Starry Eyes, 2015. Directed by Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer. Starring Alex Essoe, Amanda Fuller, Noah Segan, Fabianne Therese, Pat Healy, Nick Simmons, Marc Senter, Maria Olsen and Trent Haaga. SYNOPSIS: An aspiring young actress sells her soul to a satanic cult in exchange for fame and fortune. Never a good idea… Starry Eyes is a good […]
VOD Review – Halo: Nightfall
Halo: Nightfall (2014) Starring Steven Waddington, Siennah Buck, Mike Colter, Christian Contreras, Alexander Bhat, Luke Neal SYNOPSIS: While investigating terrorist activity on the distant colony world of Sedra, Jameson Locke and his team are caught in a horrific biological attack that exposes them to a much deeper danger. Halo is easily one of the biggest […]
DVD Review – Extraterrestrial (2014)
Extraterrestrial, 2014. Directed by Colin Minihan. Starring Brittany Allen, Freddie Stroma, Jesse Moss, Anja Savcic, Melanie Papalia, Sean Rogerson, Gil Bellows and Michael Ironside. SYNOPSIS: A group of friends on a weekend trip to a cabin in the woods find themselves terrorised by alien visitors. We have always been fascinated with life beyond our own, […]
Video Game Review – Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
Martin Burgoyne reviews Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number… So for anybody that played the original Hotline Miami game, you’ll know what to expect already… That’s right, absolute carnage. For those that didn’t… Why didn’t you play one of the most original games of 2013 huh?! Well it’s now currently at the pocket friendly price of £3.99 so there’s no excuse. A quick […]
Movie Review – Suite Française (2015)
Suite Française, 2015. Directed by Saul Dibb. Starring Kristin Scott Thomas, Michelle Williams, Matthias Schoenaerts, Margot Robbie, Sam Riley and Ruth Wilson. SYNOPSIS: During the early years of German occupation of France in World War II, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier, a French villager and Bruno von Falk, a German soldier. We’ve seen romantic movies, […]
Movie Review – Geostorm (2017)
Geostorm, 2017. Directed by Dean Devlin. Starring Gerard Butler, Katheryn Winnick, Jim Sturgess, Abbie Cornish, Andy Garcia, Zazie Beetz, and Ed Harris. SYNOPSIS: When the network of satellites designed to control the global climate start to attack Earth, it’s a race against the clock to uncover the real threat before a worldwide geostorm wipes out […]
Movie Review – Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! (2017)
Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You!, 2017. Directed by Kunihiko Yuyama. SYNOPSIS: Pokémon the Movie: I Choose You! is an origin story highlighting Ash and Pikachu’s first meeting and their adventures as they search for the Legendary Pokémon Ho-Oh. The pair encounter familiar faces along the way, new characters including Trainers Verity and Sorrel, and even a […]
Movie Review – Deliver Us (Liberami) (2016)
Deliver Us (Liberami), 2017 Directed by Federica Di Giacomo. SYNOPSIS: A documentary film exploring exorcism and the role the practise has in a contemporary society searching for a cure for various ills, be they physical, mental or spiritual. Exorcism. To most of us that spells out unlucky priests gripping onto their crosses, noisy demonic activity […]
Movie Review – School Life (2016)
School Life, 2016. Directed by Neasa Ní Chianáin and David Rane. SYNOPSIS: Feature documentary based at a stately home turned boarding school where long careers in teaching are drawing to a close for Amanda and John Leyden. Closely examining a year in the life of the Headfort School in Ireland, School Life is a charming […]
Second Opinion – Victoria and Abdul (2017)
Victoria and Abdul, 2017. Directed by Stephen Frears. Starring Judi Dench, Ali Fazal, Eddie Izzard, Adeel Akhtar, Tim Piggott-Smith, Michael Gambon, and Olivia Williams. SYNOPSIS: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim. There’s a lewd, cheeky streak to Stephen Frears’ Victoria and Abdul, a prestige picture trying […]
