‘3’ is a horror about a man and a woman who team up to find her rapist and get a confession out of him. However, Todd Bruno’s character (simply credited as ‘He’) is an ex-soldier suffering from PTSD who becomes increasingly unstable and out of control as he learns more about Her experience.

I enjoyed the film for its simplicity in the sense that it mostly takes place in one setting and is easy to follow. The acting was adequate, and Todd Bruno gave the best performance as someone who is on the edge and trying to convince himself that he’s in control. Nothing about the film initially gave any indication that it was going to be anything special, although it’s competent overall, but the unexpected plot twist pleasantly surprised me and made me appreciate it more overall. It gives hints that there’s something we don’t know as an audience that will be uncovered and also makes you question whether or not they really have the man who committed the crime, but the twist went in a completely different direction than I expected and is refreshing in how it examines masculinity, femininity and how people deal with being sexually assaulted.

While I don’t think ‘3’ is going to make a big impact on the indie horror scene, I think it deserves more credit than it’s been getting - it’s rated 4/10 on IMDb - as it’s a fresh take on the rape revenge genre and is smarter than you initially think it’s going to be. It’s low-key and will probably slip under the radar for a lot of horror fans, but it’s a quick watch that’s well paced and ends up being pretty interesting.  

In all of Marvel Spiderman has always being my favorite. From the amazing 90’s cartoon series to ALL of the films, yes even Amazing Spiderman which some people hated but I loved, I have always had a soft spot for the web head. It was even my starting point when I got round to reading comics a few years back when I started with the Superior Spiderman all the way to now as I read through the Ultimate universe.

Venom was always a great villain in the cartoon series, it was my opening the to story of the black space goo and with every version, apart from the god awful Spiderman 3 outing, He was always a firm favorite. So when they announced a solo Venom movie I was both excited and apprehensive as it was made very clear from the start that this wasn’t going to include our webslinging friend and will have a very different story to tell.


If you are unaware of the origin story of the symbiotic costume, It was originally known to have attached itself to Peter Parker during the Secret Wars event after Peter uses it to fix his torn costume, leading to the fan favorite Black Spiderman suit. We have recently found out that the Venom life-form attached itself to Deadpool, leading to many thinking that that is the reason for it’s psychotic behavior. This suit started to turn Peter crazy and during an epic comic scene he manages to rid himself of the goo but it lands right into the lap of Eddie Brock, on f many to take on the Venom mantle.


The film however takes out the origin and gives us a Venom who attaches itself to Eddie without the addition of the Spiderman powers, this is very confusing though as the only reason Venom looks the way he does, I.E the eyes of the costume, is because the Symbiote is connected to Spiderman and takes aspects of the Spiderman Costume. You don’t get the logo of his chest but you do get the eyes. However let us look at this film as a film fan rather than a comic book fan, as a lot of people will not have really been privy to Venom in the past.


So the film focuses on reporter Eddie Brock (Tom Hardy – MAD MAX FURY ROAD, THE DARK KNIGHT), he has a great life with his Lawyer fiance Anne (Michelle Williams – I FEEL PRETTY, THE GREATEST SHOWMAN) he was a highly popular news program and all he is looking for is a way to make peoples lives better. After an ambush interview with shady business tycoon Carlton Drake (Riz Ahmed – THE NIGHT OF, ROUGE ONE) goes badly Brock finds himself breaking into Drake’s underground lab where he is using living alien Symbiotes on homeless people to try and attach the to the right host. Well one finds the right host, as the Venom Symbiote merges with Eddie, protecting him from the on coming forces Drake has sent to retrieve and eat some heads as well. The unlikely duo must find a way to stop Drake but what they do not know is a missing Symbiote named Riot is also looking for a host to destroy the earth and take it for the symbiotic race.


This is a film of two halves, firstly I love Hardy as Brock, the partnership between Eddie and Venom was both funny and engaging throughout, however on the second half of it the story was thin, the villain wasn’t much of an imposing force (using whisper evil oooooooo) and the supporting cast were flat throughout. The action was good, I love the Venom wanted to eat the heads of his victims, I loved the chase scenes and I like what they have done with Venom's character so as a Character I would really wanted to see what a different writer/director could do with it, especially after seeing the end credit scene.


As a whole the film was well shot with a great leading character, but it lacks that little something. Even if you had a cameo by Tom Holland’s Spiderman in a second end credit scene or even a mention of the rumored Silver and Black film just something the break away from the utter dullness of everything else around it. You could of had Silver Sable hunting him down or, again, an end credit scene with Black Cat but alas no. I also think it really needed to be an 18 rating or a very close to it 15 rating. Venom needed to be that little bit more violent than it ended up being and it is a shame to see that Sony wasn’t willing to push it as far as Fox is trying to do with Deadpool and the x-men universe.

It is an okay start to the Sony Not Spiderman but kind of Spiderman Universe. Do I personally think you could have released this next year and connected it to Avengers 4? Yes I do as it would have been so cool to see Peter get the suit in Avengers 4, use it in Homecoming 2 then let it lead to an end credit scene in Homecoming 2 where Eddie gets the suit and then Venom later in 2019…..but that is just me. Overall it is the type of film you can watch, enjoy and not worry about again. I just hope the do something good with Venom 2.

Tis the season to scare the living crap out of people! That’s right horror fans we are in the Halloween season again and we managed to get a sneaky preview of the Halloween edition of Channel 4’s Hauntingly good series True Horror starring former Eastenders and Bionic Woman star Michelle Ryan as a woman who brought the most haunted house in Essex.

This episode of the docu-drama, which follows true stories and interviews of those effected by the hauntings and mixes it with dramatization of the events, follows the story of a haunted house only 30 minutes away from me in St Osyth in Essex, a little village between Colchester and Clacton on Sea, where in the 1500’s fourteen women were put on trail for witchcraft, one being the focused spirit in the episode, a convicted and murdered woman by the name of Ursula Kemp, a healer and wet nurse from the era.

Michelle Ryan plays Vanessa Mitchell (who is also in the docu-drama telling the viewer of her experiences in the house) who buys the historic house named ‘The Cage’ after moving back to the village to start a new life. As soon as she moves into the home Vanessa begins experiencing supernatural events, she sees dark looming figures walking the halls, blood on the floor and all manner of spooky goings on. We are also given eye witness accounts from Vanessa’s friends who also back up her stories and some who are still on the fence about it. The events get worse however as Vanessa is pregnant and the spirit becomes more violent.

This episode of True Horror takes you back the the old fashioned Horror stories of years gone by, like the M.R James adaptions on BBC.  Ryan was a let down, personally not a fan of her acting however I did love the real life accounts. The direction was eerie and felt very British is style, this I really liked. The dark shadows, the creepy house all set the tone perfectly. The based of true accounts aspect will always drag the viewer in and with the actual owner of the house on the episode telling her story it is the extra bit gripping...unless you know the other details left out of this.

In other accounts, not on the show, Vanessa’s CCTV apparently picked up the image of a goat demon, there was no mention of CCTV in the show. This would have brought a bit more supernatural elements into the story but this could just be down to the direction.

Overall the episode is very entertaining and if you were a fan of the series from earlier in the year you will love this installment. If you are a true ghost story fan this will be a fun watch on Halloween night.

The Episode will be shown on Channel 4 on Halloween 9pm