Martin Carr reviews the twentieth episode of Gotham season 2… Even though I am over a week behind with Gotham it is moving so fast this barely seems to matter. Azrael or Galavan depending upon your point of view remains at large unleashing all types of trouble for all concerned. What James Frain gets to […]
Movie Review – Kill Command (2016)
Kill Command, 2016. Directed by Steve Gomez. Starring Vanessa Kirby, Thure Lindhardt and David Ajala. SYNOPSIS: In a near future technology-reliant society, an elite army unit is helicoptered to a remote, off-the-grid island facility. What starts out as a simple training exercise for Captain Bukes (Lindhardt) and his tight-knit squad, descends into a terrifying battle to the […]
Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #3
Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Manifest Destiny #3… The 50th Anniversary Celebration of the Star Trek franchise continues in this special event mini-series! It’s Kirk and the crew vs. the Klingons in a battle unlike any you’ve seen before: aboard the Enterprise itself! Two weeks back we left the Enterprise in a dire state, boarded by a […]
Movie Review – X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016). Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender, Oscar Isaac, Sophie Turner, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Tye Sheridan, Alexandra Shipp, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Ben Hardy, Olivia Munn, Lana Condor and Evan Peters. SYNOPSIS: Apocalypse, the world’s first mutant, awakes from a centuries-long slumber. The X-Men must reunite to stop him from destroying […]
Comic Book Review – Black Road #2
Zeb Larson reviews Black Road #2… The Viking North is an occupied war zone and Magnus the Black is the fixer for Papal Rome. Something about this issue of Black Road didn’t grab me. The first issue had a certain austere bleakness that was appropriate, but it also had the power of the tension between […]
Person of Interest Season 5 Episode 4 Review – ‘6,741’
Ricky Church reviews the fourth episode of Person of Interest season five… It was an event we were all waiting for: Sarah Shahi’s return as Sameen Shaw in Person of Interest finally happened. Shahi, who left last year due to pregnancy and maternity leave, filled a small void that had been left in her absence, […]
69th Cannes Film Festival Review – Mal de Pierres (2016)
Mal de Pierres (From the Land of the Moon), 2016. Directed by Nicole Garcia. Starring Marion Cotillard, Alex Brendemühl and Louis Garrel. SYNOPSIS: A spirited but delusional young woman in post-war France ends up in a marriage of convenience. When an illness takes her to a retreat in the Alps, she meets and falls in […]
Movie Review – A Hologram For The King (2016)
A Hologram For The King, 2016. Directed by Tom Tykwer. Starring Tom Hanks, Alexander Black, Sarita Choudhury, Tom Skerritt and Ben Whishaw. SYNOPSIS: Top flight businessman Alan Clay (Tom Hanks) has fallen on hard times and takes a job with an IT company to recoup his losses. He’s put in charge of the team bidding […]
Game of Thrones Season 6 – Episode 4 Review – ‘Book of the Stranger’
Book of the Stranger Directed by Daniel Sackheim Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Jon & Sansa How awesome is it to have a section title with those two names together? A genuinely emotional moment for everyone as Sansa (Sophie Turner) rode into Castle Black and gave a loitering, listless Jon (Kit Harington) what […]
Banshee Season 4 Episode 7 Review – ‘Truths Other Than The Ones You Tell Yourself’
Kris Wall reviews the seventh episode of Banshee season 4… We’re at the penultimate episode of this final season now and this week really felt like the creators had realised they were spinning too many plates so close to the end, so doubled down on the urgency to tie up loose ends to set up […]
