Zeb Larson reviews The Fade Out #7… Charlie is falling for the replacement blonde…but is he working her for information, or is she playing him for her own ends? This issue is a first for Fade Out: it didn’t really grab me. This has always been a slow burn kind of series and it has […]
Movie Review – The Misfits (1961)
The Misfits, 1961. Directed by John Huston. Starring Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift. SYNOPSIS: Roslyn – wounded, shivering and cynical after her divorce – meets experienced cowboy Gay and move in with him. Harm to innocent creatures is a recurring theme as Roslyn becomes increasingly distressed by the masculine aspects of Gay’s lifestyle, and […]
Movie Review – The First Film (2015)
The First Film, 2015. Written, directed and presented by David Nicholas Wilkinson. Featuring Tom Courtenay, Michael Harvey, Mark Rance, Stephen Herbert, Daniel Martin, Tony Earnshaw, Adrian Wootton, Tony North, Jacques Pfend and Joe Eszterhas. SYNOPSIS : Leeds born filmmaker David Nicholas Wilkinson’s thirty-three year quest to prove that the world’s film industry started in Leeds, Yorkshire, England in 1888. Where was the first film made? […]
Wayward Pines Season 1 Episode 6 Review – ‘Choices’
Martin Carr reviews the sixth episode of Wayward Pines… Back story is always a difficult nut to crack. It is necessary for two reasons. Number one people require context. That annoying essential for the sake of plot and character that adds dimension. Which in turn lends breadth, creates cohesion and eventually leads to an emotional […]
Movie Review – Ted 2 (2015)
Ted 2, 2015. Directed by Seth MacFarlane. Starring Seth MacFarlane, Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, Jessica Barth, Morgan Freeman and Liam Neeson. SYNOPSIS: Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he’s a person in a court of […]
Comic Book Review – 2000AD’s Sci-Fi Summer Special
Villordsutch reviews 2000AD’s Sci-Fi Summer Special… Borag Thungg, Earthlets! Welcome to 2000AD’s Sci-Fi Summer Special, which after the success of the 2014 return the wise bodies who have overall control have gifted us with another 48-pages of wonders from within the towers of 2000AD. So instead of wasting more valuable time introducing this issue to you […]
Movie Review – 7 Minutes (2014)
7 Minutes, 2014. Written and Directed by Jay Martin. Starring Jason Ritter, Luke Mitchell, Zane Holtz, Levin Rambin, Kevin Gage, Joel Murray, Brandon Hardesty and Kris Kristofferson. SYNOPSIS: Three high school friends are forced to commit a brazen robbery which quickly goes horribly wrong. Ok, get in the bank, take the money and be out […]
Comic Book Review – Bullet Gal #12
Zeb Larson reviews Bullet Gal #12… Bullet Gal has been an intelligent, stylish and mind-bending comic that lends itself to multiple interpretations. And now, Bullet Gal has come to a close with this twelfth issue. The ending might be off-putting because it feels so abrupt: there’s no great closure for Mitzi, merely a transformation. Yet […]
Video Game Review – Cities Skylines
Ben Rayner reviews Cities Skylines… To follow an old concept that’s often been thrown around in the gaming world, Cities Skylines is a killer. More precisely it’s a Sim City killer. The way it looks and feels, along with its core soul, it takes what everyone loved about Sim City and rather than throw in […]
Blu-ray Review – Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Fifty Shades of Grey, 2015. Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Ehle and Marcia Gay Harden. SYNOPSIS: When college senior Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic […]
