• 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...
  • Justice League: The Mourning after the Fight Before…

    Superman is dead, killed at the hands of Doomsday and General Zod and leaving Bruce Wayne feeling somewhat responsible for his demise and the fight that preceded it. Believing that the entire planet may be facing an apocalyptic threat in the near future, Bruce and Diana Prince (Wonder Woman)...
  • Thor Ragnarok

    Hit and Myth: Ragnarok’s Sturm und Am-Dram…

    Thor (Chris Hemsworth) hangs from the ceiling, captured in a net and relating his recent adventures to a skeleton who at least has the courtesy to have his jaw actually drop. But the God of Thunder’s imprisonment is quickly revealed as a ruse to bring him face to face...
  • Bosch - Two Kinds of Truth

    ‘Truth’ and Consequences: Still Boom and Bosch…

    Like many of Connelly’s recent Bosch outings, there are essentially two cases or narratives  circling through Two Kinds of Truth, but though the publicity blurb promises that  – once again – they’ll dovetail together, there’s resolutions to both that doesn’t mean they collide in an unlikely fashion. Bosch finds...
  • Oh, the Inhumanity. Marvel’s latest is sheer lunar-cy…

    While Inhumans have appeared on Earth in recent years, thanks to events in the Agents of SHIELD series, some of the original bloodline of the species have actually been living in a huge secret city – Atillan – on the dark side of the moon. But all is not...
  • Amazon Primed? Wonder Woman comes to DVD…

    For years the island of Themyscira has remained hidden, its population of immortal women living in what appears to be a paradise, but training for the day when, they believe the God of War, Ares, will have to be faced for the sake of all mankind. Diana (Gal Gadot)...
  • Wind River

    ‘Wind River’: a strong thriller – with some reservations…

    During a hunt for  mountain lion that may be causing problems on a Native American reservation in mountainous Wyoming, expert tracker and hunter Corey Lambert (Jeremy Renner) comes across the body of a young woman in the snow. He instantly recognises her as Natalie the daughter of one of...
  • ‘It Comes at Night’ arrives with dark chills…

    In the middle of a deep forest, the home of Paul, Sarah and Travis remains largely boarded up, with only one secure way into the property, through a heavily-fortified red door.  The family are hunkered down against the elements and a virus that appears to have devastated much of...
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