18th Mar2024

Glasgow Film Festival 2024: ‘Love Lies Bleeding’ Review

by Jasmine Valentine

Stars: Kristen Stewart, Katy O’Brien, Jena Malone, Anna Baryshnikov, Ed Harris, Dave Franco | Written and Directed by Rose Glass Lou (Kristen Stewart) lives a remotely modest life, working as a gym manager in a small town in New Mexico. She soon meets Jackie (Katy O’Brien), an ambitious bodybuilder with dreams of competing in Las […]

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18th Mar2024

Glasgow Film Festival 2024: ‘Edge of Summer’ Review

by Jasmine Valentine

Stars: Nichola Burley, Josie Walker, Flora Hylton, Joel Sefton-Iongi | Written and Directed by Lucy Cohen A girl makes friends with a local boy while on holiday in rural Cornwall. Looking for an escape from her mum and her new boyfriend, the young girl looks to seek solace wherever she can find it. When the […]

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18th Mar2024

‘AEW: Rampage’ Review (Mar 15th 2024)

by Phil Wheat

It’s Monday so you know what that means, it’s time for our weekly review of AEW: Rampage! This week’s show was broadcast from the TD Garden in Boston, MA and featured Excalibur, Chris Jericho and Tony Schiavone on commentary. Now let’s get to the review… Match #1: Best Friends (Orange Cassidy & Trent Beretta) def. […]

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18th Mar2024

‘Friday Night Smackdown’ Review (Mar 15th 2024)

by Phil Wheat

Welcome to this review of this past Friday’s episode of Friday Night Smackdown, right here on Nerdly. Let’s see what went down on this week’s show! Match #1: Legado del Fantasma def. The LWO The following is courtesy of wwe.com: Angel and Berto are one step closer to realizing their WrestleMania dreams as they defeated […]

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15th Mar2024

‘Drive-Away Dolls’ Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal, Bill Camp, Matt Damon | Written by Ethan Coen, Tricia Clarke | Directed by Ethan Coen Directed by Ethan Coen, who co-wrote the script with his wife, Tricia Clarke, Drive-Away Dolls (previously known as Drive-Away Dykes) is a queer road movie-slash-crime caper anchored by […]

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15th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘All You Need is Death’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Simone Collins, Charlie Maher, Olwen Fouéré, Barry McKiernan, Nigel O’Neill, Catherine Siggins | Written and Directed by Paul Duane A young couple records and collects folk songs in rural Ireland, selling them to a mysterious, rich buyer. When rumours of a song never-before-heard reach the couple, they find themselves in an uneasy alliance with […]

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15th Mar2024

‘Mythic Battles: Ragnarok’ Board Game Review

by Matthew Smail

When we reviewed Mythic Battles: Pantheon just a month or two ago, I had no idea that soon-to-follow would be a newer, more refined take on the divine conflict genre that I had immediately fallen in love with. Mythic Battles: Pantheon is brilliant, and for me, the Greek mythology setting is perhaps the absolute pinnacle […]

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15th Mar2024

‘Dune: Part Two’ Review

by James Rodrigues

Stars: Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Stellan Skarsgård, Zendaya, Javier Bardem, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Charlotte Rampling | Written by Denis Villeneuve, Jon Spaihts | Directed by Denis Villeneuve With 2021’s Dune, co-writers Eric Roth, Jon Spaihts, and director Denis Villeneuve phenomenally brought to screen the vibrant world that Frank […]

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15th Mar2024

‘Berserk Boy’ Review (Nintendo Switch)

by Alain Elliott

New Switch games that are heavily influenced by the 16-bit era of gaming are something I will always get very very excited about. The 16-bit era and the Super Nintendo in particular is the time I started to really get into gaming and also my love of platformers. Berserk Boy is a retro, but modern, […]

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15th Mar2024

‘TNA Wrestling’ Review (Mar 14th 2024)

by Phil Wheat

Welcome to this week’s review of TNA Wrestling, the follow-up show for this past weekend’s Sacrifice PPV/PLE! Let’s get into the review and see what went down… Match #1: X-Division Championship – Mustafa Ali def. Chris Sabin The following is courtesy of tnawrestling.com: Chris Sabin receives his contractually-obligated rematch for the X-Division Championship as he […]

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15th Mar2024

‘AEW Dynamite: Big Business’ Review (Mar 13th 2024)

by Phil Wheat

Welcome to this week’s review of AEW Dynamite: Big Business, which was broadcast live from the TD Garden in Boston, MA. We’ve got Excalibur, Tony Schiavone, and Taz on commentary this week, so let’s get into the review! Match #1: AEW World Championship Match – Samoa Joe def. Wardlow The following is courtesy of allelitewrestling.com: […]

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14th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘The Well’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Lauren LaVera, Claudia Gerini, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, Linda Zampaglione, Yassine Fadel, Melanie Gaydos, Gianluigi Galvani, Courage Osabohine | Written by Federico Zampaglione, Stefano Masi | Directed by Federico Zampaglione Lisa Gray, a budding art restorer who travels to the small Italian village of Sambuci just outside Rome to bring a medieval painting back to […]

14th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘Custom’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Abigail Hardingham, Rowan Polonski, Brad Moore, Samantha Steel | Written and Directed by Tiago Teixeira Jasper and Harriet are arthouse pornographers struggling to make ends meet. Their stock in trade is producing custom-made erotic films for an exclusive clientele into the forbidden, the shocking and the strange. As they hit rock bottom, that’s when […]

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14th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘The Funeral’ & ‘The Last Straw’ Review

by Phil Wheat

THE FUNERAL Stars: Ahmet Rifat Sungar, Cansu Türedi, Tekin Temel | Directed by Orcun Behram Cemal, a lonely hearse driver, has been entrusted to secretly transport the body of a murdered young woman, Zeynep, to her parents’ home at their final request. But he hears strange groans from the back of the vehicle during the […]

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14th Mar2024

‘WWE NXT’ Review (Mar 12th 2024)

by Phil Wheat

Welcome to this week’s review of NXT, right here on Nerdly. Let’s get straight into it and see what went down in this episode… Match #1: The LWO def. OTM The following is courtesy of wwe.com: Cruz Del Toro and Joaquin Wilde of The LWO are one step closer to NXT Stand & Deliver after […]

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13th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘Mom’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Emily Hampshire, François Arnaud, Christian Convery, Tristan D. Lalla, Cat Lemieux, Erika Rosenbaum, Mariah Inger | Written by Adam O’Brien, Philip Kalin-Hajdu | Directed by Adam O’Brien Meredith is a struggling mother abandoned by her family and partner after the appalling death of their newborn son. Alone in her house after separating, she becomes […]

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13th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘Kill Your Lover’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Paige Gilmour, Shane Quigley Murphy, May Kelly | Written and Directed by Alix Austin, Keir Siewert Dakota has had enough of her toxic relationship with Axel, but the feeling isn’t mutual. As she tries to end things, Axel becomes something different, something monstrous. He gradually succumbs to the poison of the decaying relationship, becoming […]

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13th Mar2024

96th Annual Academy Awards – Our Oscars 2024 Report

by Alex Ginnelly

Sunday saw the 96th Annual Oscars ceremony broadcast live across the world, and for UK audiences it saw the show broadcast on ITV. There is lots to be said about this year’s Oscars, from winners and losers, to poor broadcasting panels – it is safe to say the award season gave us everything we’re used […]

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13th Mar2024

‘WWE Raw’ Review (Mar 11th 2024)

by Phil Wheat

Welcome to this review of this past Monday’s episode of WWE Raw, right here on Nerdly. Let’s see what went down on this week’s show! Match #1: Becky Lynch def. Liv Morgan The following is courtesy of wwe.com: In the final moment of an absolutely explosive showdown, Liv Morgan hit Oblivion on Becky Lynch. Before […]

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13th Mar2024

Wolverine Wednesday #71

by Ian Wells

Wolverine #43 Writers: Benjamin Percy & Victor LaValle | Artist: Geoff Shaw | Colourist: Alex Sinclair | Letters: Cory Petit This week I wanted to kick off talking about the cover. Modern covers tend to have a bad reputation. Perhaps there is an element of me being biased, but I love this cover by Lenil […]

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12th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘Wake Up’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Turlough Convery, Benny O. Arthur, Jacqueline Moré, Tom Gould, Alessia Yoko Fontana, Kyle Scudder | Written by Alberto Marini | Directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell From RKSS, the directorial collective behind Turbo Kid, Summer of 84 and We Are Zombies, comes Wake Up, which sees a group of young activists set […]

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12th Mar2024

Frightfest Glasgow 2024: ‘The invisible Raptor’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Mike Capes, David Shackelford, Sean Astin, Sandy Martin, Caitlin McHugh, Bobby Gilchrist, Larry Hankin, Bill Kottkamp | Written by Mike Capes, Johnny Wickham | Directed by Mike Hermosa The Tyler Corporation has finally figured out how to engineer a prehistoric raptor genetically, but they didn’t stop there… they also made it invisible. Unfortunately for […]

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