Film Review: Jonas (2013)

Review by Nia Edwards-Behi I’ve almost no doubt that there are very few genre fans – particularly those who frequent this website – who haven’t heard of The Bunny Game. Adam Rehmeier’s first feature film was a collaboration with the performance artist Rodleen Getsic, a stark and brutal examination of suffering and of release. The […]

DVD Review: The Returned (AKA Les Revenants/They Came Back) (2004)

Review by Ben Bussey What if the dead came back – for real? Not as rotting, mindless, flesh-hungry zombies; not as possibly mad Eric Draven-esque avenging angels. What if they just showed up one day, fully dressed, not decomposed, not brain-dead, looking exactly as they did the day before they died, as if nothing had […]

Review: Pacific Rim (2013)

Review by Dustin Hall For many this summer, this is the one we’ve been waiting for. Pacific Rim. Giant monsters flashing us back to Godzilla’s glory days, mechs reminding us of Mazinger Z, carnage to the extreme, and finally, FINALLY, a movie that isn’t a remake, an adaptation, or a sequel. And they said it […]

Comic Review: The Hand That Feeds! Parasyte

Review by Comix Japan has no luck. If it’s not a natural disaster destroying half the coast, then it’s Godzilla or some other godforsaken monstrosity tearing apart whatever’s left. After so many crises and near brushes with death, you’d think the Land of the Rising Sun would be prepared for the possibility of anything, but […]

DVD Review: The Vatican Exorcisms

Review by Kit Rathenar It’s not often I watch a film that’s genuinely so terrible that I don’t know where to start laying into it first, but The Vatican Exorcisms is one of the few to earn this dubious accolade. If the team responsible for this trainwreck were hoping to discredit the Catholic Church, bad […]

Comics Review: Happy

By Comix Kids are weird. They smell weird, they say weird shit, and, if Christmas movies are to be believed, they have the power to make wishes come true through the magic of innocence. But nothing is weirder than a kid’s imaginary friend, who could be anything from a rainbow goldfish to a talking rock […]

Film Review: Byzantium (2013)

Review by Nia Edwards-Behi Clara (Gemma Arterton) and her daughter Eleanor (Saoirse Ronan) are forced to begin a new life in a dreary seaside town after Clara murders a man who pursued them at their former dwelling. Clara, now selling herself on the street, takes advantage of down-and-out Noel (Daniel Mays), by taking over his […]

DVD Review: Apocalypse Z (2013)

Review by Ben Bussey Let’s not beat around the proverbial bush. What we have here is a classic case of a low budget straight-to-DVD movie cashing in on another similarly-themed major movie with a similar-sounding title (the film in this case having been retitled specifically to cash in further – Apocalypse Z was originally known […]

Movie Review: This is the End (2013)

Review by Comix Who would you want to spend the Apocalypse with? I mean, really? The clouds are darkening, Old Man Scratch is rapping at your window, and all the righteous are being catapulted into Heaven like a bra slingshot launching water balloons and wouldn’t you know it, you got left behind. Would you choose […]