The Loft, 2015. Directed by Erik Van Looy. Starring Karl Urban, James Marsden, Wentworth Miller, Eric Stonestreet, Valerie Cruz, Isabel Lucas, Elaine Cassidy, Matthias Schoenaerts and Rachael Taylor. SYNOPSIS: A group of married men rent a city penthouse to indulge in extra marital affairs but it all goes disastrously wrong when a dead body is discovered. The […]
DVD Review – Wild Tales (2015)
Wild Tales, 2015. Directed by Damián Szifron. Starring Darío Grandinetti, María Marull, Mónica Villa, Ricardo Darín and Erica Rivas. SYNOPSIS: Six stories of revenge and losing your cool when everything is stacked up against you. Anthology films have been reasonably well served recently, if not always in quality then at least in number. Argentinean production Wild Tales […]
DVD Review – The Spider (2000)
The Spider (Edderkoppen), 2000. Directed by Ole Christian Madsen. Starring Jakob Cedergren, Stina Stengade, Lars Mikkelsen, Bjarne Henriksen, Trine Dyrholm and Nikolaj Lie Kaas. SYNOPSIS: Copenhagen 1949. A young and idealistic journalist attempts to uncover the source of a shadowy black market operation working its way around the city. The Spider (Edderkoppen) is another noir influenced […]
Book Review – The Night Mayor by Kim Newman
Michelle Herbert reviews The Night Mayor by Kim Newman… The Night Mayor is set in a future reality, where films (known as flatties) are no longer watched on screens; instead people immerse themselves in Dreams where using virtual reality technology the viewer enters a Dream and becomes the main character following the storyline that has […]
Movie Review – Jurassic World (2015)
Jurassic World, 2015. Directed by Colin Trevorrow. Starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Omar Sy, Nick Robinson, Ty Simpkins, Judy Greer, Irrfan Khan, Jake Johnson and B.D. Wong. SYNOPSIS: Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. […]
Second Opinion – Jurassic World (2015)
Jurassic World, 2015. Directed by Colin Trevorrow. Starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Omar Sy, Nick Robinson, Ty Simpkins, Judy Greer, Irrfan Khan, Jake Johnson and B.D. Wong. SYNOPSIS: Twenty-two years after the events of Jurassic Park, Isla Nublar now features a fully functioning dinosaur theme park, Jurassic World, as originally envisioned by John Hammond. […]
Comic Book Review – Roche Limit: Clandestiny #2
Zeb Larson reviews Roche Limit: Clandestiny #2… Elbus and his military crew form an unlikely alliance in their rush to flee the city. Meanwhile, within the forest, Sasha and the science team’s expedition comes unhinged. As the two separated groups struggle to survive on the planet, they learn a little bit about Danny and just […]
Sheffield Doc/Fest Review – The Look of Silence (2014)
The Look of Silence, 2014. Directed by Joshua Oppenheimer. SYNOPSIS: A family that survives the genocide in Indonesia confronts the men who killed one of their brothers. After two films on the same subject, it’s difficult to tell whether director Joshua Oppenheimer is more repulsed by the perpetrators of the 1965 Indonesian genocide or fascinated […]
Video Game Review – Schrodinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark
Andrew Newton reviews Schrodinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark… In all my many years of playing video games I’ve seen many physics based games but never a game about physics. Schrodinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark by developer Italic Pig, is perhaps the first game that concentrates on this weird and […]
Sheffield Doc/Fest Review – Cartel Land (2015)
Cartel Land, 2015. Directed by Matthew Heineman. SYNOPSIS: With unprecedented access, CARTEL LAND is a riveting, on-the-ground look at the journeys of two modern-day vigilante groups and their shared enemy – the murderous Mexican drug cartels. Though Matthew Heineman’s Cartel Land is ostensibly about two vigilante groups battling drug cartels either side of the US-Mexico border, […]
