Zeb Larson reviews The Walking Dead #138… FACE TO FACE. Two issues this month! Well, things don’t go pear-shaped in quite the way you might have expected from last issue, but they still go rather pear-shaped. This isn’t an arc-ending issue that ends in a lot of bloodshed or with a dramatically changed status quo, […]
House of Cards Season 3 Episode 5 Review – ‘Chapter 31’
Jackson Ball reviews the fifth episode of House of Cards Season 3… Season 3 of House of Cards may have found its stride in the previous episode, but it’ll need to repeat that success to keep audiences enthralled throughout the difficult mid-season. ‘Chapter 31’ finds the Underwoods in yet more challenging scenarios; struggling to deal […]
LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Avengers: Age of Ultron – The Hulk Buster Smash and Attack on Avengers Tower Review
Gary Collinson reviews The Hulk Buster Smash and Attack on Avengers Tower LEGO Marvel Super Heroes Avengers: Age of Ultron sets… With a little under two months to go before the release of Avengers: Age of Ultron, LEGO has taken the opportunity to expand its LEGO Marvel Super Heroes line with the release of six […]
Comic Book Review – Star Trek #43
Villordsutch reviews Star Trek #43… Eurydice Part 1 of 3, The lead-up to the next STAR TREK film continues here, in an all-new adventure produced in association with Roberto Orci! Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise find themselves in uncharted space on their Five Year Mission of exploration… but a new alien threat may end […]
Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutanimals #1
Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutanimals #1… Old Hob, Slash, Herman the Hermit Crab, Mondo Gecko and Pigeon Pete have become a force to be reckoned with in the TMNT ongoing — and now they’ve got their own miniseries, in which their teamwork will be put to the ultimate test! When someone close […]
Comic Book Review – The Surface #1
Zeb Larson reviews The Surface #1… What would happen if Moebius and District 9 had a baby? Maybe THE SURFACE! Welcome to Africa. Ebola is no longer a problem. The West and the East are moving in—and three hacker lovers are searching Tanzania for the place that can change everything: THE SURFACE! The first issue […]
Comic Book Review – Southern Cross #1
Zeb Larson reviews Southern Cross #1… NOW BOARDING: Southern Cross, tanker flight 73 to TITAN! Alex Braith is on board retracing her sister’s steps to the refinery moon, hoping to collect her remains and find some answers. The questions keep coming though—how did her sister die? Where did her cabin mate disappear to? Who is […]
Book Review – The Glorious Angels by Justina Robson
Michelle Herbert reviews The Glorious Angels by Justina Robson… The Glorious Angels is a compellingly complex novel that shifts between many different character perspectives; it feels like a flower slowly opening its petals before you get a clearer understanding of the way this world works. From the first chapter you are thrown immediately into the […]
Movie Review – The Tales of Hoffmann (1951)
The Tales of Hoffmann, 1951. Directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Starring Moira Shearer, Robert Helpmann and Léonide Massine. SYNOPSIS: An opera, Hoffmann tells of his romantic history with three beautiful women; Olympia, Giulietta and Antonia “I have to say”, says director Michael Powell prior to working on The Tales of Hoffmann, “I didn’t know much […]
DVD Review – Assassin (2015)
Assassin, 2015. Directed by J.K. Amalou. Starring Danny Dyer, Anouska Mond, Gary Kemp, Martin Kemp, Holly Weston and Eddie Webber. SYNOPSIS: A hitman falls for a beautiful exotic dancer before discovering that his last hit was her dodgy businessman father, forcing him to turn against his ruthless employers to try and save her life. Is […]
