Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor #1… The Ninth Doctor is BACK with a brand-new miniseries: WEAPONS OF PAST DESTRUCTION! Leaving World War II behind, The Ninth Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack discover that Time Lord technology, lost in the wake of the Time War, is being sold on the intergalactic black market! Now the […]
The Walking Dead Season 5 – Episode 5 Review
Sadé Green reviews the fifth episode of The Walking Dead season 5… This week saw another deviation from the main group as we followed Sgt. Abraham (Michael Cudlitz) and his outbreak gang on their quest to get Eugene (Josh McDermott) to Washington D.C.. Some surprising twists await the audience this week though, as Abraham’s dark […]
Second Opinion – The Homesman (2014)
The Homesman (2014) Directed by Tommy Lee Jones Starring Tommy Lee Jones, Hilary Swank, Grace Gummer, Miranda Otto, Sonja Richter, John Lithgow, Hailee Steinfield, Jesse Plemons, Tim Blake Nelson, William Fitchner, Meryl Streep SYNOPSIS: Ably independent yet desperate to nurture a family, Mary Bee Cuddy agrees to transport three women maddened by trauma across the country, enlisting […]
Comic Book Review – Roche Limit #3
Zeb Larson reviews Roche Limit #3… Moscow pays a visit to the ghouls while Alex and Sonya get their hands on Guthrie. A strange sickness emerges. Disparate threads are starting to come together in this story as several of our protagonists cross paths. The biggest revelation regards what Recall does to people, as it becomes […]
Leeds International Film Festival 2014 Review – Love is Strange (2014)
Love is Strange, 2014. Directed by Ira Sachs. Starring John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Marisa Tomei, Darren Burrows and Charlie Tahan. SYNOPSIS: After Ben and George get married, George is fired from his teaching post, forcing them to stay with friends separately while they sell their place and look for cheaper housing — a situation that […]
Comic Book Review – C.O.W.L. #6
Zeb Larson reviews C.O.W.L. #6… NEW STORY ARC! Before he started C.O.W.L., Geoffrey Warner fought for Chicago as the city’s first hero, THE GREY RAVEN! But what started him down the path of crime fighting? Witness the origin of Chicago Superheroes, the War Years, and the formation of C.O.W.L. as told in the sellout issue […]
Comic Book Review – IXth Generation #2
Villordsutch reviews IXth Generation #2… Aphrodite IX has the Witchblade and several other Artifacts have also appeared, destroying the delicately balanced utopia. Who is wielding the Darkness and why is it so hellbent on killing all of the IXs? To start on a positive with IXth Generation #2, the art from Stjepan Sejic is absolutely […]
Leeds International Film Festival 2014 Review – M (1931)
M, 1931. Directed by Fritz Lang. Starring Peter Lorre, Otto Wernicke and Gustaf Gründgens. SYNOPSIS: When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt. Within Fritz Lang’s first film made in sound, 1931’s M, there’s fascinating evidence of the period’s – and, of course, the […]
Leeds International Film Festival 2014 Review – Songs from the Second Floor (2000)
Songs from the Second Floor, 2000. Written and Directed by Roy Andersson. Starring Lars Nordh, Stefan Larsson, Bengt C.W. Carlsson, Torbjörn Fahlström, Sten Andersson and Peter Roth. SYNOPSIS: One evening, a series of strange events with no apparent logic take their course. A clerk is made redundant; an immigrant is violently attacked; a magician makes […]
Movie Review – The Theory of Everything (2014)
The Theory of Everything, 2014. Directed by James Marsh. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Charlie Cox, Harry Lloyd, David Thewlis, Emily Watson and Christian McKay. SYNOPSIS: A look at the relationship between Stephen Hawking (Redmayne) and Jane Hawking (Jones), from their meeting at Cambridge until Hawking’s worldwide success. There have been many biopics that show […]
