SF PREVIEW: FUTURISTIC VIOLENCE & FANCY SUITS BY DAVID WONG

Futuristic Violence & Fancy Suits by David Wong

Synopsis:
Nightmarish villains with superhuman enhancements. An all-seeing social network that tracks your every move. Mysterious, smooth-talking power players who lurk behind the scenes. A young woman from the trailer park. And her very smelly cat. Together, they will decide the future of mankind.

FANTASY INTERVIEW: TIM AKERS AND HIS NEW NOVEL THE PAGAN NIGHT

Interview with Tim Akers for Titan Books
Conducted by Sandra Scholes

We know Tim Akers is hard at work on his next novels in The Hallowed War series, but I couldn't help but get a small amount of  his time away from the keyboard to tell us rabid readers more about what made him want to write with such passion on the subjects of religion, both old and new. Take a trip with me into the unknown and come away with the secrets of The Pagan Night...

LGBT REVIEW: ASHAMET: DESERT BORN BY TERRY JACKMAN

Ashamet: Desert Born, by Terry Jackman
Publisher: Dragonwell Publishing
Format: Paperback
Genre: LGBT/Gay/Yaoi
ISBN-10: 1940076226
ISBN-13: 978-1940076225Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes

Terry Jackman is a woman of many talents, a coordinator of the British Science Fiction Association writers' group, Orbits, a freelance editor and assistant editor for Albedo One in Ireland. She is also a tutor, professional picture framer and has seminars, articles, guest appearances, study guides and exam papers under her belt that amasses ten years worth of work.

BOND MOVIE REVIEW: SPECTRE

Bond Movie Review: Spectre

By Sandra Scholes

This is supposed to be Daniel Craig's last role as Bond, and it doesn't come across as much of a surprise. From Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace and Skyfall, the concept of the Bond movies being uniform has pretty much changed since he has starred in them.

MANGA REVIEW: DEATH SIN ASURA RISING PART 1

Death Sin Asura Rising Part 1
Author:Jordan Troche
Artist: Paoni Lee
Cover Artist: Geoff Trebs
Publisher: Fallen Manga Studios
Rating: Mature/15+
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes

Synopsis: 17 year old Connor is one of the only guys in school who wears an eye-patch, and there's a good reason for it too - he has an eye unlike anyone else, one that curses him to see scenes of horror and depravity that make him wonder why he has this curse and what he can do with it that is best for humanity.

ANIME REVIEW: WORLD CONQUEST ZVEZDA PLOT COMPLETE SERIES COLLECTION

World Conquest Zvezda Plot Complete Series Collection
Released By: Manga Entertainment
Rating: 12
Running Time: 309 Mins
Audio: English & Japanese DD 2.0
Release Date: 1/2/2016
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes 

Being out on a top secret mission can make you hungry as Kate Hoshinaga knows, but meeting young runaway Jimon Asoka could be the turning point she needs if she wants to accomplish her mission. Kate announces to her new comrade that she is the Supreme Commander of the Secret Society, Svezda, Lady Venera.

ANIME REVIEW: NARUTO SHIPPUDEN BOX SET 23

Naruto Shippuden Box Set 23
Released By: Manga Entertainment
Rating: 15
Running Time: 300 Mins
Audio: English & Japanese DD 2.0
Release Date: 8/2/2016
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes 

As we are into the Fourth Great Ninja War, Kabuto’s reanimated clones of famous and infamous shinobi still come at the united shinobi forces. Kakashi and Lee have to make sure Sai's sealing jutsu works against the enemy. As Sai remembers he has to suppress the emotions for the jutsu to fully work, and even now he isn't sure he can.

ANIME REVIEW: BEYOND THE BOUNDARY

Beyond the Boundary
Released By: Animatsu
Rating: 12
Running Time: 309 Mins
Audio: English & Japanese DD 2.0
Release Date: 11/1/2016
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes 

Mirai Kuriyama has an urge to commit suicide and her friend, Akihito Kanbara stops her from trying to jump off the roof of her school. He thinks he is doing some form of good by helping her, but she has her own issues to deal with, one of them that she is a Spirit World Warrior who can use her own blood as a weapon against youmu. Stabbing Akihito with her blood sword, she finds he can't die and must be an immortal half human, half youmu.

ANIME REVIEW: RED VS BLUE SEASON: 12

Red Vs. Blue Season: 12
Released By: Animatsu
Rating: 15
Running Time: 180 Mins
Audio: English With Subtitles
Release Date: 8/2/2016
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes 

Times couldn't be worse, shipwrecked and trying to sort out their lives makes life suck more - even in Blood Gulch for our intrepid team mates, the Red and Blue of Project Freelancer. As one of the most long-running science-fiction comedies around at the moment, there is plenty to laugh about all tucked up in one cunning story worthy of a Halo game plot.

ANIME REVIEW: RWBY VOL: 2

RWBY Volume: 2
Released By: Animatsu
Rating: 15
Running Time: 145 Mins
Audio: English & Japanese DD 2.0
Release Date: 1/2/2016
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes 

Now at their second semester at Beacon, Team RWBY have returned to continue what they started out - to protect and save the world from certain and uncertain calamity. Beacon might train the sort of fighters no one would dare to come up against, but apart from their super hero style work, they have their own lives to cope with. Saving the world all has to be done around sweating over homework and training to be the best - but when three new problem folk turn up, the White Fang and Roman Torchwick could send them back to the bottom, where they don't want to be.

ANIME REVIEW: NARUTO THE LAST MOVIE

Naruto The Last Movie
Released By: Manga Entertainment
Rating: 12
Running Time: 309 Mins
Audio: English & Japanese DD 5.1
Release Date: 11/1/2016
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes 

Sai, Sakrua, Shikamaru, Naruto and Hinata are the five man team sent to rescue the kidnapped Hanabi, Hinata's sister. Attempts had already been made on kidnapping Hinata and a mysterious man bears the marks of the sage of the six paths on his body and has told of the end of the world - that he will sooner or later get Hinata.

GUEST POST: NARUTO MOVIE BY EMBLEMMANIAC.

Guest Post by Emblemmaniac - Why I think Naruto is a bad move by Lionsgate

In case you have missed it, Lionsgate have announced that they are going to make a live action-version of the anime/manga Naruto. Many have questioned this, calling it a bad move by Lionsgate; they have cited the risk that this movie becomes another Dragon Ball Evolution or Last Airbender. Honestly, I agree. Still, I don't, like some other, think that the problem is the sheer scope of the material that they would have to work with.

ANIME ARCHIVES: BAKA AND TEST - ANY OVAS??

Baka and Test - Any OVAs??

Baka and Test was one hell of a fun comedy series, but has there been any more to it since the original series? Made up of 13 episodes, Baka to Test to Shokanju where the classmates had to make the grade if they wanted to pass the year - with hilarious results.

ANIME REVIEW: BLEACH COMPLETE SERIES 15 BOX SET

Bleach Complete Series 15 Box Set
Released By: Manga Entertainment
Rating: 12
Running Time: 309 Mins
Audio: English & Japanese DD 2.0
Release Date: Out Now!
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes 

While Aizen has been defeated and sentenced to more than life in prison, the Soul Society and the human world can breathe a sigh of relief, or can they? Soul Reapers have been going missing in the Precipice world and even though Ichigo has been an ally through all their wars and problems, he is considered the only suspect.

ANIME ARCHIVES: ANOTHER SERIES OF SHIKI?

Anime Archives:  Another Series of Shiki?

When the first series left it at an ending where there could have been a follow-up series, many among us could have seen a second series sprouting from the survivors of the full scale shiki massacre in the village.