16th Aug2019

‘Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Sebastian Croft, Emilia Jones, Nick Frost, Craig Roberts, Kate Nash, Kim Cattrall, Derek Jacobi, Rupert Graves, Warwick Davis, Alexander Armstrong, Kevin Bishop, Chris Addison | Written by Caroline Norris, Giles Pilbrow | Directed by Dominic Brigstocke Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans is the long-awaited feature film version of the infamous British television show […]

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16th Aug2019

‘NXT: UK’ Review (Aug 14th 2019)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s NXT UK review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have a packed hour to get to, so let’s make like The Force Awakens and steal all of our ideas from A New Hope/actual Star Wars movie. It’s Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi. […]

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16th Aug2019

‘Manifest Destiny Down: Spacetime’ Review

by Chris Thomas

Stars: Jonathan Baker, Jeff Kenny, Lexie Lowell | Written and Directed by Jonathan Baker A Back to the Future inspired sci-fi roadtrip stuck in Groundhog Day… Our film starts with Star Wars style text in space that is almost as confusing as that found in The Phantom Menace. It explains that physicists are searching for […]

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15th Aug2019

‘Liam Gallagher: As It Was’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Featuring: Liam Gallagher, David Adcock, Debbie Gwyther, Christian Madden, Drew McConnell, Dan McDougall, Jay Mehler, Mike Moore | Directed by Gavin Fitzgerald, Charlie Lightening Liam Gallagher: As It Was chronicles the eccentric and outlandish life of the infamous Mancunian frontman. Director Charlie Lightening pulls back the curtains on the eccentric icon and delivers an invigorating […]

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15th Aug2019

‘Kiss Me Deadly’ Blu-ray Review (Criterion)

by Rupert Harvey

Stars: Ralph Meeker, Nick Dennis, Maxine Cooper, Cloris Leachman, Gaby Rodgers | Written by A.I. Bezzerides | Directed by Robert Aldritch Mike Hammer (Ralph Meeker) is driving down the freeway, minding his own business, when he almost hits a woman. Mike is a private investigator, and he knows trouble when he sees it, but he […]

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15th Aug2019

‘WWE NXT’ Review (Aug 14th 2019)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s NXT review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have two matches, which is a way of saying “don’t hold your breath”. Okay, let’s find out if this week’s show is worth your time (I already know, because I’m magic…and an idiot). Match #1: Breezango def. The Forgotten Sons […]

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15th Aug2019

‘Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor #11’ Review

by Dean Fuller

Written by Jody Houser | Art by Roberta Ingranata | Published by Titan Comics If there’s something comic fans like it’s consistency. Consistency in how the characters are portrayed, consistency in the tone of the book, consistency in the overall feel of the book, and most importantly consistency in the creative team. Luckily, this book […]

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15th Aug2019

‘Playmobil: The Movie’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Features the voices of: Anna Taylor-Joy, Gabriel Bateman, Dino Andrade, Ian James Corlett, Lino DiSalvo, Ben Diskin, Jim Gaffigan, Kellen Goff, Wilson Gonzalez, Adam Lambert, Dan Navarro, Tito Ortiz, Daniel Radcliffe, Kenan Thompson | Written by Blaise Hemingway, Greg Erb, Jason Oremland | Directed by Lino DiSalvo Playmobil: The Movie, directed by Lino DiSalvo, is the […]

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15th Aug2019

‘Saving Leningrad’ Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: Andrey Mironov-Udalov, Maria Melnikova, Anastasiya Melnikova, Gela Meskhi, Pavel Druzhinin, Mariya Kapustinskaya | Written and Directed by Aleksey Kozlov September 1941. In a turn of events young lovebirds Kostya and Nastya find themselves on board of a barge that will evacuate people from sieged Leningrad. At night the barge gets into the storm. When […]

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15th Aug2019

‘Ring of Honor’ Wrestling Review (Aug 11th 2019)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this review of Ring Of Honor, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have a little more wrestling from a league that is going into the real estate business. Honor Homes, taking pride in where your heart is since 2019. There’s not much wrestling here, so get ready for a short […]

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14th Aug2019

‘Unlock! Heroic Adventures’ Board Game Review

by Matthew Smail

Space Cowboys have a bit of history when it comes to the Unlock! series, which first debuted in 2017, but has seen no less than five bundled releases each containing three stories (in the UK and Europe) or as many as three times that in the USA, where each set has been sold individually up […]

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14th Aug2019

‘The Sisters Brothers’ DVD Review

by Jak-Luke Sharp

Stars: John C. Reilly, Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Rebecca Root, Allison Tolman, Rutger Hauer, Carol Kane, Patrice Cossonneau | Written by Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain | Directed by Jacques Audiard [NOTE: With the film finally out on DVD here in the UK, here’s a reposting of our review of the film from its […]

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14th Aug2019

WWE Smackdown Live – Aug 13th 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…well, it better be better than last night’s Raw. I saw that others liked it, but it made me wanna hurl. Needless to say, but the bar is not very high for this to be a success. Oh, Chasing […]

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14th Aug2019

Pass Horror Notes: ‘Landing Lake’ Review

by Aaron Shakespeare

LANDING LAKE Stars: Franck Assi, Emma Bown, Joanna-Leigh Hewitt, Veronica Osimani, Craig Peritz, Lee Ravitz, Aaron Stielstra, Victoire Vecchierini, Phil Zimmerman | Written and Directed by Cesare P. Libardi di K. Name: Landing Lake Age: 2019 Appearance: Distorted head scratcher of a science fiction horror filmed in Super 35mm around some woods in Italy. It […]

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13th Aug2019

‘The Velocipastor’ Review

by Alain Elliott

Stars: Alyssa Kempinski, Greg Cohan, Claire Hsu, Aurelio Voltaire, Nicholas M. Garofolo, Daniel Steere, Fernando Pacheco De Castro, Jiechang Yang, Jesse Turits, Erik Oh, Zachary Steere | Written and Directed by Brendan Steere As soon as I read the title The Velocipastor I knew I had to see it. I didn’t need to see a […]

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13th Aug2019

WWE Raw – Aug 12th 2019: Results & Review

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this review of Monday Night Raw, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have the fall-out of SummerSlam to cover, so get ready to…read the review, I guess. Match #1: Samoa Joe def. Sami Zayn The following is courtesy of wwe.com: Sami Zayn is still lurking, raining on whatever parades he […]

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13th Aug2019

‘Spider-Gwen: Ghost Spider #1-10’ Review

by Phil Wheat

I’m a huge fan of Spider-Gwen. At first drawn to the look of the character, which is easily one of the best designs to have come out of Marvel in years, it turned out she was, across numerous books, a well-written and well-formed character too. Like Peter Parker, Spider-Gwen was flawed, more human than super-human […]

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13th Aug2019

‘The Mummy Rebirth’ DVD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Carter, David E. Cazares, Brittany Goodwin, Deanna Grace Congo, Shamel Hashish | Written by Justin Price | Directed by Khu, Justin Price Two treasure hunters uncover a sealed tomb and awaken a mummy that has waited years to come back and wipe humanity from the face of the Earth. It’s a race against time […]

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13th Aug2019

‘WWE Summerslam 2019’ PPV Review

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this review of SummerSlam 2019, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and this is, on paper, one of the best cards Vince McMahon has ever promoted, at least from a work-rate perspective. A lot of this card is a bit dull in relevancy, but it’s quality wrestling that we’ve got slated for […]

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13th Aug2019

‘MLW: Fusion’ Review (Aug 10th 2019)

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this week’s Major League Wrestling: Fusion review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have Savio Vega arriving to kick Alexander Hammerstone’s ass for the MLW National Open-Weight Title. Ain’t it nice to have violence you can sink your teeth into? Okay, get your whoopin’ pants on, because we’ve got some […]

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12th Aug2019

‘NXT: Takeover – Toronto 2’ PPV Review

by Nathan Favel

Welcome to this review of NXT: Takeover – Toronto 2, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and there’s a bunch of matches here, so don’t you bugger off yet pilgrim. Oprah might even show up to give y’all a brand new submariiiiiiiiiiiiiiiine! All right, let’s get to it and see how this whole thing […]

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12th Aug2019

‘Robotech #23’ Review

by Dean Fuller

Written by Simon Furman | Art by Hendry Prasetya, Pasquale Qualano | Published by Titan Comics Last issue maintained the incredibly high standard that somehow this book has managed to continue over the last 2 years. With licensed properties it is so easy to just coast along on character and brand recognition, phone in some […]

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