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Star Trek: Into Darkness – Review

J.J. Abrams has done it again, delivering an epic sequel to his 2009 reboot to the popular franchise. Star Trek Into Darkness is a fantasticly energetic re-imagining of one of the most popular Trek adventures ever. When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within
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Age of Ultron #2 – Review

Street Date: March 13 2013 AoU #2 continues in “the present” time like issue #1 with us witnessing Ultron’s supposed victory over humanity and New York lying in nicely detailed ruin. Like all of Marvel`s $3.99 titles, AoU comes with a free digital copy code and much of Bryan Hitch`s paneling seems to be made
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Gears of War: Judgment – Overrun Multiplayer – Advance Review

Street Date: March 15 2013 for Overrun Early Access So I just played about two and a half hours of the new class-based Overrun multiplayer mode for Gears of War: Judgment (with a little help from a few beers) and I gotta say, I hope you’ve played it too. If you don’t already know (and
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Helheim #1 – Review

Street Date: March 06 2013 A Viking  horror story with bloody combat, witchcraft and the undead? Hell yeah! Once upon a time in 580 A.D. in The North, Rikard, his father and a few other warriors were running away from a group of savages trying to make it back to their village, when Rikard stops
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Age of Ultron #1 – Review

Street Date: March 06 2013 The Age of Ultron has arrived in a nice shiny foil embossed cardboard  regular cover and a crapload of variants which are not really worth picking up in my opinion. Except of course for Skottie Young’s, if you can find it. But enough about the covers. It’s what’s inside that
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Warm Bodies – Review

Jonathan Levine (50/50) directs this romantic horror comedy that is unexpectedly better than I had imagined. Zombie comedies are not new to the genre, but they rarely achieve greatness. Warm Bodies may not actually achieve that greatness, but it comes damn close! After R (a highly unusual zombie) saves Julie from an attack, the two
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Tower Block – Review

James Nunn and Ronnie Thompson direct this suspenseful thriller about tenants of an apartment complex trying to survive the assault of a sniper killing everyone on the floor. Tower Block is suspenseful and fun, if not just a little predictable and unfortunately, impossible. A year after witnessing a murder, residents of Tower Block 31 find
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters – Review

After the cult hit Dead Sno, I anxiously awaited writer/director Tommy Wirkola’s next genre film. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is that film. Wirkola’s reminds me of a younger Raimi with his over the top action horror. There’s no asking “hey, is that plausible?”, nope, it’s more like “hey, that’s f’n awesome!” His films aren’t
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Upside Down – Review

Juan Diego Solanas directs what appears to be his first English feature film, written by himself, filmed entirely in Montreal Quebec. Upside Down is a fictional love story set in a fantastical world that defies the science of gravity. Adam is an ordinary boy who lives on one of two planets, joined by opposite gravities.
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American Mary – Review

Jen and Sylvia Soska write and direct this modern horror where a medial student uses her skills to exact revenge on those who’ve harmed her. American Mary is a haunting vision of surgical body manipulation that stays with you long after the film ends. The story follows a talented medical student, Mary Mason, as she
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Deadheads – Review

With the zombie romance/comedy Warm Bodies coming soon, I though I’d venture into the zom-com genre, actually a sub genre that seems to be growing in popularity with films like Zombieland, Shaun of the Dead, and Fido. Brothers, Brett Pierce and Drew T. Pierce take the zom-com on a road trip as two cognisant, speaking
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Dredd 3D – Review

Pete Travis, best known for the 2008 film Vantage Point, brings the newest incarnation of the long running British comic book series Judge Dredd to the big screen in a violent tour de force that leaves you wanting more. The future America is an irradiated waste land. On its East Coast, running from Boston to
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Starship Troopers: Invasion – Review

It was Paul Verhoeven’s loose adaptation of the classic Robert A. Heinlein novel Starship Troopers that spawned 2 inferior sequels and a more faithful series of CG animated cartoons called The Roughnecks. Starship Troopers Invasion takes elements of both and blends them into an awesome CG film directed by Shinji Aramaki… the same director who
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V/H/S – Review

V/H/S is another “found footage” film that finds a nice fit within the Horror anthology template. The quality of footage varies from story to story which adds a unique quality of realism to the package as a whole. The only 2 directors of the bunch that I recognize are Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead)
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Total Recall (2012) – Review

From the man who brought us the Underworld franchise, Len Wiseman tackles the remake of the 90s Schwarzenegger cult classic Total Recall. Apparently more faithful to the source material “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick, Wiseman pumps up the action and packs the screen with sharp, visually stunning eye candy.
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