Dark Star - Blu-ray review

Bombed out in space with a spaced out bomb! Talby, Doolittle, Pinback and Boiler comprises the remaining crew of the Dark Star, a deep space craft which clears the way for human colonisation. The mission is to blow-up unstable planets with ‘smart bombs’, of which there are twenty. The men have been together for so long that they are unkempt and pretty much uncaring. Talby dreams of seeing the ultra-rare Phoenix Asteroid, Doolittle misses his surfboard, and Pinback is actually an imposter. When an asteroid storm causes damage to the automated systems, the intelligent Bomb 20 arms itself and begins a countdown to disaster. The answer might lie with Commander Powell, but Commander Powell is dead and in the cryogenic freezer after his seat mechanism exploded. Time is fast running out, but Powell’s memory isn’t what it was when he was alive... [click here...]

 

Tank Girl: Bad Wind Rising - Graphic novel

Oh no! Can it be true? Is the greatest romance since Wills and Kate torn asunder? First there was Tristan and Isolde. Then there was Romeo and Juliet. Finally, there was the Kalashnikov-mouthed, Primark-tastic Princess of Panzers and her marsupial paramour - Tank Girl and Booga! But the honeymoon is over, and the greatest inter-species love story since Catherine the Great and her horse lies bleeding in the Outback, triggering a chain reaction that threatens the very existence of the universe! Will love conquer all? Or will space/time vanish up its own black hole...? [click here...]

 

Sherlock: (Original Television Soundtrack)

The BBC One season of three Sherlock Holmes films was the summer hit of 2010 with over 7.5m viewers watching the first episode. This contemporary adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel was created by Steven Moffat (Doctor Who, Coupling) and Mark Gatiss (The League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who) and the series stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes, Martin Freeman as Doctor Watson and Rupert Graves as Inspector Lestrade... [click here...]

 

Samurai Girls: The Complete Series - DVD

The story takes place in Japan in the early 21st century, in an alternate reality where the Tokugawa Shogunate has remained in power. In this reality, student councils are tasked with oppressing schools. Yagyuu Muneakira is a high school student who rebels against his student council with the help of girls who've had the names of famous samurai heroes passed onto them... [click here...]

 

Doctor Who: The Sensorites - DVD review

When the Doctor and his companions land aboard a spacecraft in flight, something is decidedly wrong. Although the crew appear to be dead, they are, in reality, kept in a state of sleep, fed and presumably toileted by the race of Sensorites. This telepathic race has kept the earthmen in the Sensesphere for fear that their discovery will mean the end of their way of life. The Doctor discovers that, although powerful, the Sensorites do have weaknesses, including their fear of the dark. He uses this information to force a meeting with their leader, only to discover that the Sensorites are a dying race, plagued by an unexplainable disease... [click here...]

 

Welcome to the N.H.K: Complete Series - DVD

Tatsuhiro Sato is a 20-something NEET (Not in Employment, Education or Training), a miserable failure, and a reclusive loner suffering from acute social withdrawal. A paranoid mess of deep-rooted anxieties and a true believer of conspiracy theories, he is also under the delusion that a secret organization known as the Nihon Hikikomori Kyokai (Japan Social Withdrawal Association) is trying to produce a world filled with brainwashed, jobless recluses just like him... [click here...]

 

Lorne Balfe (composer) - Interview

Lorne Balfe is a Grammy award-winning film composer from Inverness, Scotland. Balfe is known for composing the scores to the Dreamworks’s animation Megamind, and Ron Howard’s film The Dilemma, in collaboration with Academy Award-winning composer, Hans Zimmer. In 2009, Balfe was music producer and composer of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 video game, and score producer for Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes, which earned a 2010 Oscar® nomination for Best Original Score. Only a year later, in 2011, Balfe produced the score for Christopher Nolan’s Inception, which also earned a Oscar nomination for Best Original Score. We caught up with Balfe as his soundtrack for the game Assassin's Creed Revelations was released... [click here...]

 

Sand Sharks - DVD review

On the small island of White Sands the head of a dune biker is found. Evidence points strongly to a shark attack, but it is too far up the beach. A shark expert is called in, and the sheriff wants to close the beach. However, the deputy sheriff’s ex-boyfriend turns up with a proposal to put White Sands back on the map. He wants to hold a huge beach party, inviting teens country wide. In reality, he wants to make money to pay the mobsters on his trail, but the mayor sanctions his plans, and it helps when the mayor is your own father. Even when he witnesses a sand shark consume his financial aid, he fails to warn anyone, seeing only dollar signs behind his eyes. Pretty soon the party is underway, and the vibrations caused by the loud music attract a hoard of sand sharks who have now tasted blood. No one takes any notice of the grisled old timer, but he may be their only salvation... [click here...]

 

Futurama: Season 5 - DVD review

Join the crew of Planet Express as they body swap, get hooked on Mom's new eyePhone, jump into a time machine that can only travel forwards into the future and fight off alien invasions from evil space cats and the inhabitants of Omicron Persei 8... [click here...]

 

Darker than Black: Gemini of the Meteor - DVD

Having helped the world narrowly avert disaster Hei is now a drunkard, hiding out in Russia and taking on odd jobs for the CIA. During one of his sojourns he encounters Suou Pavlichenko, a complicated young lady, whose brother has been a contractor since his birth. Hei takes the young Suou under his tutelage. Hoping to teach her to control her powers, Hei and Suou travel to Japan to learn the truth of her birth, but hard on their heels are numerous factions out to catch or kill them... [click here...]