Embrace of the Serpent, 2015. Directed by Ciro Guerra. Starring Jan Bijyoet, Brionne Davis, Nilbio Torres and Antonio Bolivar. SYNOPSIS: Separated by 40 years, two explorers travel down the Amazon in search of the rare Yakruna plant, famed for its medicinal and psychedelic properties. Both are escorted by the same shamen, the last of his tribe, […]
Comic Book Review – Paper Girls #6
Zeb Larson reviews Paper Girls #6… The smash-hit ongoing series returns with a bold new direction, as Erin, Mac, and Tiffany find themselves launched from 1988 to a distant and terrifying future. Paper Girls is finally back, doing what it does best: raising questions that it doesn’t even begin to answer. We get thrown down […]
Movie Review – The Neon Demon (2016)
The Neon Demon, 2016. Directed by Nicolas Winding-Refn. Starring Elle Fanning, Jena Malone, Bella Heathcote, Desmond Harrington, Alessandro Nivola, Christina Hendricks, Abbey Lee and Keanu Reeves. SYNOPSIS: When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get […]
Blu-ray Review – Zootopia (2016)
Zootopia, 2016. Directed by Byron Howard, Rich Moore, and Jared Bush. Featuring the voices talents of Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Bonnie Hunt, J.K. Simmons, Jenny Slate, Nate Torrence, Don Lake and Tommy Chong. SYNOPSIS: Disney Animation does it again with a story that treads familiar thematic ground but serves up a fresh, inventive […]
Comic Book Review – The Walking Dead #155
Zeb Larson reviews The Walking Dead #155… “THE TIP OF THE SPEAR” If the fragile peace between the Whisperers and Rick’s people could be held together, it’s been irreparably broken in this issue. The Whisperers are directly attacked by some of Rick’s people, while Negan attempts to worm his way into the good graces of […]
Game of Thrones Season 6 Episode 7 Review – The Broken Man
The Broken Man Directed by Mark Mylod Written by Bryan Cogman King’s Landing Margaery is reading from the Book of the Mother when the High Sparrow interrupts; she brings up how she felt towards the poor to the High Sparrow. After this conversation he brings it to a personal matter – it appears since her […]
Video Game Review – Soul Axiom
Martin Carr reviews Soul Axiom… Hours of wandering around in a Tron induced landscape is not for everyone. Being dropped into a scenario where electrical lightning storms, mountainous peaks and huge charging pillions dominate might put some off. Similarly not really having any instructions might also be considered by some to be a hindrance. If […]
Blu-ray Review – Journey To Space (2015)
Journey To Space, 2015 Written and Directed by Mark Krenzien. Starring Patrick Stewart, Chris Ferguson, Serena Auñón and Lindsay Aitchison. SYNOPSIS: Journey To Space is a disjointed effort about the space program that skips over a lot of things but also spends a lot of time talking about NASA’s plans for a trip to Mars, […]
Blu-ray Review – Suits Season 5
Gary McCurry reviews the fifth season of Suits… The past collides with the present in this, the fifth season of Suits. Bigger than even Harvey Specter, the past continues to threaten to rip each “family” member of Pearson Specter Litt apart both professionally and personally. After what I thought was a lull year for Suits […]
Wayward Pines Season 2 Episode 2 Review – ‘Blood Harvest’
Martin Carr reviews the second episode of Wayward Pines season 2… I was wrong and admit it. Whatever my misgivings about last week’s opener things have changed down in Wayward Pines. That needless re-tread which constituted episode one, left no time for progression, proved noticeably useless and removed any tension with devastating efficiency. There was […]
