Andrew Newton reviews Judge Dredd: The Daily Dredds – Volume One… For those of you old enough, cast your minds back to the far reaches of 1976 (those of you like me who are not old enough just imagine). For children it was one of the best years ever with one of the hottest summers on […]
Arrow Season 3 Episode 7 Review – “Draw Back Your Bow”
Jessie Robertson reviews the seventh episode of Arrow season 3… A busy week in Arrow land, as Sara’s murder takes a back seat and Oliver’s feelings for Felicity are forced to rear their much desired head. The show opens with a flashback to six months ago, during Slade’s city-wide takeover with masked Mirakuru soldiers; cut […]
Constantine Season 1 Episode 4 Review – ‘A Feast of Friends’
Martin Carr reviews the fourth episode of Constantine… John Constantine is about to have another bad day….. Imagine an addiction so powerful it consumes you. Flesh and blood are your only means of containing a compulsion both self-aware and demonic in origin. You need an impressionable vessel with some serious guilt issues, plus a sociopathic […]
Movie Review – St. Vincent (2014)
St. Vincent, 2014. Directed by Theodore Melfi. Starring Bill Murray, Jaeden Lieberher, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Watts, Chris O’Dowd and Terrence Howard. SYNOPSIS: A young boy living with his recently divorced mother gravitates toward his new bad-behaving neighbor and the two form an unlikely friendship. St. Vincent is the latest “little indie that could” to grab […]
Comic Book Review – 2000AD Prog #1908
Andrew Newton reviews 2000AD Prog #1908… Borag Thungg Squaxx dek Thargo. Prog 1908 greets us this week with part 9 of the excellent ‘Block Judge’ storyline by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra with Ezquerra once again proving how effective his artwork is at bringing Dredd’s world to life. In part 9 of ‘Block Judge’, Dredd is doing his usual […]
The Newsroom Season 3 Episode 1 Review – ‘Boston’
Gary McCurry reviews the first episode of The Newsroom season 3… “I’ve loved every minute I’ve spent in television. And I’ve had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I’ve done four shows, and only one of them was The West Wing.” Words spoken by Aaron Sorkin during a recent interview with […]
Comic Book Review – The Last Fall #3
Zeb Larson reviews The Last Fall #3… IDW’s original sci-fi/military drama continues! Wounded and abandoned, Marcus Fall desperately struggles to survive in the care of a beautiful enemy surgeon. But terrible secrets are revealed that rock Fall’s world, proving all is not as it seems in love and war! After a long wait, we finally […]
Leeds International Film Festival 2014 Review – Catch Me Daddy (2014)
Catch Me Daddy, 2014. Directed by Daniel Wolfe. Starring Sameena Jabeen Ahmed, Conor McCarron, Gary Lewis and Barry Nunney. SYNOPSIS: Laila (Sameena Jabeen Ahmed) has run away from home, living in the Yorkshire moors with her boyfriend Aaron (Conor McCarron), but her brother, alongside his mates and some muscle for hire are in pursuit. NOTE: […]
Star Wars Rebels – ‘Empire Day’ Review
Chris Cooper reviews the sixth episode of Star Wars Rebels, ‘Empire Day’… One massive thought jumped out at me through this latest episode. We’re actually rooting for the terrorists! With current events that struck me as a very interesting way to look at it all, adding an extra layer to the story. We find that […]
Leeds International Film Festival 2014 Review – Wild (2014)
Wild, 2014. Directed by Jean-Marc Valle. Starring Reese Witherspoon, Laura Dern, Gaby Hoffman and Kevin Rankin. SYNOPSIS: Cheryl Strayed (Reese Witherspoon) takes on the 1,100 mile Pacific Crest Trail to help focus her life after the death of her mother. There are times that Wild threatens to become the film everyone assumes it is, based […]
