Capes reviews the fourth episode of Versailles… Last week I said BBC Two’s megabudget Anglo-Franco sexy period drama Versailles might be able to redeem itself after a rather lackluster performance over the past three episodes. A lot was riding on episode four, and France seems to be dominating the news this week, what with […]
Movie Review – Chasing Robert Barker (2015)
Chasing Robert Barker, 2015. Directed by Daniel Florencio. Starring Gudmundur Thorvaldsson, Patrick Baladi, Celyn Jones, Patrick Regis, Hilda Péter and Elizabeth Boag. SYNOPSIS: A photographer turned paparazzi is caught in the downward spiral of a fabricated tabloid story. Ahead of its premiere at the East End Film Festival this month, Kickstarter-funded Chasing Robert Barker has […]
