Money Monster, 2016 Directed by Jodie Foster Starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O’Connell, Caitriona Balfe and Dominic West SYNOPSIS: The presenter and producer of a flamboyant financial news TV show finds themselves in a hostage situation when a young, working class investor decides to take revenge for the tumbling share price of a major […]
Movie Review – Green Room (2015)
Green Room, 2015. Directed by Jeremy Saulnier. Starring Patrick Stewart, Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Macon Blair and Alia Shawkat. SYNOPSIS: A down-on-their-luck punk band is travelling round the mid-West on a zero budget when they land a gig at a roadhouse. What they’re not told is that it’s the meeting place for a gang of […]
Movie Review – Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (2016)
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, 2016. Directed by Glenn Ficarra and John Requa. Starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, Alfred Molina, Christopher Abbott and Josh Charles. SYNOPSIS: Bored, desk-bound TV journalist Kim Baker (Tina Fey) throws caution to the wind and takes up a three month assignment to cover the war in Afghanistan. Three […]
Person of Interest Season 5 Episode 3 Review – ‘Truth Be Told’
Ricky Church reviews the third episode of Person of Interest season 5… The past became present in ‘Truth Be Told’ as one of Reese’s old missions caught back up with him in an episode that once again looked at the man he was in his CIA days compared to now. You might think that Person […]
69th Cannes Film Festival Review – Cafe Society (2016)
Café Society, 2016. Directed by Woody Allen. Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell, Parker Posey, Paul Schneider, Corey Stoll, Blake Lively and Anna Camp. SYNOPSIS: A 1930s-inspired comedy about a native New Yorker who transfers to glamorous Hollywood and finds himself in a love triangle with a secretary and a powerful married man. The […]
Arrow Season 4 Episode 21 Review – ‘Monument Point’
Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-first episode of Arrow season 4… We are certainly a long way from earthquake machines! Well, Genesis is real; I thought it was either latent memories from that horribly written Superman Returns movie; or perhaps a food-induced hallucinogenic dream from the massive Chinese lunch I had that day; nope, it really […]
Movie Review – Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Everybody Wants Some!!, 2016. Written and Directed by Richard Linklater. Starring Blake Jenner, Zoey Deutch, Tyler Hoechlin, Ryan Guzman, Glenn Powell, Austin Amelio, Juston Street, Will Brittain, Temple Baker, J. Quinton Johnson, and Wyatt Russell. SYNOPSIS: A group of college baseball players navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood. Everybody Wants […]
Comic Book Review – Penny Dreadful #1
Kat Kourbeti reviews Penny Dreadful #1… London, 1890s. Sir Malcolm Murray and Vanessa Ives, father and closest friend of Mina Harker, must find and rescue her from the vampire who has laid claim on her life. Little do they know that Mina is in fact trying to lure Vanessa to her master’s claws, for reasons unknown, […]
Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #58
Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #58… “Leatherhead” Part 3! A violent skirmish between different factions breaks out in the Technodrome! The Turtles will have to make a difficult decision if they are to save the Utroms race. This isn’t going to be a long one. Essentially you can take all of the positives regarding […]
Person of Interest Season 5 Episode 2 Review – ‘SNAFU’
Ricky Church reviews the second episode of Person of Interest season 5… Given the dire nature the POI team has found themselves in, especially after the events of the season 5 premiere ‘B.S.O.D.’, you’d expect the follow up episode to build off the suspense. Instead, ‘SNAFU’ was perhaps the lightest episode of Person of Interest […]
