13th Dec2018

‘Trauma’ DVD Review

by Faye Ellis

Stars: Catalina Martin, Macarena Carrere, Ximena del Solar, Dominga Bofill, Daniel Antivilo, Eduardo Paxeco, Felipe Ríos, Claudio Riveros, Florencia Heredia | Written and Directed by Lucio A. Rojas I was lucky enough to watch a debut screening of Trauma at the inaugural Soho Horror Film festival, where the crowd were already hyped for this harrowing, […]

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13th Dec2018

‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ Blu-ray Review (Criterion)

by Rupert Harvey

Stars: Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Orson Welles | Written by Orson Welles, Booth Tarkington (novel) | Directed by Orson Welles AKA the film that Orson Welles made after Citizen Kane, and which has become synonymous with studio interference. Perhaps an hour of footage was slashed and burned, hence the […]

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13th Dec2018

‘The Equalizer 2’ Blu-ray Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders, Melissa Leo, Orson Bean, Bill Pullman, Jonathan Scarfe, Kazy Tauginas, Garrett Golden, Sakina Jaffrey, Tamara Hickey, Karen Strong | Written by Richard Wenk | Directed by Antoine Fuqua Denzel Washington returns as ultra-violent vigilante Robert McCall in this slick sequel that marks the actor’s fourth collaboration with director […]

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13th Dec2018

‘Green Book’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini, Sebastian Maniscalco, Dimiter D. Marinov, Mike Hatton, P.J. Byrne, Joe Cortese, Maggie Nixon, Von Lewis, Jon Sortland, Don Stark, Anthony Mangano, Paul Sloan, Quinn Duffy | Written by Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga, Brian Hayes Currie | Directed by Peter Farrelly Peter Farrelly’s Green Book is an uplifting and compelling […]

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13th Dec2018

The Last Week In Wrestling #9 (Wrestling Round-Up)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this edition of The Last Week In Wrestling, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have some wrestling to get to, so let’s do so. WWE Match Ratings Out Of 5: Raw Natalya & Ronda Rousey vs. Nia Jax & Tamina – 1 Sasha Banks & Bayley vs. Mickie James & […]

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12th Dec2018

WWE Smackdown Live – Dec 11th 2018: Results & Review

by Phil Wheat

Welcome to this weeks Smackdown Live review, right here on Nerdly. And it’s week four of: “will this episode of Smackdown be more of a success than Monday’s Raw” – with Raw’s improvement this week, lets see if that’s still the case shall we?! Match #1: WWE Champion Daniel Bryan def. Mustafa Ali The following […]

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12th Dec2018

‘Discover: Lands Unknown’ Board Game Review

by Matthew Smail

Whilst Fantasy Flight Games’ Keyforge has been making a big splash with its procedurally generated decks and fast, fliuid gameplay, Richard Garfield’s latest effort is not the only game to use the technology that FFG call their “Unique Game” system. Discover: Lands Unknown boasts a designer who is almost as illustrious as Richard Garfield (and […]

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12th Dec2018

‘Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle’ Review (Netflix)

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Rohan Chand, Matthew Rhys, Freida Pinto, Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Naomie Harris, Andy Serkis, Peter Mullan, Jack Reynor, Eddie Marsan, Tom Hollander | Written by Callie Kloves | Directed by Andy Serkis Andy Serkis sophomore effort, Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, arrives two years after Jon Favreau’s monumental critically and financially successful […]

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12th Dec2018

‘Scorpion King: Book of Souls’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Zach McGowan, Nathan Jones, Peter Mensah, Pearl Thusi, Mayling Ng, Inge Beckmann, Katy Louise Saunders, Howard Charles, Rizelle Januk | Written by David Alton Hedges, Frank DeJohn | Directed by Don Michael Paul A spin-off from 2001’s Mummy sequel, the Scorpion King series – begun in 2002 – has official now out-lived and outlasted […]

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12th Dec2018

‘Captured’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Lizze Gordon, Gabrielle Romanello, Megan Medellin, Charlie Ian, Cody Bruno, Evan Sloan, Cody Renee Cameron, Sam Cain, Lola Kelly | Written by Lizze Gordon | Directed by Joe Homokay “Smells like exploitation” What happens when camp B-Movie shtick meets obviously incorrect Millennial generation doings? The premise of #Captured is simple – hilariously voiced zealot […]

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12th Dec2018

‘At Eternity’s Gate’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Niels Arestrup, Anne Consigny, Amira Casar, Vincent Perez, Lolita Chammah | Written by Jean-Claude Carrière, Louise Kugelberg | Directed by Julian Schnabel Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world […]

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11th Dec2018

WWE Raw – Dec 10th 2018: Results & Review

by Phil Wheat

Welcome to this weeks review on WWE Raw… a show that has made me dread Monday night TV (OK, so Tuesday night TV, there’s no way I’d ever stay up to watch THIS live like I did a few years ago!). Although the online buzz about this episode has got me a little more interested […]

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11th Dec2018

‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Features the voices of: Shameik Moore, Jake Johnson, Hailee Steinfeld, Mahershala Ali, Brian Tyree Henry, Lily Tomlin, Luna Lauren Velez, Zoë Kravitz, John Mulaney, Kimiko Glenn, Nicolas Cage, Kathryn Hahn, Liev Schreiber, Chris Pine | Written by Phil Lord | Directed by Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman Sony’s semi-reinvention of their staple franchise superhero […]

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11th Dec2018

‘Justice League Vol.1: The Totality’ Review (DC Comics)

by Phil Wheat

Written by Scott Snyder | Art by Jim Cheung, Jorge Jimenez | Published by DC Comics This iteration of the Justice League was never really my Justice League. The big five team of Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and The Flash (and the likes of Cyborg, Green Lantern etc.) were in fact the antithesis of […]

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11th Dec2018

‘Jagged Alliance: Rage!’ Review (PC)

by Britt Roberts

A spin-off of the Jagged Alliance series, Jagged Alliance: Rage! is definitely not Jagged Alliance 3, but does it stand on its own? Well, having only a had a brief dalliance with the series’ previous iterations, I came away from this newest installment with the feeling that it really shows its lower budget in some […]

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11th Dec2018

‘Night School’ VOD Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Tiffany Haddish, Kevin Hart, Keith David, Anne Winters, Taran Killam, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Romany Malco, Ben Schwartz, Rob Riggle | Written by Kevin Hart, Harry Ratchford, Joey Wells, Matthew Kellard, Nicholas Stoller, John Hamburg | Directed by Malcolm D. Lee Tiffany Haddish and her Girls Trip director Malcolm D. Lee reteam in the […]

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11th Dec2018

‘MLW: Fusion’ Wrestling Review (Dec 7th 2018)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s Major League Wrestling review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have a couple of big time luchadors fighting in the main event, so get your eatin’ britches pulled up and ready for a big ol’ ham dinner and some stuffing with a bit of sweet potato and the […]

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10th Dec2018

‘Bumblebee’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Hailee Steinfeld, Justin Theroux, Dylan O’Brien, Angela Bassett, Pamela Adlon, John Cena, Megyn Price, Kenneth Choi, Peter Cullen, Marcella Bragio, Gracie Dzienny, John Ortiz, Len Cariou | Written by Christina Hodson | Directed by Travis Knight On the run in the year 1987, Bumblebee finds refuge in a junkyard in a small Californian beach town. […]

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10th Dec2018

‘Black Lightning 2×08: Exodus’ Review

by Jason Brigger

Stars: Cress Williams, China Anne McClain, Nafessa Williams, Christine Adams, James Remar, Marvin Jones III, Damon Gupton | Developed by Salim Akil Well the television gods lied to me…we DO have a new episode of Black Lightning this week! Jennifer and Khalil are on the run from not only Whale but also the Pierce family […]

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10th Dec2018

‘Strange Nature’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Lisa Sheridan, Stephen Tobolowsky, Carlos Alazraqui, John Hennigan, Tiffany Shepis, David Mattey, Bruce Bohne, Jonah Beres, Chalet Lizette Brannan, Lilli Passero, Bryan Daniel Porter, Faust Checho | Written and Directed by James Ojala Ecological horror is a genre that is not often tapped for terror these days, though it was – at one time […]

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10th Dec2018

‘Robin Hood (2018)’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Taron Egerton, Jamie Foxx, Ben Mendelsohn, Eve Hewson, Jamie Dornan, Tim Minchin, Paul Anderson, F. Murray Abraham, Ian Peck, Cornelius Booth, Kane Headley-Cummings | Written by Ben Chandler, David James Kelly | Directed by Otto Bathurst To state that Otto Bathursts’ reimagining of Robin Hood is a colossal failure would be to understate such […]

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10th Dec2018

‘Impact Wrestling’ Review (Dec 6th 2018)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s Impact Wrestling review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have Charlie Sheen on Two And A Half Men…With A Shot-Gun. Also, Impact might have some wrestling this week, so let’s see how it goes… to hell. Match #1: Jake Crist w/ Sami Callihan & Dave Crist vs. Willie […]

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