Contamination, 1980. Directed by Luigi Cozzi. Starring Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé and Siegfried Rauch. SYNOPSIS: Pod-like alien spores filled with an explosive acid are brought to Earth after a mission to Mars and distributed through a South American coffee company by alien clones. Contamination is what you get when you mash together Invasion […]
Blu-ray Review – Mona Lisa (1986)
Mona Lisa, 1986. Directed by Neil Jordan. Starring Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane, Sammi Davis, Clarke Peters, Kate Hardie, Zoe Nathenson and Joe Brown. SYNOPSIS: An ex-con just released from prison lands a job driving a call girl from job to job. Arrow Films follow-up their excellent release of The Long Good […]
Movie Review – Amy (2015)
Amy, 2015. Directed by Asif Kapadia. SYNOPSIS: Documentary charting Amy Winehouse’s music and battle with drug and alcohol addiction. What takes your breath away watching Asif Kapadia’s outstanding documentary on Amy Winehouse, Amy, is how much she was hounded. Reminding us of those final moments in Princess Diana’s life, Winehouse courted paparazzi even in death, snapping and […]
Second Opinion – Magic Mike XXL (2015)
Magic Mike XXL, 2015 Directed by Gregory Jacobs Starring Channing Tatum, Matt Bomer, Joe Manganiello, Adam Rodriguez, Kevin Nash, Gabriel Iglesias, Donald Glover, Elizabeth Banks, Jada Pinkett-Smith SYNOPSIS: Three years after quitting the stripper life, ‘Magic’ Mike Lane runs into his old stripper buddies from the Xquisite show, who take him along on a road […]
Wayward Pines Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘Betrayal’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Wayward Pines… Week on week there are so many ideas playing out in Wayward Pines, that the superficial framework of plot and structure seem effortless. By showing us behind the curtain producers have added a resonance which underpins these more fantastical elements, with natural character moments. Dillon’s Ethan […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 1 Episode 1 Review
Martin Carr reviews the first episode of Scream: The TV Series… Anyone remember Party of Five? Exactly the same as Dawson’s Creek but without those homely qualities of a Katie Holmes or Michelle Williams. It aired on Channel Four in the Nineties, convincing Miramax producers that casting Neve Campbell in Scream was a good idea. […]
Comic Book Review – Airboy #2
Zeb Larson reviews Airboy #2… Are the drugs wearing off, or just kicking in? After a night of debauchery, James and Greg have a hell of a hangover in the form of 1940s comic book character Airboy. The aviation hero is curious to learn what the future has to offer. Hey, you try denying a […]
Comic Book Review – We Stand on Guard #1
Zeb Larson reviews We Stand on Guard #1… SAGA writer BRIAN K. VAUGHAN teams with artistic legend and MATRIX storyboard artist STEVE SKROCE for an action-packed military thriller that will have everyone talking. 100 years from now, a heroic band of Canadian civilians must defend their homeland from invasion…by the United States of America! The […]
Hannibal Season 3 Episode 5 Review – ‘Contorno’
Ricky Church reviews the fifth episode of Hannibal season 3… After all the set up so far this season, the endgame of Hannibal Lecter’s time in Florence has begun as multiple characters converged on the city in a big way. Things escalated very quickly for nearly every single character; no one was sitting on the […]
Movie Review – Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2015)
Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles, 2015 Directed by Chuck Workman SYNOPSIS: A documentary exploring the life and work of Orson Welles… Vincent van Gogh, famously, sold only one painting in his lifetime. Leonardo Da Vinci struggled to finish many of the commissions he was given – his Last Supper is technically […]
