Andy Naylor reviews PES 2016… Last year’s PES [read our review here] was promising. It showed some footballing intuition, it felt better than any PS3/360 incarnation ever did. With this in mind, there was a trickle of excitement at how, in the following 12 months, Konami could tweak and improve upon the positive steps taken in PES […]
59th BFI London Film Festival Review – Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Beasts of No Nation, 2015 Directed by Cary Fukunaga Starring Idris Elba, Ama K. Abebrese, Abraham Attah, Grace Nortey, David Dontoh, and Opeyemi Fagbohungbe SYNOPSIS: Agu, a boy in an unnamed West African country, falls into the clutch of a murderous child soldier army led by a passionate and influential leader. Beasts are fearsome. Creatures of […]
Fargo Season 2 Episode 1 Review – ‘Waiting For Dutch’
James Garcia reviews Fargo season 2 episode 1, ‘Waiting for Dutch’… Last year, Noah Hawley took it upon himself to do what, on paper, seemed outlandish – create a television series based around the 1996 Coen Brothers masterpiece, Fargo. Hawley’s ambitious ten-hour opus – which he wrote every episode of – was a great success and exceeded […]
Comic Book Review – Star Trek/Green Lantern #4
Villordsutch reviews Star Trek/Green Lantern #4… The crossover event of 2015 continues here, as Starfleet and the Green Lantern Corps team up in the middle of a ring-powered galactic war! The evil Nekron has arrived in the Star Trek universe… with his eye on resurrecting the planet Vulcan itself! Don’t miss out on the latest […]
Comic Book Review – Judge Dredd – Day of Chaos: Endgame
Villordsutch reviews Judge Dredd – Day of Chaos: Endgame… Mega-City One is at the mercy of a terrible act of retribution, thirty years in the making. The Chaos Bug has been released and the weakened Justice Department are finding it increasingly difficult to remain in control. As Judge Dredd searches for the perpetrators of this heinous […]
Comic Book Review – The Wicked + The Divine #15
Zeb Larson reviews Wicked + Divine #15… Wicked + Divine breaks with the theme of misogyny and gender that has run through the last few issues to introduce…something new. It’s hard to say exactly what it is because the shape of it is still fuzzy, which the writers admit in the back pages of the […]
Comic Book Review – Roche Limit: Clandestiny #5
Zeb Larson reviews Roche Limit: Clandestiny #5… And now Roche Limit: Clandestiny has come to its end, its conclusion significantly raising the stakes for the third and final volume of this series. The survivors of the group realize that the malevolent beings they’ve found want to make their way to Earth, and the survivors plus […]
Countdown to Spectre – The Man with the Golden Gun Review
Ricky Church continues his countdown to Spectre with a review of The Man with the Golden Gun… While Roger Moore’s first outing as Bond in Live and Let Die was a too campy in some aspects, there were still some moments of seriousness in the film. Moore’s follow-up adventure goes in completely the other direction; […]
59th BFI London Film Festival Review – Black Mass (2015)
Black Mass, 2015 Directed by Scott Cooper Starring Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Cochrane, Kevin Bacon, Jesse Plemons, Corey Stoll, Peter Sarsgaard and Dakota Johnson. SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, Black Mass charts the rise in power of James ‘Whitey’ Bulger, beginning in Boston in 1975. His relationship with his Mother and Brother, his murderous Winter Hill gang and his connection to […]
59th BFI London Film Festival Review – The Lobster (2015)
The Lobster, 2015 Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Lea Seydoux, Ben Whishaw, Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen and John C. Reilly SYNOPSIS: In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five […]
