Reviews

Anime

Your Name 君の名は Kimi no Na wa – Otaku Review

April 6, 2017 Declan Doody

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There is a lot of fuss made about Your Name. Online and offline, people are talking about Makoto Shinkai’s anime feature. To date the film is the fourth highest-grossing film of all time in Japan, the 8th-highest grossing traditionally animated film and the highest-grossing anime film worldwide, with a total gross of more than €307 million. […]

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Comics

X-Men Prime #1 Review – ‘The Dream Lives On’

April 3, 2017 Declan Doody

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The X-Men have managed to survive their war with the Inhumans. Now as the dust settles and future looks somewhat more hopeful, the mutants set about finding their place in the world. X-Men Prime #1 sets the scene and stories in motion as the X-Men scramble for normality in their lives. Written by Marc Guggenheim Art by […]

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Featured

Power Rangers Review – It’s Morphin’ Into A Good Time!

March 29, 2017 Abel G.C.

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When I was a kid I was obsessed with Mighty Morphing Power Rangers, but then again, who wasn’t? I remember seeing it premiere when I was a kid in Spain and it blew my mind. I had a lot of action figures, I even had my own Power Morpher and Power Blaster! And when the […]

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Comics

Iron Fist Review

March 28, 2017 Dave McEvoy

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It’s been a week now since Netflix released Marvel’s Iron Fist. I realise that some of you have been putting it off. I understand. You heard all the negative reviews and want to wait until he hype dies down and see it or yourself. You may also be wary of the controversy regarding the lead […]

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Featured

Mass Effect: Andromeda Review – Carving A New Path

March 26, 2017 Laura Kelly

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As I’ve said previously, I’ve been waiting a long, long time to get my hands on Mass Effect: Andromeda. Finally, the wait is over and I was able to dive straight in with the latest addition to this epic franchise. I don’t mince words when I say that Mass Effect in its own right is a modern sci-fi […]

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Games

DMC: Devil May Cry – RePlay

March 24, 2017 Matt Conroy

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The age of reboots and remakes If there is one dangerous pass time for game developers to engage in, it is rebooting or remaking popular gaming franchises. For many gamers, franchises from gamings past tend to have many fond memories attached to them. Thus, when game developers start rebooting and remaking beloved gaming franchises, they […]

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Featured

Logan Review

March 23, 2017 Brandon Collins

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Hugh Jackman first appeared as Wolverine in 2000’s X-Men. Prior to that his most notable roll was in Paperback Hero where he played a “handsome roadtrain driver with a secret”, but since then he’s transformed himself into a feral killing machine and everyone’s favourite high-functioning alcoholic since their Grandad. So here we are 17 years later and give or […]

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Featured

Beauty and The Beast – Lovingly Pruning a Classic Rose

March 19, 2017 Niamh Ennis

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In some ways, The Ben Condon live-action remake of Beauty and the Beast  is a carbon copy of the original 1991, but in some ways it’s not. It is like they were lovingly pruning a rose but updating it. Some of the scenes and their progress are ever just the same, and are a love […]

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Games

NieR Automata Review

March 18, 2017 David Savage

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NieR Automata was a dream game for me when it was announced. Yoko Taro is a director who tells great stories in a really interesting way, with the downside that gameplay would be average at best. The original NieR was pretty average, but the story was mad, full of twists, and bloody interesting. But I’m […]

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Comics/Books

Comicphiles – Wolverine and X-23: True Believers

March 17, 2017 Aoife Fealy

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With the recent success of the latest X-Men installment Logan, I decided to pick up some new comics to continue on my favourite Marvel streak. By the way, if you enjoy a solid action film and HAVEN’T seen Logan yet, get your ass to the cinema pronto! Emotional, gritty and downright harrowing at times, this […]

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