Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Animation, 2018. Dear Basketball Directed by Glen Keane. Starring Kobe Bryant. You needn’t be crazy about basketball to get something out of this ethereal adaptation of Kobe Bryant’s retirement letter to The Players’ Tribune, which is rendered via watercolour while accompanied by Bryant himself narrating his own letter. There’s plenty of […]
Movie Review – Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action
Oscar Nominated Short Films 2018: Live Action, 2018. DeKalb Elementary Directed by Reed Van Dyk. Starring Tara Riggs and Bo Mitchell. Based on an actual 911 call made to an Atlanta, Georgia high school, DeKalb Elementary is a taut, gut-wrenching thriller revolving around a mentally ill, machine gun-totting young man (Mitchell) and the quick-thinking secretary (Riggs) who […]
Arrow Season 6 Episode 13 Review – ‘The Devil’s Greatest Trick’
Jessie Robertson reviews the thirteenth episode of Arrow season 6… Cayden James’ (and Michael Emerson’s) swan song proved to be a rushed conclusion to the major storyline that’s been building all season; I remarked how I didn’t think this thing would have legs till year’s end, so good job on the writers to find a […]
Comic Book Review – Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – Rose & Paige
Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: Forces of Destiny – Rose & Paige… The final Star Wars: Forces of Destiny comic from IDW focuses on two new characters to the franchise featured in The Last Jedi: the mechanic Rose and her gunner sister Paige. This issue, written by Phasma author Delilah S. Dawson, is the most kid-friendly issue of the series. […]
Movie Review – Black Panther (2018)
Black Panther, 2018. Directed by Ryan Coogler. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Michael B. Jordan, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Martin Freeman, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Bassett, Forest Whitaker and Andy Serkis. SYNOPSIS: T’Challa, after the death of his father, the King of Wakanda, returns home to the isolated, technologically advanced African nation to succeed […]
Movie Review – Opus of an Angel (2018)
Opus of an Angel, 2018. Directed by Ali Zamani. Starring: William McNamara, Kaylyn Kubeldis, and Cindy Pickett. SYNOPSIS:op Tragedy strips a successful man (William McNamara) of his family. Exactly one year later he sets off on a final trip around Los Angeles and encounters Maria (Kaylynn Kubeldis). Lost, blind and in need of salvation he […]
Video Game Review – Shadow of the Colossus
Scott Watson reviews Shadow of the Colossus… It’s been over 12 years since Fumito Ueda first brought his masterpiece to life on the PS2. That’s a long time in gaming, and with it nostalgia can at times be a cruel mistress. Thankfully, and in no small part once again to the talented team at Bluepoint […]
Movie Review – Still/Born (2018)
Still/Born. 2018. Directed by Brandon Christensen. Starring Christie Burke, Jesse Moss, Rebecca Olson, Michael Ironside. SYNOPSIS: Mary, a new mother, gives birth to twins, but only one of them is alive. While taking care of her living child, Adam, she suspects that something, a supernatural entity, has chosen him and will stop at nothing to take […]
Movie Review – Fifty Shades Freed (2018)
Fifty Shades Freed. 2018. Directed by James Foley. Starring Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eric Johnson, Eloise Mumford, Luke Grimes, Rita Ora, Max Martini, Marcia Gay Harden. SYNOPSIS: Anastasia and Christian get married, but Jack Hyde continues to threaten their relationship. It’s over. After four sexually explicit (eh, softcore) years, Fucking White People: The Thriller Fifty […]
Video Game Review – Descenders (Early Access)
Lewy Buck reviews Descenders on Early Access… As an avid skateboarder any game of the extreme sports variety usually gets me pretty excited but with relatively average releases such as Steep last year I feel as if that excitement had dwindled but after watching the development and growth of descenders it looked as if things […]
