NCIS: New Orleans – Season 1 Starring Scott Bakula, Lucas Black, Zoe McLellan, Rob Kerkovich and C.C.H. Pounder. SYNOPSIS: All the action, drama and humour of NCIS in a colourful new city that harbours a dark side. NCIS: New Orleans, a spin-off, features Scott Bakula as the head of a dedicated team of Navy investigators […]
Comic Book Review – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short #1
Villordsutch reviews Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short #1 … After last year’s rather excellent comic book series of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency from Chris Ryall and Co., my initial opening fears from 2015 are gone. I know that the team behind the comic can deliver work that pleases any bitter Douglas […]
Movie Review – Triple 9 (2016)
Triple 9, 2016. Directed by John Hillcoat. Starring Casey Affleck, Anthony Mackie, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kate Winslet, Woody Harrelson, Aaron Paul, Norman Reedus and Gal Gadot. SYNOPSIS: A group of police-officers use their expert knowledge to rob banks, but a new cop joins the force and becomes the unwitting target of their next job – using […]
Book Review – The Beauty of Destruction by Gavin Smith
Michelle Herbert reviews The Beauty of Destruction by Gavin Smith… The Beauty of Destruction is the final part of Gavin Smith’s trilogy that started with Age of Scorpio and A Quantum Mythology, my reviews for both can be found here and here. As the trilogy feels more like one giant epic split into three novels, […]
Movie Review – Deadpool (2016)
Deadpool, 2016. Directed by Tim Miller. Starring Ryan Reynolds, Morena Baccarin, Ed Skrein, Brianna Hildebrand, Gina Carano and T.J. Miller. SYNOPSIS: A former Special Forces operative turned mercenary is subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopting the alter ego Deadpool. After sitting in development hell for what seemed like […]
Comic Book Review – Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat #1
Zeb Larson reviews Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat #1… Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is a noir style comic that takes place in the dystopian future. Tobacco-Stained Mountain Goat is an unusual kind of project, moreso than its name might suggest. The comic is a reboot of sorts of Andrez Bergen’s 2011 novel, now adapted to be a graphic […]
Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Episode 12 Review – ‘Legends of the Lasat’
Chris Cooper reviews the twelfth episode of Star Wars Rebels season 2… This is really dumb, but I keep calling Zeb’s possibly extinct race the Lastat. With that revelation out of the way, ‘Legends of the Lasat’ was an extremely interesting episode of Rebels. Not much really happened, but it asked a series of questions […]
Movie Review – Nina Forever (2016)
Nina Forever, 2016. Written and Directed by Ben Blaine and Chris Blaine. Starring Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Abigail Hardingham, Cian Barry, David Troughton, and Elizabeth Elvin. SYNOPSIS: After his girlfriend Nina dies in a car crash, Rob unsuccessfully attempts suicide. As he begins to overcome his grief, he falls in love with a coworker, Holly. Their relationship […]
DVD Review – Mark of the Witch (2014)
Mark of the Witch, 2014. Directed by Jason Bognacki. Starring David Landry, Maria Olsen, Lillian Pennypacker, Paulie Rojas and Nancy Wolfe. SYNOPSIS: A young woman turns 18 and discovers that she may be the spawn of Satan. Happy birthday… As Mark of the Witch (a.k.a. Another) opens we see masked figures dressed in black robes […]
Comic Book Review – Batman #49
Ricky Church reviews Batman #49… It is time. Bruce Wayne has reclaimed his true past as Batman. Now he must descend into the cave and face what he once was. Can he truly leave behind a life free from the pain and anguish of the Bat? Can he plunge once more into the madness and […]
