20th Mar2019

‘Dungeon Saga: The Dwarf King’s Quest’ Board Game Review

by Matthew Smail

If you’ve enjoyed HeroQuest at any time in your life, then you’ll be instantly familiar with what Dungeon Saga: The Dwarf King’s Quest is setting out to achieve. From the bundled tutorial quest to the simple setup and straightforward rules, this 2015 classic from Mantic Games has recently been reprinted to entice a whole new […]

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20th Mar2019

‘Acts of Desperation’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Jason Gedrick, Paul Sorvino, Erin O’Brien, Kira Reed Lorsch, Treva Etienne, Tim DeZarn, Neraida Bega, Dee Dee Sorvino, Vince Lozano, Chris Coppola, Matthew Alan Brady, Asante Jones, Tomas Johansson, Jackie Falcon | Written by Nathan Illsley | Directed by Richard Friedman Richard Friedman, whom genre fans will know as the director of Arrow Video […]

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20th Mar2019

‘Fate/Extella: Link’ Review (Nintendo Switch)

by Phil Wheat

Above the ruined earth lies the realm of SE.RA.PH, a virtual world inside a lunar supercomputer. In this last refuge for humanity, powerful Servants — sentient, digital recreations of famous figures from Earth’s lore and history — battle rogue programs (and each other) to establish dominance and enforce their kind of peace… OK, OK, so […]

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20th Mar2019

WWE Smackdown Live – March 19th 2019: Results & Review

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s Smackdown Live review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have Kofi’s big gauntlet match, so let’s see if he can win the match so he can challenge for the WWE World Title at Wrestlemania. Match #1: The IIconics defeated Bayley & Sasha Banks The following is courtesy of […]

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20th Mar2019

Wolverine Wednesday #23

by Ian Wells

I guess we are calling this one the long over due edition. The comic shop where I get my mail subscriptions are changing the way they handle this procedure, so here are February’s Wolverine related comics finally reviewed even if it doesn’t feel very relevant now! The Return of Wolverine #5 Writer: Charles Soule | […]

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19th Mar2019

‘Triple Frontier’ Review (Netflix)

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Ben Affleck, Oscar Isaac, Charlie Hunnam, Garrett Hedlund, Pedro Pascal, Adria Arjona, Reynaldo Gallegos, Louis Rodriguez, Juan Camilo Castillo, Sheila Vand | Written by J.C. Chandor, Mark Boal | Directed by J.C. Chandor Acclaimed director J.C. Chandor’s much anticipated follow up to his critically lauded stoic New York gangster drama A Most Violent Year […]

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19th Mar2019

‘Doom Room’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Johanna Stanton, Nicholas Ball, Debbie Rochon, Matthew Tompkins, Hayden Tweedie, Katie Kensit, Sal Esen, Claire Jared, James Simmons, Scott Christie | Written by Jon Keeyes, Carl Kirshner | Directed by Jon Keeyes Jon Keeyes is a name that has popped up a lot in genre cinema discussion recently, mainly due to his film The […]

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19th Mar2019

‘Death in Venice’ Blu-ray Review (Criterion)

by Rupert Harvey

Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Silvana Mangano | Written by Nicola Badalucco, Luchino Visconti | Directed by Luchino Visconti Thomas Mann’s 1912 novella Der Tod in Venedig focused on a German writer named Gustav von Aschenbach, who decides to take a holiday to Venice, where he falls in love. The greatest change in Luchino […]

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19th Mar2019

WWE Raw – March 18th 2019: Results & Review

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s Raw review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have Kurt Angle’s big Wrestlemania announcement, Batista complaining about Triple H and Brock Lesnar gearing up for his big title match with Seth Rollins. Match #1: Finn Bálor & Braun Strowman def. Intercontinental Champion Bobby Lashley & Lio Rush The […]

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19th Mar2019

‘MLW: Fusion’ Wrestling Review (March 16th 2019)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s Major League Wrestling review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have more great action from one of the most popular independent leagues in the world today. Let’s see how everything turns out for MLW. Hey, I repeated myself again. I’m stuck in…The Twilight Zone. Imagine a world aflame…just […]

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18th Mar2019

‘Five Feet Apart’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse, Claire Forlani, Moises Arias, Parminder Nagra, Emily Baldoni, Gary Weeks, Kimberly Hebert Gregory, Cynthia Evans | Written by Mikki Daughtry, Tobias Iaconis | Directed by Justin Baldoni Justin Baldoni’s Five Feet Apart, on the surface, is your casual generic and conventional teen drama that evokes a similar sense of […]

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18th Mar2019

Pass Horror Notes: ‘Tales of Frankenstein’ Review

by Aaron Shakespeare

TALES OF FRANKENSTEIN Stars: John Blyth Barrymore, Buddy Daniels Friedman, Jim Tavaré, Tatiana DeKhtyar, Len Wein, Jamisin Matthews, Justin Hoffmeister, T.J. Storm, Jerry Lacy, Beverly Washburn, Ann Robinson, Mel Novak, Scott Fresina, Jena Sims, Lilian Lev | Written and Directed by Donald F. Glut Name: Tales of Frankenstein Age: 2018 Appearance: Nostalgic tribute to all […]

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18th Mar2019

‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Blu-ray Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Dan Fogler, Johnny Depp, Kevin Guthrie, Carmen Ejogo, Wolf Roth, Zoë Kravitz, Callum Turner, Derek Riddell, Ezra Miller, Cornell John | Written by J.K. Rowling | Directed by David Yates [NOTE: With the film now out to buy, here’s a reposting of our review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of […]

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18th Mar2019

‘La Verite’ Blu-ray Review (Criterion)

by Rupert Harvey

Stars: Brigitte Bardot, Sami Frey, Paul Meaurisse, Charles Vanel, Marie-José Nat | Written by Henri-Georges Clouzot, Véra Clouzot, Simone Drieu, Jérôme Géronimi, Michèle Perrein, Christiane Rochefort | Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot A mighty success at the time, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1960 thriller La Vérité was the film to make a serious actor of Brigitte Bardot. A big part […]

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18th Mar2019

‘Impact Wrestling’ Review (March 14th 2019)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s Impact Wrestling review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have some interesting stuff to get to, so grab your Frida T-Shirts and let that uni-brow hang out wide, because we got some wrestling matches, tonight. Oh God, I rhymed…a bit. That’s terrible. Aloha. Match #1: Sami Callihan & […]

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18th Mar2019

The Last Week in Wrestling #20 (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 another good week to look at, so let’s hop in the ol’ imaginary ring and help me pretend I know what I’m talking about. Hey, I said that last week. Screw it. Best Promo: Gender […]

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15th Mar2019

‘The Prodigy’ Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Taylor Schilling, Jackson Robert Scott, Peter Mooney, Brittany Allen, Colm Feore | Written by Jeff Buhler | Directed by Nicholas McCarthy The third horror film from director Nicholas McCarthy (At the Devil’s Door, The Pact), The Prodigy is an entry in the creepy kid genre typified by the likes of Orphan (2009) and Joshua […]

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15th Mar2019

‘What Men Want’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Taraji P. Henson, Kristen Ledlow, Josh Brener, Kellan Lutz, Mathias Alvarez, Chris Witaske, Max Greenfield, Paul Brian Johnson, Brian Bosworth, Kausar Mohammed, Richard Roundtree, Taj-Naranja Jenkines, Aldis Hodge, Auston Jon Moore, Devonta Freeman | Written by Tina Gordon, Peter Huyck, Alex Gregory | Directed by Adam Shankman Ali Davis (Taraji P. Henson) is a […]

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15th Mar2019

MANIFF 2019: ‘Rust Creek’ Review

by Matthew Turner

Stars: Hermione Corfield, Jay Paulson, Micah Hauptman, Daniel R. Hill, Sean O’Bryan, Jeremy Glazer | Written by Julie Lipson, Stu Pollard | Directed by Jen McGowan Rising British star Hermione Corfield takes the lead in Rust Creek, an engaging low budget survival thriller that starts out like a Wrong Turn knock-off but becomes something more […]

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15th Mar2019

‘Tangent Room’ VOD Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Lisa Bearpark, Daniel Epstein, Håkan Julander, Jennifer Lila, Vee Vimolmal | Written and Directed by Björn Engström We are currently living in a world of “alternative facts” and “fake news.” A film with the premise of saving all existence by using hard science and facts is then, very appealing to me (even if the […]

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15th Mar2019

‘X-Morph: Defense’ Review (Nintendo Switch)

by Britt Roberts

The trailer for this game completely grabbed me; with it’s well-presented blend of Real Time Strategy, Tower Defence and Shoot-em-Up it seemed to be onto a winning formula. And it was. In a nice change of pace, in this isometric title YOU are the attacking alien horde attempting to suck the resources out of Earth […]

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15th Mar2019

‘WWE 205 Live’ Review (March 12th 2019)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s 205 Live review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have boy band…wait, is not boy band. Oh, we also have more cruiserweight tournament matches, so MMMBop your big/small/fat/flat ass back after the commercial break for more Chappelle Show. Our legal team has informed me that as of 2017, […]

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