Kris Wall reviews the sixth episode of Banshee season 4… It seems last week’s Banshee was the last of the heavy lifting set up for the final season, as this week was classic Banshee, lean, mean, down and dirty, and it was absolutely brilliant from start to finish. The episode roared out of the gate, […]
Comic Book Review – Uncle Scrooge #14
Andrew Newton reviews Uncle Scrooge #14… “Scrooge’s Last Adventure,” Part 2 of 4! Is Magica De Spell a bad witch or a good witch? The Sorceress’ Society has forced her to reform—right when Scrooge needs her magic at its blackest! Issue #14 of Uncle Scrooge is here and we continue with part two of the four-part […]
Second Opinion – Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015)
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, 2015. Directed by Wes Ball. Starring Dylan O’Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Ki Hong Lee, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Jacob Lofland, Rosa Salazar, Giancarlo Esposito, Allan Tudyk, Aidan Gillen, and Patricia Clarkson. SYNOPSIS: After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate […]
Movie Review – The Green Inferno (2013)
The Green Inferno, 2013. Written and Directed by Eli Roth. Starring Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Magda Apanowicz, Ignacia Allamand, Daryl Sabara, Nicolas Martinez, Sky Ferreira, Eusebio Arenas, Richard Burgi and Matias Lopez. SYNOPSIS: A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, […]
Book Review – Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig… In the lead up to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Chuck Wendig’s Star Wars: Aftermath is the first piece of new story canon to take place post-Return of the Jedi. Taking place approximately six months after the destruction of the second Death Star and the deaths […]
Second Opinion – Sicario (2015)
Sicario, 2015. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin, Jon Bernthal, Maximillano Hernandez and Daniel Kaluuya. SYNOPSIS: An idealistic FBI agent (Blunt) joins a task force on the war on drugs after discovering a cartel “death house” in Arizona. What she sees during her time there changes her forever, as […]
Comic Book Review – Invisible Republic #6
Zeb Larson reviews Invisible Republic #6… NEW STORY ARC. This war just got asymmetrical. Invisible Republic is a book that has steadily built up steam in the last few issues, and that building really pays off here. The book has just begun its second arc, and it introduces a few new plot elements that will […]
The Big Bang Theory Season 9 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Matrimonial Momentum’
Tom Beasley reviews the first episode of the new season of US smash hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory. There are spoilers ahead… The season finale of the eighth season of The Big Bang Theory came with a doozy of a cliffhanger. Leonard revealed to Penny that he had kissed another woman whilst they were […]
Game of Thrones Season 6 – Episode 3 Review – ‘Oathbreaker’
Tony Black reviews the third episode of Game of Thrones season 6… Oathbreaker Directed by Daniel Sackheim Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Jon He may have died and been resurrected by Melisandre’s (Carice van Houten) weird magic, but Jon Snow (Kit Harington) still knows nothing. Worryingly he seems to suggest the Gods everyone […]
Movie Review – Mia Madre (2015)
Mia Madre, 2015. Directed by Nanni Moretti. Starring Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Giulia Lazzarini, Nanni Moretti, Beatrice Mancini and Stefano Abbati. SYNOPSIS : Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother. Nanni Moretti, an Italian master at fusing emotionally engaging […]
