Archive for May, 2010

Cult Of Luna Release Eviga Riket Book Based on The Journals That Inspired Eternal Kingdom

Cult Of Luna’s epic 2008 album ‘Eternal Kingdom’ is one of the most compelling and fascinating concept albums of recent times (with the grand exception of Fall Of Efrafa’s peerless Watership Down trilogy). When the band were scouting for rehearsal space in the run up to recording, they chanced upon the site of a demolished [...]

Splice (2010) Why, I’ll Take Two Thank You Very Much

It appears that 2010 is going to be a busy year for Adrien Brody. This summer will see the release of Robert Rodriguez’s ‘Predators’. Please, please, please let it not suck. The only good thing that I ever saw a Predator in after Predator 2 was that Bring Me The Horizon video. To keep us [...]

Kick Ass (2010)

Because the world is crying out for yet another unsolicited review of Kick Ass I bring you; an unsolicited review of Kick Ass. I was wary. There had been far too much internet hype about this one for me to approach it with my guard down. Scars still exist from the last Mark Millar adaptation, [...]

The Losers (2010)

You’ll find out about how this is an adaptation of the DC Vertigo comic by Andy Diggle & Jock on some other site, like Wikipedia. Or alternatively, here, because you’ve just read it. If you would like to discuss how faithful it was to the original issues, or how one of their hats is a [...]

Human Centipede: First Sequence

I had drifted from horror movies over the last few months. Like an ageing player, I was losing the initial thrill of acquisition. Mundanity drenched routine left me hollow and uncaring enough to temporarily leave the game. That was it, a lifetime hobby, discarded. When I say a lifetime, I mean it as well. Horror [...]