Reviews

Review: American Horror Story: Freak Show – 'Massacres and Matinees'

October 20, 2014 Anthony McGlynn

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Director: Alfonso Gomez-Réjon Writer: Tim Minear Given that American Horror Story‘s seasons are self-contained, there can be an occasional tendency to almost rail-road plot points in order to provide set-up for more ongoing feuds and relationships. This week’s second episode of Freak Show exemplified this to a tee. Several characters were not only given progression, […]

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Review: Shadow of Mordor

October 20, 2014 ArcadeAdmin

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Monolith’s Middle-Earth epic has been on our shelves for  a week now, and hasn’t left my CD-drive since release day, with good reason. Talion’s tale of revenge is one that no gamer can afford to pass up on. Shadow of Mordor touts numerous elements that not only show the capabilities of the Next Generation of […]

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Book Club Review: Flare

October 20, 2014 Thérèse Lyons

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It’s time for new Heroes. Ryan Curtis is an almost average teenager. There’s just one small problem: his parents are superheros.Ryan just wants to be normal but instead his family life is full of danger, excitement and action, but then the traffic actions of a demented scientist means he has to go into hiding. Now […]

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Review: Doctor Who S8, Episode 9: “Flatline”

October 19, 2014 Ryan O' Connor

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Writer: Jamie Mathieson. Director: Paul Wilmshurst. Starring: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Joivan Wade. A Doctor-lite episode of Doctor Who comes up fairly rarely, as things go. Officially, there have only in fact been two in the revised series, those being Series 3’s standout episode ‘Blink’ and Series 4’s ‘Turn Left’. When fan-usage of the term comes […]

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Review: Doctor Who S8, Episode 9: "Flatline"

October 19, 2014 Ryan O' Connor

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Writer: Jamie Mathieson. Director: Paul Wilmshurst. Starring: Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman, Joivan Wade. A Doctor-lite episode of Doctor Who comes up fairly rarely, as things go. Officially, there have only in fact been two in the revised series, those being Series 3’s standout episode ‘Blink’ and Series 4’s ‘Turn Left’. When fan-usage of the term comes […]

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Otaku Digest – Sanzoku no Musume Ronja, Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de and Girlfriend (Kari)

October 19, 2014 Céire Ní Dalaigh

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Hello one and all, another week down and that means another Otaku Digest. This weeks line up is Sanzoku no Musume Ronja, Inou Battle wa Nichijou-kei no Naka de and Girlfriend (Kari). Sanzoku no Musume Ronja First up this week is the anime I know I have been waiting for – Sanzoku no Musume Ronja […]

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Review: Dracula Untold

October 17, 2014 Declan Doody

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The cinema screens have not been short on origin stories over the last few years. You might have been forgiven for assuming that the horror genre’s most famous monsters would be safe from this phenomenon but this year’s early horror action film Dracula: Untold is set to prove you wrong or at the very least try! […]

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Halloween Movie Challenge – Day 15 'Pontypool'

October 16, 2014 Brian Dunster

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Language is the most important tool humans have at their disposal. But what if our language turns against us? PONTYPOOL (2008) A small town in Ontario, Canada is infected by a deadly virus that is spread by words. Now here is a horror film with fuel for thought. What if you were witnessing an event that you […]

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Halloween Movie Challenge – Day 15 ‘Pontypool’

October 16, 2014 Brian Dooley

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Language is the most important tool humans have at their disposal. But what if our language turns against us? PONTYPOOL (2008) A small town in Ontario, Canada is infected by a deadly virus that is spread by words. Now here is a horror film with fuel for thought. What if you were witnessing an event that you […]

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Forgotten Childhood – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

October 16, 2014 Anthony McGlynn

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Initial Release (1990) Coming at the height of the cartoon’s popularity, the first big screen jaunt for the heroes in a half shell was actually an independent film. Headed by Steve Barron, soon to be of Coneheads and the Billie Jean music video fame, the production took place mostly in North Carolina in 1989. With […]

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