Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature: Review of “Rubber”
by Mister Sparta, guest reviewer Hello again, folks, and welcome to “Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature.” Let me start off this review with a great quote: “All Great Films, Without Exception, Contain An Important Element Of No Reason.” This quote was…
Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature: Review of “The Ward”
by Jason Sparta, guest reviewer Hello folks and welcome back to Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature. Now, before I begin, let’s take a trip down horror memory lane at a director known for creating one of the most iconic characters in horror movie…
TV Review: Arrow 2×01 – City of Heroes
by Demi Moumas, Reporter Months of waiting and finally it is over. Arrow is back at its normal time at 8pm on Wednesday nights. Thank god…this show makes hump day end as hunk day. Yes, that is me being a…
Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature: Review of “The Wolfman”
by Mister Sparta, guest reviewer Hello, everyone, and welcome to the latest edition of Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature. This time around I’m going to touch on a subject close to my heart: Werewolves. I find the mythos of lycanthropy very fascinating, yet…
TV Review: The Walking Dead – “30 Days Without An Incident” (SEASON PREMIERE)
After months of waiting, The Walking Dead finally returns for Season Four! With the threat of The Governor on the back burner, Rick and the gang are focused on trying to do more than just survive in their post-apocalyptic world. With a new Showrunner (Scott M. Gimple) in place, how does The Walking Dead Season Four Premiere compare to its predecessors?
Blu-ray Review: Transformers Prime Beast Hunters: Predacons Rising
by Erin Hatch, Editor-At-Large Megatron is dead, Cybertron has been revived, and the Autobots seem to be winning for the first time in ages as they vacate Earth and set about welcoming Cybertronian refugees home. Things are looking up at…
Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature: Review of “Stake Land”
by Mister Sparta, guest reviewer Hello, folks, and welcome to the first (and hopefully not the last) edition of Mister Sparta’s Creature Feature. Tonight’s selection: Stake Land. I watched this movie with the lowest of expectations. Why? Because lately, my…
DVD Review: The Neighbors Season 1
On its surface, The Neighbors seems like just another gimicky sitcom bound to be filled with repetitious dumb lowbrow humor, but under that initial veneer we learn that The Neighbors might be one of the smartest comedies on TV. The Neighbors is a sonnet of buffoonery that holds up a mirror to American culture and shows us just how ridiculous and wonderful we really are.
TV Review: Supernatural 9×01 – I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here
by Demi Moumas, Reporter Supernatural premiered with a round of drama. The new season brings about the aftermath of the season 8 finale. If you remember, which I’m sure most of you do…or have rewatched before the premiere, Metatron tricked…
DVD Review: Fragile: A Ghost Story
I think labeling this as a horror film is really doing it a disservice. It’s more of a psychological drama, really [as I’m noticing tends to be the theme among Spanish horror films (the writer/director and most of the production staff are Spanish) – Korean and Japanese horror films are known for their hair-raising, blood-chilling ghost stories, and Spanish horror films tend to be more about the characters – about the people and the emotion and the story to be told by the characters, superimposed over some moments of terror]. And at that, it excels.
Blu-ray Review: Robot Chicken DC Comics Special
Comic book fans and action figure aficionados now have plenty of reason to be excited with this brilliant collision of worlds, when the twisted and deranged humour of Robot Chicken takes control of the iconic super heroes and villains from the DC Comics universe in Robot Chicken DC Comics Special.
Gear Review: Denon Urban Raver AH-C100
Forget everything you think you know about in-ear headphones. The Denon Urban Raver AH-C100 proves that over-ear headphones aren’t the only audio devices capable of creating amazing sound.
Movie Review: Gravity
by Mary Anne Butler, Reporter/Photographer Silence. Complete and stunning silence. Until some ass in the front of the theater rustles around for his candy and makes a snide comment. I shush him. He stays quiet, mercifully. It’s very rare…
Blu-ray Review: Iron Man 3
All is not well in the life of Tony Stark. Fresh off his world-saving feats in Marvel’s The Avengers, everyone’s favorite eccentric billionaire inventor is plagued by PTSD, obsessed with building iteration after iteration of his famous Iron Man armor, while having trouble in his home life with his significant other and business partner Pepper Potts. When a terrorist known as the Mandarin starts attacking civilian targets in the United States, Tony calls him out and triggers a personal vendetta that can take away everything he loves and threaten the security of the entire world.
Blu-Ray Review: Michiko & Hatchin: Complete Series, Part 1
by Mike Favila, Editor When I was browsing through the Funimation offerings, I noticed the bright cover art for Michiko & Hatchin: Complete Series, Part 1. The RIFYL (short for Recommended If You Like, for those readers not in the…