Archive for the 'reviews' Category

STAR TREK: TRAILER REVIEW

Monday, November 17th, 2008

Okay, so it ain’t the full film, but the trailer that has been leaked online for the reimagining of STAR TREK is nothing short iof fantastic. The full quality version will be posted over at www.startrekmovie.com soon, but the bootleg is immense, even with the low picture and sound quality. Let’s take a look at [...]

SAW 5: THE STARSTORE MOVIE REVIEW

Monday, October 27th, 2008

YOU WON’T BELIEVE HOW IT ENDS, cries the promotional literature and online trailers for SAW V, the latest in the massive horror franchise. No, you won’t, but not in a good way, sadly. That tagline is rather misleading as the film doesn’t actually have a real ending, so don’t get your hopes up. That said, [...]

DEATH RACE REVIEW ONLINE

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

The Starstore review of the new remake of Death Race 2000, starring Jason Statham, is now online! Check out our Death Race review over at our Blogspot page.

DOCTOR WHO: CHRISTMAS SPECIAL TITLE, SERIES FIVE RUMOURS, TORCHWOOD REVIEW

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

2008 CHRISTMAS SPECIAL The title for the 2008 Doctor Who Christmas special has been announced. This year’s festive story, featuring Cybermen and a supposed future Doctor, is entitled, funnily enough, THE NEXT DOCTOR. Granted, it’s not going to be David Morrissey taking over from David Tennant,  but it will certainly be interesting to see where [...]

NEWS AND REVIEWS: TERMINATOR, TRANSFORMERS, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, BOOKS, COMICS

Friday, September 12th, 2008

ARNOLD (SORT OF) IN TERMINATOR SALVATION On set pics and video have revealed that Arnold Schwarzenegger is *sort of* in the new Terminator flick, currently filming under the direction of McG. Arnold is lending his voice to the project as well as his face, and was on location supplying dialogue for the composite version of [...]

TARDISWATCH SPECIAL: DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS ACTION FIGURES REVIEW

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Character Options have done the unthinkable- they have brought back a bunch of iconic science fiction characters and made them look very stylish and modern. Long gone are the hideous monstrosities that Dapol used to make back in the mists of time, and here are some of the finest action figures based on a British [...]

ROCK MUSIC FIGURES: RECENT ARRIVALS

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Time to take a look at the recent additions to our stocked ranges of officially licensed rock music figures, so sit back, tease up your quaff, and crank something suitably obnoxious while we take a look at who are latest stars to become miniature versions of their beery selves. LEMMY ACTION FIGURE At long last [...]

NEWS ROUNDUP: THE X-FILES, THE DARK KNIGHT, VENOM, SUSPIRIA, ZACK AND MIRI

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE Our in-depth review of the brand new X-Files feature film is now up. You can check out our review of The X-Files: I Want To Believe over on our Blogspot page here. We’re all  hoping that this one performs well enough for the mooted third film to be made! [...]

THE DARK KNIGHT: The Starstore Review

Monday, July 28th, 2008

As the lights dimmed for our screening of The Dark Knight, there was a hushed reverence throughout the entire cinema, as though everyone, adult and fidgety child alike, knew they were about to witness something special. As one of the most anticipated films of the year this was hardly surprising, and as expected, it didn’t [...]

CURRENT READING

Monday, July 14th, 2008

I must admit I’ve not been keeping that up to date with comics and graphic novel reading lately, mainly down to writing blogs and doing all the other stuff that comes with working in a busy comic store, but I’ve been trying to check out some recent stuff again and here’ the titles that have [...]