Pixels, 2015. Directed by Chris Columbus. Starring Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage, Brian Cox, Sean Bean and Jane Krakowski. SYNOPSIS: When aliens misinterpret video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, they attack the Earth in the form of the video games. Sometimes you just can’t put […]
Blu-ray Review – The Burning (2014)
The Burning (El Ardor), 2014. Directed by Pablo Fendrik. Starring: Gael Garcia Bernal, Alice Braga, Chico Diaz, Claudio Tolcachir, Jorge Sesan, Ivan Steinhardt, Julian Tello and Lautaro Vilo. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious man emerges from the Argentinian rainforest to rescue the kidnapped daughter of a poor farmer after mercenaries murder her father and take over his […]
Blu-ray Review – Blame It on Rio (1984)
Blame It on Rio, 1984. Directed by Stanley Donen. Starring Michael Caine, Joseph Bologna, Michelle Johnson, Demi Moore, Valerie Harper and José Lewgoy. SYNOPSIS: A married middle-aged man begins an affair with his best friend’s teenage daughter whilst on holiday in Rio. Michael Caine is an unusual choice for a romantic lead but Blame It […]
Movie Review – Dark Places (2015)
Dark Places, 2015. Written and Directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Starring Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult, Chloe Grace-Moretz, Tye Sheridan, Christina Hendricks, Corey Stoll and Sterling Jerins. SYNOPSIS: Libby Day was only seven years old when her family was brutally murdered in their rural Kansas farmhouse. Twenty-five years later, she agrees to revisit the crime and uncovers […]
Blu-ray Review – Horror Hospital (1973)
Horror Hospital, 1973. Directed by Anthony Balch. Starring Michael Gough, Robin Askwith, Vanessa Shaw, Ellen Pollock, Dennis Price, Skip Martin amd Kurt Christian. SYNOPSIS: A rock musician becomes the victim of a mad doctor who is looking for subjects to practise his mind control surgery on. As British as fish n’ chips and cups of […]
Second Opinion – The Gift (2015)
The Gift, 2015. Written and Directed by Joel Edgerton. Starring Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton, David Denham, Busy Philipps, Alison Tolman, Katie Aselton, Beau Knapp and Wendell Pierce. SYNOPSIS: A young married couple’s lives are thrown into a harrowing tailspin when an acquaintance from the husband’s past brings mysterious gifts and a horrifying secret […]
Comic Book Review – Reyn #6
Andrew Newton reviews Reyn #6… Reyn and Seph try to come to grips with the new reality of the “land” of Fate. As issue 6 of Reyn came onto my screen the excitement in the air was palpable; the previous issues had already completely and utterly blown my mind and I certainly couldn’t wait to […]
Comic Book Review – Airboy #3
Zeb Larson reviews Airboy #3… The drug, booze and sex fueled actions of JAMES ROBINSON and GREG HINKLE have pushed Airboy to the brink. And, in order to straighten these two degenerates out, he’s taken them to his world: a steampunk arena of Allies vs. Nazis. But will the experience change James and Greg for […]
Movie Review – Max (2015)
Max, 2015. Directed by Boaz Yakin Starring Thomas Haden Church, Josh Wiggins, Luke Kleintank, Lauren Graham, Robbie Amell, Mia Xitali, Dejon LaQuake and Jay Hernandez. SYNOPSIS: A US Marines Corp dog returns to the US from Afghanistan and is taken in by his handler’s family after experiencing trauma from war. From the above description (and […]
Comic Book Review – Dark Corridor #1
Jessie Robertson reviews Dark Corridor #1… From the author of Clover Honey and 8 ½ Ghosts, RICH TOMMASO, comes an all-new ONGOING SERIES set in the fictional coastal city of RED CIRCLE—a city totally controlled by mobsters—who, after decades of wielding power, are silently being picked off oneby- one by unidentified female assassins. Like a […]
