Villordsutch reviews Bedlam… If you’re like me , an old mature gamer who has been around for a fair few decades watching games evolve, we’ve seen wondrous things from black and white tennis (Pong) to the monochrome colour clashing on the ZX Spectrum then onwards to the 486 basic PCs up to our beast of […]
Comic Book Review – Bitch Planet #1
Zeb Larson reviews Bitch Planet #1… 2014 Best Writer Eisner Award nominee KELLY SUE DeCONNICK (PRETTY DEADLY, Captain Marvel) and VALENTINE DE LANDRO (X-Factor) team up for the very third time to bring you the premiere issue of BITCH PLANET, their highly-anticipated womenin- prison sci-fi exploitation riff. Think Margaret Atwood meets Inglourious Basterds. Bitch Planet […]
Movie Review – The Pyramid (2014)
The Pyramid, 2014. Directed by Grégory Levasseur. Starring Ashley Hinshaw, Denis O’Hare, James Buckley, Christa Nicola and Amir K. SYNOPSIS: A documentary film crew follows a team of archaeologists into a newly-discovered and completely unmapped pyramid near Cairo, only for things to quickly start going very wrong… Well, what have we got here? Is it another found footage horror movie? Of […]
Video Game Review – Never Alone
Kris Wall reviews Never Alone… Every now and again, something comes along completely out of the blue and unexpectedly blindsides you, and so it is with Upper One Games’ Never Alone, or Kissima Ingitchuna to give it its proper name, that has appeared out of a blizzard to completely take my breath away. Let me […]
DVD Review – Still the Enemy Within (2014)
Still the Enemy Within, 2014. Directed by Owen Gower. Starring Norman Strike, Paul Symonds and Steve Hamil. SYNOPSIS: Interviewing those involved and fighting the cause, Still the Enemy Within documents the 1984/1985 Miners strike. Published in 2011, Owen Jones left-wing, revealing book, Chavs, explained how the demonization of the working class has its roots in 1984. The children […]
Blu-ray Review – The Killers (1946)
The Killers, 1946. Directed by Robert Siodmak. Starring Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmund O’Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene and Jack Lamberto SYNOPSIS: A pair of hit-men carry out the murder of an unresisting victim. A partnership of insurance investigator and police detective try to establish the facts surrounding the crime. Taking a classic Ernest Hemingway […]
Second Opinion – Black Sea (2014)
Black Sea, 2014. Directed by Kevin Mcdonald. Starring Jude Law, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, David Threlfall, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Jodie Whittaker, Karl Davies and Michael Smiley. SYNOPSIS: In order to make good with his former employers, a submarine captain takes a job with a shadowy backer to search the depths of the Black Sea for a […]
American Horror Story: Freak Show – Episode 8 Review
Alice Rush reviews the eighth episode of American Horror Story: Freak Show… After a week break Freak Show is back and seems to be making up for lost time by cranking the violence dial up a few notches. We last saw Del killing Ma Petite and this week sees that she’s not the only character […]
Comic Book Review – The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw #2
Zeb Larson reviews The Autumnlands: Tooth & Claw #2… After the shattering disaster last issue, the Great Champion of ancient legend is reawakened. And things get worse. Plus! A special variant cover by ALEX ROSS, painting more animal-people at once than he ever has before! I’m really starting to like where this series is headed. […]
Video Game Review – Dragon Age: Inquisition
Ben Rayner reviews Dragon Age: Inquisition… 98 hours, 15 minutes and 20 seconds. No, thats not how long it took me to finish Lost and (finally) understand the ending. This is in fact how long it took me to eventually find the courage to hit the pause button on Dragon Age: Inquisition. Long enough to […]
