• ‘Hard Sun’: A Ziggy-zagged thriller with a certain flare…

    Police officer Elaine Renko (Agyness Deyn) is attacked in her own home. She knows her assailant but he shows her little mercy, savagely beating her, stabbing her and leaving her for dead in her burning kitchen. Eighteen months on, having barely survived the incident, Renko is back on the...
  • UFO! DNA! FBI! WTF??? Why the latest X-Files is DOA…

    Agent Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) is rushed to hospital after having a seizure and neither Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) nor Assnt. Director Skinner (Mitch Pillegi) have any idea what’s wrong. Even the doctors are mystified by the activity that appears to be going on inside her head. When she...
  • Ripping Yarn: ‘Limehouse Golem’ stages a bloody tale…

    London in the late 1800s, a few years before Jack the Ripper will cut his way through the back-streets. But another monster is already there, apparently randomly murdering men, women and children and nicknmaed the ‘Limehouse Golem’ by the local rags. It’s a moniker the killer seems to have...
  • Graves Anatomy: ‘Flatliners’ is neither heaven nor hell…

    Nearly a decade ago, Courtney (Ellen Page) lost her young sister in a car accident caused by Courtney being distracted by her cell phone. It’s an event for which she’s never truly forgiven herself, but it did spur her on to become a doctor and to try and save...
  • Doctor Who: (Christmas) Time, Gentlemen, please…?

    The South Pole is a cold place to meet one’s fate, but two incarnations of the same Time Lord find themselves unexpectedly thrown together as they each ponder their lives and future.  But they are not the only ones there… a soldier who last remembers being on a battlefield...
  • Claw & Order: Netflix’s latest: ‘Bright’ Lights, Bit Iffy…..

    In an alternative 2017 the modern world has many of our tried and tested problems – but with a twist. Over the last millennia, the magic world of Orcs, faeries, trolls and elves has become part of the social strata. Elves tend to be the high-flying successes at business,...
  • The Sound

    ‘Sound’ advice: Avoid this trick or trope ‘horror’…

    Kelly Johansen (Rose McGowan) is a blogger who specialises in debunking the supernatural. As tech-smart as she is snarky, she uses  sophisticated audio  technology to spot possible causes and then relaying her findings to her grateful audience. Receiving an anonymous heads-up about a haunted subway station in Toronto, she...
  • Happy

    Crude Awakening: ‘Happy!’ will have audiences in spin…

    Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni) was once a decorated cop but those days are long gone, brought down in an avalanche of missed chances, vices and dovetailing into a spiral of self-destruction. Now he’s a hitman for hire with the death-wish-whispering voice in his head not truly caring whether he...
  • Punisher

    View to a Skull: ‘Punisher’ proves rewarding…

    Frank Castle feels he has completed ‘dealing’ with the people responsible for the death of his family and has ‘retired’ to try and leave a so-called normal life. However the ghosts of the past, real or imagined,  won’t leave him alone –  and he’s about to find out that...
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