Zeb Larson reviews The Autumnlands #10… Things have gotten very bad, up the mountain. Very bad. Everybody knows the Arthur C. Clarke quote, his so-called third law, that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Maybe it’s just me, but in this issue, the lines between magic and technology are starting to blur in […]
TV Review – The Night Manager
The Night Manager Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Debicki, Olivia Colman, Tom Hollander, David Harewood and Hugh Laurie. SYNOPSIS: Night manager of a wealthy hotel in Cairo, charming ex-Special Forces veteran Jonathan Pine is unable to prevent the murder of a woman connected to the secret arms dealings of British philanthropist Richard Roper, a man Pine […]
Movie Review – The Brand New Testament (2015)
The Brand New Testament, 2015. Directed by Jaco Van Dormael. Starring Pili Groyne, Benoit Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve and Yolande Moreau. SYNOPSIS: God is alive and living in Brussels, but he’s not as you imagine him. Bad tempered, scruffy and more than fond of a drink, he locks himself away in a vast office in front of his […]
Movie Review – Emelie (2015)
Emelie, 2015. Directed by Michael Thelin. Starring Sarah Bolger, Carly Adams, Carl Bailey, Thomas Bair, Chris Beetem, Elizabeth Jayne, Sarah Poufar, Joshua Rush. SYNOPSIS: A last minute replacement babysitter turns out not to be who she says she is when a couple leave their three children in her care. Released as part of Icon Home […]
Video Game Review – Stories: The Path of Destinies
Emma Withington reviews Stories: The Path of Destinies… Ah, wouldn’t it be great if, in real life, when you simultaneously destroy the one you love and fling yourself into battle and imminent death – that you could learn from this mistake and think, ‘well, better luck next time, eh!’ Stories: The Path of Destinies is […]
Movie Review – Eye in the Sky (2016)
Eye in the Sky, 2016. Directed by Gavin Hood. Starring Helen Mirren, Aaron Paul, Alan Rickman, Barkhad Abdi, Aisha Takow, Phoebe Fox, Gavin Hood, Jeremy Northam, Monica Dolan, Kim Engelbrecht, and Iain Glen. SYNOPSIS: The moral implications of sending a drone to eliminate three terrorists on the British military’s top five most wanted list suddenly […]
Comic Book Review – Black Road #1
Zeb Larson reviews Black Road #1… Meet Magnus the Black, neither clean nor sober, neither Christian nor Pagan, but a man true to his word. When a ranking official under his care is brutally murdered, he’s prepared to hunt the killers to the frozen tip of Norway, religious war be damned. Northlanders creator BRIAN WOOD […]
Banshee Season 4 Episode 2 Review – ‘The Burden of Beauty’
Kris Wall reviews the second episode of Banshee season 4… Full Spoilers for The Burden of Beauty ahead… If there’s one thing that Banshee has become exceptionally good at, it’s defying viewer expectations. Just when you think you have this show figured out, it suddenly (and often violently) pulls the rug out from under you […]
TV Review – Love Season One
Love – Season One Starring Paul Rust, Gillian Jacobs, Claudia O’Doherty, Tracie Thomas, Andy Dick and Jordan Rock. SYNOPSIS: A program that follows a couple who must navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment and other things they were hoping to avoid. I got turned off from Love before I even bothered to watch the trailer. […]
Movie Review – The Sweeney: Paris (2015)
The Sweeney: Paris, 2015. Directed by Benjamin Rocher. Starring Karl Amoussou, Féodor Atkine, Jakob Cedergren,Stefi Clema, Oumar Diaw, Alban Lenoir, Jess Liaudin, Caterina Murino, Thierry Neuvic, Sabrina Ouazani, .and Jean Reno SYNOPSIS: A ragtag squad of French cops, whose old-fashioned protocol infuriates the commissioner, recognises a series of bank and jewellery heists that have the hallmarks of […]