Ben Rayner reviews Hitman GO… When your favourite franchise brings out a sequel that meets your expectations, there’s nothing better really is there. Except, now I’m certain there is. When the same franchise brings out a game that takes a complete left turn, making you initially frightened of it’s new direction but then completely nailing […]
Movie Review – Time Out of Mind (2015)
Time Out of Mind, 2015. Directed by Oren Moverman. Starring Richard Gere, Ben Vereen, Jena Malone and Steve Buscemi. SYNOPSIS: George seeks refuge at Bellevue Hospital, a Manhattan intake center for homeless men, where his friendship with a fellow client helps him try to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter. I’ll admit before anything […]
Video Game Review – Sadame
Ben Rayner reviews Sadame… A hack’n’slash title that attempts to litter Japanese history with Demons for killing and bright colours to whet the appetite of 90’s gamers everywhere? Well, that sounds great and something that had my had ready to grip the 3DS once more. Sadly, I felt a somewhat more tepid emotion when playing […]
Movie Review – Curtain (2015)
Curtain, 2015. Directed by Jaron Henrie-McCrea. Starring Danni Smith, Tim Lueke, Martin Monahan and Rick Zahn. SYNOPSIS: An ex-nurse moves into a new apartment but when her shower curtains keep disappearing, she discovers a portal to another dimension in her bathroom. Yes, this film is as bat-shit crazy as the synopsis would suggest. Curtain (also […]
DVD Review – The Pack (2015)
The Pack, 2015 Directed by Nick Robertson. Starring Anna Lise Phillips, Jack Campbell, Katie Moore, Hamish Phillips and Charles Mayer. SYNOPSIS: A farmer and his family are trapped in their secluded farmhouse by a pack of bloodthirsty wild dogs. The Pack is an Australian nature-gone-bad horror movie that takes a lot of cues from the […]
Second Opinion – London Has Fallen (2016)
London Has Fallen, 2016. Directed by Babak Najafi. Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Alon Aboutboul, Radha Mitchell, Colin Salmon and Charlotte Riley. SYNOPSIS: In London for the Prime Minister’s funeral, Mike Banning discovers a plot to assassinate all the attending world leaders. A sequel to Antoine Fuqua’s 2013 actioner Olympus Has […]
Movie Review – Hitchcock/Truffaut (2016)
Hitchcock/Truffaut, 2016. Directed by Kent Jones. Starring Mathieu Amalric, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Alfred Hitchcock, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Francois Truffaut. SYNOPSIS: Filmmakers look at the impact Francois Truffaut’s 1966 book ‘Cinema According to Hitchcock’ had on Hitchcock’s reputation, and their own films. […]
Comic Book Review – The Walking Dead #152
Zeb Larson reviews The Walking Dead #152… There’s a reason why dictators don’t just kill their enemies, but kill their enemies’ families as well: no future reprisals to fear. It’s not exactly humane or just, but under the right circumstances it might make more sense than allowing a potential enemy to live. Rick has to […]
Second Opinion – The Other Side of the Door (2016)
The Other Side of the Door, 2016. Directed by Johannes Roberts. Starring Sarah Wayne Callies, Jeremy Sisto, Sofia Rosinsky and Suchitra Pillai-Malik. SYNOPSIS: After her young son is killed in a tragic accident, a woman learns of a ritual which will bring him back to say goodbye, but when she disobeys a sacred warning, she […]
Video Game Preview – Hands On with Quantum Break
Calum Petrie gets hands on with Quantum Break… During the week I was lucky enough to get hands on with the latest creation from the great development team at Remedy Games. Quantum Break is a third person shooter with an extremely interesting twist on the cover based shooter model, thrown in with impressive motion capture […]
