Victoria, 2015. Directed by Sebastian Schipper. Starring Laia Costa, Frederick Lau, Franz Rogowski, Burak Yigit, and Max Mauff. SYNOPSIS: A young Spanish woman who has newly moved to Berlin finds her flirtation with a local guy turn potentially deadly as their night out with his friends reveals a dangerous secret. Victoria may be a 138 […]
Star Wars Rebels Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘Stealth Strike’
Chris Cooper reviews the seventh episode of Star Wars Rebels season 2… Stealth Strike goes all in on nostalgia and uses it to brilliantly bring together characters from two very different Star Wars time frames. Focusing on Kanan and Rex, the episode uses their different pasts and abilities to the forefront. Sure, the ending is […]
Blu-ray Review – Cannonball Run II (1984)
Cannonball Run II, 1984. Directed by Hal Needham. Starring Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Jamie Farr, Telly Savalas, Ricardo Montalban, Shirley MacLaine, Richard Kiel, Sid Caesar, Jackie Chan, Tony Danza, Henry Silva, Alex Rocco, Abe Vigoda, Michael V. Gazzo. SYNOPSIS: The majority of the drivers from the first film […]
Blu-ray Review – The Cannonball Run (1981)
The Cannonball Run, 1981. Directed by Hal Needham. Starring Burt Reynolds, Roger Moore, Farrah Fawcett, Dom DeLuise, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Adrienne Barbeau, Jackie Chan, Peter Fonda, Jack Elam and Tara Buckman. SYNOPSIS: An illegal cross-country car race attracts an eclectic bunch of characters with their eyes on the prize, and they’ll do anything […]
Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 11 Review – ‘Heaven Sent’
Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who Series 9 Episode 11 – ‘Heaven Sent’… Doctor – It’s funny, the day you lose someone isn’t the worst. At least you’ve got something to do. It’s all the days they stay dead. After last week’s rather brilliant but shocking episode “Face the Raven”, we were left with the Doctor being teleported […]
Movie Review – The Russian Woodpecker (2015)
The Russian Woodpecker, 2015. Directed by Chad Gracia. SYNOPSIS: As his country is gripped by revolution and war, a Ukrainian victim of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster discovers a dark secret and must decide whether to risk his life and play his part in the revolution by revealing it. Coincidentally, just a week before seeing The […]
Movie Review – Black Mass (2015)
Black Mass, 2015. Directed by Scott Cooper. Starring Johnny Depp, Benedict Cumberbatch, Joel Edgerton, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Peter Sarsgaard and Corey Stoll. SYNOPSIS: The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant […]
Movie Review – The End of the Tour (2015)
The End of the Tour, 2015. Directed by James Ponsoldt Starring Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel, Joan Cusack, Ron Livingston, Mamie Gummer, Anna Chlumsky and Mickey Summer. SYNOPSIS: The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace’s […]
Ash vs. Evil Dead Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘The Host’
Robert Kojder reviews the fifth episode of Ash vs. Evil Dead… As usual, episode five entitled “The Host” picks up right where the previous episode left off, and I’d be lying if I denied that Ash attempting to be his smartass-self while tied to a wooden pole and also with a gag in his mouth […]
Supergirl Season 1 Episode 5 Review – ‘Live Wire’
Martin Carr reviews the fifth episode of Supergirl… Something fundamental happened between episodes three and five. In light of those Paris bombings we have jumped ahead one and stumbled on ‘Live Wire’. A cohesively structured, powerhouse of an instalment, which puts Supergirl back on the map. Concerning itself with less navel gazing and more substance. […]
