Reviews

Comics Review

Swamp Thing Volume 2 – Family Tree: A Visual Feast

May 9, 2013

Swamp Thing’s rebirth was a journey of beauty and hot fire. Yanick Paquette’s panels were a smash-up of wondrous green visuals juxtaposed with the mutilated world of the rot. It [...]

Batman

Detective Comics Volume 1 – Faces of Death: Mediocre Plots Twists Overshadow Great Art

May 9, 2013

Detective Comics: Volume 1 – Faces of Death comes in like a lion, filled with more than enough grotesque Joker shenanigans and debauchery to invigorate DC’s Batman lineup. The volume [...]

Video Game Reviews

Injustice: Gods Among Us is an Epic Fighter

April 29, 2013

The last time we saw the DC super heroes duke it out in a fighting game, it was 2008′s Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe. This was also the last time [...]

Bioshock Infinite

BioShock Infinite: Strong narrative will leave you speechless

April 23, 2013

Graphical power and an engaging narrative isn’t as hard to come by in gaming today as it was 5 years or so ago. They’ve become very common and it has [...]

Critic Review

Movie Review: Evil Dead Remake is Sadly Another Evil Retread

April 5, 2013

Evil Dead (1981) is a true cinematic classic, full of genre-defining cinematic touchstones, the emerging talent of Sam Raimi (Darkman, Spider-Man) and the chin of Bruce Campbell (Burn Notice). The anecdotes behind [...]

Batman

Batman Vol. 1: The Court of Owls is an exciting voyage

April 3, 2013

Who does Gotham City belong to – the Bat or his predators? In DC Comics new 52 series, each of its heroes and superheroes went through a modest rebirth. Costumes [...]

Critic Review

Movie Review: Olympus Has Fallen – A Genuine ‘Die Hard’ Sequel

March 23, 2013

The last Die Hard was so bad, that it should have been stripped of the much beloved franchise name and placed in front of Antoine Fuqua’s (Training Day, Shooter) latest [...]

Blu-ray Reviews

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that was Much too Long

March 19, 2013

Long. Perhaps too much so – even for seasoned Lord of the Rings fans. That about sums up The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the start of the newest trilogy from [...]

Critic Review

Movie Review: Stoker – A Beautiful, Bloody and Disturbing Loss of Innocence

March 16, 2013

Director Park Chan-Wook (Oldboy, Lady Vengeance) returns to his signature of revenge-themed stories with Stoker, a brilliant spring time distraction in the horror genre that is splendidly eerie as much [...]

Blu-ray Reviews

Nightmare on Elm Street Collection – Freddy still holds the crown

March 13, 2013

“How sweet, fresh meat.” When I think of Freddy, the first thing that comes to mind is this line from A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master. After [...]